This is the BBC.

And this is from our own correspondent and the edition broadcast on Thursday, June the 22nd, 2017.

With tales told from a silver mine in Kosovo and in front of the Italian Havana, here's K to AD.

Hello. Today German politics is rarely a characterful circus of extroverts, but their politicians

influence the whole continent, like the late Helmut Cole, who died last

Friday, remembered by our former man in Germany.

In Kosovo we visit the town where the Romans mined for gold and silver,

but where football is now king, with all eyes on the Champions League.

In Cuba, more hints of change with the TV

Premier of the 70s controversial film A Clockwork Orange. And where are you from? A

question causing some soul searching for our correspondent in Brazil.

China has invested heavily in Africa, always with an eye to its own future,

and now it's spending tens of billions of pounds on roads, railways and ports beyond its borders

to try and place itself at the centre of a global trade and transport network.

The Belt and Road Scheme aims to improve the land

routes that stretch from Western China into Central Asia and Europe and the maritime

routes around Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe.

As part of the attempt to revive ancient Silk Road trading routes to the west, the first

direct rail freight service from China to the UK arrived in barking in London earlier this year after an 18-day

trip. In Baluchistan, a province in the southwest of Pakistan works underway to transform

a one sleepy coastal village into an international trading hub.

The Pakistani government is hoping that the creation of a smart port city, with overland connections to China, will bring an economic revolution to the region.

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