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24 August 2023

Episode 3129

58 minutes

Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, is presumed dead in a plane crash. We give you the latest from Moscow. Also in the programme: US Republican presidential candidates have their first debate in Milwaukee without Donald Trump and a report on the Brics summit in South Africa after Vladimir Putin addresses the bloc’s leaders virtually. Plus: Zimbabwe’s elections and a literary celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day.

24 August 2023

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Fukushima: Japan to release contaminated water

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Two years after government approval, Japan will start to release more than a million metric tonnes of treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea today. Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief, Fiona Wilson, reports.

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