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World Service,10 Aug 2020,53 mins

Hong Kong arrest pro-democracy media tycoon, Jimmy Lai

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We're live in Hong Kong as Jimmy Lai and at least six other people are detained. He is thought to be the most high profile person to be arrested so far under the new national security law. act. We report from Brazil as the Covid-19 pandemic shows no sign of slowing there. And we get an update on the murder trial beginning in Russia, involving three teenage sisters accused of killing their father.

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