The Names of the Dead

Pascale Harter presents stories of loss, gain and calculation from correspondents around the world.

Auliya Atrafi reports from northern Afghanistan from a community which has been decimated by the side-effects of opium. Young men in Kalafgan District, facing unemployment and corruption at home, have been induced to traffic drugs into Iran - but many have ended up on death row there.

Jannat Jalil explores what France and China really want from each other - and how Emmanuel Macron has marshalled a cavalry horse called Vesuvius to help win over China's leader.

James Reynolds looks past the colourful, flamboyant figures who seem to dominate Italian politics - like Grillo and Berlusconi - to the ones who really keep things going: the "grey men" who often go unremarked abroad.

And Lindsay Johns listens to the daily obituary announcements on the radio in the French Caribbean island of Martinique - and this time, like the rest of the audience, he too is grieving a personal loss.

Photo: An Afghan drug addict smokes heroin on a street in Jalalabad, July 2017. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images AFP/Getty Images)