Afghan girls will return to their classrooms as soon as possible say Taliban

Secondary schools in Afghanistan reopened this week for boys, but not for girls. The delay has created more uncertainty about the prospects for girls. We will also be hearing from an Afghan artist known for painting murals on the streets of Kabul, many of which have now been painted over by the Taliban. And we go to Rouen in France where efforts are being made to replace a prominent statue of Napoleon with one of the late French Tunisian feminist Gisele Halimi.

This week's panellists are Azadeh Moaveni, the International Crisis Group’s Gender Project Director and Shashank Joshi, defence editor at the Economist magazine.

(Picture: Afghan girls at a school in Kabul. Credit: WANA)