This is the BBC.

Hello. Today we're in the land where Winnie the Pooh is censored, China,

and the government is listening to the everyday chat of ordinary folk to Qatar, rich but small and wrestling

with an economic blockade imposed by its big neighbor Saudi Arabia. In Spain

we hear how a pilgrimage can help revive a region's fortunes and in Ukraine a

stolen wallet leads to a glimpse of the country's inner workings.

Ballot Papers are still being counted in Liberia following the first round of the presidential

election on Tuesday.

After more than a decade in power, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female president, is stepping down.

Anabelle Prize winner who helped unite the country after 14 years of civil war, she made a call for a peaceful vote. the isn't entirely reassuring.

A convicted warlord, his ex-wife, a footballer.

This was an election packed with characters more extraordinary than any telenovela, And I haven't even mentioned the former rebel

leader or the country's richest man, both among the 20 candidates vying for the top

spot. And the thing is, this is a race where for the first time no one was

really sure who the winner was going to be. And they still don't. The official

result won't be announced until October the 25th and even then it's

likely there will be a second round of voting. On one university campus under a palm

frond roofed hut flanked by drooping mango trees,

I met some first-time voters.

The tropical rain was like a thick, wet blanket covering everything. Mark Lynn Fortune shook her

damp feet, each toenail painted a different color of the rainbow and told me she

was worried.

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