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World Service,15 Apr 2021,53 mins

US poised to impose sanctions on Russia

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America prepares to announce sanctions against Russia for meddling in the US election and for its role in Ukraine. We hear from Kiev on the build-up of Russian troops at the border. Also as the US plans to withdraw its military from Afghanistan, a BBC reporter visits a Taleban controlled area and asks locals whether life has changed. And we hear about the strike by doctors at a major hospital in Sierra Leone after one of the physicians there was assaulted by senior officials.

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