North Korea accuses South Korea of 'deliberate provocation'

North Korea has test-fired two new air defence missiles after it accused South Korea of stirring tensions at the border.

Also in the programme: A man threw a subway sandwich at a federal agent and people watching reacted with laughter and surprise. Philip Kennicott, Senior Art and Architecture Critic of The Washington Post explains how art is used as a form of political protest; and, against a backdrop of airstrikes, musicians from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, who have been displaced and are now living at a tent site in Gaza City - have been sharing their knowledge of the musical world with the children around them.

Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Charlotte Higgins, British journalist and author and Yaroslav Trofimov, Ukrainian born author and Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal in Dubai.

Photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong attends a meeting with officers of the army's overseas operation, in Pyongyang, North Korea, August 20, 2025