Hi there, you've downloaded the BBC Radio programme from our own correspondent. We make two versions,

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This, though, is the edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's presented by Kate Adie.

Today we hear from Pakistan, where it's easier to blame others for your troubles than to really face up to them.

We're in Berber country in Algeria, where, until recently, kidnappings and killings were

commonplace. We visit the Liberian countryside, where they're dreaming of the good old days

when some people had a monthly salary. And our correspondent is in the burning Kalahari with his charcoal pickles.

The huge floods in Pakistan have receded, both on the ground and from the headlines.

But millions of people, seven million, according to the United Nations,

are still living without shelter and struggling to get food and clean water.

It's just one of the many crises that seem to engulf the country. Terrorist attacks,

the battle with the Taliban, corruption in sport and political uncertainty are just some of the

major problems Pakistanis have to face. But as our correspondent Ali Mahbohl explains,

in Islamabad, there doesn't seem to be the will to truly tackle them. In Myanmar,

in Punjab, by the banks of the River Indus, we surveyed the impact of the floods with a local

businessman and landowner. All around, we could see the devastation caused to his farms and the effect that

would have on hundreds of labourers. I asked him whether he believed money had in the past been

embezzled instead of going into flood prevention projects, as many have suggested, and who

generally he blamed for the lack of preparedness.

His response was surprising.

You know, we've never had so much water come down the Kabul River and flow into the Indus,

he said. Strange, isn't it?

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