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Hello and in this edition a Pakistani boy charged with murdering a girlfriend who's still alive.

Tougher sentences, build more jails. There's a furious debate in France about overcrowded prisons. In the

Senegalese capital Dhaka, tension and anxiety, all because of sheep. And we venture

out across the Bactrian plane to one of the

oldest cities on earth, evidence that Afghanistan's not only been a place of

conflict, but also a treasure house of secret magnificent history.

The Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has been speaking to President Obama about Italy's

concerns over the tide of migrants arriving on its southern shores.

They met at the White House on Thursday.

Afterwards, Mr Letta said Italy was taking on its responsibilities, but the rest of Europe needed to do more to help.

Already this month, 500 asylum seekers have drowned in separate tragedies in the Mediterranean.

For Italy and the other countries along its northern coast

the problem has become an acute one.

It's now launching a new naval operation

it hopes will control the flow of migrants

as well as offering them protection.

Alan Johnston has been talking to some of the migrants who've made it.

The main street in Lampedusa's little port is called Via Roma and for the migrants who come in from the sea this is in a sense the road that leads to Rome and the rest of Europe beyond.

The road to what they hope will be better lives in a richer world.

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