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Hello, today the pretty universal problem of trying to reform prisoners.

In El Salvador, they're looking for divine assistance.

Whatever lies in wait for the new MEPs as they head to Brussels.

Who knows politically, but they'll definitely get an ID, a laptop bag, an advice on Belgian tax returns.

We're in Transylvania and perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps not in Dracula country we hear about Wolfhowlers and to Dubai for fast cars and women drivers.

Next week sees 30 years since the Chinese army rolled into Beijing indiscriminately

killing its own citizens to end months of protests led by students. They had wanted more freedom in their lives and more

democratic rights. In response the leaders of the Communist Party ordered a

crackdown which killed several thousand people. The precise number is

impossible to verify. Today the country's citizens are economically much

better off. But as RTE's China correspondent Ivan Murray found in a village in Hebe

province not far from Beijing, the loudspeaker systems blaring out propaganda famous in

Chairman Mao's time are back in business.

It was a cool grey day in the village of Jinjwang when my taxi pulled up at the crossroads.

A warm welcoming committee of several men in plain dark clothing

had turned out to greet me. They'd been sent by the provincial propaganda department

and they merrily snapped photos of me as I got out of the car.

It was coming up to the midday broadcast and I explained I'd like to go and interview some villages

while they listened to the loudspeaker announcements, perhaps I suggested as they

were preparing lunch.

Of course, of course, and I was quickly escorted to a nearby courtyard house. But instead of ordinary farmers going about their business,

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