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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 19/05/2012

Weekend Edition 19/05/2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 19/05/2012

The pick of this week's insights from BBC correspondents and writers around the world.

Pascale Harter has the pick of this week's despatches, taking in gold mines in the DRC, life in limbo for Syrians abroad, German nudity, Peru's relics, a Tajik picnic and fears for Pakistan's future.

Pascale Harter introduces wit and insight from BBC correspondents, writers and travellers around the world. In this edition:

Humphrey Hawksley digs up the truth about D R Congo's illicit gold mines;

Portia Walker joins the Syrians living in limbo over the Turkish border;

Hugh Sykes ponders Pakistan's political future;

Nick Redmayne hears nostalgia for the days of the USSR in Tajikistan;

Javier Lizarzaburu reveals how residents of Lima are rethinking their city's past;

and Steve Evans explores some sensitive areas as he asks: why ARE many Germans so at ease with taking their clothes off?

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