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France on Fire: Is the Worst Yet to Come?
Unprecedented wildfires four times the area of Paris have ravaged southwestern France, forcing over 260,000 residents to evacuate their homes. The inferno is fast closing in on Bordeaux, France's wine-making capital - an area nearly a million people call home.
On this week's episode of Deep Dive, Chief Foreign Correspondent Andy Jehring is joined by senior reporter James Fielding, who's been in Bordeaux since the fires broke out. With yet another heatwave forecast this week, they discuss whether the worst is yet to come, and how local people are handling the devastating loss of property and risk to life.
Host: Andy Jehring
Producer: Sally McLennan
Editor: Artemis Irvine
Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer
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35. Minute by Minute: 9/11
20:04||Ep. 35It's 4am on September 11, 2001.In a room at the Comfort Inn in South Portland, Maine, Egyptian-born Mohamed Atta is preparing to check out. He has a plane to catch. In his luggage he puts a copy of the Koran, a folding knife, pepper spray and a videotape on how to fly Boeing jets.Two hours later, a thousand miles away in Florida, President George W. Bush is having an early morning run in the dark around a golf course, followed by his team of Secret Service agents. He is due to meet children and parents at a nearby elementary school.Later that morning, in New York, Stephen Mulderry makes his way through the metropolis to the World Trade Centre, where he works as an equity trader. He's one of the 50,000 workers who occupy the famous Twin Towers on any given day.Within hours, the world will have changed.In extraordinary detail, Minute by Minute: 9/11 reconstructs the deadliest day in modern American history: from the 1993 car bomb beneath the towers that proved the deadly dress rehearsal, to the hijacking of the four planes, the passengers of Flight 93 who fought back, and the heroism of the largest rescue effort in the city's history.Narrated by legendary broadcaster Michael Buerk, the Daily Mail brings you the definitive account of September 11, 2001 - 25 years on.Host: Michael BuerkProducer: John RogersSound Design: John ScottExecutive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer
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33. Why Now? Inside Harry and Meghan's Return to Britain
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32. The Hunt for the Invisible Ayatollah: Who's Really Running Iran?
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31. The 'Plagiarising Professor': Debunking Jason Arday's Fantastical Life
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30. BONUS: Ceuta Migrant Crisis - Can Europe Control Its Borders?
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