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Rwanda reopens DRC Congo border amid Ebola crisis
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
Aid workers battling a year-long outbreak of Ebola in eastern Congo have appealed for international borders to remain open, after Rwanda briefly closed a major crossing point. We hear from the UN's Emergency Response Coordinator, David Gressly, who is currently in DRC.
Also in the programme: 75 years on from the Warsaw Uprising; and why European environmentalists say agricultural practices in Europe need to change to save the countryside and the planet.
(Photo: Health workers wear protective gear to mix water and chlorine in Goma, where two people have died. Credit: AFP)
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Thu 1 Aug 201920:06GMT
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