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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