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Today, Arctic cross-border relations,

a Russian reggae band and are correspondent

on the trail of a Norwegian spy.

The waters of Iran may be the focus of international tension, but our man finds that on land

some would like to dance, but not in the isles please. Surfer's

versus millionaires. We have a very Californian standoff and we snoop around a grand

ship no longer sailing but still expecting guests.

In South Africa real life beats anything on reality TV.

All this week former President Jacob Zuma has been answering questions

live on television at a public inquiry into the corruption rampant on his watch.

Mr. Zuma and his business friends, the Gupta family, have long denied any wrongdoing,

but as Andrew Harding says, the stakes are getting higher as the country struggles to cl clamp down on state corruption.

They dig most days, in lonely cemeteries,

distant fields, sometimes opening up old sewers or breaking into dark cellars.

There are eight people on the team, forensic experts, historians hunting for the remains

of those killed in the Shadow Wars that accompanied South Africa's painful, sometimes miraculous journey to democracy.

Its slow work, many of the dead went missing in the 1980s, a time of betrayals, of spies and finger-pointing, of men seized at night,

tortured, electrocuted, their bodies burned and buried, or blown to shreds and left for the vultures. In those brutal years

Jacob Zuma was a prominent energetic figure in the intelligence wing of the ANC, the underground organization fighting against the white minority

apartheid government and its ruthless security forces. In other words, Zuma operated in that shadow world of finger-pointing, of disappearances, of what

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