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World Service,29 Jan 2011,25 mins

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A debate about law and order in Afghanistan is fuelled by video pictures of a couple being stoned to death; Quentin Somerville considers the implications. Kevin Connolly wonders whether modern Lebanon has something to learn from its Phoenician past. In rural India, Madeleine Morris visits a village where the dream that small loans could transform the prospects of the poor has turned into a nightmare. President Lukashenko of Belarus has been described as Europe's last dictator, but James Coomarasamy spent a day with the Belarussians who suggest he's misunderstood. And David Goldblatt pays tribute to the remarkable local woman who taught him how to be streetwise in Senegal.

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