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Two days after the announcement of the killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, Israel's offensive against the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza has been intensifying. We get the latest.
Ruth Chepngetich smashed the women鈥檚 marathon world record in Chicago on Sunday, bringing the record down by almost two minutes, but it follows the killing of a number of elite female athletes from east Africa in recent years. Our reporter looks into the darker side of Kenyan athletics.
Before the advance of literacy and modern technology, some Italian communities relied on cantastorie, wandering story-singers, also known as troubadours, to get the latest news. These travelling artists would write and perform songs about everyday struggles or shocking events. They are now a vanishing breed. We go to Sicily to meet one of the country鈥檚 last cantastorie.
To discuss this and more, Patricia Cumper, writer, playwright and theatre director and also, Oli Brown, an expert on environmental change and conflict and a visiting professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. CREDIT: Smoke rises following an Israeli strike in Jabalia refugee camp on 18/05/2024/ Reuters