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Artistic resistance on the ground: France's JR creates giant portrait for Ukraine

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French street artist JR travelled to the Ukrainian city of Lviv to install one of his trademark giant portraits. It features a small, smiling Ukrainian girl, dressed for winter, captured in black and white. JR says "this little girl reminds us what Ukrainians are fighting for". Five-year-old Valeria is one of the millions of the refugees to have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion.

We also hear from Ukrainian artist Bohdan Mucha, who's documenting the war through photography and video at home in Kyiv.

On the 60th anniversary of the end of the Algerian war of independence, a new French film takes a look at personal tragedy within the context of political resistance.

And we meet the Irish dance troupe who are remixing the traditions of the Emerald Isle and taking them to the world.

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