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Today handles water music by the River Congo, an unexpected accompaniment to a week of election

violence.

The skeleton rallies which are restoring legal life to thousands declared dead in India. and a and with winter weather descending on the city of Bologna we can reveal that being Italian is bad for your health.

At least 18 people have been killed in election-related violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, most of them shot by government troops in the capital, Kinshasa.

Initial results from the voting give the current head of state Joseph Kibila a lead.

Will Ross says that tensions high in the country

as people await the full results of the polling due on Tuesday.

I walked into the chaotic arrival hall at Kinshasa's dishevelled airport to find a blazing

row in full swing, customs officers and immigration staff all up close and bellowing at

each other. I now know it wasn't really an argument at all, just another lively Congolese debate.

There's a spirit to this place. Looking like a museum from the 1970s, it must be the worst airport on the continent, although a

colleague from Somalia spent a while comparing it to the one in war-torn Mogadishu

and decided to call it a draw.

I headed into the city centre past endless election billboards.

The current president Joseph Kobila's campaign, clearly the best funded of the lot.

Next to the 40-year-old's beaming face were three photos laying out his vision.

To illustrate the transport manifesto there was a dugout canoe,

then a small motorboat and finally a huge cruise liner that seemed to have been cut and pasted from a holiday brochure for trips down the river Nile.

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