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Re-making the Middle East
IS lost Raqqa; the Kurds lost Kirkuk. A new world is taking shape, but old enmities remain.
IS lost Raqqa; the Kurds lost Kirkuk. A new world is taking shape, but old enmities remain. Also in this programme/podcast: China takes centre-stage - but the real action is going on behind the scenes; the man who gave away $18 billion; and where spacecraft go to die.
(Photo: Syrian Democratic Forces celebrate victory in Raqqa.
Credit: Reuters)
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Sun 22 Oct 201700:06GMT
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