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France: Teacher beheaded after showing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
French police are questioning four people after a teacher in a suburb of Paris was beheaded by a suspected Islamist extremist. We hear from Jean-Remi Girard, president of the National Union of School Teachers.
Also in the programme: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country's general election; and a city in eastern China has started offering a coronavirus vaccine to the general public - although it has not yet completed clinical trials.
(Photo: Flowers have been left at the school where the murdered man taught. Credit: Getty Images)
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Sat 17 Oct 202012:06GMT
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