大象传媒

Congress is meeting to find new ways to combat addiction to prescription painkillers. Anupam Jena is a health economist and physician at Harvard Medical School, and explains the impact America's opioid crisis is having on the US workforce. Also in the programme, King Salman of Saudi Arabia has made the first visit to Russia by a reigning Saudi monarch. Paul Wasserman is Russia expert at the consultancy Global Risk Insights, and explains what the visit tells us about the changing role of the United States on the world stage. A Tinder-style mobile dating app called Ayo Poligami aimed at polygamists in Indonesia is causing some controversy. We hear why from Kiri Ali of Jakarta's National Commission on Violence Against Women. We look back at environmental proposals made by the main British political parties in their conference season, with the environmental campaigner George Monbiot. Plus, later this month the Chinese People's Congress is expected to give the go-ahead to a plan to build an entire new city south of Beijing. We have a report from the proposed site, Xiong'an.

(Picture: Opioid pain pills. Picture credit: Getty Images.)