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But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

Today we hear of the determination to carry on in Syria when so much is lost.

Our belief in aliens and in pleasure is helping some of

Africa's poorest women. In Serbia it could be a good night from the

straight man funny man double act and white chickens really

should keep clear of a certain housewife from Nebraska. So tomorrow the people

of Crimea will be voting in a referendum to decide the future of their province,

even if the vote isn't internationally recognised.

There may be significant support from Russian-speaking residents for the peninsula to break away from Ukraine. significant that could

be it's

repeat itself,

many tartas died after Stalin ordered their deportation to Central Asia in the 1940s.

And Mark Lowen, who's just been to Crimea, says history is everything there, not least

for the Russian-speaking majority.

The wedding photographer had chosen the hallway,

the white granite and Neo-Ranescence columns

forming a perfect backdrop as he snapped away, the bride and groom posing proudly.

But the study next door in Yolter's Livadia Palace was where the tour group had flocked,

an oak-paneled room where in 1945 Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt sat to

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