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Justin Rowlatt asks why the Indian government is sending a rocket to Mars when there is so much poverty at home. And, we hear from a stoic woman in Germany and a fire chief who has seen Detroit鈥檚 best days come and go.

Kieran Cooke takes a train across Ireland, where the country鈥檚 economic troubles are evident from a glance out the window. Meanwhile on one island off the coast of Africa, the prosperity of France is tantalisingly close. And in Senegal, Tomas Fessy meets the workers who struggle all year to save up for the expense of the holiday of Eid-al-Adha.

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Mike Wendling

Photo: An employee of a money changer adjusts the posted rates on a billboard outside a foreign currency shop on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. (RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP/Getty Images)