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Global protests demanding action on climate change

20/09/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - World Update, Global protests demanding action on climate change

Millions of children take part in thousands of protests to help protect the planet

Schoolchildren are taking part in a day of protests against climate change around the globe.

Also in the programme: Kosovo, 20 years after a brutal war, still an angrily divided society isolated from its neighbours; and we will hear from Malawi on successful efforts to fight elephantiasis, another debilitating disease spread by mosquito. 

(Photo: Thai activist Ralyn Satidtanasarn, also known as Lilly. Credit: AFP)

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