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Greece steals the show at the G20

The bar-room brawl that is Greek politics spills over. But it wasn't all about Athens at the G20 Summit - there was Italy too. Also, the fallout from Unesco recognizing a Palestinian state, and what it means to be seven billion people on this planet.

THE WORLD THIS WEEK

A. Craig Copetas, Senior Writer, Bloomeberg News

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, Columnist, The Sunday Telegraph

Nicholas Norbrook, Managing Editor, The Africa Report

Ana Navarro Pedro, Paris Correspondent, Visao

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Produced by Paul Maakad, Mary Colombel, Anelise Borges.

François PICARD

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