This is the BBC.

And this is Radio 4's from our own correspondent from Saturday the 25th of March 2017.

And getting straight to the point, here's Kate Aide.

Hello, today what's in a name you can give your child something traditional or charming or

optimistic or even fashionable, but not in Zambia, it seems, where you may well not thank your parents for

their choice.

We head for Bahia, California, to marvel at giants at sea and also on land.

Afghanistan has to grapple with many problems, not least in the home, with the almost hidden

problem of domestic abuse, but our correspondence sees a glimmer of hope, and

were tongue-tied in the Alps in the daily struggle to choose the right language.

There were conflicting reports from Afghanistan this week about whether the Taliban had taken

control of Sangin in Helmand province.

Infamously, it's the district where more British troops and American Marines died than in any other part of the country

before the handover began to government forces in 2013.

And since then, hundreds of Afghan troops and police have been killed there.

Meanwhile, Pakistan is reported to have hosted seven Taliban leaders in Islamabad

to try to bring them into peace talks ahead of a multinational meeting in Moscow next month.

The Pakistanis have long had a complicated relationship with the Taliban.

For many years the militant group received support and

shelter from Pakistan as did the Mujah had been before them when they were fighting

the Soviet occupation. The city of Quetta has played an important role in the conflict over the border, but has that changed?

That's what Colin Freeman sought to find out.

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