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World Service,02 Dec 2019,53 mins

COP25 talks to open as 'point of no return' in sight

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Political leaders and climate diplomats are to meet in Madrid for two weeks of talks amid a growing sense of crisis; the Maltese Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, has announced on national TV that he will step down in the new year, amid a crisis over a murdered journalist; and we hear about an unlikely story of espionage on the Russian - Norwegian border.

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