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World Service,08 Mar 2019,53 mins

Trump's former campaign chairman gets nearly four years in prison

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President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been sentenced to forty-seven months in prison by a court in Virginia. He had been convicted of banking and tax fraud. A deadline looms as the British Prime Minister - Theresa May - heads back to Brussels. Can the European Union and the United Kingdom break the Brexit deadlock over the withdrawal of the UK from the bloc? A scientist describes the latest insights into an illness called 'nodding syndrome' - a rare and mysterious disease which affects children in just a few areas of Africa - namely Sudan, South Sudan and northern Uganda. But there have also been recent reports of it spreading elsewhere.

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