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Dispatches from ´óÏó´«Ã½ foreign correspondents, presented by Pascale Harter.

After just a few days in the top job, it may be a little early to predict how Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will do. Lyse Doucet embarks on a tour through the twists and turns of Pakistani politics and examines what's fueling the man as he begins a third term.

Record-breaking floods have left a trail of death and devastation through central Europe. Rivers across the region have overflowed, from the Elbe to the Vlatava. In the Hungarian capital Budapest Nick Thorpe witnessed how emergency services and volunteers struggled to keep the Danube at bay.

Elisabeth Kendall travelled under armed guard to the remote Mahra region of Yemen. She was there to canvass local people's political opinions as part of the ongoing Yemeni National Dialogue - but ended up picking camel gristle out of her teeth.

North Korea is even more tightly closed to outsiders, but on a recent official tour Juliet Rix manages to elude the minders – even if only for a short time – and finds herself dancing with a local family in a Pyongyang park.

And as boom times attract increasing numbers of Westerners to Dubai again, Paul Moss has an awkward encounter with the expat elite.