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Trump's deportation drive hits home in Mexico

Mexico prepares to embrace deportees from the US; Trump's blistering pace of change; why diarrhea can still kill in Bangladesh; life's not so sweet for Ivory Coast's cocoa growers

Pascale Harter introduces correspondents' and reporters' despatches from Mexico, the USA, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast.

In cities across the US, the Immigration Enforcement Agency has been conducting raids and arresting thousands of undocumented migrants, as part of President Trump鈥檚 immigration crackdown. Many Latin American nations are preparing for the potential arrival of tens of thousands of people in the coming weeks. Will Grant reports from both sides of the US-Mexico border.

Donald Trump has been moving at a blistering pace to set in train his agenda for his second term. A flood of executive orders and announcements was unleashed - including ending federal diversity programmes, renaming landmarks, and withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement and the WHO. Anthony Zurcher joined the president on board Air Force One.

Bangladesh's success in lowering infant mortality rates has made it something of a global public health success story. But deaths related to diarrheal diseases, like cholera and rotavirus, still run high because of long-standing problems of overcrowding, poor sanitation and scarcity of clean water. Rebecca Root visited the world's largest diarrhoeal hospital, the ICCDR-B in Dhaka, and heard how climate change is adding to its staff's worries.

You might have noticed your favourite treats getting a little smaller recently. As costs of manufacture, shipping and raw cacao nibs have risen, chocolate makers have been reducing their packet or bar sizes - even if the price tags have gone up. But how much of the money goes back to the growers? John Murphy asked the people working cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast if they're seeing any benefits from booming cocoa prices.

(Image: Migrants deported from the United States at the El Chaparral crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)

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