Jumping waves into the New Year

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New Year traditions with BBC Thai's Issariya Praithongyaem, BBC Africa's Gbolahan Macjob, Brazilian Fernando Duarte and Irena Taranyuk of BBC Ukrainian. India's Citizenship law protests India's new Citizenship Amendment Act has sparked protests across the country. Its stated aim is to offer sanctuary and Indian citizenship to people fleeing religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. But critics say it undermines India's secular constitution and may also affect India's own Muslim population. Clashes between protestors and police have led to violence and even deaths, and accusations that the police have carried out attacks on Muslim property. Zubair Ahmed of BBC Hindi went to Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh to investigate. Moscow's fake snow It seems Moscow failed to deliver the stereotypical picture postcard seasonal snow for visitors this winter. But for every problem there's a solution, as BBC Russian's Mikhail Poplavsky reports. Indian Ocean tsunami: how a holiday turned into a rescue mission In December 2004, two doctors and their families were holidaying on the Thai island of Phuket. They ended up on an improvised hospital boat treating victims of the tsunami which killed close to 230,000 people, from Indonesia to East Africa. BBC Thai’s Paris Jitpentom shares his parents’ story. Happy 2020! – or is it? As the New Year gets underway many of us are adjusting from 2019 to 2020, but what about the countries which use different calendars and live by different dates? We brought together Ethiopian Kalkidan Yibeltal of BBC Amharic, Iranian Golnoosh Golshani, and Nepali Krishna Acharya, who are living in 2012, 1398 and 2076 respectively. Picture: Jumping waves on New Year's Eve on Copacabana Beach Credit: DANIEL RAMALHO/AFP via Getty Images