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On the show this week: • After Charlie Kirk’s killing, a crackdown is underway in the US • Israel accuses the UN of sympathising with Hamas...again — and very few people are buying it • How Donald Trump injected unpredictability into Russia’s war on Ukraine Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/S2l0czCH7G8
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