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America's struggle to adapt as the world turns

Paul Mason reports from the small, working class town of Clairton, Pennsylvania, famous as the location for the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter.

Ahead of the G20 meeting in nearby Pittsburgh, he examines the political situation there and asks what America needs to do to reinvent itself.

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