A Nightmare of Uncertainty
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The human stories behind the headlines. In this edition one correspondent flies through the Latin American night visiting three countries in search of the truth about the Zika crisis; another accompanies members of a private militia on patrol in Kenya. They're looking for rhino poachers and if they find them, they'll kill them; the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been built on oil. But the oil price has nosedived and for the Saudi leaders, it's a time of unprecedented insecurity; the Syria peace talks in Geneva have been put on hold - no point talking just for the sake of talking, says the UN special envoy. And 'imagine a dolphin or a unicorn jumping through your third eye!' That's one of the suggestions at a group therapy session out in the Sahara Desert. But what did the man from the BBC make of it all?
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| 0:00.0 | You've downloaded the BBC Radio programme from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.0 | This is the edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday, February the 6th, 2016. |
| 0:10.0 | And it's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, today the Zeka virus bringing a nightmare of uncertainty to pregnant women across Latin America and beyond. |
| 0:21.0 | A private militia out looking for rhinopachers in the shadow of Mount Kenya. When they find |
| 0:26.2 | them, they kill them. A huge new metropolis emerging on the shores of the Red Sea, but |
| 0:32.3 | will it ever be more than a ghost city? |
| 0:35.0 | And group hugging in the Sahara. |
| 0:38.0 | There's chanting too and a bit of yoga. |
| 0:40.0 | Perhaps they'll even be stirrings in our chakras. |
| 0:45.0 | South American ministers have held an emergency meeting in the Uruguayan city of Monte |
| 0:49.4 | Video to try to work out how to slow the spread of the zeka virus. |
| 0:54.0 | Pregnant women across Latin America and now further afield too |
| 0:58.0 | are going for tests. |
| 0:59.0 | If they had red eyes, a rash and a fever, they may have the virus, which is blamed for causing brain damage |
| 1:05.8 | to babies. |
| 1:07.4 | The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak and international emergency. |
| 1:12.3 | David Schukman's been traveling in some of the worst |
| 1:14.7 | affected countries including Brazil where hundreds of cases have now been |
| 1:18.9 | reported. A battered track leads through a compound of dilapidated buildings. |
| 1:24.0 | Medical staff in white coats keep to the shade of the trees to avoid the piercing sun. |
| 1:29.0 | From a corner comes a sharp regular squeak, a rusty swing. A young boy with a serious face keeps it moving for minute after minute. |
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