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Hong Kong Selects a New Chief Executive

26/03/2017 GMT

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New Hong Kong leader chosen by a specially-appointed committee

New Hong Kong leader chosen by a specially-appointed committee.

Hong Kong votes to select a new chief executive via a specially appointed panel of nearly twelve-hundred people. However, pro-democracy activists in the territory have said that the election is a sham. 

Also in the programme: Julia, the Sesame Street character with autism. And, a stroll in the Crimean capital, Simferopol. 

(Image: Hong Kong chief executive candidates Woo Kwok-hing (left), Carrie Lam and John Tsang pose for photographs in Hong Kong on 26th March 2017.  Credit: Dale de la Rey/AFP/Getty Images)

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