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World Service,21 Feb 2019,53 mins

Civilians evacuated from final village held by IS

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A convoy of about 15 trucks has evacuated some of the remaining civilians from Baghuz, a town in eastern Syria, close to the border with Iraq. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which have surrounded the town, said that some civilians and jihadists were still inside. Three British MPs have left the governing Conservative Party to join an independent group set up by MPs who recently defected from the opposition Labour Party. And we speak to the daughter of the man who's been hailed as the “Dutch Schindler”. Sally Noach died in 1980 but it's only in the last two years that his family found out he saved at least 600 Jews during the Second World War.

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