let's talk to amanda mcgorry from oxford.s now stranded in india. how come you are in india? what are the circumstances that have taken you there? i came here to do a yoga teacher training course, which started... well, i got here on march the eight so i have been here since then. at the time, the advice i was checking daily before i left the uk was that it was fine to travel to india, soi was that it was fine to travel to india, so i came. i am was that it was fine to travel to india, so i came. iam here was that it was fine to travel to india, so i came. i am here now and my course is due to finish next week, but of course i have now no way of getting home. because all international flights have been cancelled. certainly there are no, as far as cancelled. certainly there are no, as farasi cancelled. certainly there are no, as far as i know, flight from the uk and from india to the uk. two people left this course last week on german planes. the german government organised that with lufthansa, i believe. a french bus arrived

my colleague reeta chakrabarti spoke to amanda mcgorry from oxford.ia for a yoga course and appealed to the british government to help her get back home. i know there's a big noise being made by the media and social media, but the government doesn't seem to be listening. i saw the briefing this morning, i don't know which minister it was, i get confused because they seem to change. but they said there were no immediate plans and they were encouraging all uk citizens to return home as soon as they could. we can't. i wish we could, but we have no way of doing it. we're stuck, and there are people all over india having a terrible time. i'm relatively safe here. the people at the school are lovely and are looking after me for now. but people are having a tough time elsewhere. they've been thrown out of their accommodation. we're not welcome. and there are people on the streets who are running out of food. some indians are having trouble finding food and water, but so are the tourists. i know of a chap who was beaten with a stick by a policeman for walking