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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 30/06/2012

Weekend Edition 30/06/2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 30/06/2012

Pascale Harter with the pick of the week's dispatches from correspondents around the world

Pascale Harter with the pick of recent international dispatches. Stories on Latvia's summer solstice, Syria's rebels, Nigerian chaos, Indonesian cloves, Croatian waterways and Sweden's welfare state.

Pascale Harter presents the pick of recent insight and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers around the world. In this week's edition:

IAN PANNELL meets a member of the rebel Free Syrian Army who went from grilling kebabs in his restaurant to making bombs in his backyard;

WILL ROSS witnesses the fear and division being sown in Jos, Nigeria, by recent Boko Haram attacks;

SIMON WORRALL meets a remarkable tree: the clove plant called Afo in Tenate, Indonesia, which defied the once-mighty Dutch empire;

NICK THORPE takes a slow boat up the Danube to learn why environmentalists are alarmed by Croatian and Serbian plans to straighten its course;

DAMIEN McGUINNESS joins the tipsy, scantily-clad and greenery-bedecked celebrations of the summer solstice in Latvia;

and JO FIDGEN explains what the Swedish welfare state could teach us all about love and responsibility.

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