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World Service,04 Nov 2009,25 mins

04/11/2009

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Amazonian tribal leader. Santiago Manuin, internationally renowned ecological activist and indigenous leader, put his life on the line to protect his people's land rights in fierce riots earlier this year. Santiago tells our reporter, Dan Collyns, how clashes between police and protesters left him injured and thirty four protestors and police dead. Everest hospital The BBC's Joanna Jolly climbs almost 4000 meters to meet the doctor who was born in and now runs the Kunde hospital high up in the remote Everest region. Is it better to be mixed race? Geneticist Aarathi Prasad tackles the controversial question of whether its better to be mixed race.

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