Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. This is the edition broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday the 27th of August.

It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Hello. Today, what to do about the drugs trade worldwide whether your country is rich or poor.

In the Philippines, tacit approval to murder the dealers.

In Northern India, though, they're arguing about what to do with the dealers. In Northern India though they're arguing about what to do with the

addict. A possible coup in an island paradise. Our correspondent has no problem

heading there immediately.

And trust me, I'm a doctor, not a phrase which finds universal use in Romania.

When Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines earlier this year, he pledged to drive

down crime. In his sights was the drugs trade, which ruins millions of his citizens' lives.

His rhetoric has struck a chord. It's unleashed though an unprecedented

spate of killings across the country. Over 2,000 people are thought to have

died since he took office.

Most of these murders have been carried out by hired people who believe they've been given a license to take the law into their own hands.

Jonathan Head in Manila has tracked down one of them, and not the usual

kind of suspect.

There are some wonderful assassin parts written for films. The profession, if you can call it that, lends itself to black humor. But meeting an assassin face to face for the first time is a disconcerting experience, especially if she arrives in the form of a likely-built

nervous woman with a baby in her arms.

I'm sorry, said Maria, the pseudonym we'd agreed to give her, as she arrived at the modest hotel room in

Manila where we'd decided she could be interviewed in safety. She didn't have

anyone else to look after the baby. Fortunately he was too young to understand what his mother was about to tell us, how she

kills people for a living.

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