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Twitter permanently shuts down Trump's account

09/01/2021 GMT

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President Trump's Twitter account has been permanently shut; reaction to events in US

Social media giant, Twitter, shuts down permanently the account of US president Trump, 'due to risk of further incitement of violence'.

Plus, the tale of a conflict photographer who covered the Capitol riots.

We also get reaction from Europe on the latest developments in America.

And the Roaring Twenties - the Return? A hundred years later, will  history repeat itself after the coronavirus Pandemic?

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Myriam Francois, a Franco-British writer, journalist and film-maker based in London; and Sebastian Borger, a German journalist and London correspondent for the Berlin Tagespiegel and the Austrian Der Standard newspapers amongst other publications.

(Picture: An image showing the Twitter app on a mobile phone. Credit: EPA)

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