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11/11/2013

The latest on Typhoon Haiyan in Vietnam and the Philippines; the 12-year-old who enlisted in the First World War and fought at the Somme; the Somalis being repatriated from Kenya.

We speak to those caught up in Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and in Vietnam, including extreme weather photographer Jim Edds and Orla Fagan from the UN's Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

As we enter Armistice Day, we hear the story of the youngest authenticated combatant of the Great War. Private Sidney Lewis enlisted in August 1915... aged just 12... and was fighting in the trenches of the Western Front by the following June. Richard Van Emden wrote Boy Soldiers of the Great War, and tells us all about Sidney.

We go to Kenya to find out about the half million Somali refugees there who'll be repatriated after the United Nations refugee agency signed an agreement with the governments in Nairobi and Mogadishu.

Plus a one-tonne satellite which scientists worried would smash into the Earth over the weekend, but which appears to have burned up on re-entry to the atmosphere. We hear from Dr Fiorella Terenzi, a professor at Florida International University.

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Mon 11 Nov 2013 01:00

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