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It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Hello. We're short of money, but we have no problems with the Taliban, the Christian soldiering

on in what was once the edge of the British Empire.

India's new Prime Minister will be sworn in on Monday, but can he deliver the

bright future he's promised? A momentous helicopter ride over the Amazon for tribesmen who've

never before left the jungle. And these are hard times we

learned for the ski shop trying to do business in the Sahara Desert.

Now walk warily in Waziristan that was the advice from one British soldier

posted a hundred years ago to what's viewed as Pakistan's wild border region.

It's no more peaceful today. More than 30 Taliban militants were

killed this week in airstrikes on targets in North Waziristan close to the border with

Afghanistan. It's reckoned there are more than 20,000 Taliban in the

country and the Pakistani army has lost 5,000 of its men confronting them. The military

does now control parts of South was Ireston. Owen

Bennett Jones was there recently and says it was a place of surprises.

I've never managed to take photographs whilst doing foreign reporting.

Between trying to understand what's going on and recording everything for radio,

I always reckon there's enough to worry about without getting some holiday snaps,

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