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Japan’s first female prime minister sends financial markets soaring as investors bet she's gonna spend big on Japan's economy.

The Brazilian oil giant Petrobras says it's been given the green light to start drilling for oil near the mouth of the Amazon river off the coast of the world's largest tropical rainforest.

And Coca-Cola’s results pop, but at the same time, demand is fizzling out. We'll find out what's going on at the world's biggest soda brand.

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Presenter: Leanna Byrne

Producer: Victoriya Holland

Editor: Shea Conduct

The last ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been released from a treatment centre in Kasai province. Can the country now be declared free of this latest outbreak?

What is behind the escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea over control of the Red Sea?

And we hear from the Nigerian scientist, who has been recognised with a global award from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, on how her pioneering work is protecting yam and cassava crops and making them more resilient.

Presenter: Nyasha Michelle

Producers: Mark Wilberforce, Yvette Twagiramariya, Stefania Okereke and Alfonso Daniels

Technical Producer: Chris Kouzaris

Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne

Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

As US tries to shore up the ceasefire in Gaza, humanitarian groups warn of continuing disruption in aid supplies.

Prominent Israeli writer, David Grossman, gives us a rare interview - with a bleak assessment of the land his country has become.

Also in the programme: Japan has its first female prime minister, but what does the change tell us about the place of women in Japan; and the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy begins a five year prison sentence.

(Photo shows a member of the Palestinian Civil Defense walking next to a fire truck surrounded by destroyed buildings in Gaza City on 20 October 2025. Credit: Ebrahim Hajja/Reutersj

Nolan talks to Shadow SoS Alex Burghart and political commentator Mick Fealty.

Reporting on the war in Gaza has only been possible because of the work of Palestinian journalists, because the Israeli government will not let foreign broadcasters – including the BBC – inside the territory to report freely, even now a ceasefire is in place.

One month ago, freelance journalist Ghada Al-Kurd began sharing voice notes with us, talking about her life, her hopes, her family, and her days reporting in Gaza City. Her job is dangerous – almost 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza in the past two years – and even with a ceasefire in place, safety is far from reach.

Ghada has continued to report for us through her displacements, sharing her treasured memories of pre-war Gaza, and her fears and hopes for its future.

Image: Ghada Al Kurd

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