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World Service,06 Mar 2014,28 mins

EU leaders hold emergency summit over Ukraine

World Business Report

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While EU leaders meet at an emergency summit, the Crimea parliament asks to join Russia. The BBC's David Stern joins us from Kiev for the latest developments and from Moscow, we speak to Dr Frank Schauff - chief executive of the Association of European Businesses in Russia. The BBC's Steve Evans asks if Berlin is on the brink of a housing bubble. An expedition to the Rwenzori mountains in Uganda has shown how quickly the glaciers there are melting, we hear from the expedition's leader Luc Hardy. And beauty in Brazil: the BBC's Bruce Douglas reports on the country's thirst for luscious long hair.

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