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Today we meet a man who says he was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda

and forced to work for them.

Not as a child soldier, but as a babysitter.

In the US, signs declaring bikers for Trump were a familiar sight before his election, but the

President has since fallen out with the makers of Harley-Davidson's,

we're on the road in Wisconsin to find out what bikers there think now.

In Canada, our correspondent has a dance with a 30-foot eel, and in Mexico we visit a town with a taste for the Cornish pasty.

After more than seven years of fighting, the Syrian Civil War could be about to enter its final stages,

as the Assad regime and its ally Russia prepared to attack Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold. There's little doubt they'll retake the

city, but at what humanitarian cost is less clear. Many civilians fled the region long ago, but the border with Turkey has been closed,

and for the millions who remain, there's not much to do but wait and perhaps listen.

Radio-Alwan is a small independent radio station set up in 2014 and now

broadcasting in exile from Istanbul. Emma Jane Kirby has brought us their story before, including details of their dramatic

soap opera, Sad Northern Knights, and plans for their very own woman's hour.

She made contact with them again recently, but their

latest news is not so good. The thing I've always loved most about my visits to

Radio Alwan is the laughter. In the kitchen, in the newsroom, even in the studio,

there's always someone cracking a joke. It's almost the special projects manager Sammy once explained

to me the unwritten Maxim of this little station.

The situation in Syria is so horrific that you'd simply go mad if you didn't force yourself to think of something else.

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