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they were taken from their island home as children and moved thousands of kilometres to france. now, france is facing up to a scandal that rocked more than 2000 children of everything they knew. 0ur story starts in central france,

just outside the city of limoges. marlene moved to the area more than 50 years ago as an orphan from the tiny island of reunion in the indian ocean, after french from the tiny island of reunion in the indian ocean, after french social services sold her a lie. did you ever see your sister again? unlike marlene, marise was too young to choose her new french life. her biological mother had put her into care in reunion when she was just a month old. marise was resettled

by social services to mainland france aged six. maryse is one of the newest members of a group that has been battling for years to find out why 2150 children were uprooted from their island and moved to france. in a vicarage near toulouse, they're accounting their stories. not everyone had a bad experience, but many suffered terribly. there was racism, sexual abuse and violence, as well as loss of their culture and identity. marlene is here, too. both she and maryse will soon travel

back to reunion for the first time courtesy of the french state, which is perhaps finally listening. for two years a government appointed commission has been investigating what happened to these men and women at the hands of france. many here have shocking stories to tell. once a french colony, reunion became one of the country's overseas departments in 1946. by the 1960s, with an exploding birth rate, this desperately poor island found its orphanages filling up with children, many of whom weren't orphans at all. their families simply couldn't provide for them. the islands french mp michel debre introduced a policy he thought would solve the problem.

from 1963 until 1982, social services oversaw the resettlement of children to rural parts of mainland france, where populations were in decline. some were adopted, others put into children's homes and religious institutions. amongst the footage from the time, in tv reports that portray the children of reunion as lucky to have been given a new life in a better place, marlene‘s19—year—old self. when she'd first arrived four years before, she was given minimal schooling. instead, she says, she worked the land in a rural convent. in the end, the education marlene was promised amounted to an agricultural diploma. she ended up working as a supermarket cashier and on a production line. she'd already done that in the convent. the nuns had had her glueing boxes for factory produced sugared almonds. was it racist? was it well—meaning, but with dire consequences? through the modern lens, uprooting children from their culture

and whatever family ties they might have, leaving them thousands of miles across the world and then not fulfilling your promises, it looks, at best, illjudged, and at worst wrong and cruel. and it went on into the 1980s. jesse and her younger brother and sister were in the first resettled group from reunion to arrive at this children's home in south—western france in 1967. jesse has spent years trying to discover the background

to her family story. but her care files from this children's home have disappeared. do you think you can judge what happened back then through modern eyes? i came to paris to find out how the french government views the scandal now. in 2014, the parliament accepted the state's moral responsibility for it. those who were exiled hope president macron will apologise for what happened once the investigating commission delivers its report. it's a big moment. marlene‘s first visit to her island in 52 years. she's brought her daughter, aurore, for support. the scandal of reunion‘s exiled children has become a story across france. the government's now paying airfares and some expenses so exiles can

revisit their island every three years if they wish to. and some of maryse‘s sisters are at the airport to meet her for the first time. but there is no one to greet marlene. five decades have meant huge change on an island that is culturally creole and very french. 0nce uninhabited, reunion now has a population of nearly 865,000. it is still much poorer here than mainland france. the economy is underpinned by french aid. in an attempt to help exiles find out about their past, the french government has demanded any documents the authorities hold are handed over to the individuals involved. next, it's marlene‘s turn. maryse‘s biological father died in 2006. before they had a chance to meet. his daughters are the living link

in her search for an identity. but their first meeting didn't deliver the resemblance for which she yearned. it's a big step so soon after meeting sisters with whom she clearly already has a bond. what will happen if the dna test is negative and you're not related? marlene‘s come to pay her respects to giselle, the sister who tried to persuade her not to go to france. though she's been dead for years, there is only a bare plaque. but marlene knows she has

another sister, marianique. she's desperate to find her, but she's not sure whether she is alive or dead. we went to the town hall looking for clues. so you have an address for your sister. two hours later came the phone call marlene had only dared to dream of. from marianique herself. so what is it like to see her now? with their suffering now starting to be acknowledged and the french government paying their airfares, 11 exiles returned to reunion in 2017. another 30 are already planning trips this year. for many of them, the experience will be bittersweet. how low. the cold face of winters

stays dominant and quite possibly into next week. there will be days that starred frosty and develop some sparkling sunshine. we had a day like that over the weekend, but there will be days that deliver snow about raises the possibility of travel disruption. 0n about raises the possibility of travel disruption. on monday, the big picture looks quiet but high pressure close by, brings a keen north—easterly wind, it is not going into monday morning, a few snow showers around. not for everyone but a few centimetres as possible where oui’ a few centimetres as possible where our persistence to showers. there may be icy conditions, they will fade during the day, many other places will have a fine and dry monday, some sparkling spells of sunshine, there could be fog patches. at the north—west, the weather system from the atlantic, the cold air into scotland and

northern ireland, recovering by tuesday morning, icy, possible disruption, northern england and wales, the system will weaken as it moves sells, fog in the midlands and heavy snow and hail, into perhaps wales, maybe some thunder snow. the weather front might reinvigorate towards east anglia on tuesday night and into wednesday morning raising the possibility of some sleet and snow, we will keep an eye on that but for many on wednesday, a ridge of high pressure, more of that sparkling sunshine, there may be a severe frost to start the day and by the end of wednesday, and other weather system from the atlantic, movie then cold air. this weather system has got less cold air associated with it, notice this moving south, rain going into thursday rather than still. sleet and snow not reaching the far

south—east but behind the system, some showers moving into the northwest. these will turn to snow during friday as we see another push of cold aircoming during friday as we see another push of cold air coming down from the north—west on a brisk and chilly wind. the weather from with the rain on it is close to east anglia, where it may stall and if it does come about raises the possibility of some of this turning back to sleet and snow. it is another cold day, it will feel colder in the winter. that is how we go into next weekend, that weather pattern of cold air, weather systems with less cold air coming in from the atlantic, pushing the cold air with the risk of sleet and snow, onceit air with the risk of sleet and snow, once it goes through, cold air follows behind. mix again we are watching another weather system come m, watching another weather system come in, producing sleet and snow along with rain, the wind is picking up at the risk of gales and the blue, will follow as temperatures dipped once again. going into next week, the

cold air winds. we are going to see widespread overnight frost, may be severe at times and still some weather systems from the atlantic producing rain as they go in, but the risk of seeing some snow at times as well. as we go deeper into february, things could become settled, but just as february, things could become settled, butjust as cold, perhaps even colder and that is something we will watch closely. in a crucial week for the brexit talks, a senior minister says the government is more united than conservative critics think. with a position on trade and customs arrangements due to be agreed within days, the home secretary says the government will get a good deal. the home secretary says we the home secretary says want frictionless trade at border. we want frictionless trade at the border. we want to make sure there is no border on the island of ireland, and we want to make sure we are free to make trade deals outside the eu. we'll be analysing the pressure on the prime minister

from brexiteers within her party. on the prime minister also tonight: on the prime minister crunch talks for south africa's president zuma — will party officials persuade him to stand down? sinn fein‘s policing spokesman is accused of causing criminal damage after removing a parking clamp from his car. and seven tries for england as they sweep aside italy in the six nations. as they sweep aside italy