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this week, click travels to kenya, where piles of electronic waste are making locals choose between lives and livelihoods. translation: it is dangerous work, but we have to do it. _ if we do not, we will go hungry. we're also in the rural communities where ai is improving prenatal care. the information that i'll get here will help me . to save the life of a mother. we look at the tech aiming to put museums in the metaverse. and paul's dying to meet the microbes that could clean up the fashion industry. bugs are quite simple creatures. kind of like me and you. if you ever wondered whe...

about in a boat on this exact spot in the arabian gulf half a century ago, what would you have seen? not the futuristic cityscape before me today, that's for sure — because in recent decades, doha has witnessed unbelievably rapid change. i can't help thinking that the same is true of art history. this excitingly dynamic discipline that's always evolving. that's certainly the case with our ever expanding understanding of islamic art — the speciality of an extraordinary and recently revamped museum that's filled with masterpieces fashioned everywhere from the mediterranean to south...

house. welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run through your art but when did the art start? it took off at school because i missed so much school. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and i had to go back when i was 15, i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things, ijust did whatever i wanted to do in art, and i think that's what it was, really, it had become me in a serious way and because the teachers took me seriously and trusted me, that was quite a fanta...

or african backgrounds out on the streets. being a young north african black or arab male in the estates, is intolerable for police. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i've lived in france and i've covered plenty of riots there. they're rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i've seen for myself the way the french police deal with them — with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo—saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti—riot weapons which are banne...

out on the streets. translation: being a young north african black or arab male in the estates. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i've lived in france and i've covered plenty of riots there. they're rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i've seen for myself the way the french police deal with them — with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo—saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti—riot weapons which are banned in most european countries, and the...