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In this program, an evening of passion

as the people of Barcelona go bullfighting for the final time.

We're deep beneath the Congo jungle as miners and smugglers pursue a lucrative but

dangerous business. How American country music's embracing the anger of a generation

laid low by economic hardship.

And getting a message into secret of North Korea, does it really depend on which way the

winds blowing?

Six centuries of bullfighting history came to a close in the autonomous Catalan region of Spain at the weekend.

Concerned for animal rights led the region's parliament to ban the sport,

but the Catalan's parliament to ban the sport. But the Catalan's desire to

distance themselves from traditional Spanish activities played its part as well.

Animal rights groups now plan to get the ban extended right across the country, but they face a determined

counter campaign by fans of La Corida who say that as a vital part of Spain's cultural heritage

it should enjoy protected status.

Robert Elms was among the 20,000 people who went to see the last bullfight in Barcelona.

They came from all over.

Serious men from Seville and Madrid, filling trains and plains with their fine suits and Havana cigars, their tanned and buffed consorts in tow. The flamboyant French had poured down over the border to

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