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Refugees & Asyl auf Zeit

New, much stricter, asylum laws are meant to be enforced as of November 15th. Reality Check gets reaction to this news.

Austria's state governors have been in Linz today for a conference dominated by the current refugee crisis. Interior Minister Joanna Mikl-Leitner is joining the talks to work out the best ways to transport refugees and migrants and accommodate those who apply for asylum.

It seems that barriers to reunification of family members of refugees are also about to be significantly increased. This tightening will also work retrospectively and is particularly relevant to Afghan asylum seekers, the second largest group of asylum-seekers after Syrians.

We’ve also had an announcement about a new "Asyl auf Zeit". There has been a lot of discussion and some scepticism about what it means. So is it more of a deterrent measure or could it somehow help people with their status and well-being here? We got reaction from Anny Knapp, legal expert at Asylkoordination.

Plane crash

Metrojet, the Russian carrier who operated the plane, insists that external factors, and not pilot error or technical failure, caused the airbus to break up over the Sinai Peninsula. We went to our correspondent Charles Maynes in Moscow for more.

Nigeria & oil spills

On the 10 November 1995, environmental activist and writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa who campaigned against the damage caused by the oil industry in Nigeria, was executed. As the 20th anniversary of his death approaches, Amnesty International has released a report complaining that the multinational oil company Shell has failed to clean up the sites of its notorious oil spills in the Niger Delta. We spoke with Amnesty's Makmid Kamara who has been researching in the Delta.

China & the EU

Today is the final day of French President Francois Hollande's visit to China. So what do Beijing & the EU hope to get out of each other? We got the thoughts of Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Vienna.

Mes Aynak

A 5000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan is under threat of demolition as a Chinese mining company is eager to access the world's largest untapped copper deposits. There is thought to be 100 billion dollars worth of copper lying beneath the ruins of the ancient Buddhist city of Mes Aynak. Only 10 percent of Mes Aynak has been excavated, and some believe future discoveries at the site have the potential to redefine the history of Afghanistan and the history of Buddhism itself. Tim Williams, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, explained what’s at stake here.

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