Inside Story

Proposed law would give government more power to strip terror suspects of citizenship. Adrian Finighan speaks to Clare Algar , an executive director of Reprieve; Robin Simcox - a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society; and Saghir Hussain - a lawyer who represents Mahdi Hashi, a Somali-born citizen whose British citizenship was revoked in 2012.

More and more people die as they try to reach countries that offer hope of a better life. Adrian Finigan speaks to Jonathan Birdwell, head of the Citizens Programme at Demos; Claude Moraes, Labour member of the European Parliament; and Bernd Hemingway, regional director for the European Economic Area, EU and NATO at the International Organisation for Migration

People in the east cast their ballots in a controversial referendum vote on the region's future. Sami Zeidan speaks to Mychailo Wynnychyj, associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Lilit Gevorgyan, Russia analyst at IHS Global and senior economist for CIS Europe; and Alexander Shumilin, a political analyst and columnist for the Moscow Times.

On Inside Story we ask: do elections mark a turning point in South Africa's post-Apartheid history

The abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram overshadows World Economic Forum.

Pro-Moscow activists in Donetsk have declared a sovereign republic. Hazem Sika speaks to Vyacheslav Matuzov, former Russian diplomat in Washington; Mychailo Wynnychyj, associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Lilit Gevorgyan, country analyst for Russia & Commonwealth of Independent states (CIS) in Country Analysis & Forecasting Group at IHS Global Insight.

What are the challenges facing India as it stages the biggest vote on earth? Mike Hanna speaks to Mohan Guruswamy - chairman and founder of the Centre for Policy Alternatives; Louise Tillin - deputy director of the India Institute at King's College London; K.C. Singh - former Indian Ambassador to Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

Can this weekend's presidential election fix Afghanistan's many problems?

Will recent decisions by Mahmoud Abbas boost Palestinian rights? 

Can the former Yugoslav republics achieve justice and reconciliation without responsibility? Sami Zeidan speaks to Sonja Biserko, the president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia; Geoffery Nice, a former chief prosecutor in the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic; and Marko Milanovic, a lecturer at the University of Nottingham's school of law, and an associate at the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights.

Ruling AK Party sweeps to success in local elections seen as a barometer of public opinion.

Ruling AK Party sweeps to success in local elections seen as a barometer of public opinion. Kamahl Santamaria speaks to Taha Ozhan, president of SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research; Fadi Hakura - a Turkey specialist at Chatham House; and Barcin Yinanc - Opinion editor of the Hurriyet Daily News.

We discuss the reasons and repercussions of the latest Taliban attacks in the run-up to presidential elections. Mike Hanna speaks to Omar Samad, senior central Asia fellow at the New America Foundation, and a former spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry; Helena Malikyar - an Afghan historian who has worked on a number of governance projects with international organisations in Afghanistan; and Tony Shaffer - a retired US army lieutenant colonel and intelligence officer, and a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research.

What attracts Egyptians to military leaders - even at the expense of democratic freedoms? Mike Hanna speaks to :Tarek Masoud - a Middle East specialist at Harvard University and author of "Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt; Hassan Nafaa - head of political science at Cairo University; and Samia Harris - the founder of the pressure group Democracy for Egypt.

One of the world's most dangerous viruses reaches a major city for the first time.