Asian Americans living in the US

In his acceptance speech at the Oscars Ke Huy Quan remarked "My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp. Somehow I ended up on Hollywood’s biggest stage...This is the American dream!” Danh and Hung Ti Nguyen and their daughter Thuc Doan Nguyen are originally from Vietnam, but in the mid seventies when the Vietnam War had ended and the country had become a communist state, they decided to escape in a small boat to America in search of a safer life. They tell us about their harrowing journey and their hopes for representation in America in the future.

We hear from the BBC's Quentin Sommerville who has been near the frontline Bakhmut in Eastern Ukraine. He joined Ukrainian soldiers just 500 metres away from Russian forces as they battle for the city in the Donbas region.

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Environment and Rural Affairs Correspondent Claire Marshall explains why Spain plans to build the world's first octopus farm. The BBC has seen confidential documents which says that the farm in the Canary Islands would raise about a million octopuses annually - for food consumption. We hear listener's reactions to the story.

(Photo: Danh Nguyen, Hung Ti Nguyen, Thuc Doan Nguyen in the 1980s. Credit: Faith Pearson).