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Britain Blames Putin For Nerve Agent Attack
The UK's foreign secretary : "overwhelmingly likely" Russia's president ordered poisoning.
The British foreign secretary says President Putin himself must have ordered the use of a nerve agent on British streets. We hear from our correspondent in Moscow and the Secretary General of NATO.
Also in the programme: We hear from a resident in Eastern Ghouta as the Syrian government launches new strikes. And Uganda born Jennifer Makumbi wins a big American literary prize.
(Photo: United Kingdom flag flying outside the embassy in Moscow. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)
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