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Aug 2024
29m 20s

Ukraine's incursion into Russia deepens

Bbc World Service
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An unprecented assault by Ukraine into Russia's Kursk region enters its fourth day, and an airbase in Lipetsk has also been targetted. We have Russian reaction. Also: In Thailand the main opposition party reinvents itself - two days after being disbanded by the country's top court because of laws against insulting the monarchy, and how a sad meme has been turned into a musical at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

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