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From Our Own Correspondent: 27/11/2010

27/11/2010

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, 27/11/2010

Alan Johnston presents stories from Pakistan, China, Russia, Yemen and the United States.

Stories from correspondents around the world. This week Alan Johnston presents despatches from Pakistan, China, Russia, Yemen and the United States.

The floodwaters that devastated Pakistan have retreated, but they have left behind a wasteland, robbing farming families of their way of life. They've been talking to Jill McGivering about the government's role in the disaster. In China, Peter Day meets the former prisoner of the Cultural Revolution who is now one of the country's richest men. Lucy Ash in Russia meets the dissident art group fighting police brutality and corruption in unusual ways. Justin Marozzi sees the Gulf Cup of Nations kick off in troubled Yemen. And Barbara Plett  finds out that a hunt for bugs at the UN in New York exposes an unexpected intruder.

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