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From Our Own Correspondent: Bulgaria, Iraq and Britain

06/03/2013

Bulgaria, Iraq and Britain

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Bulgaria, Iraq and Britain

Nick Thorpe on the protests rocking Sofia and Kevin Connolly on what's in Iraq's future.

Kevin Connolly looks for clues to the future as we near 10 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq; Nick Thorpe learns protests in Bulgaria are shaking the foundations of power.

As the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq apporoaches, Kevin Connolly's there musing on how one never quite knows how history will work out and what clues we can glean from the past about what's in the country's future. Also, Nick Thorpe brings us a story of protest and upheaval on the streets of Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia. What's motivating people to turn out in such numbers? That's From Our Own Correspondent, introduced by Pascale Harter.

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