South Africa electricity crisis

We hear a conversation between a group of South Africans as power cuts continue to worsen across the country. Opposition supporters in South Africa have marched through Johannesburg and Cape Town to protest against years of severe power cuts. The regular blackouts have been blamed on the government’s poor management of the power utility, Eskom, and an aging fleet of coal-fired stations.

Tensions have flared at two of India's best-known universities over the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his role in deadly religious riots in 2002. Reports say police detained students at Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi ahead of a planned screening. On Tuesday students at another Delhi university said power and internet had been cut to stop them showing the film. We explain what happened at the time of the Gujarat riots and hear from the BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan for current reaction to the documentary.

Our Europe Editor Danny Aeberhard has more on Germany's decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion, whilst the BBC's North America digital writer Chloe Kim explains why the term "Doomsday Clock" has been trending recently in relation to the war.

Pradeep Bashyal from the BBC's Nepali service takes us through a story surrounding a man who set himself on fire on Tuesday in front of Parliament in Kathmandu. Beforehand, Prem Prasad Acharya had taken to his social media accounts to post about the financial and mental issues he had been facing for years. He later died in hospital.

Our reporter Laura Cress has the latest on the co-creator of the hit animated series Rick and Morty Justin Roiland. He's been dropped from the show by Adult Swim, the US TV channel that runs it as he prepares to defend himself over charges of domestic violence against an ex-girlfriend. He's pleaded not guilty to both charges.

(Photo: An Eskom worker in South Africa. Credit: Getty Images)