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Continued confusion has taken its toll on Catalonia since the disputed referendum. Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.
On the streets and at the school gates the question of independence is dividing the people of Barcelona. It is also disrupting their lives finds Pascale Harter.
Owen Bennett-Jones hears tales of abandoned babies in Pakistan; unwanted infants hurled into ice-cold rivers and others saved from disaster by caring strangers.

Mike Wendling meets masked Antifa activists in America. Who are these left-wing activists? And what do they really want?
Lucy Ash explores an often forgotten chapter in the history of WW1 – the invasion of Russia by Britain, Canada and the US.
And Leon McCarron has a shave in a barbers on the West Bank and gets a lesson in the history of the Samaritans.

Published on Thursday, 19th October 2017.

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