Colombia breaks with its past
Gustavo Petro has been voted in as Colombia\u2019s first ever leftist president \u2013 the former rebel and long-time senator campaigned to radically overhaul Colombia\u2019s economy and bring an end to inequality. Katy Watson reports from Colombia\u2019s capital Bogota on the country\u2019s decisive break from its past.\nDespite his presidential victory earlier this year, Emmanuel Macron saw his party lose 100 seats in French parliamentary elections . Meanwhile Marine Le Pen's far-right party saw an elevenfold increase in MPs, and the hard-left alliance, under Jean-Luc Melanchon, saw their own support double. As the battle to forge a consensus begins, Lucy Williamson went to meet some of the new arrivals.\nCongressional hearings in Washington DC concerning the attack on the US Capitol building last year has made for gripping viewing. The committee panel has already heard a raft of Donald Trump\u2019s former allies recount examples of presidential pressure to overturn the 2021 election result. Gabriel Gatehouse says, despite the evidence, the nation remains divided over which narrative to accept.\nThe effort to protect the world\u2019s last remaining mountain gorillas in Uganda is reckoned to be a conservation triumph. But this success has come at a terrible price for the Batwa \u2013 or pygmy \u2013 people who used to share the forest with the gorillas. Justin Rowlatt met with a Batwa man who still yearns for his former home.\nDomestic cats have been getting an uncharacteristically bad press recently in Iceland. One town proposed a cat curfew earlier this year \u2013 sparking fierce opposition from the newly-formed Cat Party in local elections. Egill Bjarnason has been following the \u2018Cat Wars\u2019.
Presenter: Kate Adie\nProducer: Serena Tarling\nEditor: Richard Fenton-Smith\nProduction Coordinator: Iona Hammond