El Chapo gets life in prison

Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán is a former head of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, and was today sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years by a US judge. We’ll hear whether his imprisonment in the US has had any impact on the drug war in Mexico.

Also in the programme: what the WHO’s declaration of a public health emergency of international concern in the DRC Ebola crisis actually means; and we remember the life of the Italian novelist Andrea Camilleri and his creation, the grumpy Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano.

(Picture: a woman holds a shirt with a portrait of El Chapo at a shop in Culiacan, Sinaloa. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)