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Today armies, mercenaries, terrorists, they all use it, the ubiquitous AK-47 rifle.

We visit one busy source of the Kalashnikov in Bulgaria. We're in the

wetlands of southern Iraq under pressure again and in the US the state of South Carolina where the echoes of the past press into the present.

And to Italy, Il Joko Pubello, our correspondent is not so sure that football's such a beautiful game.

Austria's Vice-Chance Chancellor Hines-Christian Strache of theRide Freedom Party resigned last Saturday.

Videos had emerged that purported to show him promising government contracts in exchange

for political donations from a woman posing as a member of a Russian oligarchs family.

Since then, the government has fallen.

The crisis has again highlighted the far rights connection to Russia, not just in Austria, and Gabriel Gatehouse has been

tracking that story. Curiously, he is not going to tell us exactly where he's been.

It was a warm summer's day in 2017. I landed at a European airport. I

went straight through passport control and headed for an anonymous looking mid-budget

hotel in the center of town.

The Trump-Russia story was hitting fever pitch.

Some were convinced that Moscow had manipulated the American election

and installed a Russian agent as president of the United States.

I was on a fishing expedition.

Through a contact I'd arranged to meet a senior official in the intelligence service of an EU and NATO member state.

That's the reason I'm being a bit vague. They only agreed to meet me on condition that I not reveal which country we were in.

I'd been given a name, just a first name, and a time

and a place to meet. It was a large glass-fronted cafe over two floors not far from my hotel. I got there early and since I had no idea

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