Typhoon Haiyan: a year on | BBC News at One

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Twelve months ago Typhoon Haiyan tore across the Philippines with its brutal winds and storm surges leaving more than 7,000 people dead or missing. A year on our correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes has returned to one of the affected areas to see how people are now picking up the pieces of their lives.

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