The World Tonight

Journalist Declan Walsh reports from the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in and around the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Also in the programme: we speak to the publisher granted permission to translate Irish novelist Sally Rooney’s book Intermezzo into Hebrew, despite the author’s boycott of other Israeli publishing houses; and as the UK records its all-time highest May temperature, an architect explains how to keep your home cool at night.

After threatening to withdraw 4,000 troops from Poland, President Trump today reversed the plan and promised 5,000 troops would now be deployed in the country. Former US Ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, gives us his view on the confusing messages from Washington.
Also on the programme, we hear about the potential schism appearing between the US President and Senate Republicans, take a look back at CBS Radio on the night is closes down for good, and the founder of the slow movement, Carlo Petrini has died.

The government has published its long-awaited guidance on single-sex spaces. The guidance states that spaces such as changing rooms and toilets must be used on the basis of biological sex. We'll find out what this means for businesses, organisations and transgender people who access these spaces.
Also on the programme - the streets of Birmingham are a sea of claret and blue as Aston Villa revels in its Europa League triumph, but we'll hear about a Villa fan club in Ghana that is also celebrating. And a marine mammal scientist explains how she's proved that beluga whales can recognise themselves in a mirror.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce plans to curb the use of judicial reviews into clean energy projects of “critical national importance” in England and Wales. We speak to those for and against the measures.
Also on the programme: the US government has indicted former Cuban president Raúl Castro on charges of conspiracy to kill US nationals over a fatal attack on two planes in 1996.
And Mancunian music stalwart Mike Pickering speaks to us about the Beatles, M People and discovering Calvin Harris.

More than 130 people are believed to have died in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The World Health Organisation has declared it a public emergency of international concern, and warns the number of infections could soon reach the thousands.
Also on the programme: celebrations in north London as Arsenal win the Premier League for the first time in 22 years.
And as President Putin arrives in China for talks with Xi Jinping, we ask what their ‘friendship with no limits’ really means.