Part One: After 52 years Farc rebels have lain down their weapons in Colombia. But the legacy of death and upheaval left by their conflict with the central government present a major challenge to future peace. Former Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore, now EU envoy to the Columbian peace process, explains how the settlement is designed to punish and reintegrate perpetrators without jeopardising the hard-won peace.

Part Two: From Irbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Ruadhri Giblin reports on a city with aspirations to westernise and modernise. But there are innumerable barriers to Kurdistan's progress, not least that their Peshmerga fighters will soon be taking part in an assault on Isis-controlled Mosul, just 50 miles away.

Part One: Middle East analyst Michael Jansen on the tragedy still unfolding in Syria and the significance of the battle for the divided city of Aleppo.

Part Two: Eight months of political paralysis in Spain may at last have been broken. If it hasn't, yet another fresh election may loom. Guy Hedgecoe reports.

Part Three: Badly-behaved tourists are a well-established phenomenon in this part of the world, but in China, for whose people global-trotting is a nascent hobby, reports of misbehaviour abroad have provoked a strong negative reaction at home. They're merely teething problems for a wonderful new industry, says Clifford Coonan.

Part One: Donald Trump's few electoral paths to the White House are growing fewer by the week as polls show him lagging in the key swing states. One of them is Pennsylvania where, with its history of economic stagnation, his message should be resonating. Why is he failing there? Simon Carswell reports.

Part Two: Scottish National Party MEP Alyn Smith sits down with Patrick to talk about Scotland and Northern Ireland's roles in Brexit negotiations and the prospect of another Indyref.

Part Three: Ideological provocation, or harmless compromise between religious faith and the need to take a dip? The Burkini has been banned by three municipal authorities in France who see it as the former. Lara Marlowe gives her take on the controversy.

The ANC, the political party of Nelson Mandela, has barely lost a vote since the end of apartheid in 1994. Now it has lost control of several districts in municipal elections, in what's being called a tipping point in the nation's political history. Bill Corcoran reports from Johannesburg.

Akihito, Emperor of Japan, is not allow to comment on Japanese politics or laws - including the law that established his own position. Therefore it was tricky for him to let the nation know that he'd quite like to retire at the age of 82, says David McNeill in Tokyo.

And here in our Dublin studio, Ruadhan Mac Cormaic explains how a new selection process for U.N. Secretary General allows potential replacements for Ban Ki-moon to get the message and drop out with dignity, if they lack support - but there's still room for plenty of politicking over the crucial appointment.

Could Donald Trump have really gone too far this time? London Editor Denis Staunton reports on his trip to Philadelphia, where Hillary Clinton's nomination party was overshadowed by yet more controversial remarks from Trump, this time criticising parents of a dead soldier. Has he holed his campaign under the water? Plus, what do Democrats make of Brexit - could it and Trump be two sides of one coin?

Find out everything you need to know about on-again, off-again nuclear power plant, Hinkley Point. Irish Times' resident boffin Dick Ahlstrom visits the studio to provide the backstory to this French-built, Chinese-financed, expensive, white elephant - is it any wonder Theresa May has hesitated with the green light? Or is it just another Brexit bargaining chip?

It's August and the EU is taking a badly needed holiday, as is our Europe Correspondent Suzanne Lynch. She nevertheless obliges with a report on what progress has been made in Brexit negotiations - it's a very, very short report. Suzanne also tells us about Julian King, the UK's new Commissioner, who has been handed the security brief.

Part One: Stephen Starr reports from Istanbul where the heavy crackdown on alleged plotters against President Erdogan is continuing.

Part Two: Bavaria, and its capital Munich, is reeling from four terrorist attacks in the last week. How much pressure will this heap on Angela Merkel, and how much can she withstand?

Part Three: Our Moscow Correspondent Isabel Gorst is in Dublin, so she visited the World View studio to talk about Vladimir Putin's swelling fan club of world leaders - and his standing among Russian citizens.

Part one: Following Turkey's failed coup, President Erdogan has seized the opportunity to purge his political opponents. Some eighteen thousand have been arrested at last count, is Erdogan forcing his agenda or did the plot go that deep? To offer some insight, Ruadhan Mac Cormaic reports from Istanbul.

Part two: "A most unconventional conventional", is how our Washington Correspondent Simon Carswell describes the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Plagiarized speeches and Nixon comparisons are just the beginning.

Part three: Lara Marlowe reports from a shell-shocked Nice. Tensions are still high with Arabs feeling scapegoated for last Thursday's Bastille day attack and support for the right-wing National Front on the increase.

Lara Marlowe reports from the scene of the attacks in Nice, France that have left 84 dead and hundreds injured.

Part One: Race relations in the United States, always fragile, hit a low point in the last week with the shooting of police officers in Dallas, in apparent retaliation for the shooting of African Americans. Simon Carswell reports on the aftermath of the bloodshed and how it is spilling over into the election campaign.

Part Two: Newly relected Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe may now attempt to change the constitution, brought in by the occupying Americans after World War Two, to remove stipulations including a prohibition on waging war and the powers of the Emperor. David McNeill reports from Tokyo.

Part Three: London Editor Denis Staunton on Theresa May's surprisingly straightforward ascent to Number 10.

Part One - Who will be the next Tory leader? Tough, pragmatic Theresa May, who has survived the 'political graveyard' of the Home Office longer than any other politician? Charming ideologue Michael Gove, whose reputation for courtesy belies a willingness to wield the political knife? Or Andrea Leadsom, a hardline Leaver? Denis Staunton reports from London.

Part Two (14:30)- Elvis Nilsson of Swedish paper Svenska Dagblad laments the departure of Britain, the country with whom Swedes - and Danes and Dutch and Norwegians - feel they have most in common.

Part Three (21:00) - Germany's leaders, 'inconsolable' at the news of Brexit, have many questions to ask themselves about their country's role in a diminished Europe. Derek Scally joins us from Berlin to look at Angela Merkel's hardening stance on Brexit negotiations the remergence of an old idea: a "two-speed Europe".