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How will Britain and Europe build a new relationship after Brexit?
This week on Politics: Where Next we are discussing what happens next on Brexit and what is in store for our new relationship with Europe. Today, Gary talks to Georgina Wright from The Institute for Government and Sam Lowe of the Centre for European Reform.
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Six tested for Coronavirus in UK – 18 million under lockdown in China
Three cities – home to more than 18 million people – are now on an unprecedented lockdown as China scrambles to contain the deadly new coronavirus outbreak that has already left at least 17 people dead, in and around the central city of Wuhan.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband tells Boris Johnson to be brave dealing with Iran
Richard Ratcliffe met Boris Johnson in Downing Street for talks earlier today, calling on the British government to be tougher in its dealings with Iran.
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900,000 hours of human sewage and rainwater flow into UK rivers in just one year – revealed
Untreated sewage is being released into rivers across England and Wales – perfectly legally – and campaigners are calling it a ‘dirty little secret’.
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UK warned it must take urgent action to reach net zero carbon by 2050
More trees, less meat – the UK has been warned it needs to take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if it wants to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
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‘It’s becoming an issue of survival – people are dying because of climate change’: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Indigenous rights campaigner
Joining me now are Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim and Jane Burston.
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Why is Trump on trial? – A really simple guide to impeachment
Donald Trump’s impeachment trial has just begun – the third of its kind in US history. What has happened to get to this point and could he be removed from office?
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Auschwitz survivor Renee Salt: ‘Anti-Semitism is very bad now’
For 50 years Mrs Salt remained silent about her experiences.
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Grenfell Tower inquiry panel member resigns over links to cladding firm
Campaigners want to know why her background wasn’t checked out.
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Inside Wuhan: Daily life in China virus quarantine zone
Wuhan teacher Ben Kavanagh told us he was planning to venture out one last time today to buy food and essential supplies – and filmed his journey for us.
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Coronavirus ability to spread ‘getting stronger’ says China
56 people have now died and some 2,000 are infected.
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Death of England: class, race and identity in play about post-Brexit world
The play, by coincidence, opens at London’s National Theatre on Brexit day.
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Citizens’ Climate Assembly meets for first time
It’s a gathering of ordinary people from every background, every part of the country.
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Clashes in Beirut after 100th day of Lebanon protests
Yesterday marked 100 days since the popular anti-government uprising began.
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At least 22 killed in Turkey earthquake
At least 22 people have been killed and more than a thousand injured, after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey yesterday evening.
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City ‘like a ghost town’, says Wuhan teacher Ben Kavanagh
I spoke to Ben Kavanagh who is from Ireland, and working as a teacher in Wuhan, and started by asking him what the situation was like in the city.
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Coronavirus spread ‘accelerating’, says President Xi
China’s president has warned the spread of the deadly coronavirus is accelerating.
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‘When you have full-blown demagoguery and bullying, people get scared’ – ex-Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci was – briefly – Donald Trump’s Director of Communications back in 2017 but is now a trenchant critic of the President.
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UN seeks help to thwart locust swarms in east Africa
The United Nations has called for international help to fight huge swarms of Locusts which are sweeping through parts of east Africa.
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Greta Thunberg joins school strike in Davos
The Davos business conference has wrapped – the world’s global elite taking to their private jets or the ski slopes after a week of schmoozing and deal-making.
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Will Brits who migrated to Spain stay post-Brexit?
With the Brexit deal now officially signed into law – is the future any clearer for Britons living abroad?
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Johnson and EU leaders sign Brexit withdrawal deal
Signed and almost sealed… the heads of the European Council and the European Commission have put their signatures on the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Brussels – before it was whisked to London to be signed by Boris Johnson too.
