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World Service,07 Dec 2018,53 mins

Germany: Who Will Succeed Angela Merkel?

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It's the end of an era in Germany on Friday, Angela Merkel will stand down as leader of her CDU party - or Christian Democrats - a gathering of whom are then expected to appoint her successor in Hamburg later today. Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau says his government had no involvement in the decision to arrest a top executive from the Chinese tech firm Huawei. We hear more about a report which says that more than three billion people live in areas where water is scarce.

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