Battling Zika in Brazil

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Brazil's Zika virus crisis is thought to have begun in the city of Recife, where David Shukman meets doctors and patients trying to deal with what's happened. The army has been deployed to destroy the virus-transmitting mosquitoes in the city - but nobody sprayed the planes David travelled on when he left Brazil. And in Geneva, the talks held by the UN to works toward a political transition in Syria, and eventually peace, had barely started when they were already suspended, finds Imogen Foulkes. There were some surreal moments though, like meeting a Syrian opposition leader in a hip hotel with purple velvet chaise longues, zebra-striped rugs and flashing disco lights. In Finland, Emma Jane Kirby hears that some of the refugees who made it there, struggle to get used to the snowy cold, and to the scarcity of jobs, while some Finns now resent the incomers, suspecting them of "lifestyle shopping". And Richard Hamilton attends a yoga and "gong-baths" retreat in the Moroccan Sahara, where he finds that it's actually the magic of the starry night skies and wind-swirled sand dunes that give him solace.