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From Our Own Correspondent: Northern Ireland and US

21/06/2013

Northern Ireland and US

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Northern Ireland and US

Behind the scenes at the G8 summit. And down and out in a Detroit fire station.

Behind the scenes at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland. And how a Detroit fire station mirrors the city's decline.

Andy Martin on why he found the huge police presence at the G8 gathering of world leaders in Northern Ireland distinctly disarming. And Detroit, a once great American city now poised on the verge of bankruptcy. Jonny Dymond visits a fire station that mirrors the city's decline.

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