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Bushfires rage across Australia
Australian bushfires are fuelled by record-breaking temperatures and drought.
Australia's fire season continues with around two hundred fires igniting on Friday in what the emergency services describe 'catastrophic' conditions.
Also in the programme: Facebook says is its crackdown on fake profiles; and we speak to American poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts.
(PICTURE: New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) officers as the Gospers Mountain Fire impacts the Bilpin Fruit Bowl in Bilpin. CREDIT:EPA/DAN HIMBRECHTS)
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