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South Korea says its birth rate has fallen to a record low
Declining birth rates raise concerns South Korea's working age population will halve within decades.
Coming up - we hear from South Koreans reacting to the news that their country's birth rate continues to fall - we ask why aren't they having more children?
One of Russia's best-known human rights campaigners has been jailed - we have reaction from one his friends.
And there is much conjecture about a renewed ceasefire deal for Gaza - we have the latest on the prospects for a break in the fighting and the release of some of the hostages taken from Israel on 7th October.
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