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From Our Own Correspondent: Peace is More Difficult Than War

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Taliban spokesman Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai

09/02/2019 GMT

Peace is More Difficult Than War

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Peace is More Difficult Than War

The Taliban talk peace in Moscow, 40 years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Afghan politicians talk peace with the Taliban in Moscow, 40 years after the Soviets invaded their country.

Moscow isn’t the obvious place for talks on how to bring an end to the violence in Afghanistan, the country has been at war ever since the Soviet invasion 40 years ago, but it was where senior Afghan politicians met the Taliban. 'A military solution is not the answer' was the message Secunder Kermani picked up from negotiators there. Pascale Harter introduces this and other stories from around the world.

Kevin Connolly returns to Belgrade and is confronted by some ghosts from his first visit to what was then Yugoslavia, back when he was "untouched by experience and unburdened by judgment."

Julia Carneiro gives us a glimpse of what life was like in the Brazilian city of Brumadinho before the collapse of a dam, run by mining company Vale, covered Brumadinho in a “violent tsunami” of iron-ore. 

Viv Nunis finds out why the skies above Lahore won't be filled with thousands of kites for the Basant festival this weekend, and why flying a kite can even get you arrested in the Pakistani city.

(Photo: Taliban spokesman Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai attends talks of the Taliban and Afghan opposition representatives at the President Hotel in Moscow in February 2019. Credit: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images)

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