From Our Own Correspondent (R4 Edition) (Investigative)

Just back from Kabul, Hugh Sykes contends that the story of the Taleban's Pakistan connection would sound far-fetched even in the pages of an airport thriller; Tim Whewell on a painful attempt to uncover the painful truth of a wartime massacre in Poland. Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor, talks of how the conflict in the Middle East is teaching President Obama hard and humiliating lessons. There's an account of life in the ancient alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City from Heather Sharp...

Kate Adie introduces stories from Afghanistan, Israel, Poland and Indonesia.

Emma Jane Kirby presents this World Service version of the programme, including reports on the isolated Russian republic of Ingushetia; the lingering political confusion in Bosnia; the reaction to an American president in the coffee shops of China; the perils of paragliding in the Himalayas and the Iowa boom town that turned to bust after a third of the population disappeared overnight.

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.