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🗓️ 18 July 2019
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Algerians have been celebrating the fact that their football team has made it to the final of the African Cup of Nations. But in Algeria, football is more than a sport. It was in the country’s stadiums that the desire for political change emerged. The nation’s autocratic leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted earlier this year and since then people have been getting to grips with new levels of freedom of expresssion, as Neil Kisserli has found. In the United States President Trump’s tweets about four non-white members of congress have caused uproar among his opponents. Mike Wendling has been to a pro-Trump gathering in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he encountered some unusual supporters of the president: “monarchists”. Chile is home to one of South America’s fastest growing economies. The agricultural sector plays a significant role, and exports include fruit, wine and fish. Salmon farming has become a big industry, but it can also sometimes be a dangerous one for those who work in it, as Grace Livingstone has learned. Over the next three decades, New Zealand hopes to rid itself of invasive species. Its Predator 2050 plan aims to eradicate stoats, rats, possums and other pests, in the hope of protecting the country’s indigenous wildlife. As Christine Finn has discovered, the project has garnered wide support. In China for centuries, the dominance of tea drinking may now be facing a challenge. Many young people are acquiring a taste for coffee, which may partly explain why foreign coffee shop chains have recently opened thousands of branches across the country. Andy Jones has been to Shanghai to hear why coffee may be poised to mount a challenge to tea.
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0:32.4 | they're dreaming of a pest-free countryside and the tiny |
0:36.8 | porcelain teacups are being rattled in China as coffee elbows its way in. Algerians are in celebratory mood this week. |
0:45.0 | Their national football team has progressed to the last stage of the African Cup of Nations |
0:50.0 | and tomorrow will face Senegal in the final. |
0:53.0 | Another football mad nation, |
0:55.0 | and the prospect of a first final in the competition |
0:58.0 | for 29 years has led to days and nights of celebration. |
1:02.0 | But it's more than just a national sport. to days and nights of celebration. |
1:03.1 | But it's more than just a national sport. |
1:05.2 | It was in the country's stadiums that last year people first started showing their desire |
1:09.6 | for political change after 20 years of rule by the country's autocratic leader Abdullah Ziz Bhutlica. |
1:16.6 | It spread to the streets and since February there have been mass protests against those in power, |
1:22.0 | and as Neil Kessley has seen that feeling has spread from |
1:25.1 | stadium to ring. In Iran, Algeria's second city, the legacy of centuries of |
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