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Italy: Election Gains For Anti-Establishment Parties

A Eurosceptic movement and a right-wing coalition both claim they have the "right to govern".

The leaders of two anti-establishment parties in Italy have set out separate claims to lead the country. The Five Star Movement and a right-wing grouping including the anti-immigrant League both made strong gains in elections on Sunday, but neither bloc has an outright majority.

Also in the programme: Zimbabwe's tourism minister talks to Newshour about the legacy of Robert Mugabe; and who is the Syrian general at the forefront of the government's assault on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta?

(Image: League party leader Matteo Salvini. Credit: Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images)

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