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Rakhine State: Authorities say some displaced families are returning

Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.

Burmese authorities have said that some families displaced by violence are returning to Rakhine. Our Myanmar Correspondent Nick Beake has been allowed into Rakhine to witness hundreds of new homes being handed over, although none of the recipients are from the Muslim minority.

Also on the programme: At least twenty six people are known to have died in Friday's militant attack on a hotel in southern Somalia; and as a giant x ray telescope prepares to blast off into space - what images are scientists hoping to capture? (Photo: Rohingya refugees, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

53 minutes

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  • Sat 13 Jul 201912:06GMT

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