The PKK ends a 40 year long insurgency in Turkey. Plus: China and the Philippines vie for a tiny island; Native American roads to healing; Venice is drowning - in tourists.
Pascale Harter introduces dispatches from Turkey, the Philippines, the USA and Italy.
More than forty thousand people were killed during the PKK's fight for an independent Kurdish state. Now the militant group, which is considered a terrorist organisation by many countries, has announced it's disarming and disbanding. But what do Turkish Kurds make of it? Orla Guerin has been to the city of Diyarbakir to ask what future they see ahead.
In the South China Sea lies a tiny island called Pagasa that's the centre of a complex territorial dispute with China. For the past 10 years, China has been expanding its presence in this region, building up strategic airbases on coral reefs and deploying a huge number of ships. Jonathan Head gained rare access to the Philippines-controlled island and spoke to some of its residents - as a string of Chinese vessels loomed on the horizon.
In the southwest of the United States, Arizona is a major centre of Native American culture - like the foodways, languages and festivals of groups including the Navajo, Hopi and Apache nations. Stephanie Theobald heard from some local leaders about a new plan for a healing centre, which hopes to build bridges between the tribes – and with non-Indigenous Americans.
And: the Italian city of Venice is nicknamed La Serenissima - 'the most serene' - but whoever called it that wasn't visiting in the middle of a 21st-century tourist season. These days the place is awash in tourists - so many of them there's barely room for real life to go on for Venetians themselves. Simon Busch
reports on how the city is trying to hold back the visiting hordes.
Image: Families whose children ed the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party), hold their images as they sit in front of the headquarters of the Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party after the PKK announced its dissolution, in western Turkey. (Photo by ILYAS AKENGIN/AFP via Getty Images)
