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This week on BBC World... Week commencing 23rd February 2008

  News    
  It's all change in South Korea this week as a new president is inaugurated, while in neighbouring North Korea BBC correspondent John Sudworth will be in the capital Pyongyang as the New York Philharmonic orchestra attempts to break cultural boundaries by performing in the city. Also this week, the BBC's Michael Voss will be reporting on the first session of the new Cuban assembly, which will choose a new president to replace Fidel Castro (pictured).    
   Reports throughout the week.


  Our World: King Tide Rising    
 

Tuvalu, one of the smallest and most remote nations on earth, is in great danger. Within 50 years rising sea levels caused by climate change could see the islands submerged in the Pacific Ocean. The BBC's environment correspondent David Shukman travels to Tuvalu to assess the risks and see what the future holds for the islanders.

(Duration: 30 minutes)

 

   
 

 Wednesday 27th February at 2230

Repeated: Thursday 28th February at 1230; Friday 29th February at 1730; Saturday 1st March at 0430#;

Saturday 1st March at 0930; Saturday 1st March at 2130; Sunday 2nd March at 0230; Sunday 2nd March at 1530

& Monday 3rd March at 1030



  Tim Marlow On... Russia At The Royal Academy    
 

Tim Marlow is a writer, art historian and broadcaster. As part of BBC World's Inside Russia season, Tim explores the recent exhibition curated by the Royal Academy which features French and Russian master paintings from Moscow and St Petersburg. The exhibition presents modern masterpieces drawn from Russia's principal collections as they are gathered together for the first time in a single display.

(Duration: 30 minutes)

 

   
 

 Saturday 23rd February at 1530^

Repeated: Saturday 23rd February at 2030/\; Sunday 24th February at 0530; Sunday 24th February at 1130

& Sunday 24th February at 2330~



  Russian Godfathers: The Politician    
 

Russian Godfathers is a story about money - a superpower up for sale, the seven men who bought it, what they did to get it, and their legacy to the world. This third episode in the series focuses on the billionaire mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov (pictured) and his wife, who preside over one of the most corrupt, violent and spectacular cities on earth. Telling the inside story of a world of scandal, secret police and extreme wealth, the programme examines who really rules Russia.   

(Duration: 50 minutes)

 

   
 

 Saturday 23rd February at 1010

Repeated: Saturday 23rd February at 1610; Saturday 23rd February at 2210; Sunday 24th February at 0310;

Sunday 24th February at 1010 & Sunday 24th February at 2210



  Have Your Say    
 

This week Have Your Say presenter Owen Bennett-Jones will be joined by the chairman of Pakistan's Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mushahid Hussain, and chairman of the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights and Justice in Pakistan, Sibghat Kadri, to discuss the political situation in Pakistan. Together they will be discussing whether the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League will be able to form a stable coalition, if a new government can work with President Musharraf who has refused to step down, and how domestic policy will change. To put forward your views, click here.

(Duration: 30 & 55 minutes)

 

   
 

 Sunday 24th February at 1605

Repeated: Sunday 24th February at 2130 & Monday 25th February at 0230



  # not Asia Pacific, Middle East or South Asia
^ not Europe
+ not South Asia
~ not Asia Pacific
/\ not South America, Middle East or North America

 
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