22 October 2024
Episode 3446
58 minutes
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Vladimir Putin brings Brics leaders to Kazan, our US politics correspondent brings us the latest two weeks before the presidential election and we discuss King Charles’s testy visit to Australia. Plus: a check-in from San Francisco’s Urban Transformation Summit.
22 October 2024
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The fallout of King Charles III’s Australia visit
King Charles III’s trip to Australia was perhaps more eventful than anticipated, with an Australian senator heckling him and reigniting a republican debate. Latika Bourke explains the historical context and possible consequences of the visit.
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