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16 million people face chronic food shortages in Africa's Sahara region.

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We report from Niger, at risk of catastrophe. Hunting the Taliban in

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Pakistan's commercial capital. Controversy in Indonesia,

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conservative Muslims on a collision course with the young supporters of

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erotic dance music. This is Reporters. The threat of a severe

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food crisis is something people throughout Africa's Sahara region

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struggled to cope with. Drought, under development, political

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instability have rated a landscape which the UN says has put more than

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16 million people in seven countries in danger of chronic food

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shortages this year. Niger is particularly at risk.

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We need an armed escort to venture into the barren fringes of the Saha.

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Islamist militants are a growing threat here in Niger. So his hunger.

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In the tiny village of Kassi-Tondi, 50-year-old Maya Halida pounds

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grain. She has lost her husband and six children to disease and poverty.

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Now, the rains have failed. This year's bid for crop only fed what

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is left of the family for one week. -- pitiful. The rain did not come.

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It has been getting worse for years. All the men have gone in search of

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work. There is a food crisis every year in this village now. 2000 and

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fog is going to be tough. Prices are shooting up, the harvest has

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failed. There is growing insecurity across the region. The familiar

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warning signs. 10 severely malnourished children arrive in the

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local clinic. The UN fears 400,000 children could be in this condition

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in Niger within months. It is much worse already this year. We are

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receiving more children arrive in a state of complete exhaustion. --

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seeing. Najat is not without hope. -- Niger. A scheme to attract

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rainwater. They finally have a democratic government that is

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acknowledging the crisis and co- operating with the outside world.

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The key to avoiding a famine. She now gets a small wage from the UN.

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TRANSLATION: Because of this work we can feed our family. Maybe the

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fields will recover. That does not change the fact that the village

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well is drying up. She needs a longer route each year. As a child

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she remembers life was one of four here. Not any more. -- life was

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wonderful. The Nigerian government has announced that it intends to

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build hundreds of new religious schools to fight poverty and

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extremism in the north of the country. We travelled to the north-

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western state of Sokoto, home to one of these new schools. A call

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for food from Umar Abubakar's family. He has been forced into

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begging because of a decision his parents took to send him here. Umar

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Abubakar is one of millions of Nigeria's Almajiri. Young boys

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moved far from home to master the Koran at informal schools. The

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Nigerian government wants to build hundreds of official religious

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schools to help the young Almajiris. In soccer -- Sokoto have opened the

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first. Do you want to close them down? Essentially, yes. This is the

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principal, a former Almajiri. He says teaching Western as well as

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Islamic education will help students integrate better into

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society. Science, mathematics, Arabic as the language. A modern

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Almajiri School in staccato, the state with the highest proportion

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in poverty. -- Sokoto. The government is motivated by a desire

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to get the minds of those they consider good soldiers... Security

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concerns have heightened. A failed British-Nigerian rescue attempt

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took many by surprise. The killing of these two foreigners at this

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compound was not the first sign of high-profile criminal activity.

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Boko Haram has said that its members are present here. There is

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little appetite for change at some of these schools. There is evidence

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that the Taliban are raising millions of dollars in Pakistan by

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turning to organised crime. In the country's largest city, Karachi,

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the police blame the militants for bank robberies, protection rackets

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and kidnapping. We report on how the Taliban are making inroads into

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Pakistan's financial capital. Night falls in Karachi and it is time to

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hunt for the Taliban. We got rare access to the anti-terror unit who

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battle the militants. They are moving in on the Karachi underworld.

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We head for one of their strongholds, Gadap. The police

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chief who fights fire with fire. TRANSLATION: We are ready to die

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for this country. We are not scared of these people. They should be

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scared of us. The raid got results. Police arrested a militant without

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a shot being fired. The suspect is believed to be a bank robber. In

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this sprawling megacity of 20 million, there are rich pickings

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for the insurgents. Bank heists, abductions and protection rackets.

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We are on our way to the outskirts of Karachi to find out more about

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how the militants make money here. It is not easy to track them down.

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We met an insurgent who works for the Taliban finance department.

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When the militants come calling, locals donate willingly or

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otherwise. We raised about $80,000 a month. We use the money for the

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injured and for other needs. Behind bars across town, two Taliban foot

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soldiers. They are accused of five abductions. When families do not

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pay up, hostages do not survive. At the police station we met their

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latest victim. A doctor snatched at gunpoint last month. He was held

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for almost one week before police stormed the militant's hideout.

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TRANSLATION: Those six days were like 60 days. I could not see the

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outside world from morning until night. They were planning to kill

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me when the raid started but I got away. The doctor is now back at

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work. He is changing his routine, making his movements less

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predictable. He knows the Taliban could try again. The German

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authorities are trying to track down far right fugitives after

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revelations that neo-Nazis were able to carry out a series of

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racially motivated murders over a decade. A parliamentary inquiry has

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begun as people demand to know the extent of Germany's extremist

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problem. This was Dresden last month, the familiar face of the far

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right. Aggressive looking young men calling for a Germany of Germans.

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Germany's intelligence services say the cliches are out of date. You

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cannot tell the neo-Nazi on the streets any more. These are the

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Immortals, anti-democratic, they warn of the impending extinction of

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the German people using text messaging to organise spontaneous

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demonstrations across the country. These groups tend not to tell

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themselves Nazi or neo-Nazi, but the Free Forces. One intelligence

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agent told me the security services are out of their depth when it

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comes to them. This is a former neo-Nazi leader. TRANSLATION: The

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leadership is always trying to attract members from the upper

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classes. Students who can act as doctors or lawyers for the team.

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You would never imagine that those sort of people support the far

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right. They may deny their affiliation in public. But they are

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part of the movement. More so now than ever before. The nationalists

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want a new order in Germany, not multiculturalism. Years ago we had

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clashes and beatings between the so-called political enemies, the

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left-wing. Jamel has been taken over in north Germany. This Nazi

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Germany Muriel claiming the village is free and national. Following

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revelations of hate crimes and murders, the government says it is

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taking action. There have been hints and indications of right-wing

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extremism. It was not taken seriously enough. Therefore we have

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put this very high on the political agenda. It is a minority movement,

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but the Free Forces are still a force that need to be dealt with.

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The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa had held a

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meeting to discuss their trade links. Financial uncertainty in the

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West and rising energy costs had taken a toll on the fire's Nations

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-- on these five Nations. Despite financial setbacks in India's urban

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economy, there is economic expansion in its rural areas.

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India is cashing in on its rich farmland. A bounty that is fuelling

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a revolution. Two decades ago, this was heavily in debt, but as India's

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economy boomed, so did demand for its oranges. It now fetches

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$300,000 a year. The money has transformed his life. His family

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live on a large modern home, and he sent his children to boarding

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schools. He has developed a taste for the urban luxuries that you

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would not normally find in the countryside. I have bought my wife

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all the luxuries you have in the City, a microwave, washing machine,

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a gas oven. Everything to make her life easy. Increasingly, rule India

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is where the money is. Insulated from the global meltdown, it has

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surged ahead, rising food prices may have hit the pockets of those

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in the City, but it has built the wallets of people here. Most Indian

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villagers are still really underdeveloped, there are no proper

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roads, clean drinking water, or even enough electricity. What the

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government has done, it has pumped enough money into rural welfare

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programmes, which along with rising farm in comes, have helped

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everybody here with a bit of cash to spare. But while her been India

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is spending less, people in the villages are splashing out on a

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host of products, keeping the cash registers ringing and generating

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much-needed business. TRANSLATION: People come and buy lots of things,

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such as mobile top of cards. We are really benefiting. Two thirds of

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Indians still live in villages. That is a population of nearly 800

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million people, and a market whose potential is now only now being

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tapped. It is one reason why India is taking giant economic strides

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and is hoping to translate that into political clout.

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Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, wants to

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register dangdut music as part of its musical heritage with it UNESCO.

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It takes its influences from Indian, Arabic and Malay music, and is

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extremely popular. But a growing group of conservative Muslims are

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unhappy. They say that traditional music is being corrupted.

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The rain kept coming, but so did the fans, braving the bad weather,

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hundreds turned out to attend his dangdut music show. No Linda, a

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popular singer, was invited to perform at a wedding reception.

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Everybody in the neighbourhood has turned out for the performance,

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even the young children had been allowed to stay up late. But even

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though dangdut music as an integral part, it has become increasingly

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vulgar over the years. This is the singer that clerics have the

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biggest problem with, Julia Perez, she is on the highest rated morning

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TV show in the country. The song, where she likes the most, is banned

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on radio stations in one province, because of racing lyrics suggesting

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the sexual positions and that she possessed -- prefers. There are

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concerns that she is corrupting India's young people. In Indonesia

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as she thinks that sexy is a crime. If you already have a porno in your

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brain, I cannot blame you. If you see me like this, I am vulgar,

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there is something wrong in your brain, not my brain. But Muslim

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clerics say that Julia Perez and singers like her is ruling dangdut

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music, and turning it into something it is not supposed to be.

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It is not jazz or rock and roll that you can do it rocket -- erotic

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things. It should not be erotic. It is just too sexy. But fans may not

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agree. Back in the neighbourhood concert, Melinda is busy raking in

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the tips and working the crowd. Dangdut music has always been the

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music of the masses, it is popular with in Venetians of all ages, even

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young children. That is why conservative groups want to clean

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it up, but the majority of Indonesian are dancing to a

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different tune and they are not complaining.

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It is a community drama production that has been going on for 700

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years. The Mystery Plays in York in the north of England are certainly

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ambitious. Around 1,500 people are taking part as locals enact

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medieval biblical players from the Creation to the Last Judgement. The

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curtain goes up in August and we have been along to see how the

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preparations are getting along. In the beginning, God created the

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heavens and the Earth, and er there was a void, the darkness was over

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the face of the deep. The Mystery Plays are a tradition that goes

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back more than 700 years, York's ts

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or mysteries of their various craft, the form to the Bible. But the sea,

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it is going to be rather different. -- --. Walk down any street,

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and you are almost certain to bump into someone that has that has one

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a bit biblical. I think it is a great part. No-one gets to save

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humanity from the flight. The cast list is approaching the 600. Mary

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must be a big role. I would like to think so. I am the mother of God.

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did not think any of us have got really massive hamlet parts. A no.

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I auditioned and got the part of an angel so we will be working

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together. She is not star-struck, is she?

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There are a lot of people in the Bible, but the characters, the

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actors, our only the beginning. There are hundreds more. How many

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costumes? 800, 1,000 costumes. are doing 1,000 costumes? 1,000

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costumes. The setting for the main performance of the Mystery Plays is

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on a stage built in the remains of St Mary's Abbey. The celebratory

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performance for an Olympic year has got rather large.

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1,500 people you are organising. When you say it like that, it makes

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me shudder. Of course, many of the volunteers are old hands that have

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grown up with the plays. The scale may be greater but there is no

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mystery as to the story. When it starts with these two, you know how

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it is going to end. This is it for this edition of

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journalists. After all the warmth of last week,

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