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Newshour: Rio declares financial emergency

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Rio declares financial emergency

18/06/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Rio declares financial emergency

State requests funds for Olympics; Christo 'walks on water'; Fitzgerald living literature

Just weeks before the Olympics, the Rio governor says money has run out; Christo's new art exhibit enables people to 'walk on water'; Tastes, images and music of The Great Gatsby

Just weeks before the start of the Olympic Games, the governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro says money for public services has run out, making it difficult to stage the both the Olympic and Paralympic Games; Bulgarian-American artist Christo's latest work is a vast floating pier on a lake in northern Italy that allows people to walk on the water; The tastes, images and music of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

(Photo: A homeless woman on the streets of Rio de Janeiro; Credit: Getty Images)

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