Fallujah at War: The Doctor Who Stayed
Ahmed Shami is chief doctor at the main Fallujah hospital, centre of a conflict between Iraqi government forces and militants. Also, how a passing stranger saved a suicidal man.
Ahmed Shami, the chief doctor at the main hospital in Fallujah, talks about treating the effects of barrel bombs and how he keeps going amidst the conflict.
Our reporter Andrew Purcell has visited the new 9/11 Memorial Museum where he met two of the architects, Carl Krebs and Steven Davis, and a survivor of the attacks.
In 2008, Jonny Benjamin stood on a bridge over the river Thames in London and was about to take his own life. But a stranger passing by stopped and talked him down. Jonny and Neil Laybourn, the man who saved him, tell their story.
Ida Beate Loken has been living in a cave in western Norway for the past year. She had been studying at an agricultural college, but decided to turn her back on conventional student accommodation.
Picture: Smoke rises over the Fallujah skyline
Picture Credit: Sadam el-Mehmedy/AFP/Getty Images
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