NEW DELHI: In a Panorama Special on BBC World this weekend, reporter Jane Corbin examines the links between those responsible for the recent bomb attacks in Bali and the al-Qaeda network. Jane Corbin has followed the trail of al-Qaeda for the BBC for the past five years exploring the threat still posed by this terrorist group and in this special programme she explains why so many signs point in their direction.

The programme air on Saturday 26 October at 1:40 pm, 5:40 pm and 00:40 am and on Sunday, 27 October at 8:40 pm.

Holidaymakers from many different countries begin the programme by telling Panorama of their experiences in the blazing Bali nightclub and how they escaped. Many of them have been seriously injured. Others were saved by their friends but lost many of their companions. Panorama talks to one of the survivors of a rugby club from Singapore. The club lost 4 of its team, four are still missing. And the programme shows dramatic amateur footage of the Sari Club, taken by a young man who escaped just moments after the bombs went off, according to a press release from BBC World.

Panorama traces what has been happening in the past year and, using some remarkable footage shot by terrorists planning an attack in Singapore and a series of interviews with high level politicians in the Philippines, Australia and Singapore, analyses the importance of heeding the warnings of the network that Asia is a key focus for al Qaeda activity.

Despite the fact that to date no-one has yet claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts in Bali, Panorama shows the finger is already pointing at Osama Bin Laden's organisation, al-Qaeda. The programme digs up a warning by Bin Laden to Australia that it would be targeted and asks the Australian foreign minister, Alex Downer why he did not act on intelligence.

Panorama looks at Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the fiery preacher who runs a religious school near Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, which teaches the concept of "personal jihad" in order to defend Islam and who also campaigns for an Islamic state in Indonesia, the release states.

Investigating why the claims of the CIA and other Western intelligence services - that the highest concentration of al-Qaeda followers outside Afghanistan and Pakistan is in South East Asia - were largely ignored, Panorama reports on the circumstances surrounding the arrest of 30 Islamic militants in Singapore last August and shows video film recordings of them planning terrorist activities.