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Added on the 21/01/2016 11:36:00 - Copyright : Reuters EN
Driving your car in -50 degrees Celsius is certainly a challenge. But not in Siberia, where rough local residents have excelled the art of keeping their vehicles warm and working.
Parts of China see record temperature lows as a cold weather front sweeps across the southern and eastern part of the country. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Images of smoke rising along a road and fire trucks heading towards the site of a suspected gas explosion in northern China's Hebei province. The blast at a restaurant killed one person and injured more than a dozen, according to state media. IMAGES
French Minister for Housing, Patrice Vergriete, announces that additional funding of €120 million will be committed to "strengthen the emergency housing scheme" at a time of extreme cold weather in France. SOUNDBITE
A thick haze smothers Beijing as swathes of northern China fight some of their worst air pollution of the year. Tens of millions of people in Beijing and its surrounding areas will continue confronting serious pollution throughout the first half of November, according to official forecast. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).