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Dan Warburton

Homeland star David Harewood begs Brits to help solve child poverty crisis

Homeland star David Harewood has revealed his heartbreaking meeting with a Bangladeshi street kid whose entire family was wiped out by a monsoon.

The British actor, 56, choked back tears as he told how 11-year-old Hassan lost his father, two brothers and sister in a freak flood.

The youngster clung to a fishing net with his mother, Fatema, in the middle of the night before being plucked from the water.

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