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World Service,23 Sep 2019,26 mins

Thomas Cook collapses as rescue talks fail

World Business Report

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Following the collapse of travel company Thomas Cook, we look at the long term impact. Michalis Vlatakis is chairman of the Association of Cretan Tourism and Travel Agencies, and explains how his members are likely to be affected. And for a wider picture, Oliver Gill, leisure and travel correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, tells us how companies linked to the failed operator will be hit. Also in the programme, as the United Nations Climate Action Summit gets under way, we hear from Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager trying to persuade the world to take climate change more seriously. Plus, after more than nine years of war in Syria, the BBC's Clare Williamson meets some of the refugees who have been resettled in the north of England, to find out about the economic challenges they face as they try and rebuild their lives. (Picture: A Thomas Cook building and plane. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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