Doctors who risk their lives to save other people’s, scientists working on growing blood in a lab and researchers aiming to erase traumatic war memories – it’s all in this week’s Health show.
The threat of starvation hangs over the southern Sahara region of the Sahel. France 24 went to meet the people working to stop the children of the Sahel dying of hunger.
A leaked NATO report says the Taliban, backed by Pakistani intelligence services, are on course to retake control of Afghanistan in 2014 after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country. The "state of the Taliban" report was compiled from information taken from 27,000 interrogations of 4,000 captured al Qaeda and Taliban operatives at the US Bagram air base. The document drew immediate criticism from Pakistan.
Dubbed the "Butcher of the Balkans", Ratko Mladic is charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, notably for his role in the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. But many Serbs still regard him as a hero. In both Belgrade and rural Serbia where he was arrested, our reporters met a divided population.
Rebel forces loyal to Laurent Nkunda routed government troops in the Congo's east, prompting the sacking of the defence and interior ministers. Meanwhile, the Spanish commander for the UN mission in DRC resigned citing "personal reasons."
Audrey RACINE 
