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Tony Grant introduces Julie Flint on the fears the Nuba people have of attacks by government forces in Sudan; and Nick Thorpe, who is in a monastery on the banks of the Danube in Romania.

Tony Grant introduces insight, wit and analysis from correspondents around the world. Today: Julie Flint is in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, and Nick Thorpe is in a monastery on the banks of the Danube in Romania.

In Sudan, it's the rainy season and there are concerns of a new outbreak of fighting near the border with the newly-independent South.   


Many of the tribesmen in the remote Nuba Mountains supported the south in its long battle for secession from the capital Khartoum. Now they find themselves living on the wrong side, the northern side, of the new border line. 


And Julie Flint says they fear that when the rains stop, they will once again come under attack by government forces.

The Orthodox Church and other parts of the Christian faith have been celebrating the Day of the Holy Cross.  It marks the occasion nearly 17-hundred years ago when, it's said, the cross on which Jesus was crucified was found in Jerusalem. In Romania, people have been gathering at a monastery overlooking the River Danube. Nick Thorpe tells us visitors believe it's a place where their ailments can be washed away in holy water.

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