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The World Tonight: 18/03/2010

18/03/2010

BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, 18/03/2010

Can the Middle East Quartet meeting in Moscow revive the peace process in the region?

National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing. Can the Middle East Quartet meeting in Moscow revive the peace process in the region?

The EU's foreign policy chief visits Gaza as Palestinian militants fire a rocket into Israel - can the Middle East Quartet meeting in Moscow revive the peace process in the region?

Universities in England are told they have to cut their budgets - we report from the University of Sussex on how it's likely to affect the future of higher education.

The British boy kidnapped in Pakistan is back home after his father paid a ransom in Paris. 

And the military muscle behind Brazil's emergence on the world stage - we go to a training camp outside Rio de Janeiro.

The World Tonight with Roger Hearing.

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