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Radio 4,03 Jun 2026,45 mins

Marco Rubio warns of ‘real risk’ of Ukraine war escalation

The World Tonight

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The warning from the US Secretary of State comes as Ukraine strikes St Petersburg. We hear how the news is going down in Washington DC. Also in the programme: after 18-year-old student Henry Nowak was handcuffed and arrested as he lay dying, we hear how police officers are trained. And Barack Obama’s presidential library in Chicago opens its doors to the public in a couple of weeks’ time, but is it any good?

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