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Radio 4,17 Oct 2009,30 mins

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Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. Allan Little finds the Bosnian town of Srebrenica still full of ghosts as a date is set for the trial of the one-time Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic. Will Grant sees police in Venezuela trying to shed a reputation for being the most violent and corrupt in the Americas. Gabriel Gatehouse looks on as a mad cow turns nasty while US soldiers hunt Al-Qaeda in northern Iraq. And the jokes about Lada cars are wearing thin at the huge car plant on the banks of the River Volga in Russia. Rupert Wingfield Hayes has been talking to workers who fear they may lose their jobs.

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