A dozen years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan has a plan to release tremendous amounts of slightly radioactive water into the ocean. We find that opposition from Japan's neighbors is more about politics than about public health. And for many wine experts, rosé is not a real wine, but it couldn't be more real for sellers of it all over the world.
As diplomatic efforts played out in Saudi Arabia our correspondent recounts travels along the nearly unbroken front line of the war—finding frustrated but determined soldiers and exhausted, fearful civilians. We examine the row around Japan’s plan to release wastewater from the Fukushima disaster (09:21). And how rosé wine became summertime’s go-to tipple (15:39).
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