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Birthday cakes, icons of cool and coining new words in the French election. Kate Adie with correspondents' stories from France, America, Afghanistan, Argentina and South Africa.

Birthday cakes, icons of cool and the candidate coining new words in the French election. Kate Adie introduces correspondents鈥� stories from around the world.

On the campaign trail in France, Hugh Schofield finds visions of a new world and calls to 鈥樷€済et em out鈥� ahead of the election on Sunday. Alastair Leithead asses the political turmoil in South Africa - not by speaking with protesters, but by mingling with party-goers at a presidential birthday-bash. In Argentina, Newsnight鈥檚 Stephen Smith meets Che Guevara鈥檚 younger brother and discovers that the revolutionary's legacy is probably not what he would have hoped for. As President Donald Trump approaches his 100th day in office Shaimaa Khalil has been on a road trip across middle-America, visiting the states that helped get him elected. And in Kabul Nanna Muus Steffensen meets that young student asking herself 鈥榮hould I stay and be part of Afghanistan鈥檚 future or get out while I can?鈥�

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