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Jörg Braunsdorf runs an independent bookshop in Berlin’s Jewish quarter. Shocked by a far-right rally that marched past his bookshop in 2016, he started a grassroots counter-movement that has gained traction. We find out what he’s doing to prevent books from burning again.

On this week's show: We'll find out first-hand about the challenges and potential rewards facing female refugees on the German job market. What's happening with Detroit's abandoned homes now that the city has lost half its population? And finally we'll pay a visit to the biggest beach clean-up on Mother Earth.

On this week's show: Meet the Colombian woman and former refugee who's now helping Venezuelans who are fleeing the dire conditions in their country. We also find out how a unique food project in Beirut is using cuisine to bring rival factions together to let off steam in what is the pressure cooker of Lebanese politics and religion.

We meet a mother in the US, whose cry for help sparked a national anti-drug campaign, opioid addicts in Togo who are battling to kick their habit, and the American army photographer who documented the notorious My Lai massacre. Plus, a slum initiative in Bangalore that's helping widows to stave off loneliness.

On this week's show: The Slovakian journalist who, by being murdered, has just about brought down his government. We'll hear from his colleagues what he was working on. In South Korea, as the Paralympics wind down, we look at how attitudes have changed with regard to the disabled. We also have an in-depth feature on the 'Ndrangheta, one of the world's most dangerous crime networks.

On this week's show, women in Kobane talk about life in the city they helped to liberate from IS in 2015, the role of women in conflict prevention, and a member of Australia's "stolen generations" reflects. Plus #MeToo in Germany and suffragettes in the UK.

On this week's show, we take you on an epic hike through a very historic part of Germany, investigate the national debate surrounding a German food bank's decision to stop accepting foreigners and we delve into the Afrofuturistic world of Marvel's latest superhero film, Black Panther, which is putting a spotlight on a part of culture often ignored by Hollywood.

On this week's show, meet a homeless man in California fighting for his way of life, hear an astounding story of poverty from the United Kingdom and find out how hard it is to find genuine acts of kindness in Berlin. Plus, hear a story of hope from the Zaatari refugee camp, meet two al-Shabaab defectors who are speaking out and learn how Honduran women are joining the #MeToo movement.

We head to Puerto Rico to hear how inhabitants are faring five months after hurricane Maria. We'll also head north to Miami to meet a Puerto Rican singer who is pushing for independence for the US territory. We'll also meet African refugees in Israel who are being given the option of cash or custody and take a personal look back at the life of Asma Jahangir, Pakistan’s champion of human rights.

On this week's WorldLink: a look back at the deadly 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, a violinist dreaming of unifying North and South Korea with music, a Zimbabwean migrant worker in South Africa pining for change at home and retracing the route of the Berlin Wall.