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The World Tonight: Ukraine staged fake murder of journalist

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30/05/2018

Ukraine staged fake murder of journalist

BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Ukraine staged fake murder of journalist

Russian journalist who was reportedly killed yesterday appears at a news conference.

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Gasps and applause as a Russian journalist who was said by the Ukrainian authorities to have been shot dead yesterday, appears at a news conference at Kiev. 
Arkady Babchenko is said to have been saved from a Russian assassination plot. But should journalists and officials be embarrassed to find themselves caught up in the deceit? We get reaction from Ukraine and Russia.

The US/North Korea summit looks as if it's on again -- but can they meet the deadline?

They've been pushed out of Calais, now hundreds of migrants try to cross to the UK from Spain - we report from the Spanish port city of Bilbao.



(Photo: Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist whose death was faked by Ukraine's security services).

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