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Radio 4,24 Jun 2024,45 mins

Macron warns of a French ‘civil war’

The World Tonight

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Emmanuel Macron says that the policies of his far-right and hard-left rivals risk pushing France towards a civil war, as the country prepares for an election in less than a week's time. Also on the programme: A look at the issues most discussed in Northern Ireland ahead of the UK general elections; and the future of the Jewish residents in Russia’s Dagestan after Sunday’s gun attack. (Picture: The French president Emmanuel Macron speaking at an event in Paris. Credit: Bertrand Guay / EPA)

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