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Kate Adie introduces topical reports from writers and journalists in Brazil, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Gaza and the Republic of Ireland.

Correspondents' tales: why they're arguing about Machiavelli on a rubbish tip in Rio as the second round of the Brazilian election approaches, Neil Trevithick; Shaimaa Khalil investigates the upsurge in violence on the India/Pakistan border in Kashmir; Julia Macfarlane accompanies a group of British doctors who've gone to help out Palestinian medics in Gaza; has the historic city of Timbuktu recovered from a brutal period of conflict and occupation by Islamic extremists? Chris Simpson has been finding out. And the Star Wars film crew have been to the remote Irish island of Skellig Michael and so too has our man Vincent Dowd.

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Thu 16 Oct 2014 11:00

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  • Thu 16 Oct 2014 11:00