Burmese youth have launched their first television current affairs program. The program, called Youth Speak, is produced by an exile station, and broadcast via satellite from Thailand. Rebecca Henschke went to see the producers at work in their studio in northern Thailand.

Anchor Marco Werman tells us about Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy, who crossed the English Channel in a daring way today. He did it with a home-made jet-propelled wing strapped to his back.

Our daily geography quiz.

The World's Marco Werman finds out how Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis uncovers the words to 300-year-old songs.

Julie Fowlis & Co

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain will attend the first televised debate with Barack Obama tonight, reversing a move to delay it over the financial crisis. Senator McCain had vowed not to attend the forum in Oxford, MS, until Congress approved a bail-out plan for U.S. banks and financial institutions. However, his campaign said that enough progress had been made for it to occur.

Democratic leaders in Congress earlier criticized Senator McCain for his appearance there during efforts to agree a deal. Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the "insertion of presidential politics" into the delicate negotiations had been "harmful"

The topics for the debate (scheduled for 9pm EDT) are national security and foreign policy, considered Senator McCain's strengths, although correspondents say the financial crisis is almost certainly going to be discussed.

Taxes and the economy dominated the opening minutes of the first presidential debate between candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Moderator Jim Lehrer tried, with out much success, to get McCain and Obama to discuss how the nation's financial crisis would affect their wish-list of policy priorities. He then moved the debate to the subjects to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Russia.

Click below for a full account of the debate, including analysis, videos, key foreign policy quotes, and fact checking

The Outlook program broadcasts unique human interest stories from all over the globe on the BBC World Service. Andres Schipani's feature on the growth in popularity of Women's wrestling in Bolivia is no exception. Schipani went to meet and watch the women as they faught it out in El Alto.

Video: Bolivian women wrestlers

Today on The World: Japan's experience with financial crisis and how the Japanese are weathering the current financial storm; also, how Galveston's opulent past lives on -- with help from the late French photography master Henri Cartier-Bresson; and the music of rising Syrian jazz star Lena Chamamyan.

As the U.S. bailout plan stumbles on Capitol Hill, European banks are suffering from their exposure to the U.S. crisis. The World's Laura Lynch reports that governments in Europe have had to intervene with bailouts of their own.

The global economic crisis feels like deja-vu to some Japanese economists. Japan's banking industry weathered a number of economic storms in the 1990's. Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Jesper Koll who runs an investment firm in Japan.