The Irish Times World View Podcast

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The vote to impeach Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has left the country in crisis. Rouseff's supporters are calling it a coup, albeit one within the confines of the constitution. Where do Rousseff and Brazil go from here?
(12.15)Bernie Sanders may be beloved by youthful Democrats, but it is likely that the New York primary will end his run of victories and consolidate Hillary Clinton's grip on the nomination, reports Simon Carswell.
(21.30) And in Syria, The Commission for International Justice and Accountability was established in 2012 to establish links between the top brass in Bashar al-Assad's regime and the detention, torture and murder of suspected opponents, through the collection of the regime's own internal documents. New Yorker journalist Ben Taub, who broke the story, explains how the documents have shed light on shocking atrocities and Assad's own role in the murder of hundreds of thousands of his citizens.
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