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Hello, today your country faces an economic blockade.

In Qatar, one answer is to send for the cows.

While being a housemaid in the Middle East is... is often fraught with unpleasant difficulties. In Sri Lanka they're running a

training centre for the job, but how much can you learn in 21 days? We meet a K-pop star hoping to make it big,

but trying to get smaller, lose a few pounds before she gets a chance at stardom and our correspondent has the story of how the final

works of a great German philosopher ended up as chicken litter in the west of Ireland. While the population of Bangladesh is rising 163 million people and

counting all living in densely populated low-lying terrain, the amount of arable farmland is getting smaller, thanks to rising sea

levels and melting Himalayan glaciers.

For decades it struggled with frequent flooding, cyclones and typhoons, as well as the looming

prospect of famine after crops are lost.

And according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 15 to 20 million Bangladeshis could find that their homes

are underwater by 2050.

Peter Oborne went to see for himself what impact all of this is having.

Only about 80 Bengali Tigers still prowl the Sundeban mangrove forest in coastal Bangladesh,

down from 400, 10 years ago. Tides are higher, cyclones more frequent, human

intrusion destructive, the Sundari trees, which gave the forest its name a dying or already dead.

I took a boat through the Sundeban, you could see the gaps in the trees.

Fisherman told me they have to lift their homes with plinths in order to cope with the higher tides.

We disembarked at Gabura about 25 miles inland from the Bay of Bengal.

52-year-old Mohammed Arazad told me how the weather has changed.

The trees are not growing.

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