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Saudi Arabia has bought its way into England's premier league. It's created a rival to the PGA Golf Tour. And despite its climate, it's landed the 2029 Asian Winter Games. But critics say this is nothing more than sports washing. We look at one particular kind of drone that's of growing importance for the war in Ukraine.

Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman says a presence in top-level global sport is one route to modernising; critics call the effort a distraction from the country’s appalling human-rights record. Brazil’s government is pushing reforms that are clearly calming investors, who had fretted about a return to ruinously spendthrift policies (9:20). And how speedy “first-person-view” drones are changing the fight in Ukraine (16:25).

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