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From Our Own Correspondent: Cheese pies and jihadi brides

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Cheese pies and jihadi brides

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Cheese pies and jihadi brides

Eating pies in Russia with the wife of an I.S. fighter.

As the Islamic state group collapses, Russia has been repatriating the wives and children of I.S. fighters. Sarah Rainsford has been meeting them.

Anu Anand introduces this and other stories from around the world. 

As the Islamic State group collapses, many countries are faced with the dilemma of what to do with the fighters’ wives and children. Since 2017, Russia has been bringing many of these women and their children back from Iraq and Syria. Sarah Rainsford went to the Russian republic of Dagestan to meet some of those who’ve come home. 

Lucy Ash goes to Hungary to investigate the country’s public work scheme. The government created it back in 2010 to bring job seekers into the labour market. Unemployment plummeted and the Prime Minister Viktor Orban proclaimed the shift from welfare to workfare a great triumph, boasting that soon nobody would need to claim benefits because Hungary would achieve full employment. But is the scheme simply coralling people into working low paid, unskilled jobs?  

Louise Dewast is in Burkina Faso, the country where it’s too dangerous to go to school. A surge in Islamist attacks has led to the closure of over 1000 schools, affecting more than 150,000 children in the capital. Just this week two teachers were kidnapped and killed. Our correspondent visits some of these empty schools and speaks to teachers about how insecurity is affecting Burkina Faso’s education system

The ash cloud following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 showed that Iceland's volcanoes have the power to disrupt the entire world's air traffic - as well as to put Icelanders' lives and communities at risk. Andy Jones saw how the village of Vik is making contingency plans in case its own volcano, Katla - already well overdue to blow - causes even more disturbance.

Picture: Viktoria, who 5 years ago left Russia to join I.S. In 2017, Viktoria and her young daughter were among several dozen women and children flown back from Syria after negotiations by Russian officials.

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