Today’s main stories: The Australian Government has announced that it will be closing its refugee detention centre on Manus Island, though the government has insisted that none of those detained will be settled in Australia. We speak with Adam McKerrow, former aid worker with Save the Children in Nauru and Manus Island.
The Uruguayan foreign minister this week expressed anger at supposed "bullying" from northern neighbours Brazil, over its desire to block Venezuela from the Mercosur trading block – we talk to Francisco Dominguez, the head of Latin American Studies research at Middlesex University.
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