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Radio 4,29 Nov 2016,45 mins

20,000 flee Aleppo, say ICRC

The World Tonight

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As anti-Assad rebels cling on in eastern Aleppo, we hear from the ICRC about an anticipated surge of refugees. Meanwhile, as the US military blames human error for mistakenly bombing Syrian soldiers it wrongly believed were IS fighters we speak to a US spokesman. And Indian women win a battle to worship inside a Sufi shrine in Mumbai.

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