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World Business Report: First broadcast 08/03/2023 15:32 GMT : UN visits Ukraine to save the Black Sea grain deal

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First broadcast 08/03/2023 15:32 GMT 

First broadcast 08/03/2023 15:32 GMT : UN visits Ukraine to save the Black Sea grain deal

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The UN Secretary General is visiting Ukraine to save the Black Sea grain deal

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has been holding talks with President Zelensky in Kyiv to discuss a globally significant grain deal – which is due to expire shortly.

As the Black Sea grain deal comes to an end in 10 days, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, is in Ukraine to meet President Zelensky in an effort to safeguard the crucial grain export deal.   

How much of a difference for East Africa has last year's Ukrainian grain deal made? We will find out from Kenya.  

Four bankers, three of them Russians, are in court in Switzerland this week, facing charges that they helped to launder millions of dollars’ worth of investments.

In Australia, rising rents are fuelling a cost of living crisis and according to charities pushing people towards homelessness.

(Picture: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shake hands after a joint news briefing in Kyiv. Source: REUTERS/Alina Yarysh)

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