Turkey's clampdown

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Pascale Harter introduces correspondents', reporters' and presenters' dispatches from Turkey, El Salvador, Georgia, Venezuela and Russia. The arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, seen as President Erdogan's most likely political challenger, has sparked outrage in Turkey and led to some of the worst unrest the country has seen in a decade. Hundreds of protesters have been arrested and there’s been a general crackdown on the media too. Emily Wither reports from Istanbul. Earlier this month, a group of more than alleged gang members were deported to El Salvador from the US under the emergency wartime powers of an 18th century law. The move prompted an outcry in the US and Venezuela, where many of those deported originally came from. Now they're locked up in El Salvador's notorious supermax prison, CECOT. Will Grant has been in San Salvador talking to some of the detainees' families and lawyers. In Georgia, the election in October last year saw the Georgian Dream party returned to power once more. Months of protests ensued, amid claims the results were ‘totally falsified.’ Rayhan Demytrie has been to the village and birthplace of the billionaire founder of the ruling party, and spoke to his loyalsupporters. This week the BBC interview programme ‘Hardtalk’ will go off air for good. For almost three decades it's showcased one-on-one, longform interviews with the powerful, in politics, business and culture. Stephen Sackur, a former correspondent in Washington, Jerusalem and Brussels, looks back at some of his most memorable encounters during his time as the presenter asking the questions. A protestor holds a Turkish flag in front of police officers during a rally in support of Istanbul's arrested mayor in Istanbul Municipality. (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)