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From Our Own Correspondent

Aftermath

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie introduces analysis, reflection and reporting from correspondents around the world. As Turkey recovers from last week's attempted coup, Mark Urban finds that in Ankara the conspiracy theories are burgeoning. Could these events be the pretext (or a catalyst) for Turkey snubbing the EU, walking away from its relationship with the US or even distancing itself from Nato? Karen Allen's been at the 21st International Aids Conference in Durban to get a global picture of the HIV epidemic; while there have been some notable advances on treatment and prevention, she sees South Africa's still struggling to deal with the virus. Despite the heavily-reported warming up of its relationship with the USA, Cuba still has a hidebound economy and is warning its people to tighten their belts and prepare for austerity - again - says Will Grant in Havana. Martin Patience reaches some resentful corners of Nigeria's Delta region the only way anyone can: by speedboat, and with an entourage of local dignitaries. And Antonia Quirke treads in the footsteps of giants, seeing how the beautiful, creamy marble which once inspired Michelangelo is still being quarried from a site in Tuscany.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:05.4

Today, as Jaya Bolsonaro support crumbles in Brazil, some ask whether their president

0:12.0

is melting.

0:13.8

As a by John exults over the territory it took back in Nagorno-Karabakh, and it wants

0:19.3

to show it off.

0:21.3

They're picking up the pieces after the recent wave of looting and violence in South Africa,

0:26.5

and wondering what really lit the spark.

0:29.7

And we have a private consultation with a renowned plastic surgeon in Mexico, who operates

0:35.5

on politicians, intellectuals, and drug lords and their girlfriends.

0:41.6

The destructive power of water is often underestimated until it's too late.

0:47.4

This week, large areas of Europe and China were still reeling from the damage left by

0:52.4

some of their worst floods for decades.

0:55.4

Across Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, there are over 200 deaths.

0:59.8

The hunt is still on for the missing.

1:02.5

Thousands of families have been left homeless or living in terrible conditions.

1:06.8

Now there are questions over whether this disaster will make voters more concerned about

1:11.6

the effects of climate change.

1:14.0

Although Germany suffered most, the neighbouring Netherlands also have plenty to prepare for,

1:19.7

with huge expanses of the country's dry land, only just above sea level, and plenty

1:24.7

actually below it, fast-rising waters in future could be catastrophic.

1:30.2

Anna Holligan has seen the worry, as well as the wreckage.

1:34.2

The roar of generators, powering the pumps, draining the water out of kitchens and basements,

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