Splits in the Republican ranks over Jamal Khashoggi - and in the Democratic ranks over early presidential candidates. In China's Xinxiang region the local Uighur population are kept under surveillance - and any small infraction could see them sent to an indoctrination camp - or as they're now called, 'vocational training centres'. Russian poet, Sergei Esenin.

Is it time for Australia to re-think its defence system, will this year's winner of the Man Booker restore the prize's mojo and why Kansas's white working poor are not necessarily Trump voters.

The Midterms in the South and how the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi could affect US/Saudi relations. Disinformation, Moscow style and why it’s causing so much political angst  around the world. What do you really know about Jørn Utzon? A new film and exhibition shed fresh light on the visionary Dane behind the Sydney Opera House.

Laura Tingle dissects the campaign for Wentworth, Patrick Walters dissects our defence policies and organisations and Claire Hooper gets into the mind of the Black Saturday arsonist.

With the loss of the ABC's Asia-Pacific broadcasting, China's CGTN is now taking the lead on soft power. Is climate change worse than we think? Tim Flannery, head of the Climate Council, weighs in on this week's IPPC report, the government's greenhouse emissions report card, and his new book Europe: a natural history

A global poaching epidemic is threatening the existence of countless species including rhinos, tigers, savannah elephants - and the lesser-known pangolin; Oleg Gordievsky was a catch in a million for MI6 - a high ranking KGB agent who supplied sensational intelligence at the height of the Cold War.

Kavanaugh, Democrats are 'evil' and the midterms approach. Death or disappearance in Istanbul, the disturbing disappearance of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Death or disappearance in Istanbul, the disturbing disappearance of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.

Laura discusses why federal politicians are buying into the Sydney Opera House stoush and Australian film-maker James Ricketson reveals what life was like inside Cambodia's notorious Prey Sar prison.

Can the GOP hope to attract working class and black voters in large numbers? As an election approaches, confusion is the order of the day in the Balkans. Tasmania's cultural history.

As natural disasters become wilder and more regular their impacts will go well beyond immediate displacement and death; Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak is facing over 30 corruption related charges. But who was the man that moved the money for him?