Elections in Japan and Thailand
Japan's first female prime minister Sanae Takaichi is predicted to win in the snap elections, while in Thailand a party calling for liberal change is challenging for power again. We report live from Bangkok and Tokyo. Also in the programme: a Russian...
February 8, 202642m 36s
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Show Notes
Japan's first female prime minister Sanae Takaichi is predicted to win in the snap elections, while in Thailand a party calling for liberal change is challenging for power again. We report live from Bangkok and Tokyo. Also in the programme: a Russian soldier who fought in Ukraine, fled to Kazakhstan and now faces possible deportation back to Russia tells us why he deserted; Jeff Bezos’s hatchet man at the Washington Post steps down after sacking three hundred journalists; and sixty years after the Monkees were formed to rival the Beatles, we hear from the last surviving member, Micky Dolenz.