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Good Morning Scotland: The Weekend Edition 13/14 April, 2019

News, analysis and features from Good Morning Scotland鈥檚 Weekend Edition.

This edition contains: the resurgence of popular protest across North Africa has prompted commentators to raise the prospect of a second Arab Spring, similar to the democratic uprisings of 2012. David Pratt, contributing foreign affairs editor for the Herald; Christopher Stephen, who reports on Libya and Tunisia for The Guardian, and Dame Rosalind Marsden, who has served as both EU Special Representative and British ambassador to Sudan, and is an Associate Fellow at the Chatham House Africa programme, analyse the situation.
Amsterdam has long had a reputation for permissiveness, but a push to make the procurement of prostitutes illegal marks a change in the 'anything goes' mind set. Julie Bindel, author of 'The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth' and who has spent much time researching attitudes in the Netherlands, discusses the city鈥檚 shift away from its past.
The Reporter's Notebook comes from Ukraine, where Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian, won the first round of Ukrainian presidential elections two weeks ago. Correspondent David Stern asks if what the country is experiencing now, could be a sign of what's to come elsewhere; while in the Long Interview, Gordon Brewer speaks to veteran politician, Dennis Canavan about his life and career.

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