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From Our Own Correspondent episodes:

04.13.2024
A perilous moment between Israel and Iran
Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Nigeria, the US, Lithuania and France Tensions between Iran and Israel this week have ramped up further after Tehran issued a warning that it would retaliate for a recent strike on the Iranian consulate...
04.06.2024
Returning to Rwanda
Kate Adie introduces stories from Rwanda, Estonia, St Helena and Puerto Rico. This weekend marks the start of the genocide in Rwanda that led to the death of more than 800,000 people – most from the country’s Tutsi minority. Three...
03.30.2024
Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
Kate Adie introduces stories from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, India, Tibet, Ireland and Guinea. What are the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians? Yolande Knell has been asking Israelis and Palestinians about their hopes and fears for...
03.28.2024
Surviving 'chemical detention' in Belarus
Kate Adie introduces stories from Belarus, Senegal, the US-Mexico border, Cambodia and Brazil. Political prisoners in Belarus attract less international attention than those in Russia - but there are far more of them, even in a smaller country. Many are...
03.23.2024
Putin: Russia’s modern-day Tsar
Kate Adie introduces stories from Russia, Germany, Timor Leste and Oman At a recent gathering in a gilded hall in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin thanked VIP supporters for his re-election. As he commenced his fifth term in office, he has...
03.21.2024
No escape from Haiti
Kate Adie introduces stories from Haiti, Chad, the Netherlands, Palau and Mexico. Haiti remains mired in crisis, with the capital in the grip of gang violence - more than 350,000 people have been displaced. Will Grant reports from Haiti's...
03.16.2024
Life after the Lord’s Resistance Army
Kate Adie presents dispatches from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, the United States, Croatia and France. The brutality of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army once made headlines around the world, as #Kony2012 became a global social media...
03.14.2024
Channel migrant deaths on the rise
Kate Adie presents stories from France, India, the US, Panama and Spain. It’s been a year since the UK signed a deal with France to help reduce the number of boats crossing the Channel and break up the smuggling gangs....
03.09.2024
Haiti: ‘There’s nothing but the gangs’
Kate Adie presents stories from Haiti, South Korea, the US, Senegal and the Vatican City. Haiti's government have declared a state of emergency after armed gangs attacked the country's airport and stormed two of the main prisons. Harold Isaac gives...
03.07.2024
Nigeria’s growing economic crisis
Kate Adie presents stories from Nigeria, Ukraine, Iran, Uzbekistan and Nepal. Nigeria is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a generation, with soaring inflation and a depreciating currency, making many basic food items unaffordable for the majority. Mayeni Jones describes...
03.02.2024
Gaza’s Humanitarian Nightmare
Kate Adie presents stories from Gaza, Turkey, Somalia, Ecuador and Japan. US President Joe Biden raised hopes that a ceasefire deal was close to being reached this week over the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. But these hopes...
02.29.2024
Trump edges closer to Republican nomination
Kate Adie presents stories from the US, Indonesia, Georgia, Thailand and Colombia. Donald Trump’s only Republican rival for the US presidency, Nikki Haley, says she’ll fight on, despite roundly losing to him in her home state of South Carolina, where...
02.24.2024
Ukraine: Two Years of War
Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Ukraine, Russia, the USA and Georgia. Sarah Rainsford was in Ukraine when Vladimir Putin first launched his full-scale invasion two years ago, reporting on the defiance and rush to defend the country. On a recent...
02.22.2024
Talking and listening in an insecure world
Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Germany, the Red Sea, Argentina, the Hungary-Serbia border and Costa Rica. BBC security correspondent, Frank Gardner takes us behind the scenes at the Munich security conference, where the sudden announcement of the death of Alexei...
02.17.2024
Reporting Gaza
Kate Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, Guyana, Finland and the USA. International media have been campaigning to gain access to Gaza in the months since the Israeli bombardment began - with only occasional access granted, which is closely...
02.15.2024
Fear of Famine in Ethiopia
Kate Adie presents stories from Ethiopia, Sweden, India, Australia and Ecuador. Ethiopia's Tigray region has already been devastated by war - now its people are facing starvation as swathes of land have been parched by drought. Our Diplomatic Editor, James Landale...
02.12.2024
Who will govern Pakistan
Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Syria, Gaza, Trinidad and Tobago and Ivory Coast. With most of the results now declared in Pakistan's general election, no political force has a clear majority. Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is claiming...
02.10.2024
Who will govern Pakistan?
Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Syria, Gaza, Trinidad and Tobago and Ivory Coast. With most of the results now declared in Pakistan's general election, no political force has a clear majority. Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is claiming...
02.08.2024
America’s Endless Fentanyl Epidemic
Kate Adie presents stories from the US-Mexico border, Chile, Spain, the US and India. The synthetic opioid Fentanyl is fifty times stronger than heroin, and was responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US last year. Relatively...
02.03.2024
French Farmers and the 'Siege of Paris
Kate Adie presents stories from France, Turkey, Cambodia, Canada and Chile. French farmers have staged nationwide protests this week, blocking roads to vent their anger over falling incomes, rising bureaucracy, and competition from imports. Andrew Harding reflects on how these...
02.01.2024
Rebranding Indonesia's politicians
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' reflections from Indonesia, Argentina, Kenya, Colombia and Germany. Prabowo Subianto was once a military hardman at the forefront of Indonesian politics. He's run for the country's presidency twice before - and failed. Will it be third...
01.27.2024
Ayodhya: a defining moment for India
Kate Adie presents stories from India, Bangladesh, the US, Switzerland and Finland. This week, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, opened a grand Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. The site on which it sits was once home to...
01.20.2024
Taiwan’s defiant message to China
: Kate Adie presents stories from Taiwan, Ecuador, Germany, Georgia and Indonesia The pro-sovereignty candidate William Lai won Taiwan's presidential election this week. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes charts the key moments that led to this historic vote, as Taiwan's voters...
01.13.2024
Japan: Learning Lessons from Earthquakes
Kate Adie introduces stories from Japan, the USA, the Thailand-Myanmar border, Barbuda and Guinea-Bissau. The earthquake which shook Japan on New Year's Day brought considerable damage to the mostly-rural Noto peninsula. One noticeable pattern amidst the destruction was how much...
01.06.2024
Running Out of Road For A Two-State Solution
Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Guatemala, The Philippines, Greece and the Faroe Islands US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in the Middle East for another round of crisis diplomacy. After the assassination of a senior Hamas leader this...
12.30.2023
The Changing Face of Modern China
Kate Adie presents stories from China, Bolivia, the US and Italy. BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell arrived in Beijing as a student 20 years ago and jumped straight into the city's buzzing nightlife. But the bohemian club scene he fell...
12.23.2023
A Pivotal Moment in Ukraine's War
Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Tajikistan, Brazil and Mexico Over recent weeks, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has battled in vain to ensure further US funding for the war in Ukraine. Just one year ago, he received a standing ovation...
12.16.2023
Poland’s Political Drama
Kate Adie presents stories from Poland, CAR, Hong Kong, Armenia and Tunisia This week the former Polish PM Donald Tusk returned to power marking a clear break from the right-wing, populist government that has been in office for the last...
12.09.2023
Hope and Disillusion in South Africa
Kate Adie introduces dispatches from South Africa, Syria, the Netherlands and Germany. Fergal Keane reported from South Africa during the country's difficult transition to democracy after the end of apartheid. He revisits some familiar neighbourhoods and reflects on what happened...
12.02.2023
The UAE’s Air Pollution Problem
Kate Adie presents stories from the UAE, Iran, Ireland, Finland and Cambodia As the world's seventh largest oil producer, the UAE may seem an odd choice to host the world's annual climate summit, but the Emiratis have been keen to...
11.25.2023
Crime and Punishment in Putin’s Russia
Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, the US, Argentina, Iraq and Iceland. In the wake of President Putin's invasion of Ukraine, repressive laws were passed which effectively criminalise all anti-war activism. The recent trial of artist Sasha Skochilenko underscored the...
11.18.2023
An Emergency Summit in Riyadh
Kate Adie presents stories from Saudi Arabia, the West Bank, Spain, Chile and Taiwan. Amid glittering chandeliers and floral bouquets, leaders from 57 Arab and Muslim countries gathered in the Saudi Arabian capital for an Emergency Summit on the situation...
11.16.2023
Cambodia’s sunken Mekong villages
Kate Adie presents stories from Cambodia, Colombia, India, Fiji and Kenya. The Mekong river provides a living for tens of millions of people who live along its banks across five East and South East Asian countries. However, new hydroelectric dams...
11.11.2023
A Tribute To Hope
Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, the Middle East, Peru and Japan. The Israel-Gaza conflict has been framed by harsh words, and when talk of peace and reconciliation seem more distant than ever, is there space for understanding - or...
11.09.2023
Acapulco in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis
Kate Adie presents stories from Mexico, Israel, Pakistan, Georgia and Romania. On October 24, high winds started howling around the Mexican beach city of Acapulco. In barely 12 hours, unseasonably warm seawater off the coast had turned a common tropical...
11.04.2023
Shocked To The Core
: Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Turkey, Switzerland, DRC and Indonesia Four weeks on from Hamas' deadly attack in Israel, details continue to emerge about the killing spree. Israelis are wrestling with the impact and the consequences - and...
11.02.2023
Voices from Gaza and Israel
Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Gaza, Germany, New Caledonia and Hungary. Public pressure is growing on Israel’s prime minister to secure the release of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Lucy Williamson has been talking to...
10.28.2023
Israel, Gaza and the view from the Middle East
Kate Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, South Korea and Turkey. Three years ago the Gulf states of Bahrain and the UAE agreed to normalise diplomatic relations with Israel - and it was Joe Biden's hope that Saudi Arabia...
10.26.2023
The Thai workers caught up in the Israel-Gaza conflict
Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Ukraine, Argentina, Mauritius and Greece. When Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel from Gaza on the 7th October, over 200 of the people killed were foreign nationals. At least 30 of them were from...
10.21.2023
Israel, Gaza and The information war
Kate Adie presents stories on Israel and Gaza, Lebanon and Poland. An explosion at a hospital in Gaza this week has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of establishing the facts during a time of war. Amid the claim and...
10.19.2023
Afghan migrants in limbo in Pakistan
Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Germany, Portugal, Senegal and the United States. Pakistan's government has issued an order for illegal migrants to leave the country by the beginning of November. This includes around 1.7 million Afghans, according to official...
10.14.2023
A Deadly Week in Israel and Gaza
Kate Adie presents a special edition reflecting on the brutal attack in Israel this week by Hamas militants and the subsequent siege and bombardment of Gaza. Anna Foster reports from Ashkelon in Israel’s south, where revellers were attending a music...
10.12.2023
Australia’s Indigenous referendum
Kate Adie presents stories from Australia, Poland, the US, Cameroon and Cape Verde. Australians are voting in a historic referendum on whether or not to recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the country’s constitution, and create a body...
10.07.2023
A Tumultuous Week in US Politics
Kate Adie presents stories from the US, Slovakia, Turkey, Greece and Democratic Republic of Congo. In a break with history, a right-wing faction of the US Republican party moved to oust the speaker of the lower chamber of Congress, Kevin...
10.05.2023
Rising tensions in the Balkans
Kate Adie presents stories from Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, South Sudan, Sri Lanka and Russia’s western borders. A day of shooting in majority-Serb north Kosovo left a police officer and three members of an armed group dead. Guy De Launey reports on...
09.30.2023
Niger: After the coup
Kate Adie presents stories from Niger, Syria, Portugal, Costa Rica and the US. French President, Emmanuel Macron announced he is withdrawing French troops from Niger, once seen as a key ally in the fight against jihadists in the Sahel, and...
09.28.2023
Exodus From Nagorno-Karabakh
Kate Adie presents stories from Nagorno-Karabakh, Canada, South Africa, Peru and Germany. Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians have fled the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the last week. Rayhan Demytrie spoke to some on the Armenian border about the...
09.23.2023
Voices From Libya’s Flood-hit East
Kate Adie presents stories from Libya, Ukraine, Australia and the US Anna Foster visits the flood-affected region of Derna, in Libya's east, where she speaks to survivors of the storm surge after two dams collapsed in the hills above the...
09.16.2023
Morocco: Tragedy in the High Atlas Mountains
Stories from Morocco, Gabon, Pakistan, Norway and Canada A community in the High Atlas Mountains grapples with the devastation wrought by the strongest earthquake to hit Morocco in more than one hundred years. James Copnall visited Amizmiz where several lives...
09.09.2023
The parents suing over Gambia’s cough syrup scandal
Kate Adie introduces stories from The Gambia, Iran, the USA, Chile and Hungary. Dozens of bereaved families in the Gambia are taking legal action against an Indian drug manufacturer and Gambian health authorities, after more than 70 infants died after...

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From Our Own Correspondent episodes:

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

Who will govern Pakistan?

America’s Endless Fentanyl Epidemic

French Farmers and the 'Siege of Paris

Rebranding Indonesia's politicians

Ayodhya: a defining moment for India

Taiwan’s defiant message to China

Japan: Learning Lessons from Earthquakes

Running Out of Road For A Two-State Solution

The Changing Face of Modern China

A Pivotal Moment in Ukraine's War

Poland’s Political Drama

Hope and Disillusion in South Africa

The UAE’s Air Pollution Problem

Crime and Punishment in Putin’s Russia

An Emergency Summit in Riyadh

Cambodia’s sunken Mekong villages

A Tribute To Hope

Acapulco in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis

Shocked To The Core

Voices from Gaza and Israel

Israel, Gaza and the view from the Middle East

The Thai workers caught up in the Israel-Gaza conflict

Israel, Gaza and The information war

Afghan migrants in limbo in Pakistan

A Deadly Week in Israel and Gaza

Australia’s Indigenous referendum

A Tumultuous Week in US Politics

Rising tensions in the Balkans

Niger: After the coup

Exodus From Nagorno-Karabakh

Voices From Libya’s Flood-hit East

Morocco: Tragedy in the High Atlas Mountains

The parents suing over Gambia’s cough syrup scandal