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Liberia, Egypt, Nepal, North Korea and Iceland

Jane Labous meets Liberian sex workers, Louisa Loveluck in Egypt, John Murphy climbs Everest, Ed Butler investigates North Korean Restaurants; Emma Jane Kirby on Icelandic elves.

More than a decade of particularly brutal war ravaged Liberia in West Africa, only ending in 2003. Now in peacetime it's becoming all too clear what those years took from Liberians and the toll it's continuing to take. In a town in the north of the country, Jane Labous looks at how women survive; Egypt after its revolution, said 'no more!' to strongman politics. The people would have their say. But while it's true that general-turned-president Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi was elected by the will of the people, he also helped oust a democratically elected government beforehand, and on his watch the courts have ruthlessly pursued members of Muslim Brotherhood and the press handing down harsh sentences in cases which have been widely criticised. Louisa Loveluck goes in search of Egyptians having their say now; When tourists trek up Everest someone else usually carries the supplies. John Murphy discovers just how tough a task that is; North Korea may be adept at keeping journalists out, but Ed Butler spies a weak link the chain...a chain of North Korean restaurants. The particular one he visited was in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh; Emma Jane Kirby in the Icelandic wilderness goes in serach of elves.

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25 minutes

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Sun 6 Jul 2014 15:06GMT

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  • Sat 5 Jul 2014 11:06GMT
  • Sat 5 Jul 2014 18:06GMT
  • Sun 6 Jul 2014 00:06GMT
  • Sun 6 Jul 2014 08:06GMT
  • Sun 6 Jul 2014 15:06GMT