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Welcome to the latest Global News recorded at 13:00 GMT on Friday, the 2nd of May. I'm Oliver Conway, with a selection of highlights from across BBC World Service News today. Coming up;
Government forces in Ukraine have launched a military operation against pro-Russian activists in the city of Slavyansk. We speak to a photographer in the city. "... to go, we have to go, we have to go. The soldiers are shouting at us. There is __ __ ... We have to retreat. We have to hide. They are now on position, they are expecting, uh, something is coming in our way ..." / Also in the podcast; A deal has been agreed between the Syrian government and the rebels that will allow opposition fighters wo withdraw from besieged areas in the city of Homs. / The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kelly, says the South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir, has agreed to peace talks aimed at ending the conflict there. "I told president Kiir that the choices that both he and the opposition face are stark and clear." And later; About three hundred thousand adults here in Britain are being asked to take part in the world's biggest study into dementia. Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, is one of them, and he's just undergone a series of cognitive tests. "I remember doing this test four years ago: 'If Pat's brother's mother is Sam's father's wife, what relation is Pat to Sam?' I have no idea." ...