This edition was first broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday, the 25th of February 2017. It does contain some description that people may find upsetting.

The program is introduced by Kate Aide.

Hello. Today Civil War has put paid to tourism in Yemen,

so we cross the border from Oman with tribesmen armed to the teeth with guns and smartphones.

Do I stay or do I go? European citizens ponder their future here. So what about the

British in Germany? The Gambia is under new management. The former president appears to have raided the piggy bank, so time to get the tourist

business back on its feet, and in Portugal the wrong sort of incomeer, the red peril.

In Iraq, the operation to recapture Western Moses from Islamic State appears to be making some progress.

Government forces backed by airstrikes from a US-led coalition took the airport

this week a key target for them in their drive to push the militants out of the city.

The United Nations has expressed concern for the hundreds of

thousands of civilians still trapped in the west of the city. It took three months to

retake the eastern half of Mosul and ISIS has left some nasty reminders of

their occupation as Colin Freeman discovered.

It looked like some sort of barbecue set, a metal box about a meter long with a rusty lid on top. Had I mistaken it for

one though I'd have been barbecue meat myself along with anyone else within about

20 meters. The box in front of me was one of thousands of

homemade landmines planted by the so-called Islamic state around Mosul. Packed

with explosive it was designed to be buried in the ground with the lid acting as a

pressure plate. As ever with IS though the normal rules of warfare don't apply.

Not only do they plant these devices in houses and schools where the targets are civilians not

soldiers. The mines they lay are even nasty are the normal ones if such a thing is

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