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December 2, 2011

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On the eve of the next big Afghanistan conference in Bonn, we find out what it's like to grow up in a country that has been in turmoil for three decades; we get a new view of the London Underground by taking a ride with someone in a wheelchair; we hear the sounds of Morocco's most controversial political rapper.

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