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Dhaka: I Cut Off Limbs to Save Victims

Heroic Didar Hossain rescued 34 people from the collapsed Bangladeshi garment factory.

On this edition of Outlook: the extraordinary story of Didar Hossain, the Bangladeshi man who saved thirty-four lives after the garment factory collapsed in Dhaka - he saved one girl by cutting off her hand.

Also we meet Mike Brodie, the man who spent ten years criss-crossing America by jumping on and off freight trains.

British photographer Thom Bleasdale, tells Matthew Bannister how suffering from a life-threatening illness influenced his work.

From New Zealand - the remarkable story of the world's oldest hip hop crew - known as the Hip Operation Crew.

And we have an eyewitness account of the children who marched for civil rights in America's deep south fifty years ago - we hear the story of Gwendoline Webb who at the age of 14 was one of the children who took part in The Children's Crusade.

(Photo: Didar Hossain and Aanna Akhter at Enam Medical College Hospital. Credit: David Bergman)

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