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26/12/2018 GMT

Japan Announces Return to Commercial Whaling

BBC World Service - World Update, Japan Announces Return to Commercial Whaling

Tokyo will also withdraw from conservation body, the International Whaling Commission

Tokyo will also withdraw from conservation body, the International Whaling Commission.

Tokyo also announced plans to withdraw from the conservation body, the International Whaling Commission. We hear from one environmental campaigner who sees their withdrawal as an opportunity to create new sanctuaries.

Also in the programme: visualising cancer in three dimensions; and 2018 as seen through the eyes of a satirist.

(Picture: A whale. Credit: Getty Images / Barcroft Media.)

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