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From Our Own Correspondent: The Names of the Dead

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The Names of the Dead

13/01/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, The Names of the Dead

An Afghan town ravaged by the drug trade to Iran; tales from Italy, France and Martinique

How the drug trade to Iran has depleted one Afghan village; animal diplomacy between France and China; the grey men of Italian politics; and the rituals of mourning in Martinique

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)

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