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In poverty and the pandemic burnleys front line. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson is speaking to the president of the European Commission, ursula von der leyen, to try to push forward talks about a post brexit trade deal. Negotiations were put on hold last night, because of what were described as significa nt divergences between the sides. Time is running out for a deal to be reached and ratified before the deadline on new years eve. Our political correspondent, Jonathan Bla...

A Mawana Game Reserve trustee tried to cull 3,600 of the animals "to get some cash flow going." By the time the cull was stopped nearly 900 animals were dead.

Trustee, whose husband was killed by an elephant from Mawana Game Reserve, tried to have 3,600 of its wild animals culled ‘to get some cash flow going’. By the time the cull was stopped nearly 900 animals were dead. 

Our visit to a family farm just south of Gariep Dam happened when a truly Biblical drought had begun to bite deep. But despite it, life seemed unaccountably cheerful out here at Gelykfontein.