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World Service,24 Sep 2014,55 mins

UN Climate Summit 2014

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Morgan Freeman kicks off the Climate Summit at the United Nations in New York. The BBC's Michelle Fleury speaks to economist Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. It's thought three hundred illegal migrants were drowned at the hands of people traffickers off Malta earlier this month. Three survivors tell us of the smugglers' brutality. Samasource founder Leila Janah explains how she uses the internet to find work for poverty stricken women and young people, Rahul Tandon joins us from India with the latest on the young man killed by a white tiger at New Delhi Zoo, and David Eades reports from the shores of Samoa where the impact of global warming is already violently apparent.

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