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DRC Church: Election Produced A 'Clear Winner'

The DRC's Catholic Church is condemned for saying DR Congo polls produced a winner.

In the Democratic republic of Congo, the coalition in power has condemned the country's influential Catholic Church for announcing that they know who the winner is in recent presidential elections.

Also in the programme: the latest on the US Government shutdown; Mexico decline to sign declaration condemning Venezuelan president-elect Nicolas Maduro; Will new measures in India prevent people dying on railway tracks?

The host Celia Hatton is joined by two guests are Lina Khatib, a Middle East analyst; and journalist and commentator, Quentin Peel.

Image: An electoral worker assembles a polling booth for a polling station at the Edap/ISP school in Bukavu. Credit Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP/Getty Images.

53 minutes

Broadcast

  • Sat 5 Jan 201906:06GMT