From Our Own Correspondent (R4 Edition) (Investigative)

Allan Little's in Bhopal where people recall the night the direction of the wind determined whether you lived or died; Alan Johnston returns to the West Bank to talk about that most contentious of Middle East issues, the Israeli settlements; Christian Fraser in Cairo discusses how the anger which erupted after a World Cup football match turned into a diplomatic slanging match between two neighbours; John Sweeney's in the frozen Russian city of Archangel asking questions about Stalin while...

Kate Adie introduces despatches from India, Russia, Egypt and the Palestinian Territories.

In this World Service edition presented by Alan Johnston, powerful fears surface in Switzerland in a row over an ancient symbol of Islam; our correspondent walks through a war zone in the Congolese jungle; the nearly forgotten story of the Argentinian soliders who fought the British; suspicious deaths in a remote corner of India and in Morocco, a drug dealer invites us to 'fly to the moon'.

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.