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World Service,19 Mar 2013,10 mins

Burma, the USA and Israel

From Our Own Correspondent

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Personal stories, insight and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world, introduced by Pascale Harter. In this edition, two meditations on the challenges of political leadership - even for people who started out as heroes. In Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi's public image is beginning to mutate from dissident figurehead to power player. Jonathan Head examines how she's dealing with hard political decisions and trying to rejuvenate her party, the NLD. And as President Obama tours the Middle East this week, Kevin Connolly asks what mark his visit may leave on the streets of Jerusalem. Can the Israeli public really be won over by a man they're still unsure of?

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