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Aid agency: Millions of children facing harsh winter

Millions of young people who have fled conflict at risk of sub-zero temperatures.

Millions of girls and boys who have fled conflict are at risk from sub-zero temperatures, as winter takes hold in the northern hemisphere. The aid agency, Save the Children says up to seven million young people who have had to leave their homes, are now living in what it describes as inadequate conditions.

Also in the programme: Plane carrying nearly 100 people crashes in Kazakhstan and a dispute in the Chagos islands.

(Picture: Children at a camp for displaced Syrians in Idlib province. Credit: AAREF WATAD/AFP/Getty Images)

53 minutes

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Fri 27 Dec 2019 10:06GMT

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  • Fri 27 Dec 2019 10:06GMT

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