11 July 2024
Episode 3338
33 minutes
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As leaders gathered at Nato’s 75th-anniversary summit in Washington dodge questions about Joe Biden’s fitness to be the “leader of the free world”, Ukraine has been put on a supposedly “irreversible path” to alliance membership. But how long will the journey be? Plus, business news and France’s former first lady faces the music.
11 July 2024
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy charged with witness tampering
Former supermodel, musician and France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been charged in an election-funding scandal dating back to 2007, involving cash from Libya’s then-dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. The wife of former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with hiding evidence and association with wrongdoers to commit fraud.
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