From Our Own Correspondent (R4 Edition) (Investigative)

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.

Lunch in Timbuktu for Andrew Harding and talk of Islamic extremists hiding out in the Sahara. Jo Fidgen's at the trial which is gripping Zambia and she's asking: is it about pornography or politics?Kieran Cooke's in the Mississipi Delta seeing how man and elements combined are ruining the fragile wetlands which form the bayou. And Emma Jane Kirby in Paris tells us the film-makers love them and the women adore them. Why do the French so love a rogue?

New danger in the Sahara, plus Zambia, France, Spain and the US. Presented by Kate Adie.

On the trail of pirate loot ... and on the trail of pirates, as American military drones arrive in The Seychelles. Plus criticism of the Indian government and its handling of a Maoist uprising; anger over the rule of a British governor in the Turks and Caicos Islands; why drivers in Beirut ignore policemen; and a football title brings joy to the streets of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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.