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World Service,05 May 2016,49 mins

Prokofiev in Palmyra

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Russia and Syria hold concert in Syria's Palmyra while bombs hit refugee camp in Idlib; Venezuela economy in crisis; Stones v Trump Picture: Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses participants and guests of a Mariinsky orchestra concert in the ancient theatre of Syria's ravaged Palmyra via a video link from the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on May 5, 2016. Credit: MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty

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