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01/07/2018 GMT

Are Rohingya Muslims Really Returning to Myanmar?

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The secretary general of the UN, Antonio Guterres, is in Bangladesh to discuss the situation of nearly seven hundred thousand Rohingya refugees who are currently living on its border with Myanmar. Meanwhile in Myanmar, authorities have told the BBC that they've now started to welcome back some of the Rohingya Muslims. But has anyone actually returned? Also on the programme the northern Indian state of Assam wants to identify people from Bangladesh who are living there illegally and the results will be published next week. Could this lead to deportations? And we meet Emel Mathlouthi, the Tunisian singer whose song "Kelmti" soundtracked the Arab Spring.

(Rohingya refugees gather near the fence in the "no man"s land" between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Credit: Phyo Hein Kyaw/Getty)

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