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Millions of masks distributed to students in 'gas chamber' Delhi

Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.

Five million masks are being distributed at schools in India's capital, Delhi, after pollution made the air so toxic officials were forced to declare a public health emergency.

Also in the programme; a Barcelona court's decision to acquit five men accused of gang-raping a 14-year-old girl of the charge of sexual assault has provoked outrage. And; Tens of thousands of demonstrators have converged on the streets of Algiers as Algeria marked the 65th anniversary of its war of independence from France.

(Photo: A man jogs along a street under smoggy conditions in New Delhi. Credit: Getty).

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Fri 1 Nov 201921:06GMT

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