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Aug 2021
42m 59s

What The G7 Want

THE TIMES
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Matt Chorley speaks to experts and journalists in the US, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan about what their countries want to see happen at the virtual G7, hosted today by Boris Johnson to find an international solution to the situation in Afghanistan. 


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David Aaronovitch and Daniel Finkelstein discuss Dominic Raab and Extinction Rebellion. 

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