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Obama: "we are very divided right now"

Former president says President Trump fanned divisions.

The former US President, Barack Obama, has warned that a lack of commonly held facts - fuelled by conspiracy theories - is causing the United States to become ever more divided and resentful.

Also in the programme: Peru's interim president, Manuel Merino, has stepped down after less than a week in office; and the French bookshop owner defying lockdown orders to close.

(Photo: Former US President Barack Obama speaks during a Voter Mobilization Drive-In Rally in Atlanta, Georgia, the day before the US Presidential election. Credit: EPA/ERIK S. LESSER)

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  • Sun 15 Nov 202021:06GMT

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