Kate Adie introduces dispatches on Iran, Ukraine, South Africa, Portugal and Hong Kong.
As the world nervously watches the developments between Iran and Israel, Lyse Doucet reflects on the rise of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since coming to power three decades ago, he has managed to avoid taking Iran into an all-out war - could that change as tensions continue to rise?
A missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv this week laid bare the weakness of the country’s air defences. Depleted ammunition supplies, as well as a worsening situation on the frontline, have heightened fears that the tide is continuing to turn against Ukraine in its war with Russia. Sarah Rainsford reports from Kharkiv.
South Africa is preparing to go to the polls, and for the first time since the end of white-minority rule, the governing ANC party is predicted to get less than 50 per cent of the vote. As in many other countries, immigration is high on the list of many voters’ concerns. Jenny Hill reports from the border with Zimbabwe.
Next week Portugal marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution and its transition to democracy. Simon Busch met some of the men who joined the resistance against the country's former dictator Antonio Salazar, to find out what they think about politics in Portugal today.
And exotic birds have adapted to live alongside humans in some of the world’s major cities – and in Hong Kong it's yellow-crested cockatoos that you might see swooping through the skyline. Stephen Moss tells the story of why they’re now thriving.
Series producer: Serena Tarling Production coordinator: Katie Morrison Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
US student protests and the youth vote
The Rise and Fall of Nagorno Karabakh
A perilous moment between Israel and Iran
Returning to Rwanda
Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
Surviving 'chemical detention' in Belarus
Putin: Russia’s modern-day Tsar
No escape from Haiti
Life after the Lord’s Resistance Army
Channel migrant deaths on the rise
Haiti: ‘There’s nothing but the gangs’
Nigeria’s growing economic crisis
Gaza’s Humanitarian Nightmare
Trump edges closer to Republican nomination
Ukraine: Two Years of War
Talking and listening in an insecure world
Reporting Gaza
Fear of Famine in Ethiopia
Who will govern Pakistan
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