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World Service,15 Feb 2019,53 mins

Can Trump build border wall with emergency funding?

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The White House has announced that President Trump will sign a new spending bill to avoid a further government shutdown - but will also declare a national emergency to fund his proposed border wall. An autopsy carried out on a Kenyan activist who went missing for several days has concluded that she died from a botched abortion. Caroline Mwatha was an activist that worked for a rights organisation that investigated abuses by the Kenyan police. School children and students all over Britain are swapping their pencil cases today for placards and going on strike to demand action on climate change.

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