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21/05/2017 GMT

Trump Continues Middle East Tour

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US President Donald Trump renews diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia and Israel

After addressing a summit of 40 Islamic leaders, President Trump prepares to fly to Israel. We talk to a former US Ambassador to Tel Aviv about the two countries' changing diplomatic relationship.

Also in the programme: we hear from the father of one of the recently released schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria three years ago; and rethinking the double bass.

(Photo: US President Donald Trump joins dancers with swords at a welcome ceremony in Riyadh. Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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