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The images we often associate with Iraq are of destruction, war and dysfunction. But one man hopes to show people another side of the country, with a lovely tour down a Kurdistan river.

BBC reporter Gabriel Gatehouse joins us with a story about Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi-American who hopes his eco-tourism company will attract tourists to northern Iraq.

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