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Today Russia has long blown hot and cold towards the west.

We get the view from outside of Moscow.

How does a small community deal with accusations of child abuse? We're in a

Norwegian village reeling from the exposure of decades of hidden behavior. In Panama we're on a tropical island threatened by rising sea levels, but its

inhabitants have an escape plan. And in South Africa our correspondent has some advice on how best to make yourself

understood in a proudly polyglot nation. This morning President Xi Jinping

was reappointed President of China. No surprise there, it was a given that

he would be re-elected for a second term by the rubber-stamped parliament, the National People's

Congress. Far more significant was another earlier development that emerged from the

NPC's annual meeting, the abolition of the two-term limit on presidential power, meaning she could stay on for a third or fourth term, or if he wants, for life.

John Sudworth was in the hall for the vote that confirmed the change and which may itself change China forever.

For once Chinese politics has produced what you might call a moment.

Every year during the convening of the country's annual Parliament

foreign journalists troop into the great hall of the people and from high up on the

first floor balcony gazed down on what is one of the world's most important

expressions of state power and simultaneously a vast political void.

The opulent grandeur and the emblems and flags are meant to give a sense of national historic

destiny, but in reality the real business has already been decided long ago behind closed doors by the handful of men and it is all men seated centre stage.

The Parliament is simply meant to nod along. In the six years I've been sitting through it,

nothing of real note has ever happened until this year. We knew it was coming,

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