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From Our Own Correspondent: A Tap You Can't Turn Off

09/10/2014

A Tap You Can't Turn Off

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, A Tap You Can't Turn Off

The EU announces a new initiative to save migrants in peril on the Mediterranean.

Kate Adie introduces reports from around the world, including Italy's struggle to meet the cost of saving lives at sea and despatches from Nigeria, Kosovo, Ukraine and China.

The European Union's announced plans to support, but not replace, efforts being made by Italy to save lives at sea. Emma Jane Kirby's been to the port town of Syracusa to see the difficulties the Italians have been facing. Will Ross has been meeting children in Nigeria who've been separated from their parents by the war against the militants of Boko Haram. What's it like when a family discovers that a loved one's gone to fight with extremists in the Middle East? Linda Pressly's been finding out in Kosovo. Jamie Coomarasamy's been to the west of Ukraine, hundreds of miles from the fighting in the east of the country, to find out what they think there of the struggle between government forces and the pro-Russia rebels. And the hair industry is big business in China and most of the customers, as Sam Piranty has been finding out, are Africans. But is that human hair they're buying or something else?

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