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Libya and Ukraine

Mary Fitzgerald examines the battle to bring peace to Libya. Steve Rosenberg meets the people in eastern Ukraine who are nostalgic for the old USSR.

The political chaos and the deadly power plays between armed militias, are impacting on ordinary Libyans who want to get on with their lives. Libyans who grew up in fear and thought freedom not violence would follow the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi. Well many are now pinning their hopes on a man whose reputation is not squeaky clean either. Mary Fitzgerald examines the battle to bring peace to Libya.

To many in eastern Ukraine siding with Moscow rather than Kiev feels like a comforting return to what they knew before. Steve Rosenberg meets the people in who are nostalgic for the old USSR.

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11 minutes

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Tue 10 Jun 2014 19:50GMT

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  • Tue 10 Jun 2014 19:50GMT