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World Business Report: First broadcast 22/11/2021 01:06 GMT : Anti-lockdown protests sweep across Europe

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First broadcast 22/11/2021 01:06 GMT 

First broadcast 22/11/2021 01:06 GMT : Anti-lockdown protests sweep across Europe

Anti-lockdown protests sweep across Europe

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Anti-lockdown protests sweep across Europe

There have been huge protests in Belgium and the Netherlands over anti-covid measures

Tens of thousands of people have been marching in the Belgian capital, Brussels, to protest against anti-Covid measures. Thousands of demonstrators also took to the streets in the Netherlands, Austria, Croatia and Italy as anger mounted over new curbs. Dan Michaels, Brussels Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal, explains why there is so much opposition to new anti-covid measures.

On World Fisheries Day, Vera Coelho of the campaigning group Oceana, talks about the challenges worldwide of overfishing.

And we look at period poverty and sanitary sustainability, as the market for menstruation products widens.

(Image: Protesters gathering in front of police in Brussels. Credit: Getty Images).

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