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This is the edition that was broadcast on Radio 4 on Thursday, June 8, 2017.

Complete with some stories you might just find hard to stomach.

Here's Kate Ade.

Hello.

Today, refugees seek safety where they can, but Eritreans are faced with choosing between the worst and the only slightly less worse neighbor, Ethiopia.

Women facing domestic violence in Peru now have a champion, but the change is slow in coming.

And have you thrown out all that stuff in the fridge on its best before date?

Tut-tut, the Danes would like you to appreciate Wilted Parsley and wrinkled mushrooms.

And if you go down to the woods today in the Czech Republic, beware of radioactive bores.

The Afghan President Ashraf-Garni has called on the Taliban to join peace talks.

It is, he said, their last chance to be part of the political process.

If they fail to take up the offer, he'll push for the UN to sanction the group as a perpetrator

and sponsor of terror.

The fresh appeal follows a bomb attack in Kabul which killed

more than 150 people last week. The Taliban deny any involvement, but the group

regularly attacks foreign targets and tries to capture more territory.

They now control large chunks of the country.

After a year of negotiations, Aulia Atraffi finally got the chance to see life under their rule for himself,

spending four days in Taliban territory in southern Afghanistan. A Taliban minder was ever present, but what he was allowed to see was quite revealing, an

organization keen to show that apparently there's more to it than fighting strength. The Sangeen evening seemed a particularly pleasant one, or maybe it was simply relief I was feeling.

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