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presenting the BBC Radio 4 edition here's Kate 80. Today, perhaps the most significant international economic development of our lifetime,

and we spotted it while sipping a drink by a hotel pool in Nairobi.

A grand new town in the Republic of Ireland, the houses are there, a gleaming

station too. But where are all the people? We learn why going to the Lou can be a hazardous

business in the Russian Arctic and how a

statue in a Roman square casts a chill shadow even on the sunniest of spring days.

It's been a week dominated by elections at home and abroad and arguably the most critical

of them all takes place in Greece tomorrow. But the vote to replace the Caretaker

administration which has run the country for the last six months

goes ahead in an atmosphere of considerable disenchantment.

The electorate is expected to punish the two main parties which pushed for painful austerity measures.

The new government, when it finally emerges, faces a tough task.

The countries in a fifth year of recession, more than a million people are out of work. And Mark Lowen in Athens says many Greeks

just don't believe that politicians can lift the country out of crisis.

The grass in front is coarse and overgrown, there's a snarling coil of barbed wire lining the top of the fence.

The approach is hardly welcoming.

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