This is the BBC.

Hello, today to Belarus, a gently undulating land,

which is why Tractus and tanks loom large in its history,

but are they a pointer to present-day success?

We're back on the British Virgin Islands to see how they're coping six months after

Hurricane Irma.

And we're high in the Indian Himalayas to celebrate the changing seasons and see how life

there is changing too.

And in Transylvania, our correspondent beats a man who's just got his family's castle back more than 70 years after it was seized by the state.

Before taking office, Donald Trump called the war in Afghanistan a total disaster

and repeatedly called for US soldiers to be brought home. But in August last year

he changed his mind. Instead of a withdrawal he announced that the

US would send more troops and stay on until in his words the war was won.

Afghans cite unmanned drones killing civilians as one. to winning the war. The US Air Force now has a third of its drones stationed at Kandahar Air

Base, the biggest drone squadron ever, it says.

Justin Rollout has just returned from almost two weeks with the American forces.

I'm lying in the belly of a Casey 135 strata tanker

peering down at the snowy ISIS-infested mountains of northeastern Afghanistan.

Suddenly, the first wasp-like F-16 fighter jet comes into view.

It delicately positions itself under the boom that hangs down from the

back of this flying fuel tank and moments later has locked on. The Viper is now taking

on hundreds of pounds of aviation fuel a second.

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