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Outlook: Tunisian Attack: I Was a Human Shield

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27/07/2015

Tunisian Attack: I Was a Human Shield

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Man who helped protect tourists from gunman in Sousse beach attack

When a gunman attacked a beach in Sousse, Tunisia, one local man helped to create a human shield to protect tourists. Jo Fidgen speaks to him.

On the last Saturday in June gunman Seifeddine Rezgui started shooting tourists on a beach in Sousse, Tunisia. As he began his rampage, a group of local residents created a human shield in order to protect tourists from the bullets. We speak to a local man who risked his life.

Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan, but spent her entire childhood on the move because of conflict. At 19 she moved to England where she was granted refugee status and began writing poetry while studying at university but in the past year has moved back to Northern Iraq, teaching literature at the American University there. Her poems explore statelessness, genocide and the eternal battle of Kurdish identity.

Over the years, American Jim Haynes has had more than 130,000 people round for dinner, most of them complete strangers. Jim lives in Paris, and for several decades, he's had an open door policy every Sunday - and all manner of people have dropped by.

"Condom man" is a familiar sight around the Bhutanese capital city Thimpu. His real name is Tshering Nidup and once he's finished his day job as a public health worker, he hops into his customised white van and drives around town handing out free condoms in his personal mission to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS.  

Wayne Adams and Catherine King are artists who have created their own floating island off the coast of Tolfino in British Columbia, Canada. Wayne is a woodcarver and Catherine is a dancer and they are both wanted to live in a place that would inspire them and give them space to practise their art. 

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