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World Service,17 Jul 2019,53 mins

A woman to lead the EU's executive branch

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Germany's Ursula von der Leyen has been narrowly elected president of the EU Commission following a secret ballot among MEPs. We look into the case of the Norwegian pensioner jailed in Russia for espionage. We hear from the health minister in Kigali on how Rwanda is prepared after the first case of Ebola was detected just across the Congolese border in Goma.

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