Running out of road for a two-state solution

Pascale Harter introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers around the world.

Tom Bateman has been the BBC's Middle East Correspondent for six and a half years; now he's moved on to report from Washington DC and reflects on how far American foreign policy goals can be pursued as Israel's war on Hamas continues - and whether the United States underestimated the power of history in the region.

Linda Pressly travels to Manila to meet a priest and a pathologist who are trying to uncover the truth about the war on drugs which raged in the Philippines under former President Rodrigo Duterte. Many thousands of alleged drug dealers and users - as well as many innocents caught in the crossfire - were killed, and their remains may hold clues to how they really met their deaths.

Bernardo Arevalo came to prominence as a campaigner against endemic corruption in Guatemala, and won its presidential election last year. But ever since then, he's been beset by a blizzard of lawsuits trying to stop him being inaugurated. Rory Sullivan examines the political vendettas pursued through Guatemala's court system.

And in the Aegean Sea, Heidi Fuller Love hears why the island of Antikythera is emptying out - and what's being done to try and keep it populated. Why should such an apparently idyllic spot, settled thousands of years ago, be increasingly deserted during the 21st century?

Producer: Polly Hope
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman

(Image: Route 443, the road to Ben Gurion International Airport. Credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)