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Our regular US correspondent Bruce Shapiro discusses a landmark climate trial in Montana and the latest Trump indictment. Plus, Afghan academic Farkhondeh Akbari on the fate of women two years after the fall of Kabul. And we meet nature's greatest lairs and cheats with biologist Lixing Sun. 

7.30's Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle brings the latest news from inside the Canberra bubble. Food security expert Joseph Glauber discusses how developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and El Nino threaten global food supplies. Plus, a story about how a group of snow monkeys found themselves in America's deep south that has to be heard to be believed. 

Award-winning historian Tom Holland recounts one of the most dazzling chapters in Roman history - the Pax Romana - when the Empire reached the heights of its predatory glory. The year 69AD was one of civil war, when four Caesars in succession ruled the Empire. But from the chaos emerged an era of unrivalled Roman peace and power. 

Guest: Tom Holland, historian and author of Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age. Co-host of The Rest is History podcast.  

Three years on, Dalal Mawad talks about the women who survived the Beirut bomb blast, and their lives now. Plus Australian musician David Bridie and Papuan musician George Telek tell Phillip about their enduring friendship, which is the subject of a new documentary. 

Ian Dunt discusses whether the privatisation of the public service is as extensive, and worrying, in the UK as it seems to be in Australia. Drew Rooke discusses how online sports betting got its start in Australia, in Alice Springs of all places. Plus, we meet two women who are fighting poaching and gender stereotypes in South Africa. 

Guests:

Ian Dunt, columnist at the “i” newspaper.

Drew Rooke, freelance journalist and author.

Leitah Mkhabela, Black Mambas’ supervisor and Ops room Manager.

Felicia Mogakane, Black Mambas’ Ops room Manager and Sergeant.

Laura Tingle on the Prime Minister's visit to Garma, and calls to delay or modify the Voice to Parliament Referendum. Can Amazonian leaders save their rainforest, for the sake of the planet? And the story of Operation Hurricane - when the British first tested their atomic bomb in Australia.  

The Murdoch media mogul that we've come to know is almost unrecognisable from Rupert Murdoch, the youth. Author Walter Marsh discusses the era that shaped young Rupert, the radical who espoused socialism, kept a bust of Lenin in his uni accommodation and then went on to build his empire from 1950s Adelaide.

Two incredible true crime tales of the powerful women behind Latin America's drug trade, and the unlikely women who formed a notorious murder ring in rural Hungary. Plus, we get an update on the situation in Myanmar. 

Plus, Bruce Shapiro discusses Donald Trump's mounting legal woes, and how the climate crisis is hitting home this American summer. 

Laura Tingle on whether the double dissolution could really happen. Cambodia's longest serving PM hands over to his son. And flour mill photography, flour bag art, and many other things you might not know about flour in Australia.