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Risking (and not entirely avoiding) a million little stings – NATO Channel heads into the Afghan countryside to meet the bee-keepers who are doing more for Afghan agriculture than simply producing honey. Honey, wax, fruit pollination and venom - the benefits to beekeeping in Afghanistan are wide and varied. In some of the southern provinces, national and international bee-keeping initiatives are encouraging opium farmers to switch to bees, and with projects and grants aimed at training and assisting bee-keepers, bees are doing far more for Afghan agriculture than just producing honey. Produced by Jake Tupman. This version includes voiceover and graphics.

Afghans across the country gather at registration centers, collecting their voter cards in order to have their say in the next presidential elections coming in April 2014. Soundbites from Gul Habib, Samim, Sukriya Barekzai. Produced by Sayed Mansoor.

The Afghan postal service was established in 1870 and, had developed, by 1970, into a modern service that allowed Afghans to send letters around the world. But years of war, followed by the Taliban regime, have set the postal service back in time. A building boom since 2001 across the country has added to the service’s problems. In Kabul, the city’s population has grown in size by nearly five times since 2001, and the city still lacks any system of street naming or numbering. We follow postman Walid on his rounds, while back at the main sorting office, the service’s operations manager offers a perspective on the history of the mail service in Afghanistan, war, stamps and diplomacy. Also available in high definition

Afghanistan’s Dog’s of war are coming home with the help of a former British Royal Marine. A veteran of Helmand province in 2006, Pen Farthing has since returned to Afghanistan on his own animal rescue. Produced by Joe Sheffer.

Monsoon rains have swept away a bridge near the mountainous Khost-Gardez pass in Paktia province, Afghanistan. The road has also been badly damaged, leaving the Salerno bowl and both Afghan and ISAF bases cut off.

Redeployment activities from Forward Operating Base Salerno have already been disrupted and local people are struggling to cross the riverbed. A team of combat engineers from Kandahar are called to drive through the night to get to the scene of the disaster – they will need the protection of members of the US Army’s 101st mountains. Using a Mabey-Johnson bridge first used in the Second World War by British forces, the US Army 1438th bridge building company must get the road reopened.

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On 20 August 2013, history was made as the national football teams of Afghanistan and Pakistan played a friendly match in Kabul at the Afghan Football Federation (AFF) stadium, just two days prior to the start of the Roshan Afghan Premier League's (RAPL) 2013 tournament. The last match between the two nations was 37 years ago. Also available in high definition

Show Danish and German Forward Air Controllers being trained by Belgian and British officers during a large multinational NATO exercise in the Czech Republic (Ramstein Rover 2013). Highlights the challenges of counter-insurgency operations in urban areas featuring a realistic training scenario. Also available in high definition.

It’s been eight years since Lithuania first sent troops to Ghor Province in central Afghanistan. Their mission now complete, they’re soon to return to Lithuania. Apart from improving combat capability, Lithuanian funded projects have also developed the area and helped the local people. This is their story.

As Lithuania prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan after eight years in the country, NATO TV takes a look at their legacy in Ghor Province, Central Afghanistan. But what exactly is their legacy? And how have they helped improve the local area?

Imagine seeing a suspected suicide bomb car approaching. What are your options? Signal, shoot, flee? Now there’s a new option. A technology is being tested at a secret location in Norway that can make a car’s engine cut out using high-intensity jammers.

Better still, it can also take out drones, jet skis, and any other vehicle used to deliver bombs.

And it has also positively tested disrupting remote control-activated bombs – even chemical and biological ones.

This video shows the device being put through its paces using fast cars, briefcase bombs and drones as it prepares to be unveiled. Available in high definition.

The NATO-led combat mission in Afghanistan will end in 2014. Nations have started the redeployment of their equipment. The British Army started the redeployment process in October 2012. Expensive and sensitive pieces of equipment, such as helicopters and vehicles, are sent by air to an air base in the United Arab Emirates and then shipped by sea to the military port of Marchwood in Southampton. This version includes voiceover and graphics.