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15/12/2018 GMT

Yemen - Can The Ceasefire In Hodeidah Hold?

BBC World Service - Weekend, Yemen - Can The Ceasefire In Hodeidah Hold?

After three and a half years the war in Yemen could be at a turning point.

Three and a half years of war has left Yemen on the brink of famine. The warring parties have agreed a ceasefire in the key port of Hodeidah after talks in Sweden. Could this lead to a nationwide truce and political settlement? Also on the programme, the UN Climate Change Conference, currently taking place in Katowice, was supposed to end on Friday, but hasn't. Is this deadlock? And can it be settled? And finally we meet the songwriters responsible for the music in the new film Mary Poppins Returns. Will filmgoers find their work as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as the original? Or will they need a Spoonful Of Sugar afterwards? 

(Picture: Children in Hodeidah receiving food aid. Credit: Reuters)

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