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

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It's introduced by Kate Aide.

Today a tender moment is our correspondent, a Vegetarian for 37 years, examines a slaughterhouse

in Romania.

There's more militant violence in Northern Nigeria, yet no one is being brought before the courts.

The neighbours aren't happy, the economists are fascinated.

Can Japan really junk austerity and spend, spend, spend its way out of recession and a moment of

alchemy as two men who went to war together meet up again in New York City.

The scandal over horse meat being passed off as beef has spread to

more than a dozen European countries this weekend. The manufacturers of

ready meals are checking their products, abattoirs are under scrutiny, government agencies

responsible for food standards are at full stretch. Every day this week the story has taken

new and unexpected twists and turns.

It's seen correspondence fanning out across the continent.

Nick Thorpe's been on a wild horse chase across Romania,

trying to find the source of contaminated meat.

Some time after midnight at the Tihutza Pass high in the Carpathians,

from Transylvania into Buchovina, the temperature touched minus 17 Celsius, hallucinating from the cold and the tiredness

of a 19-hour drive, we imagined gray wolves watching us from among the pine trees and brown bears

grumbling through the ruins of a souvenir shop.

A mock Dracula castle soared up out of a small village, blood-red in the snow with a giant

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