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Stories from a Qatari military base training men to fight in Syria; refugee camps in Lebanon; Indian higher education; a rural clinic in Malawi and parched lawns of California.

Frank Gardner asks what Qatar is really doing to support rebel fighters in Syria, by visiting a military training camp and talking to Qatar's head of security and intelligence. Mishal Hussain sees the consequences of Syria's conflict from the other side, meeting the young refugees in Lebanon who have lost years of their education. Craig Jeffrey examines a crisis of confidence - and corruption - in India's colleges and universities. Victoria Gill visits a rural clinic in Malawi and sees how to speed up information about and treatment for HIV - go by motorbikes! And David Willis contemplates the parched lawns of Los Angeles - and what California's thirsty agriculture business has got to do with them.

(Photo: A boy writes 'Free Syria' on a blackboard in Arabic at a school for refugee children opened in the town of Qubbet Beshamra, in the northern Lebanese province of Akkar. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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Sun 16 Nov 2014 22:05GMT

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