Taliban arrests Afghan girls' education activist

A prominent Afghan campaigner for female education has been arrested by the Taliban. Teenage girls and women are still barred from classrooms. Our correspondent gives us the latest.

A billionaire’s son, who fled to Yemen within hours of the death of a student in London 15 years ago, has admitted his involvement to the BBC. Our reporter, Nawal Al-Maghafi, talks us through her report.

And six people have been killed in a shooting by an ex-student at a school in the US city of Nashville, Tennessee. We speak to people affected by previous mass shootings in the United States.

(Photo: Schoolgirls attending up to primary grade classes sit in a classroom at the start of the new academic year in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Photo credit: SAMIULLAH POPAL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)