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Paralympics Get Underway in Rio

Paralympic Opening; German immigrant sentiments; Retracing Inuit journeys

The Paralympics are under way in Rio de Janeiro after a spectacular opening ceremony mixing Brazilian music, fireworks and modern technology. The Brazilian president Michel Temer was booed at the event at Rio's famous Maracana stadium.

Local election results in Germany at the weekend showed that anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise. The party Alternative for Deutschland, had campaigned heavily on a message of hostility to Angela Merkel's policy of welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants. Paul Adams reports from the city of Rostock, which has had a troubled history with migrants.

Two explorers have just completed a mission to try and uncover the mystery of how an Inuit community came to be on a remote Scottish Island. Could the Inuit have really kayaked all the way from Greenland?

50 minutes

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Thu 8 Sep 201604:06GMT

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  • Thu 8 Sep 201604:06GMT