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With less than two months left until the 2024 US presidential election, Newshour’s Tim Franks and the team travel to Atlanta. We get reaction and insight from Georgia – one of the key swing states in the US – on the first TV debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Also on the programme: Congolese medics say they are struggling to contain the mpox outbreak; and Mexico's senate has given general approval to a sweeping reform that will mean all judges are elected by popular vote. (Photo: Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff visit a watch party. Credit: Reuters)

With less than two months to go until Americans cast their ballots for president on election day, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will confront each other in their first debate on Tuesday. We hear from one of those crucial people - the undecided voter – and about the role of younger Gen Z voters in this election. Also on the programme: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has launched into space in an attempt to perform the world's first private spacewalk; and a report found that an environmental defender was killed every other day last year worldwide.(Photo: A billboard advertising the upcoming presidential debate. Credit: JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Bodies are being pulled from the rubble after Israel struck al-Mawasi humanitarian encampment. Also in the programme, the Indian supreme court has ordered back to work junior doctors striking after the murder of a colleague; and, the actor who played C-3PO in Star Wars remembers James Earl Jones who has died.(Photo: Palestinians search for missing people following Israeli airstrikes on Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, Gaza - 10 Sep 2024. HAITHAM IMAD/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14709197h))

Ahead of the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and with less than two months left until polling day, James Menendez and team travel to Missouri, the first state to impose a nearly total ban on abortion, to see if this issue moves voters from one aisle to the other. Also in the programme: With the Midwest crucial in this year’s presidential election, we ask “what does it mean to be a Midwestener?” ; and we’ll hear from the Afghan hospital struggling to save its starving babies .(Picture: Newshour’s presenter James Menendez with American businessman Billy Busch. Credit: BBC).

A bonus episode with James Menendez in St. Louis, Missouri. With Midwesterners on both the Democrats' and Republicans' presidential tickets, James asks what it means to be a Midwesterner.

Growing evidence is emerging of record levels of malnutrition affecting children in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The Public Health Ministry has told the BBC seven hundred children died in the past six months at just one hospital in Jalalabad. The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been to the hospital and we carry her distressing report.Also in the programme: Airstrikes at military facilities in Syria have killed sixteen people - the government in Damascus blames Israel; and the double amputee who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro just two years after her injury.(Photo: Baby Umrah, pictured with her mother Nasreen, died two days later. Credit: BBC Imogen Anderson)

Presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has arrived in Spain where he has been granted political asylum. Venezuela has been in political turmoil since July after an election where Nicolas Maduro declared himself the winner. We hear from Antonio Ledezma, another Venezuelan opposition politician already in exile in Spain. Also in the programme: the legacy of Herbie Flowers who has died at 86 and played with Elton John, David Bowie and Paul McCartney; and Paris has hosted the closing ceremony of the Paralympics. (Photo: Supporters of Edmundo Gonzalez wait for his arrival in Madrid. Credit: BORJA SANCHEZ-TRILLO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

The Spanish foreign minister says his country is offering political asylum to the Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González. What hope now for the opposition? Also in the programme: A number of Israeli civilians have been shot dead at a border crossing between Jordan and the Occupied West Bank, after a night of cross-border missile exchanges between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops; and, a warning to the West about the danger of Russian spies.(Photo: Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez on the day he casts his vote in the country's presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela. Credit: REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Protests are taking place across France over the appointment of Michel Barnier as the new French prime minister, after an election that resulted in a National Assembly without a majority. We hear from Nathalie Oziol, an MP with the left-wing La France Insoumise party. Also in the programme: the leaders of the UK and US foreign intelligence agencies speak together in public for the first time ever about the international world order being under threat; and Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde discusses his memoir.(Picture: French left parties call for rallies against President Macron's politics in Paris. The poster reads "No thank you''. Credit: Photo by Yoan Valatv/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

In Kenya, families are waiting to find out if their missing children are still alive after a huge fire at a boarding school killed at least seventeen. Seventy students remain unaccounted for. The BBC's Barbara Plett Usher shares the latest. Also in the programme: In Manipur, in north east India, police say five people have been killed in the latest round of violence between two communities; and Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde discusses his memoir. (Picture: Relatives and family members react at the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri County. Credit: Photo by DANIEL IRUNGU/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)