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America's foreign aid agency could see its staff slashed from about 10,000 to fewer than 300 globally as the Trump administration makes major cuts to government spending. We bring together three employees who are about to lose their jobs.

With warnings of the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo spreading beyond the country鈥檚 borders, we hear a conversation between a Congolese mother and her daughter.

We bring together people who until now have relied on USAID鈥檚 support. We hear from residents in the Greek island of Santorini where a state of emergency has been declared after days of consecutive earthquakes.

New York City's beloved owl Flaco is getting his very own exhibit at The New York Historical, called "The Year of Flaco". We speak to a couple who took some of the photos of him which appear in the exhibition.

Presenter: Mark Lowen.

(Photo: The USAID building sits closed to employees after a memo was issued advising agency personnel to work remotely, in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2025. Credit: Kent Nishimura/File Photo/Reuters)