03.31.2024 - By BBC World Service
Millions of Turks vote in elections to decide who runs their biggest cities - and whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can wrest back control from the opposition. Also in the programme: In Israel, after nearly six months of war in Gaza, is there weariness among Israelis?. The Brazilian farm workers exploited to harvest an everyday ingredient; and the movement in South Korea to get rid of the Tokyo cherry blossom trees because of their imperial connotations. (Photo: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan voting at a polling station during the local elections in Istanbul, Turkey. Credit: EPA).