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From Our Own Correspondent: A Thousand Horses Come to Town

29/06/2013

A Thousand Horses Come to Town

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Cheers and tears in the Old Port at Marseille, and other correspondents' despatches.

An ancient annual pilgrimage of animals and humans arrives in the French city of Marseille, and other despatches from Spain, Qatar, Sumatra and Senegal, presented by Kate Adie.

A thousand horses. Three thousand sheep. And people, thousands of them too, clustered like locusts around the Old Port in Marseille. What on earth were they all doing there? Anna Magnusson has been finding out. European leaders have announced they'll try to tackle unemployment; Emma Jane Kirby's in southern Spain where the under-25s are finding it hardest to get jobs. Qatar has a new ruler, or emir; Frank Gardner's just back from this ultra-rich Gulf state wondering: is this the world's most ironic country? Rupert Wingfield Hayes has been to the Indonesian island of Sumatra to look into South East Asia's worst smog crisis in years. And among the correspondents in Senegal, reporting on the excitement, the rumours and the disruption which accompany a visiting American president, was Caspar Leighton.
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