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Global Financial Crisis Hits Banks

As the global financial crisis claimed more victims last week on Wall Street, the rest of the world's markets and banks have been in turmoil. Forty-five thousand banking jobs are in jeopardy in Britain alone. From London, VOA's Mandy Clark looks at the global financial fallout of the American credit crunch.

Britain's WWII secret Nazi Deal Plan Unveiled

http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/ Newly-released National Archive files show that a British amateur diplomat tried to make a peace deal with Germany soon after the start of World War II. With the blessing of the Foreign Office, James Lonsdale-Bryans met with a German diplomat and proposed his country could have a "free hand" in Europe while Britain ran the rest of the world.