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18/08/2019 GMT

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Hong Kong protests: Huge crowds rally peacefully

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Organisers of Sunday's peaceful mass demonstration in Hong Kong have put the number taking part at over one and a half million.  

Also in the programme: The Islamic State jihadist group says that it carried out a suicide bomb attack on a wedding party in the Afghan capital, Kabul, that killed more than sixty people; and Iceland's Okjokull glacier commemorated with plaque. 

(Photo: Sunday's protest began in Victoria park. Credit: Getty Images)

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