Description: Terry Stiastny and Michael Binyon on the day’s big stories: Pressure on Germany to send battle tanks to Ukraine; Republican hardliners wield power in the US Congress; French president Emmanuel Macron faces resistance to his plans to raise the retirement age; and how working from home is changing reading habits. Plus: comedian and writer Al Murray on his “first book without jokes”, ‘Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War’.

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