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Radio 4,11 Jul 2009,30 mins

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Kate Adie introduces 麻豆社 foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. Bridget Kendall, in Italy, says the G8 gathering was a summit with a difference while Will Ross, in Ghana, finds excitement and expectation among farmers as President Obama begins an historic visit. Jill McGivering joins families returning to villages in Pakistan destroyed in the fighting between government troops and the Taliban. Martin Buckley walks the night time streets of Bombay and asks a senior policeman awkward questions, while Tim Whewell is invited aboard the helicopter, but not the famous yacht, of Russia's Aluminium King, billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

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