From Our Own Correspondent (R4 Edition) (Investigative)

Gunfire in Guinea as the military leader survives an assassination attempt -- Mark Doyle is just back from the capital Conakry where people want an investigation into a massacre there in September. David Shukman is in Bolivia, one of the countries hoping significant steps will be taken at the climate conference about to get underway in Copenhagen. South Africa promises a safe and successful World Cup for international visitors -- but Andrew Harding contends it's less optimistic about its own...

Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.

In this World Service edition, Gerald Butt watches as the Dubai dream crumbles; Guy De Launey asks if Cambodians today can really escape the legacy of the Khmer Rouge; in Bhopal, Jorn Madslien finds a city still struggling to rebuild its economy 25 years after a chemical disaster; Karishma Vaswani meets cheerful polygamists and polygamy opponents in Indonesia; and in Mexico, Stephen Gibbs meets a stylish mayor with some interesting crime-fighting methods. Presented by Alan Johnston.

This week: Jim Muir in Baghdad explains why hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the country since the coalition invaded in 2003; in Washington DC Rajini Vaidyanathan considers the state of the US economy over a bowl of french fries in an historic diner; while much of the rest of the world faces recession Humphrey Hawksley discovers that there are jobs aplenty in Romania; Nick Nugent reveals why the people of the mountainous republic of Dagestan are missing out on the boom...

BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.

BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.