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From Our Own Correspondent: The Ruin of Rome

26/10/2013

The Ruin of Rome

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Correspondents report from Italy, Sri Lanka, Australia, Germany and Fiji.

The Ruin of Rome: BBC foreign correspondents report from Italy, Sri Lanka, Australia, Germany and Fiji. Presented by Kate Adie.

The financial crash has devastated the historic centre of Rome - Joanna Robertson talks of a favourite city now drained of community life; the perils of newsgathering in Sri Lanka: Fergal Keane meets journalists there determined to carry on reporting despite the risk of intimidation, assault and even murder. Jon Donnison is in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales where the wildfires are still raging and there's a heated debate about how much climate change is to blame; Steve Evans, on the row surrounding the bugging of Chancellor Merkel's phone, wonders what information the Americans have gleaned. And a travelling correspondent may carry a lap-top, a digital recorder, a camera but a two-month-old baby? Madeleine Morris has the story of what happened when a toddler came too.

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