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04/06/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Onwards and Upwards

Unexpected sights - and ideas - in Bulgaria, Eritrea, the USA and Switzerland

Secrets of Bulgaria's people-traffickers; rare reportage from inside Eritrea; some unusually modest low-key American heroes; the world's longest rail tunnel under the Swiss Alps.

Nick Thorpe meets some of the Bulgarian people-traffickers who are still moving migrants into the EU from Turkey, and learns the inside tactics of how the business really works. On a rare visit to Asmara, the capital of Ethiopia, BBC Africa editor Mary Harper sees some surprisingly jaunty sights - yet hears accounts of oppression.
 
During a US presidential election year, which has often been described as brutal and vulgar, Robert Hodierne appreciates some quieter American role models - neither billionaires nor superheroes, just ordinary people doing some good for others. And nearly 2.5 kilometres underneath the Swiss Alps, Imogen Foulkes explains why a new rail tunnel, the world's longest, could revolutionise freight and passenger routes across Europe. 

(Photo: Workers attach barbed wire to a border fence to prevent illegal crossings by migrants at the Bulgarian-Turkish border near the  village of Shtit, 18 March 2016. Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)

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