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04/11/2019 GMT

Severe air polution in Delhi prompts car rationing

BBC World Service - World Update, Severe air polution in Delhi prompts car rationing

Chief minister says Delhi has turned into a "gas chamber"

Chief minister says Delhi has turned into a "gas chamber."

The Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, has described the city as a "gas chamber." What is causing the pollution and what can be done?

Also on the programme; former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that the current tensions between Russia and the West are putting the world in "colossal danger." And The French president Emmanuel Macron arrives in China today on his second official trip to the country. Will he bring up the current unrest in Hong Kong and the detention of thousands of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang region to his hosts?

(Picture: Smog in the city of Delhi. Credit: Getty)

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