Airstrikes and Sirens
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In Israel and Gaza, Tom Bateman hears how rocket and air strikes are ruining lives. With no end to the conflict in sight, what has the impact of the latest violence been? In France, Joanna Robertson considers how Parisian weekends are being thrown into disarray as the Gilet Jaune - or yellow vest - movement, now six months old, continues. Jonathan Dimbleby first visited Ethiopia 45 years ago. He tracks the country's history of political repression, military coups, and people protests. Might genuine change now, finally, be on the cards? Giant oil fields have been discovered in Guyana. Simon Maybin unpicks the country's political response and asks who will benefit from the new wealth. And in Dresden, Jenny Hill watches the unveiling of a newly restored Vermeer masterpiece and talks to the art lovers who have a long and complicated relationship with the painting.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello today, a mathematical and political puzzle in Guyana. |
| 0:10.0 | In Paris, Apple Tart and Water Cannon are on the menu in Picasso's old neighbourhood as we catch up with |
| 0:16.5 | city dwellers disgruntled with the Gilejeune protesters. |
| 0:21.0 | After the long years of famine and fighting, our correspondent feels new hope for Ethiopia under Africa's youngest leader. |
| 0:28.0 | And our woman in Berlin here's a tale of X-rays, spies spies and a tender addition to a work of art. |
| 0:36.7 | But first, a ceasefire between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip has been holding, after |
| 0:42.2 | one of the worst flare-ups in recent years. |
| 0:45.1 | Two days of fighting erupted after a Palestinian sniper shot and wounded two Israeli soldiers |
| 0:50.7 | at the perimeter fence. In the intense military exchanges that followed, at least 25 |
| 0:56.2 | Palestinians and four Israelis were killed. Our Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman has been |
| 1:02.0 | hearing from some of those caught up in it. |
| 1:05.0 | When Raffat Nasser ran into his apartment block, he feared the worst. |
| 1:10.1 | Masonry dust rained down in the darkness. The building in a packed neighborhood of the Northern Gaza Strip had partially collapsed. |
| 1:18.0 | In the wreckage he looked hard and shouted out. There among the rubble calling back were his two teenage daughters, |
| 1:25.0 | Amira and Yara. They were covered in debris, gray and unrecognizable, |
| 1:30.0 | but they were alive. |
| 1:32.0 | Raffat told me the block had just been targeted by an Israeli warplane. |
| 1:36.0 | Its missiles struck the fifth floor, he said, |
| 1:39.0 | completely destroying two apartments. |
| 1:41.0 | Outside, Anas Abu Jidian raced to the scene. His uncle and aunt and their |
| 1:46.6 | 11-year-old son lived on the fifth floor, Anas used his bare hands to search through |
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