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World Service,17 Jun 2021,49 mins

Raid and arrests of pro-democracy journalists in Hong Kong

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We have reaction to the arrests in Hong Kong of senior journalists at the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily - can the paper survive? The first crew for China’s new space station has blasted off for the country's longest crewed mission to date. Three astronauts will spend three months in the Tianhe module. We find out about the aim of the mission. And what's the atmosphere in Ivory Coast ahead of the return today of the former president Laurent Gbagbo. He was acquitted of crimes against humanity which he had been charged with at the ICC, following the electoral violence in 2011.

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