Where To Next?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Quentin Sommerville considers the last days of the Islamic State in Baghouz, Syria - and examines the question of what to do with its fighters and sympathisers once the battle is over. The case of Shamima Begum has dominated the headlines, but there are many more like her.
Kate Adie introduces his report and other stories from around the world.
The Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya is one of the largest refugee settlements anywhere - with nearly a quarter of a million people living there, nearly all Somalis fleeing violence and insecurity. But Kenya's government, and the UNHCR, which runs Dadaab, don't want them there forever, and have offered them incentives to return home to Somalia. Sally Hayden heard how that can be easier said than done.
The campaigning for Ukraine's Presidency is heating up: voters will choose a leader for the country at the end of March, and they have a plethora of choices with over 44 names on the ballot paper. Jonah Fisher got to meet some of the candidates, and was left both intrigued and perplexed.
"Rural depopulation" may sound rather abstract, but in one of Spain's fast-emptying villages, Linda Pressly saw what it means in practice to be part of a community of only three people, surrounded by reminders of a more bustling past.
And Tim Ecott revels in the rugged tastes of the Faroes - from lightly mildewed air-dried lamb to roast gannet - as a restaurant near Torshavn gathers its second Michelin star.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.4 | Hello, today what's for the best to take your children home to the dangers of Somalia |
| 0:09.2 | or to stick it out in a refugee camp in Kenya? we hear from one of the mothers. |
| 0:14.6 | Our man in Kyiv peruses the ballot paper for the next Ukrainian president. |
| 0:19.1 | It's a rather long list. |
| 0:21.0 | 44 would-be presidential candidates candidates to be precise with a real comedian |
| 0:26.0 | leading the field. We stroll round one of Spain's many emptying villages, a place |
| 0:31.8 | with only three permanent residents left and what's for |
| 0:35.6 | lunch do you fancy wind-dried leg of lamb or roast gamut the Faroese delicacies |
| 0:41.1 | which are now earning Micheler stars. |
| 0:44.0 | First to Syria. |
| 0:46.0 | Over the past week, the case of Shimima Begum has dominated headlines in the British |
| 0:50.6 | press and caught the attention of many British politicians. |
| 0:54.8 | More than four years after Islamic State overran large parts of Syria and Iraq, declaring |
| 1:00.3 | a caliphate, they lost all but a tiny patch around the Syrian village of Begoos. |
| 1:06.3 | Women and children have left by truck, and the Kurdish-led SDF group backed by the U.S. |
| 1:12.0 | is preparing for a final assault on the remaining fighters. |
| 1:16.0 | But once the battle's over, what to do with the survivors, especially those who volunteered |
| 1:21.1 | to be part of IS or travelled from other countries to join it. |
| 1:25.2 | Something Quentin Somerville has been pondering. |
| 1:28.9 | I saw her approach through the crowded camp and recognized her from her shoes. They peaked out from underneath her black |
| 1:35.4 | Abaya like a child's trainers. They were red, blue and gold, but almost in pieces. I'd spotted them when we first met two days earlier. |
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