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Bushfires rage across Australia

21/12/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Bushfires rage across Australia

Australian bushfires are fuelled by record-breaking temperatures and drought.

Australia's fire season continues with around two hundred fires igniting on Friday in what the emergency services describe 'catastrophic' conditions.  

Also in the programme: Facebook says is its crackdown on fake profiles; and we speak to American poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts.

(PICTURE: New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) officers as the Gospers Mountain Fire impacts the Bilpin Fruit Bowl in Bilpin. CREDIT:EPA/DAN HIMBRECHTS)

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