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World Service,13 May 2017,23 mins

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The footballer who would be Chancellor, friends of the dead and the phone that never rings in Taiwan. Pascale Harter with stories from Germany, Sierra Leone, Taiwan and India. Jenny Hill visits the home town of former footballer Martin Schulz, the man who wants to replace Angela Merkel as German Chancellor. Bob Howard finds out that working hard isn’t enough in Sierra Leone. Michael Bristow gets the VIP treatment in Taiwan Melissa Van Der Klugt discovers camping with a difference in India. (Photo: Former EU president Schulz attends SPD parliamentary fraction meeting in Berlin Credit: Reuters)

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