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China celebrates ending rural poverty

How much of this is real progress and how much is the official Communist party line?

China's president Xi-JinPing has handed "poverty alleviation awards" in an event designed to mark the end of extreme poverty in China.

We hear more from Princess Latifa - the Dubai Royal who claims she is being held against her will in the Gulf Kingdom - as allegations emerge that her sister too attempted to flee the country 20 years ago but was recaptured in Britain and returned to Dubai.

And a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, many people are sure that our lives will never be the same ... and apparently neither will our language: we hear how the crisis has forced its way into German vocabulary.

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53 minutes

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  • Thu 25 Feb 2021 07:06GMT