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Vatican to canonise first millennial saint

Carlo Acutis, an Italian who died of leukaemia at 15, will be canonised on Sunday. We hear from the guardian of his remains, Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo.

Carlo Acutis, an Italian who died of leukaemia at 15, will be canonised on Sunday. We hear from the guardian of his remains, Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo.

Also in the programme, Russia targets the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with a barrage of missiles; New York Times journalist David Phillips on what he's discovered about a secret mission US navy seals mounted in North Korea six years ago; and a new exhibition about the celebrated British spy novelist John le Carré.

Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by journalist and author Michela Wrong and Steffen Ludke, UK correspondent for the German magazine Der Speigel.

(Photo: A person holds a picture depicting Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who will become the first millennial to be made a Catholic saint in a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV. Credit: REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)

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