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Political Theatre, From Our Own Correspondent

September 4, 2016 | Katerina Vittozzi | BBC

BBC China Editor Carrie Gracie reveals how the Chinese state has chosen to beautify (and pacify?) the city of Hangzhou as it hosts the G20 summit of world leaders;

Wyre Davies explains how former President Dilma Rousseff came to grief in Brazil’s complex legal system, and why some Brazilians now argue her downfall proves the strength of democracy in the country;

Katerina Vitozzi visits a neighbourhood of Bangui, Central African Republic, where the trauma of the fighting and disorder of 2013 lingers on, yet one part of the story is rarely told: the aftermath of numerous sexual assaults; and as France goes back to school for a new academic year, Joanna Robertson opens the covers of one of the glories, or terrors, of the French educational system: the poetry workbook, of approved works to be illustrated recited aloud in front of the class.

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Katerina Vittozzi

Katerina Vittozzi is an award-winning freelance broadcast journalist and videographer. Since 2013, Katerina has been based in Accra, Ghana. From there, she travels extensively across the continent and has covered… Read More.

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