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Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers.

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories from around the world.

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From Our Own Correspondent: Fridge Magnets and Foreign Policy

Fridge Magnets and Foreign Policy

29/07/2017

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Fridge Magnets and Foreign Policy

Afghanistan's new Top Guns, and America's dilemma over sending more troops to the region.

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Afghanistan's new Top Guns, and America's dilemma over sending more US troops to the region.

Afghanistan's new Top Guns and America's dilemma over sending more US troops to the region. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.

Justin Rowlatt meets one of a new generation of Afghan fighter pilots and asks whether they can become an effective fighting force without additional support from their US allies.

Chris Haslam is in Rwanda ahead of the presidential election, but he doesn't need to wait for the vote itself to reveal who the winner is. 

Antonia Quirke finds that Mexico's long-running drug war is spreading its violence to previously peaceful parts of the country.

David Shukman visits Greenland's melting ice sheet and struggles to avoid its treacherous puddles of slushy snow. 

And fridge magnets and foreign policy: has Steve Rosenberg found a new way to decipher Russia's approach to global politics?

Producer: Joe Kent.

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