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FBI Confirms Investigation into Trump-Russia Ties

Director James Comey breaks protocol to reveal FBI probe has been underway since July

The Director of the FBI James Comey has taken the unprecedented step of revealing that the agency is investigating possible collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.

Also in the programme: is South Africa planning a Zimbabwe-style land reform? And France's presidential candidates debate on television ahead of the big vote in April.

(Photo: FBI Director James Comey and Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, testify in Congress. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

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Mon 20 Mar 201721:06GMT
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