On this week's episode of Drum Tower, our Beijing Bureau Chief is on a journey. As China's Lunar New Year or Spring Festival starts, migrant workers are returning home to see their loved ones. It's the world's largest human migration involving a predicted two billion journeys. Join David as he takes the slow train across China and speaks to people who haven't been able to get home since start of pandemic three years ago.
Israel’s right-wing coalition government has the country’s supreme court in its sights. Their proposal to effectively subjugate its independence to the legislature has sparked protests and stirred concern for the country’s democracy. Our correspondent reports from a newly reopened Shanghai. And how gas stoves became the latest battleground in America’s endless culture wars.
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