Have Your Say, the BBC's flagship multimedia phone-in programme on BBC World, World Service radio and bbcnews.com, allows viewers to share their views on topical issues and put their questions directly to leading world figures. This week presenter Bridget Kendall will be joined live from a studio in Lisbon by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres (pictured). Recently returned from Sudan, Guterres will be taking questions and discussing the plight of refugees and displaced persons around the world.


(Duration: 55 & 30 minutes)

Sunday 13th May at 1605

Repeated: Sunday 13th May at 2030; Monday 14th May at 0430+~ 

More than one thousand people were killed and many more made homeless in the 2006 Lebanon war between Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military. Ten months later and UN peacekeeping troops are patrolling southern Lebanon in greater numbers than ever. All is now quiet - but Our World investigates how the Lebanese are really coping with the war's aftermath and asks what they think of the United Nation's efforts. The BBC's Diplomatic Corresondent Paul Adams joins the UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL to find out.  

(Duration: 30 minutes)

Wednesday 16th May at 2130

Repeated:  Thursday 17th May at 1130; Thursday 17th May at 1430[A.Pa]; Friday 18th May at 1730;

Saturday 19th May at 0330+~  & Monday 21st May at 0930

Middle East Business Report provides an insight into finance and commerce in the Middle East this week, revealing how this vital economic region interacts with the rest of the world. Reporter Andy Scott is in Saudi Arabia looking at the rapid building of a series of economic cities intended to create jobs and lure investors.  Presenter Nima Abu-Wardeh (pictured) also speaks to the chairman of Dubai property developing company DAMAC, Dr Hussein Sajwani, and asks him why his company had chosen Saudi Arabia as the next place to invest?


(Duration 30 minutes)

Saturday 12th May at 0630

Repeated: Saturday 12th May at 1230; Saturday 12th May at 1930 & Sunday 13th May at 0030

BBC World's acclaimed health and medical strand Kill Or Cure? continues this week by investigating the disease rubella. Catching rubella usually means nothing more than mild rash and can often pass unnoticed, which makes it difficult to diagnose. However, if it's caught by a woman in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy it can result in the baby being born with congenital rubella syndrome which leads to devastating birth defects such as blindness, deafness and poorly developed internal organs.

(Duration:30 minutes)

Sunday 13th May at 0730

Repeated: Monday 14th May at 1130; Monday 14th May at 1430[A.Pa]; Tuesday 15th May at 1730;

Wednesday 16th May at 0330+~ & Wednesday 16th May at 0930