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World Service,18 Sep 2020,53 mins

New milestone of 30 million coronavirus cases worldwide

Newsday

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France is one of the countries battling a new increase in positive results... the cities of Nice and Lyon have been given 24 hours to enforce drastic measures to halt the spread. We've heard about wildfires in California and the Amazon but what about the ones raging across parts of Siberia...we've got a special report from the Arctic Circle. And the amazing story of how two families were at the heart of a secret underground railway network that helped thousands of slaves escape the US for Mexico.

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