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From Our Own Correspondent: A Lethal Junction

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A Lethal Junction

23/04/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, A Lethal Junction

Stories of life and death from the West Bank, Nepal and Libya; legal weed in Colorado

The road junction that's a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Nepal one year after the quake; Libyan hopes and fears in Misrata; how legal weed changed Colorado

Pascale Harter introduces insight, reflection and wit from BBC correspondents around the world: this weekend, in Israel, Palestine, Nepal, Libya and the USA. 

Yolande Knell hears the stories of Israelis and Palestinians living near the Gush Etzion road junction on the West Bank - a spot which seems to be a microcosm of the entire conflict, and recently the scene of one violent incident after another.

Justin Rowlatt revisits the village of Langtang, one of the places worst affected by Nepal's earthquake last year, and finds its surviving community as resilient as ever, yet haunted by memories of loved ones lost forever under the ice and snow.

Orla Guerin's also been back to meet old acquaintances, in the city of Misrata in Libya. As a new unity government tries to get the country's armed groups back under control, what are ordinary people hoping for after they've sacrificed so much?

And Peter Day manages NOT to inhale in a cannabis-friendly bed & breakfast establishment in Denver, Colorado - a state which has legalised recreational as well as medicinal marijuana, and fostered a revival of the cash economy there. 

Photo: An Israeli soldier stands guard at the Gush Etzion junction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on the main road between Jerusalem and Hebron on January 5, 2016, after a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a soldier before being shot dead. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

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