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Today, a new year, a new president.

A proud homophobe assumes office in Brazil, and we meet some of the country's gay

footballers. Closer to home we visit an orange order hall, bastion of

Ulster Protestant loyalism, not in Northern Ireland but across the border in the Republic.

In Uzbekistan we take to the hills to try and get a clearer view of what's changed since

the death of Islam Karimov, its long-serving authoritarian leader,

and we assess the damage caused by a typhoon in Japan

with the help of a mischievous goblin.

The United Nations has described conflict in the

Central African Republic as both intensifying and neglected by the outside world.

Having already faced decades of fighting and instability, a coalition of

mainly Muslim rebels seized power there in 2013, when a largely Christian militia

rose up in response,

thousands of people died in the clashes that followed.

State institutions were wrecked and around half the population

was left in need of humanitarian aid. While an internationally backed transitional government

is in place now, violence continues, as does religious division.

In Bon Gee, the capital of the mainly Christian country, many Muslims now live in just one district,

PK-5, where violent attacks are common. Anna Foster made a rare visit to the city and the neighbourhood which few Western journalists visit.

The outside wall of the maternity unit is covered with colourful paintings, a smiling pregnant woman, her yellow-spotted dress smoothed over the curve of

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