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What Algerian lawyers want from President Bouteflika
Hundreds of lawyers took to the streets of Algiers to press their President to step down after a twenty-year rule.
Hundreds of lawyers took to the streets of Algiers to press their President to step down after a twenty-year rule. We hear from one of the protesters, who describes his re-election bid as "provocative".
Also in the programme; Russia's parliament passes a group of laws to police the internet - and why Greenland's melting ice could be a global climate emergency.
(Photo: Algerian lawyers stage a protest march against candidacy of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a fifth term. Credit: Getty Images)
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