"Spiritual opium" is how the Chinese brand video games. After a tightening of the noose around the industry and rules at the start of the school year that limit screen time for teens to three hours a week, Fortnite has announced that it is folding. Three years on and one billion dollars spent, the popular survival game never got regulatory approval, despite the financial backing of Chinese tech giant Tencent. So what is the matter with Fortnite?

How to make the military go back to barracks when it's held the reins of power for so long? In Sudan, Saturday's use of live ammunition to quell protests against last month's coup shows the determination of a junta which never went away after the ouster of longtime strongman Omar al-Bashir, agreeing at best to sharing power with civilians during the transition. So what response to Saturday and its aftermath? What next for Sudan's unfinished revolution?

A fast-heating planet means humanity is going to have to transition a whole lot faster away from fossil fuels. In the homestretch of the COP26 climate summit, delegates in Glasgow are trying to make that energy transition stick as soon as possible. Governments are asking themselves: what energy mix for a climate emergency?

NATO calls it hybrid warfare. Under-sanctions Belarus is getting back at the EU by enticing migrants with tourist visas and cheap flights before encouraging them to embark on a one-way journey to the border. On Monday, the tension escalated several notches with a new scale of seemingly orchestrated movement from Minsk. How did those migrants get there? What are the conditions as they head into a third night in the cold?

In Beijing, a four-day meeting promises a "rare resolution" on Chinese history. It's all about the man at the top. Xi Jinping is being elevated to the same rank as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, China's other transformative leaders, with an eye to next year and the lifting of de facto term limits. Will he serve a third term and beyond?

Have we already bungled the green recovery? One year on, post-pandemic plans to turbocharge energy transition with massive next-generation infrastructure investment are still on the rails, but have taken their knocks from fiscal hawks, vested interests and infighting over what it really takes to make the planet great again.

Livelihoods are very much at stake in the Franco-British fishing row, which is turning out to have larger implications than suspended licenses and the sequester of a trawler. Can a solution be found? Does either side want to compromise? Boris Johnson is facing surging energy prices and post-Brexit uncertainty. Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron is up for re-election in six months' time and faces issues at home over fuel prices and migrants putting a strain on coastal communities.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Abiy Ahmed says he'll bury his government's enemies with their blood. The Ethiopian prime minister's words come on the first anniversary of the internal conflict with Tigray rebels. With at least 2 million people displaced by fighting and thousands already killed, the US is sending an envoy to urge a peaceful solution. Meanwhile, the UN has published a report citing allegations of war crimes on both sides. Is there any hope for de-escalation?

"Killed in the line of duty" is a phrase most associated with police officers or soldiers who lose their lives while confronting crime and injustice. In this debate, we're asking why there are now so many journalists facing the same threat. A new tribunal has opened to investigate deaths of reporters, with its initial targets the governments of Mexico, Sri Lanka and Syria. Is it just the tip of the iceberg? Join us as we mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.

"The last chance saloon for the planet." Those were the words of Prince Charles as COP26 gets into full swing in Glasgow, Scotland. We discuss the stakes for us all as world leaders go head to head over the future of the Earth. Climate change is "the ticking doomsday device", says summit host and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Who has the political will and courage to effect the kind of change that experts say is urgently needed to save our planet?