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World Service,31 Dec 2015,49 mins

Muted Celebrations for New Year's Eve in Europe

Newshour

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No celebrations in Brussels, no fireworks in Paris; Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, on how we remain Barbarians in the 21st Century; Turbulence in flight, what is it and can it cause a plane crash? (Picture credit: PA/Peter Jordan)

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