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Radio 4,31 Jul 2017,45 mins

Maduro branded 'dictator' as US announces new sanctions

The World Tonight

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As the US places sanctions on the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, we have a report from Caracas and speak to a US Congressman Joaquin Castro. Also: why has Anthony Scaramucci lost his job just 10 days being appointed. We hear from an MP from President Putin's party and former US ambassador to Moscow after the Kremlin orders the US to cut 755 of its staff inside Russia. And the theatre director Mathew Warchus remembers the actor and playwright Sam Shepard, whose death has been announced today. Picture: A National Guard vehicle is engulfed in flames during a clash between opposition protesters and the police in Venezuela. Credit: European Photopress Agency.

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