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Now playing Next Business Planet Rethinking tourism after COVID-19 In partnership with The European Commission Business Planet takes a look at Europe's tourism sector, one of the hardest hit by the coronavirus restrictions, to find out what the EU is doing to help and ask how the sector moves forward. 25/09/2020
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Now playing Next Belarus Belarus: Water cannons deployed to disperse protesters in Minsk More than 150 people were arrested in demonstrations across Belarus on Wednesday following the secret inauguration of President Alexander Lukashenko, according to a monitoring group. 23/09/2020
Now playing Next Uncovering Europe Has COVID-19 destroyed the case for banning the burqa in Europe? In France, you can be fined for both covering your face (with a burqa) and not covering your face (protecting against the spread of coronavirus). 23/09/2020