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Summary: We get analysis into the arrest of Paul Manafort and ask how close this is getting to President Trump. Plus: the Iraqi Kurdish prime minister resigns, the Manus Island refugee detention centre closes down and we hear Kazakhstan’s plans to abandon the Cyrillic alphabet in favour of the Roman one.