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The World Tonight: 17/09/2009

17/09/2009

BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, 17/09/2009

National and international news and analysis with David Eades.

News and analysis with David Eades. Includes Washington scrapping the European missile defence system, the deadly air strike in Yemen and Brixton's new currency.

National and international news and analysis with David Eades.

Washington scraps the European missile defence system, but will the move make Russia more co-operative on Iran? 

With the deadly air strike in Yemen, is the country in danger of becoming a failed state? 

Spending versus cuts: has cutting government spending become the new economic orthodoxy? 

, Brixton gets a new currency, but will the 'Brixton pound' bring prosperity to local traders?

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