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Tsunami-hit areas set to rebuild

Rescue operations are being scaled back in the areas of the South Pacific hit by Tuesday's tsunami, with the focus now switching to reconstruction.

At least 170 people are known to have died in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

Phil Mercer reports from Samoa.

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