24/02/2011

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Stephen Rosenberg hears about security fears as Russia prepares for the Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Armed men struck at a Russian ski resort last weekend and tourists were among the five people shot dead when a minibus was ambushed. The attack has increased concerns that the 2014 Winter Olympics may be targeted. In Germany Stephen Evans attends a neo-Nazi rally in Dresden on the anniversary of the bombing during the Second World War. Both the far right and the far left marked the occasion by shouting at each other. The demonstration was tiny compared to the thousands who linked hands across the city in a human chain to mark the anniversary. Petroc Trelawney is treated to a day out in the Zimbabwean countryside and a history lesson from the daughter of Garfield Todd, South Rhodesia's Prime Minister back in the fifties. When Todd fell in 1958, Rhodesia moved inexorably towards its unilateral declaration of independence and civil war. Jonathan Fryer meets members of a European religious sect that has set up home in Paraguay. The community of Mennonites, a puritan Christian sect, went to Filadelfia in the north of Paraguay in the 1930s to escape the pressures and profanities of modern life. They are still there as Filadelfia celebrates the eightieth anniversary of its founding. And Paul Miles takes part in some wacky races in Norway - the World Kick-Sledge Championships, a kick-sledge being a uniquely Scandinavian mode of transport, similar to a sledge but powered by people instead of dogs.