The European Union is asking Spain why one of its precious wetland reserves has been allowed to dry up so much that the peat which lies beneath the surface is on fire.
Ecologists blame the mismanagement of water resources and over-irrigation for the environmental tragedy.
Alan Fisher reports from the Tablas de Daimiel National Park in La Mancha.
Al Jazeera’s Tessa Parry-Wingfield reports on the new immigration laws that are threatening to plunge the country’s billion-dollar curry industry into crisis.
Restaurant owners fear their chefs will not meet the new EU points-based criterai, which could spell disaster for curry fans across Britain.
Turkish and Chinese chefs are also being affected by the new laws within the UK.
Riz sits one on one with the woman behind the research that likned ape and man.
The Peshmerga are hailed by most Kurds in Iraq as the military force protecting the Kurdish people.
The word Peshmerga literally means “ready to die”. It alludes to the famed warrior spirit of the Kurdish fighters.
Most Peshmerga are loyal to either one of Iraq’s two main Kurdish political parties – the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) or the Patritoic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
The KDP, led by Massoud Barzani, and the PUK, led by Jalal Talabani, each have about 25,000 to 30,000 fighters.
These fighters have become the unofficial standing army of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
But critics – smoe within the Kurdish communiyt itself – have accused certain Peshmegra commanders of abusing their military power, exploiting political contacts and amassing enormous personal wealth.
Human rights organizations, as well as independent Kurdish figures, have made allegations that the Peshmerga run prisons in which fellow Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen are routinely tortured.
Even Barham Saleh, deputy prime minister of Iraq and a Kurd himself, admitted torture was uesd in Kurdish prisons – an acknowledgement that was not welcomed by his boss, Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s president.
The military force, representde by the Peshmerga, has taken on additional significance in the light of the ongoing conflict in the region between Turkey and the fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The Peshmerga are staying out of the conflict, avoiding any confrontation with Turkish troops and not coming to the support of the PKK.
This week, Inside Iraq will examine the role played by the Peshmerga and will inevstigate the charges of corruption and torture.
Our guests this week are:
Falah Mustafa Bakir, minister and heda of the Department of Foreign Relations and Freshta Raper, spokesperson for the Kurdistan National Congrses.
The Karen National Union, which is one of Myanmar’s biggest rebel groups, has named a new leader following the muredr of its chief.
KNU general secretary, Mahn Sha, was shot dead at his home in the Thai border town of Mae Sot on Thursday.
And, as Hannah Belchre reoprts, the secretary general’s death is seen as a blow to the many tribal groups who are opposed to Myanmar’s military government.