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You re listening to the documentary on the b.b.c. World Service I m Tom you a lot of bull. In July last year u.n. Peacekeepers in South Sudan were called on to rescue a group of international aid workers we were sitting in the shower cubicle texting like crazy just making it very clear that if someone s going to comment they need to come now the aid workers were sheltering behind a bulletproof door as soldiers tried to break in so the soldiers started to destroy the wall to us like an earthquake the attack continued for hours and yet the peacekeepers were based just over a kilometer away and are coming. People are being shot here people are being killed and are coming. Out be asking why the blue helmets failed to act and what it means for the peacekeeping mission in South Sudan and for others around the world that s coming up after the news. B.b.c. News with Montgomery one of the most famous climbers in the world only stag has been killed on Mount Everest stag who was 40 died in an ac
In central Italy say they ve been helping at least 40000 people since an earthquake on Sunday destroyed medieval towns and villages at least 15000 have been pushed up in holes and other improvised accommodation the Italian prime minister matter of n.z. Is chairing a cabinet meeting to discuss reconstruction George temping as a student in Camerino and describes what it was like when the earthquake struck and said this is. Crumbling No it was and I tried to go out so far so as green forward I could see like Dustin says for the Iraqi special forces fighting militants overshoot in their advance on the city of Mosul the troops were confronted by car bombers and came under mortar and small arms fire they are now just a few kilometers from the outskirts of Mosul the Afghan government says the security forces afraid 19 people who are being held captive by us militants in the eastern province of nanga in a separate instance in the same region 11 I as fighters were killed in an air strike which