4 July 2024
Episode 3368
58 minutes
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We take a view from Europe as the UK general election gets under way. Also in the programme: Victoria Craig joins us from Ankara to discuss Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation meeting in Kazakhstan. Plus: we assess the future of the International Space Station with Richard Hollingham and learn about a new quality-of-life survey from Brazil.
4 July 2024
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Why the International Space Station is set to be deorbited
Since the end of the Cold War, the International Space Station has been a symbol of co-operation between nations. For the past 30 years, teams from the US and Russia (and others from Europe, China and Japan) have lived and worked together on the Earth-orbiting station. But that seems to be coming to an end as tensions between the US and Russia intensify.
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