20 September 2023
Episode 2570
40 minutes
What the ceasefire between ethnic-Armenian forces in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh tells us about a distracted Russia. In New York, the UN discusses the plight of girls and women two years after they were banned from education in Afghanistan. Plus: Japan stocks up on missiles, Spain opens its first public pet cemetery and King Charles tries to repair the Entente Cordiale on his state visit to Paris.
20 September 2023
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