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From Our Own Correspondent: Burma, the USA and Israel

19/03/2013

Burma, the USA and Israel

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Burma, the USA and Israel

Tough at the top, the challenges of leadership for Aung San Suu Kyi and President Obama.

Jonathan Head analyses how and why Aung San Suu Kyi is going from dissident figurehead to power player; Kevin Connolly asks what mark Obama's visit may leave on Israeli streets.

Personal stories, insight and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world, introduced by Pascale Harter. In this edition, two meditations on the challenges of political leadership - even for people who started out as heroes. In Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi's public image is beginning to mutate from dissident figurehead to power player. Jonathan Head examines how she's dealing with hard political decisions and trying to rejuvenate her party, the NLD. 

And as President Obama tours the Middle East this week, Kevin Connolly asks what mark his visit may leave on the streets of Jerusalem. Can the Israeli public really be won over by a man they're still unsure of?

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