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From Our Own Correspondent: A Virtual Battlefield

A Virtual Battlefield

16/05/2015

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, A Virtual Battlefield

Correspondents' insights and stories from Afghanistan, Jordan, Ethiopia and Hungary

Insights into rising insecurity in Afghanistan; Jordanians who rebut IS propaganda online; a bread that's central to Ethiopian identity; and a public row over statuary in Hungary.

Pascale Harter introduces insight and analysis from correspondents, writers and reporters around the world. In this edition we're on battlefields - military, virtual and historical - and find that even the dining table can be an arena of conflict.

David Loyn reports from Kabul on why and how insecurity is rising once again, and the threats to Afghanistan which never went away;
Dominic Casciani meets one of the Jordanians who are banding together online to rebut Islamic State propaganda;
James Hassam learns why injera bread is so close to Ethiopians' hearts, as well as their stomachs;
and Nick Thorpe strolls among the gleaming new statues around Hungary's Parliament, and finds out why they're controversial for some. 

Photo: An Afghan security official inspects a bullet-riddled windscreen at the scene of a Taliban suicide attack on a bus transporting employees of the attorney general's office in Kabul on May 4, 2015. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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