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23/11/2019 GMT

Hong Kong prepares for local elections

BBC World Service - Weekend, Hong Kong prepares for local elections

Hong Kong prepares for elections after recent unrest; Bougainville decides its future

Hong Kong prepares for local elections on Sunday, but has the recent unrest swung the vote?

Also in the programme:  Eighteen years after a historic peace deal, the Pacific island of Bougainville decides whether its future is independence.

And as the UK general election approaches, we drop in on a few family political arguments.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss these and other issues are Laurie Goering, climate editor for the Thompson Reuters Foundation, formerly a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, based in New Delhi, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Havana and Rio de Janeiro; and Tom Rivers, correspondent for American, ABC radio in London.

(Image: Officials prepare a polling station for the 2019 District Council Ordinary Election in Hong Kong. Credit: EPA)

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