16/11/2009
Surviving Sierra Leone's civil war; Australia's Bush Fires, Obama's half brother.
Surviving Sierra Leone's civil war
Mariatu Kamara was just twelve years old when child soldiers came to her village in Sierra Leone. They killed her family and chopped off both of her hands. She tells Matthew Bannister how she has managed to overcome such traumatic events.
Australian bush fires
Sharon Mascall meets the forensic psychologist trying to get inside the minds of Australia's bush fire arsonists.
Obama's half Brother
Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo is President Barack Obama's half brother. He is the son of President Obama's father and his third wife. He grew up in Kenya, was educated in America and now works in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
He has has just written a novel based on events in his own life
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