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Today suspicions have grown recently that the Russians have been taking a more than keen interest in other people's elections. So what happens when they go to the polls?

In Barcelona it's the younger generation of political activists who've been energized by the debate

over Catalan independence.

In Albania, they're trying to come to terms with the legacy of Enver Hodger's communist dictatorship,

with talk of opening up mass graves and tracking down missing people.

And in the far north of Canada they're trying to bring the wisdom of the Inuit people to the

government of Nunavut.

Saudi Arabia is experiencing an anti-corruption purge.

A handful of men called in for questioning have been released,

but more than 200 people detained last week are still

being held amid allegations that at least a hundred billion dollars has been misused through

systematic corruption and embezzlement in recent decades.

The driving force behind the crackdown is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salma'n.

Meanwhile the French President Emmanuel Macron met the crown prince this week in an attempt to calm

tensions between the Saudis and Lebanon.

Their Saudi-backed Prime Minister had travelled to Riyadh and announced his resignation, claiming he feared

for his life, and the Americans have delivered a warning about using Lebanon as tension

rises between the Saudis and Iran. Frank Gardner has been following the developments

and the continuing rise of the crown prince.

At the back of the room, in an ornate gilded and padded chair, he sat there quietly taking

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