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Fresh Doubts over Kenyan Election from Electoral Commission Member

An IEBC official says she doubts the country can hold credible elections next week

A senior member of Kenya's Electoral Commission, the body expected to clean up its act after the Supreme Court head judged the first election null and void, tells us why she's left the country ahead of the re-run of the election next week.

Every five years China's ruling Communists hold their party Congress, where new leaders and policies are revealed. We'll go live to Beijing.

The winner of this year's Man Booker prize for fiction - the American writer George Saunders - talks about his novel Lincoln in the Bardo, based on the true story of Abraham Lincoln's grief in 1862 following the death of his young son.

53 minutes

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Wed 18 Oct 201702:06GMT

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  • Wed 18 Oct 201702:06GMT