Zuma on Trial

Kate Adie introduces stories on Cuba's multiple crises from blackouts to food shortages, what it's like living under another war in Lebanon, how Persian new year festivities were muted this year, what China thinks about the war in the Middle East, and how an archaeological dig in ...  Show more

Kate Adie presents stories from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Latvia, South Korea and FinlandThe US-Israeli war with Iran saw a marked escalation this week with strikes on some of the world’s biggest gas fields. Israel’s attack on Iran’s south Pars gas field triggered a swif ...  Show more

В Индии от коронавируса умерли более 220 тысяч человек, заболевших - более 20 миллионов. Но на самом деле жертв значительно больше. В больницах не хватает коек, кислорода и лекарств, а тела умерших сжигают на улицах. Корреспондент Русской службы Би-би-си Юлия Джеймс изучала ситуа ...  Show more

India is currently in the midst the single worst spike in COVID cases experienced anywhere in the world since the start of the pandemic.  On the line with me to explain how and why the COVID crisis got so bad so quickly in India is Michael Kugelman, Asia Program Deputy Director a ...  Show more

Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema has declared a national because of the prolonged drought. He says 84 districts out of a total of 116 in the country have been affected.The President said almost half of the land used for planting crops had been affected by severe dry conditio ...  Show more