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Xi Jinping opens five-yearly Congress
China's president, Xi Jinping addresses the historic Communist Party Congress in Beijing. Also to Iran, where a large fire has broken out at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
Joining The Weekend, Laurie Goering, a US-born journalist and head of the climate programme at the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London and AFZAL ASHRAF, an expert on defence, security and international relations at the University of Loughborough here in the UK to discuss Xi Jinping addressing the Communist Congress and other stories.
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