BBC World provides comprehensive news coverage with first class journalism and analysis of the stories behind the headlines. This week the news team looks at how the worst effects of climate change might be averted. Presenter Jonathan Head and the BBC's science and environment correspondent David Shukman will be live from Bangkok for the third report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, and there will also be live reports from a hydro-electric dam in China and an environmentally-friendly brewery in Rwanda. There will also be special coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the United States, to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown Virginia - the first permanent English settlement in North America. Plus, we will be looking ahead to the second and final round of French presidential elections with coverage of the only head-to-head television debate between the two candidates, Segolene Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy.

Scientists have confirmed the new realities and threats from climate change and global warming. In the developed world, the pressure is mounting to make sacrifices to become 'carbon neutral' by modifying economic activity and consumer lifestyles dramatically. There is a similar pressure for carbon neutrality in the developing world, but how do these people adapt their lifestyles to become carbon neutral and economically viable when the basic challenge is often for daily survival?  In The World Debate as part of the Climate Watch season, presenter Nik Gowing (pictured) moderates a debate recorded in Delhi discussing the contrasting pressures on citizens and consumers from the developed and developing world.  Among the guests on the panel are Suruchi Bhadwal, TERI (the TATA Environment Research Institute), Delhi; Malini Mehra, founder and director, Centre for Social Markets; Pramod Chaudhari, founder and chairman, PRAJ, (developers of biofuel technology), Pune, India; Alok Sharma, president, Air Sahara; and Mike Wilkinson, vice president sustainable development, Shell International.


(Duration 50 minutes)

Saturday 28th April at 1410

Repeated: Saturday 28th April at 2110; Sunday 29th April at 0310; Sunday 29th April at 0910 &

Sunday 29th April at 1910 

It's 27 years since Zimbabwe broke away from colonial rule and President Mugabe has led the country ever since. Inflation is running at about 2000 per cent and 80 per cent of the workforce is unemployed. There are chronic shortages of fuel, food and foreign exchange, and in the past month a national strike and an opposition prayer meeting have been stopped by violent police action. President Mugabe is under increasing pressure from the EU and foreign governments while calls for change are growing louder in South Africa. Presenter Allan Little leads the discussion on this week's multimedia programme Have Your Say, with studio guest Wilf Mbanga (pictured), editor of The Zimbabwean newspaper published in the UK. To put forward your views and comments please click here.


(Duration: 55 & 30 minutes)

Sunday 29th April at 1605

Repeated: Sunday 29th April at 2030; Monday 30th April at 0430~+ 

Kill Or Cure?, BBC World's highly acclaimed health and medical series, continues its investigation into the challenges affecting global vaccination and immunisation. Measles is a disease caused by a virus and spread through respiration. Licensed vaccines to prevent the disease became available in 1963. Kill Or Cure? looks at how UN troops assisted a measles vaccination programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

(Duration: 30 minutes)

Sunday 29th April at 0730

Repeated: Sunday 29th April at 1830~+; Monday 30th April at 1130; Monday 30th April at 1430[A.Pa];

Tuesday 1st May at 1730; Wednesday 2nd May at 0330~+ & Wednesday 2nd May at 0930 

This week, HARDtalk presenter Stephen Sackur interviews Alexander Lebedev in a special programme recorded in front of a live audience at the Russian Economic Forum in London. Lebedev is president of the National Reserve Bank, one of Russia's most prominent financial institutions, and is in the top 200 on Forbes' rich list. In the interview, Lebedev dismisses Berezovsky as more of a PR guru than a political problem; shares his views on corruption in Russia; discusses whether Putin is good for the country; and shares his own political ambitions. This programme is shown on Tuesday.


(Duration: 30 minutes)

Monday 30th April at 0530~+; Tuesday 1st May at 0530~+; Wednesday 2nd May at 0530;~+

Thursday 3rd May at 0530~+

Repeated: Monday 30th April at 1030; Monday 30th April at 1630; Monday 30th April at 2030 &

Tuesday 1st May at 0130~+; Tuesday 1st May at 1030; Tuesday 1st May at 1630;

Tuesday 1st May at 2030 & Wednesday 2nd May at 0130~+; Wednesday 2nd May at 1030;

Wednesday 2nd May at 1630; Wednesday 2nd May at 2030 & Thursday 3rd May at 0130~+:

Thursday 3rd May at 1030; Thursday 3rd May at 1630; Thursday 3rd May at 2030 &

Friday 4th May at 0130~+