Correspondents Report

Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is facing two separate trials on a range of financial indictments, and the latest is the first related to Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

On today's program: What do former campaign manager Paul Manafort's multiple indictments mean for Donald Trump? Working the angles in Beijing; And why are more and more British Pubs are closing their doors?

It's a unique time to be a journalist in the United States. North America correspondent Stephanie March speaks with one reporter, whose work is now the subject of a Hollywood film, on the loneliness of putting yourself out on a limb in the search for the truth.

Over time, our programs have explored a powerful crime syndicate that's based in Italy, but spreads its wings as far as Australia: the Calabrian mafia - or 'ndrangheta. The BBC's Andrew Hoskin went to Calabria to meet one of the few people able to strike fear into the international organised crime syndicate.

The city of Jakarta is now just two weeks away from hosting the Asian Games. Forty-five sporting nations will descend on the Indonesian capital to compete in everything from swimming to video-gaming.

On this week's program: US investigative journalist Jonathan Landay on reporting the truth that no-one wants to hear; the Italian prosecutor who stares down the Calabrian mafia; and Jakarta spruces up for the Asian Games.

Japan is cleaning up after deadly floods and the onset of the extreme heat continues to have deadly consequences. With the 2020 Olympics two years away, there are concerns about how athletes will cope in potentially extreme heat.

Few Australians have ever tried China's most popular breakfast food, but many say jianbing is poised to take the likes of smashed avocado off Australian breakfast tables.

On this week's program: a violent week in the Middle East, with escalations of violence in the Gaza Strip and intense, brutal fighting in Syria; extreme weather in Japan raises questions over the 2020 Olympics; and we take a culinary adventure on the streets of Beijing.

Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop has just arrived in the Middle East to report on the region from the ABC's Jerusalem bureau. He has seen escalations of violence in the Gaza Strip and brutal fighting in Syria, just on Israel's doorstep.