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I'm Sebastian Payne and in this episode we'll be discussing Russia's propaganda war with the UK

and the alarming rise in knife crime.

I'm delighted by Gideon Rackman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator,

Political Correspondent Henry Mans, Deputy Combin Editor Miranda Green,

and Public Policy Correspondent Robert Wright.

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Russia's battles with the West deepened this week as the information war about the

poisoning of Sergei and Julius Scrippa went up a notch. Matters were complicated when the head of the Port and Down

research laboratory said they were unable to identify the precise source of the Novichock nerve

agent. Then where there was a bizarre press conference with the Russian

ambassador to Britain who used a Twitter poll to justify his position and finally

there were some terse exchanges at the United Nations where the Russians reference

midsummer murders and threaten the UK.

Henry, man, let's begin with what happened with Portandown.

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