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World Service,31 Dec 2019,53 mins

Australia fires: 4,000 people trapped on a beach

Newsday

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Four thousand people are trapped on a beach in the seaside town of Mallacoota in south-east Australia as the bushfires close in. The former head of Renault- Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, is reported to have skipped bail in Japan and fled to the Lebanese capital Beirut. And we hear from two Ugandan authors who have shared their struggle of being without children.

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