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We send out correspondents to bring you

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the best stories from across the globe.

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This week, China's abandoned children.

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We meet the young children left behind at home by their parents

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Some 16 million children are affected

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nationwide, left behind in villages like this one.

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Pallab Ghosh investigates an ambitious new

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project to send a spacecraft to another solar system trillions of

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miles away, backed by Stephen Hawking.

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we must travel the breadth of the stars.

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And capturing the cool of Miles Davis.

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We catch up with Hollywood actor Don Cheadle as he

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takes up the trumpet to play the jazz genius.

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Miles is funk and hip-hop and be-bop and rock and swing

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They are known as China's left behind children.

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Young people abandoned by their parents so they

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can go in search of work in the cities.

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It is thought tens of millions of children are involved.

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Sometimes left in the care of relatives, often unsupervised.

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China's residency laws means that migrant workers of banned from

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The authorities have lodged a national

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census to try to provide an accurate measure

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John Southworth has been to two of the worst affected provinces

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and reports now on one of China's most pressing social challenges.

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14-year-old Tao Lan is helping her younger brother with his homework.

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In their remote village, they grow their own

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Their parents work more than 1000 miles away and come back to visit

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When you are sad or upset about something at school,

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it must be very hard not being able to talk to your mummy or your daddy

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Mum and dad lead a hard life outside.

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I don't want them to worry about me. Alongside the responsibilities of an

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adult, she carries the vulnerability of a child. In some schools, up to

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80% of the pupils are growing up without their mums or dads. China's

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modern economy may have been built on the hard graft of its internal

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migrants but it has taken a heavy toll on their children, too. The

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numbers involved are staggering. Some 16 million children are

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affected nationwide, left behind in villages like this one while their

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parents work elsewhere. It is arguably one of the most pressing

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social issues of our time and despite much hand-wringing, it is an

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issued the Communist Party have so far done very little about. Most

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left behind children are not alone but kept under the watchful eye of a

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grandparent. Many still struggle, like this 11-year-old. TRANSLATION:

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I know it is hard for mum and dad to earn money but I missed them so

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much. It is very painful. The Chinese government admixed the

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problem is urgent. But until their parents are given full citizenship

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rights, the true cost of every made in China product will be made --

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measured not just in price but in the terrible burden it places on

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these children. Now for something completely

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different. Plans by leading scientists, including Stephen

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Hawking, to send a spacecraft to another solar system, and it is as

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ambitious as it sounds. The ship would need to travel to trillions of

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kilometres much further than ever craft ever before and the plan is to

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develop a craft about the size of the micro-chipped that could travel

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at exceptional speed. For thousands of years, people have dreamt of one

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day travelling to distant stars, the world's most famous scientist

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Stephen Hawking, things that they will come very soon. Astronomers

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believe there is a reasonable chance of an earth like planet in the Alpha

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Centauri system. There are no greater heights than to aspire to

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them that stars. Technological development in the last two decades

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mean it could be possible within a generation. What sort of distances

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are we talking about written mark already, probe has been said to

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Pluto, that is seven and a half billion mars away. And for your jaw

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one has reached the edge of our solar system, that is 18 billion

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miles away. The plan is to send spacecraft to a star in another

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solar system. That is a staggering 25 trillion miles from Earth. Using

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current technology, it will take a spacecraft 30,000 years to get to

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our closest star, but by making its smaller, it could take just dirty.

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The size of spacecraft have shrunk dramatically. This was used for

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Earth observation. In the 1990s, this none supplied was launched for

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communications. The ultimate aim of the new research programme is to

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make them even smaller, to cram all the cameras and instruments we have

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in these onto a single chip. The idea is to launch these mini

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spacecraft into the earth's orbit. Each would have a solar sail. A

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giant laser on earth would give each one a powerful push, sending them on

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their way. Life on Earth faces dangers from astronomical offence

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but not dangers from ourselves. If we are to survive as a species, we

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must ultimately spread to the stars. There is still a lot of work needed

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to develop the technology. Scientists believe that although it

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will be difficult, it won't be impossible. The distant dream could

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very soon become reality. He was a musical innovator who revolutionised

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the world of jazz. Now, the life and career of Miles Davis is being

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celebrated in a new film directed by and starring Don Cheadle. Mark

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Savage took the Hollywood actor to a record shop in London to find out

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how Davis is created Jesus inspired. The film is for me something that

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felt like you are walking around inside Miles is brain. I wanted to

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use do something that was innovative and impressionistic. If you want to

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tell us I'm here to did your comeback story.

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It is not a very sympathetic portrait of him. Did the family

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object? They must've wanted a family that showcased his genius. That is

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the genius of Miles, that he always persevered, and that he was

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constantly creative. That is not a good place to start for a beginning.

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There are people that I have met who never heard of Miles Davis because

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their entry point to Miles was rock. It depends on what you want to hear.

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He was funk, he was hip-hop, bebop, swing, jazz, soul, R, he touched

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it all. That last scene of the film you are on stage with Herbie

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Hancock, Howard Dalton was that? It was really fun. Musicians of that

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calibre, they pull you in. We hung around backstage for an hour

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afterwards, saying, how can we do this again, can we tour this bad

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question mark I said, please! Those guys are way too busy. The idea

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behind making the movie, in part, was to be a part of something that

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is going on, not just have the movie be some is finite thing, to really

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bring miles back. Hold it, buddy. Do you have a ticket? You are looked --

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you are looking at it. Don't quote jazz, it is a social word. That is

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it from us. Goodbye for now.

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