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Radio 4,10 Apr 2012,45 mins

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The international envoy on Syria, Kofi Annan, says his peace plan is still alive. But we hear there's continued fighting in Syria; and a plea from a former foreign office minister: give diplomacy a chance. How the US economic figures are hitting European markets. And in the first of two personal views of the French election campaign, an Englishman who lives in Paris tells us that France's political problems can all be sorted out over lunch. The World Tonight with Ritula Shah.

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