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World Service,25 Sep 2009,55 mins

18/09/2009

Newshour

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NATO leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen proposes pooling US, NATO and Russian missile defence systems. We look at the plan's chances. The first of a series of on-the-spot reports from Somalia, where the US ambassador has warned that violent anarchy threatens the entire region. An interview with a Moroccan woman whose sister has disappeared, after police questioned her group for organising a daylight picnic during Ramadan. And for the Jewish New Year, an 87-year-old cantor sings for us, reminiscing about an historic Jewish service in Germany in 1944, the first to be broadcast since Hitler came to power eleven years earlier.

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