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13/02/2015

A new peace deal for Ukraine?

BBC World Service - The World This Week, A new peace deal for Ukraine?

European leaders hammer out an agreement on ending Ukraine fighting - but will it hold?

European leaders talked through the night to hammer out an agreement on ending the separatist fighting in Ukraine.  But will the ceasefire hold?

As Ukraine looks nervously forward to the possibility of peace with Russian-backed rebels in the east, we get the inside story of the talks which produced the deal.  Is a frozen conflict better than a hot war?  Also in this podcast: hope that Greece may strike some kind of agreement on renegotiating the bail-out deal which its voters so firmly rejected; outrage in the US over perceived lack of interest in the killing of three young Muslims; and Baghdad the party town.  Who knew?

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