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Coronavirus: share prices slump in Asia

Japan shares fell sharply early Tuesday morning as Asia reacts to global sell-off.

Investors remain worried about how far the coronavirus will spread rapidly outside of China, with raised fears of a prolonged global economic slowdown.

The US President Donald Trump is on day two of his first official trip to India, we have an update on how the visit is going.

And in South Africa an investigation by the Commission for Gender Equality found that dozens of women, most of them HIV positive, were sterilised without their consent after giving birth. We get full details from the CGE Commissionner.

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