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Hello. Today, anyone for tennis? Not anymore in Baghdad, as our man in Iraq laments the loss of everyday freedoms in a once great city.

The abuse and neglect of mentally ill prisoners, which has seen America's jails dubbed the new

asylums. Danger on the streets of Tokyo as zombie-like pedestrians with their faces glued

to smartphones threaten havoc on one of the world's busiest street

crossings.

And what's inside that Burmese beer barrel?

I'll give you a clue.

It's not beer, and it and not exactly legal.

Yesterday Iraqi security forces found the bullet-rittled bodies of 53 men shot recently

near a town in a mainly Shia area south of Baghdad. It was not immediately clear who

the victims were or why they were killed, but the current wave of violence engulfing the

country shows little sign of easing up as the Iraqi military

continues its fight with the Sunni militants ISIS. The country's capital

Baghdad remains relatively safe for now but its residents face a life on edge, always on high alert.

Jeremy Bowen reflects on the daily freedoms he once took for granted, which have slowly been eroded

by more than two decades of war.

I used to go running in Baghdad.

My course was out of the Rashid Hotel, take a couple of lefts, then passed a small police

station that usually had a few mustachioed officers in blue shirts

smoking outside it, and after that down to the Ministry of Information towards the River Tigris, then

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