Indias farmers protest

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 11:30 a.m.

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In Delhi, Republic Day is usually a ceremonial occasion celebrated with military parades and cultural pageantry. But this year\\u2019s event was marred by violence \\u2013 as thousands of farmers drove their tractors into New Delhi in an escalation of months of peaceful protests against proposed agricultural reforms. Rajini Vaidyanathan reports from New Delhi.\\nThe Netherlands is seeing its worst violence in 40 years with scenes of looting and rioting across the country. The collapse of the government earlier this month, followed by a tightening of restrictions due to Coronavirus has had a destabilising impact. Anna Holligan says the Dutch are wrestling with the disruption to the usual sense of order.\\nThe Democratic Republic of Congo is rich in precious minerals such as gold, diamonds and cobalt - but is still one of the poorest countries in the world. For over two decades, rebel groups have fought over mines in the east of the country where thousands of children also toil in the mines. Olivia Acland went to visit one of them\\nPortugal has become one of the European countries hardest hit by the second wave of Covid-19 and another national lockdown has been imposed. Audrey Gillan visited Armona, an island off the coast of the Algarve, which is suffering from tightened travel restrictions and low visitor numbers.\\nCuba\\u2019s Fidel Castro was probably one of the most widely photographed and documented men of his time.. Will Grant has been trying to verify the details of one of those pictures \\u2013 of Castro as a young man in a sugarcane field \\u2013 which he needed for a book. It led him to the story of the audacious young German woman who snapped it six decades earlier.

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