Michael Buerk launches One World - a first in television history. At the beginning of the last decade of the century, over 20 television networks around the world have come together to share a week of programmes on a common theme - the global crisis facing us all today and the steps urgently required to ensure a common future for our children on earth.

Tonight, German television sets the scene for the week with a lightning tour from space of the world's major problem areas and asks the question: how far must things decline before we listen to the voices of warning, and of hope, and mend our ways?

Information Pack: available free from One World, [address removed]. Full details on page 84.
Cover Story: page 4
(Ceefax subtitles)