Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London.

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It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Today don't pack up that election, bunting.

Israel may have to vote again very soon.

Death threats, bribery and corruption on Brazil's Amazon frontier. A not in my backyard crowd emerges in China as the authorities

confront the great smog of Beijing. And have Frenchmen really lost their touch? We look on as they try to relearn the art of seduction.

Now what exactly does the outcome of this week's Israeli election mean for such pressing regional matters as the deadlocked peace

process and how best to deal with a possible Iranian nuclear threat.

Well the answers will have to wait until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded what could

be the lengthy business of creating a functioning coalition government.

The former TV presenter, Yayil Lapidid is certain to play a key role after his party,

Yesh Atid, surprised observers by winning 19 of the 120 seats in the Knesset.

Mr. Lapid is portrayed here as a centrist, possibly a

moderating force in a new administration, but our Jerusalem correspondent

Kevin Connolly wonders if that depiction is entirely accurate.

There is an old song which struggles to encapsulate the essence of romance in a string of fleeting images.

One of them is the sound of a waiter whistling as the last bar

closes. The news equivalent I now discover is the clatter of the last length of

security fencing being loaded onto a pickup truck as a political

party's election event winds down in the small hours of the morning.

Nothing feels more out of date than the leftover pile of smiling bumper stickers of a candidate who's just

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