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Huge crowds at Hong Kong rally
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
Organisers of Sunday's peaceful mass demonstration in Hong Kong have put the number taking part at over one and a half million.
Also in the programme: The Islamic State jihadist group says that it carried out a suicide bomb attack on a wedding party in the Afghan capital, Kabul, that killed more than sixty people; and Iceland's Okjokull glacier commemorated with plaque.
(Photo: Sunday's protest began in Victoria park. Credit: Getty Images)
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