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World Service,11 Mar 2021,53 mins

The world marks a year of the Covid-19 pandemic

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, tells us about the impact of the pandemic on some of the world's poorest people amid a widening inequality when it comes to receiving vaccines. Japan as the country marks 10 years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami which also caused the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. And the Chinese premier Jiang Zemin is expected to announce a further clampdown on freedoms in Hong Kong when he address the country's main political gathering, the Communist Party Congress.

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