新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/07/05（在线收听）

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Jingnan

Coming up：

--Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia has further boosted ties between the two countries

--The so-called Islamic State group is being driven out of its two strongholds in Syria and Iraq

--and The first group of students of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University will soon graduate

For more on this, CRI'Jingnan is now joined in the studio by Political analyst Lin Shaowen and Beijing-based Russian journalist Constantin Shepin；Li Guofu,Senior Research Fellow with China Institute of International Studies early talked with Jingnan; Awan Riak, Former Minister in the Presidency from the Republic of South Sudan early spoke with Zhao Ying.