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Newshour: Iraqi Parliament to Discuss Basra Protests

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08/09/2018 GMT

Iraqi Parliament to Discuss Basra Protests

BBC World Service - Newshour, Iraqi Parliament to Discuss Basra Protests

Officials have been holding emergency talks following violent protests

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Iraqi lawmakers have been holding an emergency session to discuss the crisis in public services in Basra after the death of twelve protestors.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has described the unrest as "political sabotage".

Also in the programme: we look at Egypt after dozens who took part in an Islamic protest are sentenced to death and we speak to the people behind the world's first attempt to clear plastic waste from the middle of the Pacific ocean.

(Photo: Protests in Basra, Iraq Credit: Reuters)

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