The Inside Story Podcast

An estimated two million North Koreans died during the famine in the 1990s.

Aid workers, and even state media, are calling for international help to prevent history repeating itself.

The official news agency is reporting the worst drought in 37 years, and blames economic sanctions for making matters worse.

North Koreans are being urged to fight what's called 'a war against nature' to find new water sources and protect crops.

The UN has just reported the lowest harvest in a decade, and warned that 10 million people are going hungry.

Can their suffering force the North to abandon its ballistic missile programme and restart denuclearisation talks with the United States?

Presenter: Nick Clark

Guests:

Han Park - Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Global Issues.

Gitte Rabol - Advocacy Manager for the Country Cluster Support Team at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Aidan Foster-Carter - Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University.

Life on Earth is in decline, with more species threatened with extinction than at any time in history.

That’s part of the findings of a UN agency responsible for assessing the state of our planet.

Almost 500 experts worked together over three years.

Destruction of natural habitats, the felling of trees, climate change, pollution AND plunder of the land and sea - are all singled out as major drivers of the decline.

Around a million plant and animal species face extinction, many within decades, if we do not act.

The report's authors believe the decline can be slowed, and in some cases, even stopped.

But it'll need a global commitment to make that change.

Is that commitment even achievable?

Presenter: Imran Khan

Guests

Christoph Thies, campaigner for Greenpeace Germany and an ecological chemistry scientist.

John Wiens, professor at the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.

Brett Sheffers, assistant professor at the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida.

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Murder, war crimes, genocide...these are some of the worst atrocities under international law.

From conflicts to the persecution of minorities because of religion or ethnicity, the world is facing more instances of human rights violations.

Increasingly, the people responsible are not being punished.

Qatar is holding a two-day conference on the issue with more than 250 representatives from the UN, EU and various rights organisations.

They’re discussing ways to ensure the perpetrators of such crimes are held to account and don't escape justice.

So how do we ensure they don’t, literally, get away with murder?

Presenter:

Elizabeth Puranam

Guests:

Toby Cadman - International Human Rights Lawyer and Barrister at Guernica37, an international law firm.

Rami Khouri - Professor of Journalism at the American University of Beirut and Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

Mona Rishmawi - Chief of the Rule of Law, Equality and Non-Discrimination Branch in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Monday the 18th of March marks five years since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.

Western countries condemned the move and imposed economic sanctions against Moscow.

Coinciding with the anniversary, the EU, the U.S.and Canada have introduced some more.

Yet, Putin remains defiant.

He said he's not returning Crimea to Ukraine and has visited the region to join in the celebrations and open two new power stations.

But how long can Putin flex his military muscles against the West?

Presenter: Hazem Sika

Guests

Ilya Ponomarev, exiled Russian politican

Mark Sleboda, international relations and security analyst

Oleksiy Haran, professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

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