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New European coronavirus restrictions

More than 800,000 Madrid residents are ordered to stay at home as Covid-19 cases rise.

More than 800,000 Madrid residents have been ordered to stay at home as Covid-19 cases rise. A number of European governments are considering stricter enforcement measures as they try to contain the pandemic, and a bar owner in Madrid tells us how the new restrictions are likely to affect his business.
Also in the programme, leaked documents involving about $2tn of transactions have revealed how some of the world's biggest banks have allowed criminals to move money around the world. One of the cases shows that the United Arab Emirates' central bank failed to act on warnings about a local firm which was helping Iran to evade sanctions. Simon Cox, investigations editor for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic brings us the details.
Farmers in India are protesting a controversial set of new agriculture laws passed by the country's parliament. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Arunodhay Mukharji explains why the farmers think the new laws will make them substantially worse off.
And we hear how the coronavirus pandemic has affected one of the film industry's most famous locations, Philadelphia.

(Picture: Police conducting traffic checks in Madrid. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Mon 21 Sep 2020 21:32GMT

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