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Radio 4,11 Apr 2017,45 mins

Tillerson: Reign of Assad family coming to an end

The World Tonight

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The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, has gone to Moscow to persuade the Russian government to abandon its links with Syria - but has his hand been weakened by a lack of international unity? A player with the German football club, Borussia Dortmund, has been injured after three explosions went off near the team bus. How the legacy of conflict still haunts Northern Ireland. And newly discovered letters by Sylvia Plath - what could they reveal about her relationship with Ted Hughes? (Picture: Vladimir Putin at the press conference in Moscow).

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