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06/10/2019 GMT

UN calls for end to violence in Iraq

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UN calls for an end to the violence in Iraq; elections in Kosovo; protests in Hong Kong

The United Nations calls for an end to the violence in Iraq, where nearly a hundred people have been killed in protests for better public services and jobs.

Also in the programme:  The elections overshadowed by allegations of war crimes in Kosovo.

How pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are trying to overturn a ban on wearing masks in public.

And is Finland's reputation as the world's happiest place stopping people from talking about mental health?

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Noga Tarnopolsky, the Los Angeles special correspondent in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and Eric Albert, a London correspondent for the French newspaper, Le Monde.

(Image: Demonstrators gather during anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq. Credit: Reuters)

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