
Exhumation of General Franco
Spain to remove the remains of General Franco.
Spain's government has approved a decree allowing the remains of the fascist dictator General Franco to be exhumed from a monument honouring those who died in the Spanish civil war.
Also today, the Australians are outraged that a fourth prime minister in a decade has been forced out by party rivals. We'll play some of the WhatsApp messages they've been sending to OS. And, Irish women discuss the Pope’s visit in the country for the first time since 1979.
We also look at the facts about the health effects of alcohol after a new research concluded that moderate drinking may protect against heart disease but the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections.
(Photo: The El Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen) memorial complex in the town of San Lorenzo del Escorial in Spain. Credit: MARISCAL/EPA)
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- Fri 24 Aug 201816:06GMTBBC World Service except News Internet




