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but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate A.D.

Hello and welcome. Today, fear and suspicion in the People's Republic of Dunyetsk as Ukrainian forces close in.

The American city, once a showcase for US optimism and ambition, is now the poorest in the

country.

How did it happen? Deep underground in a distant corner of Europe the

cellars where some of the world's VIPs keep their wine. And a glance into the world of the

German super-rich where the motto is, if you've got it, definitely don't flaunt it.

Representatives from the US, several European countries and Qatar have been meeting in Paris this morning

discussing ways of achieving a longer truce in Gaza. A 12-hour pause in

hostilities is currently in effect there after an agreement between the Israeli government and Hamas.

Earlier, the Israeli government rejected as seven days sees far proposed by the US Secretary of State John Kerry.

The conflict has left nearly 900 Palestinians dead, as well as

37 Israeli soldiers and three Israeli civilians. Paul Adams is just back from a week of covering the violence in Gaza, a place he knows well.

On my last night in Gaza I lay awake late, listening to a constant rolling thunder in the distance.

It rumbled and reverberated and I began to think it was a rare summer storm.

But the night sky was clear and the thunder was not natural. Somewhere out there in the dark, another part of the Gaza Strip was being natural. Somewhere out there in the dark another part of the Gaza Strip

was being pounded. It was I realized the sound of the next day's news, playing out

in Shejaya or Beethanoon or somewhere new. But I wouldn't be around to find out or deal

with the next day's news. I was getting out. The following morning, a bus from the

improbably named Sweetie Tours picked up a posse of weary flack-jacketed

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