Iraq’s oil-rich southern province, Basra, has become a breeding ground for drugs and criminals, While the rest of Iraq was battling the so-called Islamic State group.
Yalda Hakim has gained access to Basra’s police SWAT team, and the prison where dealers and addicts are kept .
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Mexico’s war on drugs has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in the past decade. Countless attempts by authorities to stem the violence have so far failed. Mexico’s President, Enrico Pena Nieto promised a lower-profile approach to tackling the cartels, focussing on local level gang members. To see if this approach has been working.

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Race and identity has proved to be a controversial issue in the run-up to the US presidential election in November. North America Correspondent, Aleem Maqbool, has been hearing from voters in Whitefish, Montana about their views on the influence of the far-right.

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When the internet’s biggest fanfiction site disappears, there’s one thing you can still count on: a network of fans.

AO3 hosts more than 18 million works, including many sexually explicit stories, and writing inspired by popular IP, such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Heated Rivalry.

And the fans have been sharing “fics” on drives to keep each other going while their online haven is down. The non-profit behind AO3, announced the site would be offline for two to four weeks, citing a “security incident”.

In this episode, Marianna and Matt discuss why people are panicking and whether after other cyber security threats recently – including PHP – the internet is becoming more fragile.

Plus – Marianna has done an experiment to test how AI chatbots might be influencing how people vote and how it could mean for future elections.

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00:36 PART ONE: AO3 and fears of the internet apocalypse

13:14 PART TWO: Elections in the age of AI Chatbots

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Hundreds of thousands of South Korean soldiers fought alongside the Americans in Vietnam, but the story of South Korea’s involvement in the conflict is largely untold. More than fifty years later, a victim of Korean atrocities travels to the capital Seoul in search of justice. As part of the BBC’s Crossing Divides season, Ly Truong reports.

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