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From Our Own Correspondent: 20/11/2010

20/11/2010

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, 20/11/2010

Alan Johnston presents stories from Ireland, Portugal, Italy, DRC and Brazil.

Stories from correspondents around the world. This week Alan Johnston presents despatches from Ireland, Portugal, Italy, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Brazil.

Following a turbulent week for Ireland, Gavin Hewitt asks whether the country's financial crisis means another generation of Irish youth will be travelling abroad to earn a living. At the NATO summit in Lisbon, Mark Urban looks back at the history of what he calls this "dysfunctional family". Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is facing a vote of no-confidence, and David Willey wonders whether his declining popularity reflects a deeper national malaise. Paul Moss meets the peacekeeping soldiers in Congo who've ensured there's a corner of an African field that is forever India. And Justin Rowlatt shares a surprising meal with the Amazonian tribe whose way of life is threatened by deforestation.

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