Plastic pollution: Your questions answered

Health experts are warning that plastic pollution is a grave, growing and under-recognised danger to health. In a review to coincide with talks in Geneva, they say plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age. Our experts will answer audience questions about the impact of plastics on our health and environment.

At least 76 people are feared drowned off Yemen after a boat carrying Ethiopian migrants sank. We look at the major pathways for migrants from the Horn of Africa and further north across the Mediterranean and the English Channel.

Pakistani officials say the forced deportations of Afghan refugees have resumed after the federal government declined to extend a key deadline for their stay. Our correspondent in Pakistan explains.

The board of Tesla has granted its CEO Elon Musk twenty nine billion dollars' worth of new shares in an effort to keep him at the helm of the US electric carmaker. We speak to our business correspondent in New York.

Presenter: Mark Lowen.

(Photo: Marine scientist Anna Sanchez Vidal shows microplastics collected from the sea with a microscope at Barcelona's University, during a research project "Surfing for Science" to assess contamination by microplastics on the coastline, in Barcelona, Spain, July 5, 2022. Credit: Albert Gea/File Photo/Reuters)