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Italian PM 'is like Benny Hill'

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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is engulfed in scandal. The Italian press has been full of stories of escorts, models and actresses who are claiming they were paid to attend his parties and - in one case at least - go to bed with him. Correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports on the controversy from Rome. Lucio Malan, a member of Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party, and Annalisa Piras, London correspondent of Italian news magazine L'Espresso, discuss the legitimacy of the allegations.

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