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🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Hello. Today, who you are, where you come from, these days, often decided by the |
0:11.2 | passport you hold. We hear of citizenship being restored to one |
0:15.4 | 90-year-old man who was forced out of Austria by the Nazis and why the hair with amber eyes |
0:21.9 | has returned to Vienna. They're protesting and painting in the |
0:26.4 | Lebanese city of Tripoli once considered a terrorist stronghold now being called the Bride of the Revolution. We meet the Yazidi refugees |
0:35.8 | who escaped the horrors of the Islamic State Group to welcoming villagers in |
0:40.5 | southwest France and road rage in Tinsultown, our correspondent has a scary movie moment |
0:47.4 | and makes a narrow escape. |
0:51.2 | First Bolivia has been in turmoil this week, the mood reminiscent of the leirches between dictatorship |
0:57.0 | and democracy back in the 1970s. |
1:00.2 | In power for nearly 14 years, Evo Morales was one of the longest serving leaders in Latin America. |
1:06.6 | Now he's in Mexico, after accepting an offer of political asylum. |
1:11.2 | He did so, he says, because his life was in danger. He resigned under pressure |
1:16.3 | from the military following weeks of unrest and allegations of electoral fraud. He's called |
1:22.1 | his removal a coup. Others have described it as a popular revolt |
1:26.3 | against a man drifting towards authoritarianism. Katie Watson has been charting the |
1:31.8 | unease in the capital La Paz. |
1:35.2 | When Evo Morales stood down on Sunday, it was one of those wow moments in Latin America. |
1:41.4 | This was a man who made history, Bolivia's first indigenous president, in a |
1:46.6 | region known for its inequalities, and let's be honest, historic racism towards |
1:51.5 | indigenous communities, that was a massive deal. |
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