Afghan Talks Stalled

What chance for peace in Afghanistan as talks between the government and the Taliban stall and the US announces troop withdrawals? We'll take the temperature in Kabul.

Also on the programme, A controversial host from the Indian TV channel, Republic, is released on bail over a death in 2018 - it's a case that's put the spotlight on fake news in the country; And Covid in children - we'll look at the risks, and how different countries are handling them.

To discuss all this and more we are joined by Georgina Godwin, a Zimbabwean broadcast journalist living here in the UK and by a former UK ambassador to Afghanistan, Dominic Jermey, who is now the Director-General of the Zoological Society of London, which runs London Zoo.

(Photo: US Secretary Mike Pompeo with Taliban Chief Negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar; Credit: Patrick Semansky/Pool via REUTERS)