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01/03/2020 GMT

Coronavirus threatens 2020 Summer Olympics

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Should 2020 Summer Olympics be cancelled due to Coronavirus? Biden wins his first primary

Should the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo be called off because of the Coronavirus outbreak?

Also in the programme:  The former US vice president, Joe Biden, wins his first primary election in South Carolina.  What impact could this victory have in the race for the Democratic Party nomination?

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other issues are Dayo Forster, a Gambian-born writer and international development consultant based in the UK, and Julie Norman, a Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations at University College London.

(Image: Visitors wearing face masks walk past Japan's Olympic Committee headquarters. Credit: EPA.)

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