7th October

EU to catch smuggler's boats

EU naval vessels will now be able to board and seize people smuggler's boats. So far this year more than 130,000 migrants and refugees have crossed to Europe from the North Africa coast. More than 2,700 have drowned.

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Iraqi girls tell their stories on stage

On a stage in Baghdad a theatrical performance unlike any other. These girls aren't just playing a part, they're playing themselves. A play about orphans, performed by orphans-drama as s kind of therapy. Aged between12 and 17, 15 actresses, all of them from an orphanage in Baghdad. Each has lost one or both parents. Many have been exposed to violence, trauma and upheaval.

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Toddler's miracle operation

To a toddler in Australia now, who has made what doctors are describing as a miraculous recovery after head was internally decapitated in a car crash. This is 16-month-old Jackson Taylor whose neck was completely snapped in the accident although his muscle and skin kept his head in place.Surgeons were able to use part of one of his ribs to reattach his head to his spinal column and he's now fully mobile again and smiling.