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Italy government crisis: PM Conte faces a confidence vote

20/08/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - World Update, Italy government crisis: PM Conte faces a confidence vote

The future of Italy's government could be decided today, after weeks of acrimony between the parties in the governing coalition, the populist Five Star Movement and the far-right League. There's speculation that the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte could resign later today, or that a no-confidence vote will be tabled at the Senate to unseat him. 

Also on the programme: a woman in El Salvador whose baby was found dead in the toilet where she gave birth has been cleared of murder; far-right and anti-fascist protesters in Portland, and the World Robotics Conference in Beijing.

(Picture:Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte. Credit: Simona Granati - Corbis/Getty Images)

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