From Our Own Correspondent - 04/09/2010

A dilemma for the reporter covering the struggle for life in Pakistan's floods. A veteran of the holocaust sees hope for peace in the Middle East. Behind America's myths, the hard realities of life in Iraq. And we remember the night in Kinshasa, when Mohammed Ali rumbled in the jungle.... Nobody in Pakistan will ever forget this monsoon. The rivers rose and rose..sweeping across great swathes of the land. And often it was the poorest and the weakest who suffered most in the drowned cities and villages... Jill McGivering has spent weeks reporting on the death, damage and misery brought by the floods. But one story in particular both moved her....and left her feeling deeply uneasy. So at last Israeli and Palestinian leaders are talking peace again. They've just sat down together in Washington... But the trouble is that the world's watched the two sides talk before in Washington....and in Madrid, in Geneva, Oslo and elsewhere....and nothing's changed. There's been failure after failure in the quest for peace. But could it be different this time round....? In Jerusalem, Wyre Davies went in search of a little hope... Wars aren't only won and lost on the battlefield. Sometimes the struggle for public opinion is almost as important. And the Americans are now heavily engaged on that front in Iraq. The White House has made a great deal of what's been called the "formal ending of combat operations". But tens-of-thousands of US troops and special forces remain in the country. And Gabriel Gatehouse has been reflecting on how much has really changed.. Their plight has captured the world's imagination..They are the thirty-three miners buried alive beneath a mountain in Chile. A huge effort is underway to rescue them. But it will be months before the men can be safely brought up from the depths of the earth. And our correspondent, James Reynolds is among their anxious wives and children camped out at the San Jose mine, in the Atacama desert... The world of sport produces only a few moments so remarkable that they'll be remembered for generations. But surely one them is the meeting between Mohammed Ali and George Foreman on an extraordinary night in the heart of Africa..... Andy Kershaw has been revisiting in Kinshasa the now rather faded scene of the famous fight.