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World Service,30 Sep 2012,25 mins
Nigeria, the USA, Spain, Lebanon, Syria and Chile
From Our Own CorrespondentAvailable for over a year
Pascale Harter introduces reports from correspondents and writers across the world. In Nigeria, Will Ross speaks to a teenage mother who feared her baby would be taken for adoption against her will. Justin Rowlatt walks down the Strip in Las Vegas and compares its fortunes to Macau - a gambling hot spot in China. In Valencia, Spain, Paul Mason finds out what happens when the local government fails to pay its bills. He visits a pharmacy that is running low on medicine. In Lebanon, amidst power cuts and concerns over the conflict in neighbouring Syria, Georgia Paterson-Dargham seeks retail therapy. On the border with Turkey and Syria, Sarah Birke listens to poetry composed by a fighter opposed to President Assad's regime.
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