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Slovakia has announced that it is calling a state of emergency because it does not have enough gas to cope with the demands of a freezing winter. Correspondent Nick Thorpe and Ferran Tarradellas, spokesman for EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, discuss the effects felt across eastern Europe of Russia's dispute with Ukraine over the gas pipeline.

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