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This week, we visit refugee camps close to Mosul to find out what life was like under "IS". We meet up with young black Germans and asked them how it was growing up in Germany. We talk to a Chilean who has spent years looking for her biological parents. And we have a look on how the German football coach Jürgen Klopp has been embraced by the English.

With the world's attention firmly fixed on the US election, DW takes a look at how the campaign is viewed abroad and why that matters. We follow up on the President's anti-American tirades. And meet a famous Syrian actor who’s running out of places to hide. Plus, how music as a tool for palliative care.

The presidential election campaign in the US is being described as one of the most toxic campaigns for the White House to date. Issues and facts frequently take a backseat amid extensive muckraking, personal attacks and scandals. This week, WordLink takes a look at the growing rift that is threatening to tear American society apart.

What do panic, crises of identity, ultra suspicion, hyper-vigilance, obsession, empathy and horror thrillers have in common? Fear - the focus of this week's special edition of WorldLink.

On this week's show: The German start-up that is hiring and integrating refugee seamstresses. How a dating app is helping a Syrian in Berlin break through stereotypes. The football players helping African asylum seekers find their feet. The Mexican queens of cabaret, for whom no topic is off-limits, and we get to know the Ultra-Orthodox Jew performing stand-up in a synagogue.

This week we're revisiting some of our best interviews so far this year. From the Australian who's compared to Martin Luther King, to the photographer revealing the human face of conflict-torn Yemen, and what it's like for an Afghan in Europe when deadly attacks here are deeply mourned but those his homeland ignored.

On this week's show: Islam in China, Filipino Christians in Israel and a South Korean monk tending the graves of North Korean soldiers. All that, plus an in-depth look at minority religions in the United States.

After half a century of blockade policy, the US has started moving to thaw relations with Cuba. But many are still wary of the Cuban regime, including the million plus exile Cubans in the US. On Calle Ocho, known as Miami’s Little Havana, many artists and musicians are not convinced that the Castro regime has changed its ways. (Report: Maria Bakkalapulo)

We head to Nigeria to find out how the army is dealing with Boko Haram... and how the people in the country's northeast are coping with the devastation that's been left behind. We'll hear the story of Zarghoona Hassan, who won't back down in her fight to make radio in Afghanistan. Plus Donald Trump and his ancestor's hometown of Kallstadt.

Zarghoona Hassan runs two radio programs for women and young people in Afghanistan. Hassan used to live in Kunduz, where the German military was based in Afghanistan during the NATO ISAF mission. When they left, the Taliban took control of Kunduz and burned her radio station down. She fled to the capital Kabul - she never backed down and now, her programs are up and running again.