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The Opium Field
This edition features reports from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Italy, Malawi and Turkey.
People in the news. Today, how the policeman's helping the opium farmer in Afghanistan. The president's critics say democracy's under assault, freedom of speech is being stifled - but amongst some in Turkey, President Erdogan is more popular than ever. Young women in Malawi explain how sanitary protection is not affordable -- and that means they miss school for several days every month. The corner of Venice where one of the world's most hateful words was coined -- today the place is among the city's more fashionable neighbourhoods. And the news media may love an anniversary, but some of its senior correspondents have dates they'd sooner forget ...
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