OS conversations: Journalists in Afghanistan

The Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have captured the strategically important city of Ghazni. Our reporters and regional experts will be bringing updates and analysis on the fighting and on the humanitarian crisis in the country. We also continue to bring more conversations with the Afghans. Working as a journalist in Afghanistan has become increasingly difficult with those working in media organisations being targeted, killed and abducted. We hear from two journalists in Kabul about the challenges they are facing.

We’ll also get your coronavirus questions answered by our regular medical expert, Dr Emma Hodcroft in Switzerland.

And we’ll look at the latest developments with extreme weather events and hear from people in Sicily. The Italian island may have registered the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe, 48.8C.

(Photo: An Afghan journalist reports next to a damaged van after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan June 3, 2021. Credit: Stringer/Reuters)