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But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

Today another trial in Egypt of journalists this time

though it's nest building in the ceiling that draws the attention.

In Uruguay, will legalising marijuana be the answer to the problem of hard drugs?

We hear why India's wedding detectives are busier than ever, and in Italy

our correspondent feels the need to dawn some intimate armour.

The President of Afghanistan, Hamad Karzai, is coming to the end of his tenure in charge.

He's become increasingly critical of the US-led invasion of his country.

He's refusing to sign a security agreement with Washington that would allow a residual US force to remain in the country.

American and British combat troops are pulling out at the

end of the year. Author and historian William Dalremple gives his assessment now of where

this latest intervention in Afghanistan fits into the

country's troubled history. Last Ramadan I drove through the bad lands outside

Kandahar to see the house where President Karzai grew up.

I was the guest of the President's brother, Mehmud Karzai.

It's changed beyond all recognition, he said, as we drove into the village of cars. This mosque I remember I used

to play with Hamid over there. But where's our house? The driver pulled up. This is it,

us Mehmud? It can't be. We got out into a flat field of dried mud surrounded by mud brick houses.

Memood's bodyguards found out while he climbed onto a small eminence. The driver's right he said this is our home.

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