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

Today can industrious South Korea dominated by mighty corporations become a more relaxed place. We visit a mega-brothel in Germany where

the pimps have been pushed aside, but has the business really changed? We take a journey

down the Nile in Egypt, remarkably free of tourists, which is both

good and bad news. And our correspondent discovers why the city she lives in is at the bottom of the happy pile.

There are just three days to go until the pro-Mosko authorities hold a referendum in Crimea,

asking people whether they want to join Russia or remain within Ukraine,

though with greater autonomy for the region. Western governments, the interim government in Kyiv,

have described the referendum as illegal.

Meanwhile Ukrainian soldiers and sailors remain blockaded in their garrisons by

pro-Russian armed forces and civilians.

The Ukrainian journalist Andree Kulikov has been to the Trouble Peninsula and gives us his personal

view on events there.

Why am I not being drafted into the Ukrainian army nowadays?

Well, there are two possible explanations.

First, I know I am past Draft H, and hundreds of thousands of others will have to go into active military

service before the nation needs me.

Second, I guess, is that the Army does not need my specialization as a military translator.

I was trained to translate English.

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