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Newsday: 25/02/2021 07:06 GMT : China celebrates ending rural poverty

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25/02/2021 07:06 GMT 

25/02/2021 07:06 GMT : China celebrates ending rural poverty

China celebrates ending rural poverty

BBC World Service - Newsday, China celebrates ending rural poverty

How much of this is real progress and how much is the official party line?

How much of this is real progress and how much is the official Communist party line?

China's president Xi-JinPing has handed "poverty alleviation awards" in an event designed to mark the end of extreme poverty in China.

We hear more from Princess Latifa - the Dubai Royal who claims she is being held against her will in the Gulf Kingdom - as allegations emerge that her sister too attempted to flee the country 20 years ago but was recaptured in Britain and returned to Dubai. 

And a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, many people are sure that our lives will never be the same ... and apparently neither will our language: we hear how the crisis has forced its way into German vocabulary.

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