SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2020

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwfzcf)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x18yrw776gb)
Trump in hospital

President Trump is being moved to Walter Reed hospital in Washington DC, having been diagnosed with coronavirus, out of an "abundance of caution" according to the White House. We get the latest from the BBC's Peter Bowes and get the medical opinions of Dr Arthur Kaplan, Professor of Bioethics at New York University. Meanwhile, the rate of unemployment in the US has fallen to 7.9%. But the jobless rate in the world's biggest economy is much higher than it was before the pandemic struck. We ask Loretta Mester, chair of the Cleveland Federal Reserve and member of the Federal Open Markets Committee, about the state of the US jobs market. Also in the programme, from 2024 onwards, contenders for best picture at the Oscars will have to meet new rules designed to broaden the backgrounds of the people who worked on it, on both sides of the lens. We have a special report. And we hear from a man who has filmed an entire opera using iPhones, featuring singers in lockdown all over the world.

All this and more discussed with our two guests throughout the show: Peter Ryan, ABC's Senior Business Correspondent. He's in Sydney. And Alexis Goldstein, an activist and financial reform advocate in Washington DC.

(Picture: President Trump leaves the White House for hospital. Credit: Reuters.)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwg33k)
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SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bctt10vjp)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pv8mh4gcy)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhjr)
Flintoff, bulimia and the strain of success

Reaction to an astonishing week in the Indian Premier League, including a record run chase, a Super Over and a gravity-defying boundary save.

Plus, as England legend Andrew Flintoff reveals his battle with bulimia, we'll hear the story of Sarah Coyte, the World Cup-winning Australia bowler who took a break from the game to deal with an eating disorder - and returned to win the Big Bash. Some listeners may find this content upsetting.

West Indies head coach Phil Simmons talks about the challenges facing cricket's poorer nations during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Photo: Andrew Flintoff in 2005 (Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwg6vp)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjhm)
The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh

As fighting flares again over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, we ask why it's so hard to resolve this conflict, and why a chunk of Armenian-controlled territory came to be inside Azerbaijan in the first place. BBC Russian editor Famil Ismailov is originally from Azerbaijan, and has followed this story for decades.

Pot plants and plant influencers in Indonesia
Houseplants have become a trend among urban Indonesians keen to ease the boredom of lockdown. There’s an industry of plant “influencers” and experts to feed the fascination, shared by BBC Indonesian’s Astudestra Ajengrastri.

The fund-raising campaigns to free captured IS families
Stories are emerging of donation campaigns by so-called Islamic State and Al Qaeda aimed at freeing the wives and children of IS fighters from detention camps in Syria. Abdirahim Saeed of BBC Monitoring tells us what he’s discovered from jihadist social media groups, which are raising funds to smuggle the women out.

Water tensions on the Nile
Ethiopia’s project to create the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile has fuelled political tensions with Egypt and Sudan. But it’s not just politicians who are affected. Reem Fatthelbab of BBC Arabic spoke to an Ethiopian living in Cairo, and an Egyptian based in Ethiopia, about their concerns.

Brazil meets Ghana
Sonny Nkansa, a Fifth Floor listener with roots in Ghana, explains why the latest in our My Home Town series - from Feira de Santana in Brazil's Bahia state - took him straight home to his small village in Ghana's Volta region.

Picture: Elderly woman in Nagorno Karabakh
Credit: European Photopress Agency


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmvh)
The house by the lake

A summer house built by a lake outside Berlin in the 1920s reflects much of Germany's 20th century history. Its first owners fled the Nazis. The Berlin Wall was built through its garden. Then after the reunification of Germany it was recognised as a historic monument and made into an education and reconciliation centre. Alex Stanger has been speaking to Thomas Harding whose great grandfather built the house, and who has written a children's book about its changing place in the world.

Photo: The Alexander Haus today. Credit: André Wagner


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwgblt)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcnh)
Turkey flexes on the world stage

The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia has taken on a new dimension with the alleged involvement of the Turkish military. Armenia says one of its fighter jets was shot down by a Turkish aircraft over the disputed central Asian region of Nagorno-Karabakh. In the summer, France accused the Turkish navy of confronting one of its frigates in pursuit of a vessel suspected of taking arms to Libya. Meanwhile Turkey's understanding with Russia and Iran over the war in Syria has strained its ties with Washington, as well as several Gulf countries. So do these events suggest that Ankara is becoming more assertive in its foreign policy? Or is this the reaction of a country that finds itself isolated and is being forced to act in order to preserve its interests? Does Turkey still see a future in NATO? And what is the long term vision of president Erdogan; are his critics right to accuse him of trying to return the country to its Ottoman past?


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwggby)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bctt116s2)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pv8mh4tmb)
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SAT 05:32 Comedians Vs. The News (w3ct0x3d)
Tumi Morake and Gastor Almonte

South Africa’s queen of comedy Tumi Morake and top American stand-up Gastor Almonte join comedy couple Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini to find the funny in the world’s news. This week, why is the South African defence minister in trouble for borrowing a plane? And the American football star who became a hero off the pitch.

Get involved and tell us about the funny stories where you are.
#comediansvsthenews


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwgl32)
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SAT 06:06 Weekend (w172x7d0q87dycs)
US President Hospitalised

President Trump is spending a first night in hospital where he's receiving treatment for his coronavirus infection. We get the latest from our correspondent. We also take a look at the effect on the US election campaign and at the experimental drug he's taking.
Also on the programme, we hear about an opera project, involving composers from all over the world.

(Photo:US President arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre; Credit: Reuters)


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwgpv6)
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SAT 07:06 Weekend (w172x7d0q87f23x)
President Trump In Hospital

President Donald Trump has been airlifted to a military hospital to undergo testing after his Coronavirus diagnosis. Many other senior Republicans who attended a recent White House event have also tested positive for the virus. We get the latest from our correspondent.
Also on the programme, as countries around the world grapple with renewed increases in Covid-19 cases, we'll hear how best to persuade people to comply with Covid restrictions. And a new book is out about the Assassination of the Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, we speak to the author.

(Photo: US President Donald Trump; Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwgtlb)
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SAT 08:06 Weekend (w172x7d0q87f5w1)
Donald Trump Moved to Hospital

President Trump is battling Covid- nineteen in a military hospital, receiving antiviral drugs but not supplementary oxygen. We get the latest from the US and hear about the implications on the election due in a month's time.
Also on the programme, as countries around the world are re-introducing restrictions for Coronavirus, are contact tracing apps an invasion of privacy?

(Photo:Mr Trump with face mask in hand. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pv8mh55vq)
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SAT 08:32 The Documentary (w3ct0x65)
Soul Music

The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

Seamus McDonagh is a former boxer. He describes the tumultuous time he had during and after his famous fight with Evander Holyfield in 1990. He also explains why he identifies closely with the lyrics of The Boxer.

Julie Nimoy is the daughter of Leonard Nimoy and co-producer of the film Remembering Leonard Nimoy, which tells the life story of this much loved actor, most famous for playing Mr Spock in Star Trek. The Boxer was his favourite song and Julie describes exactly what it meant to him both throughout his life, and in its closing moments.

Gary Edward Jones is a singer-songwriter who for years rejected comparisons made of him to Paul Simon. Eventually, he embraced the likeness and his life changed after developing a show called Something About Simon - The Paul Simon Story.

Dave Mason is an amateur guitarist who has found deep meaning in The Boxer; meaning that has changed and grown as he has.


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwgybg)
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SAT 09:06 BBC OS Conversations (w3ct0xjq)
US election: Trump and coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 200,000 lives in the US and there are more than 7 million confirmed cases. President Trump, whose approach to the virus divides opinion, has now himself tested positive for the virus. As the Americans prepare to vote for a new president or give Donald Trump four more years, coronavirus is one of the issues that will inform voters' thinking.

During the election campaign Nuala McGovern will be hearing from those Americans right across the country.

We bring together Republicans and Democrats in Texas, Georgia and Florida who have all seen their lives impacted by the virus. They share how they think the president has handled the coronavirus crisis. And, two mothers from Idaho and South Carolina discuss how Donald Trump’s presidency has affected their families’ lives - for better and worse - as well as their hopes for the future.

(Photo: US President Donald J. Trump Credit: Yuri Gripas/EPA/POOL)


SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pv8mh59lv)
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SAT 09:32 Girl Taken (w3ct0xw3)
Girl Taken

03/10/2020 GMT

Girl Taken is a two year investigation to find a little girl taken from her mother in Iran. In this 11 part series, recorded in real time, Sue Mitchell and Rob Lawrie slowly unravel the mystery of what happened to four year old Bru and set out to reunite mother and daughter after years of being apart.

The series starts when Sue Mitchell came into the story, as a reporter for the BBC covering the refugee crisis in Europe. The little girl had hit the media spotlight when her father, claiming to be a widow fleeing Afghanistan under threat of death from the Taliban, asked Rob Lawrie, a volunteer at the Calais camp, for help. He wanted Rob to smuggle Bru to the UK but this failed. Although the story was extensively covered no one knew Bru’s mother was alive and desperately searching for her.

Through the original BBC coverage the mother, Goli, makes contact with Sue and Rob, telling them her daughter was taken from the family home in Tehran without her knowledge or consent. She’d been to the police in Iran but was told they could not help. She then travelled thousands of miles at the hands of smugglers with Bru’s baby sister, Baran. Sickness forced her to stop in Denmark but authorities and refugee charities there could not find Bru. These recordings cover a series of dramatic turns in the search for the little girl.

The recordings also touch on the plight of other women whose children have been taken from them by abusive husbands. It is still a rare thing to happen, but this investigation exposes shortcomings in the asylum process. Since the recordings aired, officials have discovered other cases where men have come into the United Kingdom with a child to help their asylum claims. These claims have not been fully investigated in the past and there are few safeguards to protect those who have suffered as a result.

The series raises the plight of children living in the Calais Jungle and other overcrowded and unsanitary camps. Through Goli’s story we learn more about the control others had in shaping her life. She’d had an arranged marriage to a cruel and controlling man and lived in a society where she had few rights. When she decided to flee Iran and search for Bru, she encountered many dangers, from smugglers to perilous sea crossings in the dead of night with Bru’s baby sister, Baran, in her arms.

The series gives voice to one woman’s story and in doing so raises issues affecting many others. Goli left the only culture she had known to search the world for her little girl and in doing so changed her outlook completely. On reaching the West she immersed herself in the education she had always wanted. As she began making her own choices she starts to experience possibilities and freedoms she had never before imagined. Goli is hopeful that her story could help other women to challenge the injustice and cruelty she has overcome.


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3cszf4w)
How a story makes it to leading the headlines

We investigate what is it about a story that means it earns a place in the news headlines? And with an outbreak of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh, what are the realities of reporting from the region? We ask the BBC's Caucuses correspondent for her personal thoughts.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Produced: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwh22l)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172x3bzp0jzvw9)
“America is divided because Americans think it’s divided” – Seth Gottesdiener

Los Angeles gym owner Seth Gottesdiener is cycling across America to assess the mood of his nation as they approach the 2020 presidential election. Following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests, he’s speaking to a cross section of society to see if America has more that unites it than divides it. His conversations will form the basis of a documentary, which will be released in time for the presidential inauguration.

Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira joins us to reflect on surfing the biggest wave of the year. She tells us the sound of the 22.4 meter high wave crashing at the bottom will live with her forever as she has never been so scared. Gabeira also recalls how she was almost killed by a wave at the same beach in 2013 and how she battled self-doubt in her recovery.

Only ten people have run every London Marathon and Chris Finill is one of them. Ahead of Sunday’s race he tells us about his love of running, how the covid-19 pandemic has affected his preparation and about the highs and lows he’s encountered going the distance over the last 39 years.

We take in the ultimate social lockdown sport moment by joining a 24 hour global netball marathon. We hear from one of the coaches running a live session and from Australian player and founder of Netfit Sarah Wall.

In Sporting Witness, we go back to the London Olympics in 2012 when Sizwe Ndlovu became the first black African to win rowing gold.

And with live sport continuing: the BBC’s tennis correspondent Russell Fuller joins us from Roland Garros to discuss the French Open and we’re at Stamford Bridge with Alistair Bruce-Ball ahead of Chelsea’s game against Crystal Palace.

Photo: This combination of pictures created on September 29, 2020 shows Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and US President Donald Trump speaking during the first presidential debate (Credit: JIM WATSON,SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwh5tq)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bctt11y7v)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pv8mh5k33)
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SAT 11:32 The Documentary (w3ct16l5)
Songs of the Humpback Whale

Songs of the Humpback Whale was released in 1970 and went multi-platinum, becoming the best selling environmental album of all time. But it also became emblematic of the West’s shifting attitudes towards environmentalism, inspiring a global movement to save the whales which continues to this day.

Marking the 50th anniversary of bioacoustician Roger Payne’s unlikely smash hit, this programme considers the legacy of sounds that caught the imagination of the world.

With contributions from the world of music, science and ecology, including the folk singer Judy Collins, Greenpeace Oceans Campaigner Willie Mackenzie, Greenlandic musician Peter Tussi Motzfeldt, marine biologist and electronic musician Sara Niksic, music writer Simon Reynolds and Roger Payne himself.
Including archive courtesy of Radio Canada international
With music by Duotone.


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwh9kv)
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SAT 12:06 Music Life (w3csz6tf)
Musical resistance with Rina Sawayama and Mykki Blanco

Rina Sawayama, Angel-Ho, Shamir, and Mykki Blanco talk about where they get the inspiration to create when they are not performing, trying to be original or not, and the role resistance plays in their music.

Mykki Blanco is an internationally renowned musician, performing artist and LGBTQ+ activist who defined the queer rap genre with their mixtapes Cosmic Angel and Gay Dog Food. This year alone they have completed two albums' worth of material. Shamir is a singer, songwriter, and actor from Las Vegas, now based in Philadelphia. He has just released his self-titled latest album, which is his most intimate to date. Angel-Ho is a performance artist, producer, and singer from Cape Town. Her most recent record, Woman Call, is rooted in “empowering the voice of a woman who is not the perfect mould of society”. And our host of the week is Rina Sawayama. Her album SAWAYAMA will be appearing on many Best Albums of the Year lists – including Elton John’s, who called the album his favourite of the year so far.


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwhf9z)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172x2yx9fd5lyk)
Trump receives anti-viral treatment for Covid-19

President Trump has spent his first night in a military hospital, where he is being treated for a coronavirus infection. His doctor said Mr Trump did not need supplemental oxygen, but that specialists decided to start treatment with the drug Remdesivir and an experimental anti-body cocktail.

Also in the programme: We hear from both sides of the frontline of the fighting in Nagorno Karabakh; and Sudan has signed a peace deal with some of its rebel factions aimed at ending years of violent conflict.

(Image: The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, where President Trump is being treated. Credit: Reuters/Joshua Roberts)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwhk23)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172x3lcnkz62qf)
Live Sporting Action

Sportsworld brings you full coverage of Everton vs. Brighton in the English Premier League, live from Goodison Park.

Lee James is joined by former Premier League title winner Robert Huth, ex-England international Lianne Sanderson and the former Tottenham and Cameroon defender Sebastian Bassong to discuss all the big talking points from the top flight.

We'll bring you the latest from the English Women's Super League. Plus we'll keep you up to date with the French Open, women's international cricket and the NBA and WNBA finals.

Photo: Everton's James Rodriguez (Getty Images)


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwj11m)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bctt12sgr)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pv8mh6db0)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3csyvnr)
The ‘lifeguard’ who saves women on Instagram

Ingebjørg spends hours every day on Instagram, but she’s not posting selfies. She’s trying to save lives.

This softly-spoken 22-year-old has made it her mission to keep an eye on hundreds of desperate young women and girls who post their self-harm pictures and suicidal thoughts on secret accounts that only trusted followers can see.

Many of those involved have eating disorders, depression or other mental health problems. They don’t trust healthcare workers or doctors.

But they do trust Ingebjørg. She can see what they post and she routinely calls the police when she thinks somebody is in danger. It’s earned her the nickname “The Lifeguard”.

Ingebjørg doesn’t work for Instagram. Saving lives isn’t her job, she has no formal training and nobody pays her for what she does. So should the Facebook-owned social network take more responsibility for helping its users?

And what would happen if Ingebjørg wasn’t there?

If you are affected by the issues discussed you can find information about support organisations on the Befrienders Worldwide website https://www.befrienders.org/

Presenter: Catrin Nye
Producer: Ed Main
Editor: Mike Wendling

(Photo Caption: Ingebjørg in her home city of Bergen, Norway / Photo credit: BBC)


SAT 18:50 More or Less (w3ct0pxx)
Trump’s misleading 'fact' about the Covid-19 death count in the US

US president Donald Trump has said that just six per cent of people who were reported to have died from Covid-19 in the US actually died from the disease. Could he be right? And we do the maths on a mascara brand’s bold claim about emboldening your eyelashes.

(image: Coronavirus impact in the USA /Getty Creative)


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwj4sr)
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SAT 19:06 The History Hour (w3cszkpg)
The Mafia and Italian politics

The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia, the death of the charismatic Egyptian President - Gamal Abdel Nasser, a whale rescue which brought together cold war enemies, the German house which witnessed a century of change and the birth of Google.

Photo: Giulio Andreotti in 1983. Credit: Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwj8jw)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3cszk3d)
Director Ron Howard

On The Arts Hour this week: Hollywood director Ron Howard discusses his latest documentary Rebuilding Paradise, about the aftermath of the devastating fire that took place in California in 2018; Channing Godfrey Peoples, the writer and director of Miss Juneteenth, describes the importance of this unique Texas beauty pageant; and Chilean cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky talks about his early interest in cinema and his failed attempt to make the film Dune.

American Jewish stand-up comedian Alex Edelman reveals encountering anti-Semitism in an audience; the poet and playwright Inua Ellams describes discovering the power of Beethoven; and there’s music from Mercury Music Prize 2020 winner Michael Kiwanuka.

Nikki Bedi’s guests this week are American artist Deborah Roberts who joins frim Austin Texas to talk about her latest work, and VFX designer and filmmaker Paul Franklin.


(Photo: Ron Howard. Credit: Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwjd90)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172x2yx9fd6kxl)
Armenian civilians flee the main city in Nagoro Karabakh to escape shelling from Azerbaijan

Armenia's foreign ministry has said it "stands ready to engage" with France, Russia and the US on halting seven days of fighting with its neighbour Azerbaijan. Casualties have mounted in the southern Caucasus with both sides accusing each other of launching deadly attacks.

Also on the programme: US President Donald Trump is doing "very well" in hospital after his Covid-19 diagnosis, his doctors say, but their account has been disputed; the tale of fifty nine sealed sarcophagi and dozens of mummies uncovered in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara outside the Egyptian capital; and following months of negotiations, a peace deal has been signed between the government of Sudan and an alliance of rebel groups aimed at ending years of conflict.

(Picture: Inside view of a house allegedly damaged by an alleged recent shelling in the settlement of Bakharly in Agdam region in Nagorny Karabakh Credit: EPA/AZIZ KARIMOV)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwjj14)
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SAT 22:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9q2)
Bloodshed in Mozambique

Pascale Harter introduces analysis, reportage and personal reflections from correspondents around the world.

This week the President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, was selected as ‘Person of the Year 2020’ for Africa Oil and Power – awarded for several multibillion dollar gas projects. It’s these projects, in part, which take us to Southern Africa - but not for any celebration. As Andrew Harding reports, there is now a growing insurgency ravaging large areas of northern Mozambique, threatening a fruitful future.

In Lebanon, a new government still hasn’t been formed after the previous one resigned in response to public outrage following a massive chemical explosion in a storage depot at the port in Beirut. Some two hundred people died and thousands were injured. But it’s not just the blast; a devastating economic crisis has seen the value of the currency plunge and the pandemic lockdown forced nearly a third of businesses to close, leaving thousands jobless. Leila Molana-Allen assesses if Lebanon is now a sinking ship as people are leaving in droves.

Next to the Philippines where this week President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Facebook after it took down more than 200 accounts accused of promoting pro-Duterte propaganda. Opposition politicians, human rights activists and journalists have reported receiving threatening posts. But a group was formed, to stand up to the abuse: The Troll Patrol. Our man in Manila, Howard Johnson, went to meet one of them.

Chile, which stretches along South America’s Pacific coast, is famous for its fruit and wine. The grapes are grown in the country’s central region, which has been getting so dry over the past ten years, that scientists call it a ‘mega-drought.’ But how do you farm without water? Jane Chambers visited the Til Til region, northwest of the capital Santiago, to find out how the residents are coping with the agricultural crisis.

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Bethan Head
Editor: Bridget Harney

(Image: Soldiers from the Mozambican army patrol the streets following attacks from suspected Islamists in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique. Credit: Adrien Barbier/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pv8mh6w9j)
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SAT 22:32 Trending (w3csyvnr)
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SAT 22:50 More or Less (w3ct0pxx)
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SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172x5p0twwjms8)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bctt13d6d)
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SAT 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pv8mh701n)
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SAT 23:32 Heart and Soul (w3ct1657)
The US elections: A faith perspective

Religiosity has always been a key factor of who takes charge in the White House. US presidents have been invoking faith and God ever since George Washington expressed his “fervent pleas to this Almighty Being who rules the universe” in his 1789 inaugural address.

This year, more than ever eyes are on who the religious voting banks will decide as their candidate of choice for the upcoming presidential election. Does Trump remain the choice of evangelicals or has some of his statements and behaviour proved a turn off? And will Biden’s Catholic faith help him or do his liberal values on topics such as abortion put him out of favour.

Journalist Colm Flynn speaks to religious people across the United States to get a sense of the role faith will play in determining who will become the next President of the United States.

Presenter/producer: Colm Flynn
Executive producer: Rajeev Gupta

(Photo: US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside of St John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington DC, 1 June 2020. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)