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Hello. Today, tales of abandoned babies in Pakistan.

Unwanted infants hurled into ice-cold rivers,

but others saved from disaster by caring strangers.

In America, we meet the Antifa or anti-Fascist organizers to find out what they want and

how far they're prepared to use violence to achieve it.

From the far north of Russia we explore a largely forgotten wrinkle in the history of the

first world war, the time America, Canada and Britain, invaded Russia.

And our correspondent has a close shave with the Samaritans in a barber shop on the West Bank.

It's two and a half weeks since the disputed referendum in which the people of

Catalonia voted on whether they wanted independence from Spain, and the crisis seems to be getting worse.

The national Spanish government in Madrid is warning it will start suspending Catalonia's

autonomy if the secessionists don't back down. And as Pascal Harter discovered

in Barcelona, all the uncertainty is taking its toll.

The boss says not to talk about it, said the woman at the suburban

hairdressers just outside Barcelona. Spain is facing its biggest crisis

since it moved from dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s and we're not supposed to talk about it?

But the truth is, many people don't want to.

One Catalan friend sent a text to all her friends explaining that although she had long campaigned for the referendum,

now she did not want independence, not like this.

It would be like starting a relationship based on a trick, she told me.

But a few days later, when I asked her for her views on the developments, she texts,

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