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Weekend Edition 21/07/2012

Pascale Harter with stories from correspondents worldwide. This week: women in Libya, Honduran gang violence, DR Congo's capital city, a black market in Indian fungi and Malaysia's birds'-nest trade.

Insight, wit and analysis from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world, presented by Pascale Harter. In this edition:

STEPHEN SACKUR witnesses the scale of the gang violence and impunity choking the life out of Honduras;

RANA JAWAD analyses why Libyans didn't give much support for Islamist parties - and the force of the women's vote - in the recent election;

THOMAS HUBERT describes how Kinshasa, his home in DR Congo for more than three years, is no city for the faint of heart;

CRAIG JEFFREY traces the black-market trade in a bizarre fungus which is changing people's aspirations and earnings in the Indian Himalayas;

snd JENNIFER PAK visits a huge swiftlet roost to see why Malaysia is starting to attach ID tags to birds' nests. (One hint: it has nothing to do with conservation.)

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25 minutes

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Sun 22 Jul 2012 19:05GMT

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  • Sat 21 Jul 2012 08:05GMT
  • Sun 22 Jul 2012 03:05GMT
  • Sun 22 Jul 2012 19:05GMT