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World Service,22 Aug 2026,49 mins

Russia celebrates 'National flag day' as the cost of war against Ukraine mounts

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Russia is celebrating 'national flag day' despite increasing losses in the Ukraine war. Also in today's programme: The latest on the siege by Israeli settlers on the West Bank town of Qusra. We hear from one of the Arab-majority parties in Israel; and is the El Nino weather system a threat to the Panama Canal? Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by a US born journalist Linda Rodriguez McRobbie and Ben Bland, director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at the Chatham House international relations thinktank here in London. Photo: Aftermath of a Russian drone attack in Kharkiv region. 21 August. Credit: State Emergency Service Of Ukraine/ Reuters

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