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Radio 4,08 Aug 2018,45 mins

US to sanction Russia over Skripal attack

The World Tonight

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The United States says it will impose sanctions on Russia in response to the poisoning of the double agent, Sergei Skripal. A former attorney general has become the latest senior Conservative to condemn Boris Johnson's article about Muslim women who cover their faces. Will it make it more difficult for the Tories to attract their votes? We hear from Luton, a town with a Tory voting past and a multi-ethnic present Tte Senate in Argentina is holding a marathon debate on whether to legalise abortion. Changes to the Oscars - we talk to a double Oscar winner and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

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