Continuing the series of personalised reports from BBC journalists located in countries around the world.
Tonight, George Alagiah reports from
Sierra Leone in West Africa, where a desire for diamonds has sparked off a brutal and horrifying civil war.
The programme is presented from
Washington by Julian Pettifer as the presidential campaign in the United States begins to gather momentum. Pettifer investigates the factors that have led so many Americans to the point where they cannot be bothered to exercise theirdemocratic right to vote.
Both reports were held overfrom the edition of Correspondent postponed from Saturday 10 February. Editor Keith Bowers