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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Kate Adie presents stories from the US-Mexico border, Chile, Spain, the US and India. The synthetic opioid Fentanyl is fifty times stronger than heroin, and was responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US last year. Relatively easy to produce, it is smuggled in large quantities across the Mexico-US border. Will Grant reports from El Paso in Texas, and hears how it is poisoning young lives. Chile held two days of national mourning this week after wildfires wreaked a path of destruction through the central coastal region of Valparaiso. More than 120 people were killed with many more are missing. Jane Chambers has spoken to those directly affected.
Spain has one of the most powerful feminist movements in Europe and the country recently passed new laws to protect women against violence – but only women. Now, some Spaniards are asking, has feminism gone too far? Ellie House reports from Madrid.
Over the past 20 years, a charity has flown hundreds of thousands of military veterans to Washington DC to visit the war memorials built in honour of their service and sacrifice. Sophie Williams went to meet veterans from WW2, and the Korean and Vietnam wars who'd taken these 'honor flights'.
India's economic boom has created some 169 billionaires. Many of India’s super-rich choose Mumbai as their home yet alongside this great wealth is enormous poverty. Half of Mumbai’s population live in slums – some just a stone’s throw from the millionaire mansions. For some, this can be the inspiration they need – after all, Mumbai is known as the city of dreams. Philip McCreery met one teenager who’s close to seeing hers come true.
Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Sally Abrahams Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Today we're in Chile, where seaside towns have been devastated by fierce forest fires |
0:11.7 | and where police suspect arsonists to blame. |
0:15.2 | After that kiss at the Women's World Cup last year were in Spain where some believe |
0:21.2 | new laws to protect women against violence have gone too far. |
0:26.0 | In the US, hugs for heroes. |
0:29.0 | We hear about the network transporting US war veterans to view the monuments built in their honor. |
0:36.3 | And in India, from poverty to post a girl, we meet the teenager from Mumbai slums who's on her way to becoming a supermodel. |
0:45.0 | First, the synthetic opioid fentanyl is the source of much debate and great anguish in the United States. More than 70,000 people died from |
0:56.9 | fentanyl overdoses in 2022 alone and in response the Biden administration is planning to send a high-level |
1:04.5 | delegation to China to discuss ways to stop the trafficking of chemicals to |
1:10.0 | Mexico where the cartels turn them into fentanyl to smuggle north. to |
1:13.3 | Mexico where the cartels turn them into fentanyl to smuggle north. |
1:15.3 | Will Grant travel to El Paso in Texas, |
1:18.8 | where he heard how fentanyl has poisoned young lives |
1:22.3 | on both sides of the US-Mexico border. |
1:25.9 | Jason de Ford began his testimony to Congress with an uncompromising message. |
1:31.0 | In these five minutes that I'll be speaking somebody in the United States will die of a drug |
1:35.6 | overdose and there's a 72% chance it will be fentanyl related. |
1:40.8 | His face plastered with tattoos and with a mouthful of gold teeth, Mr. |
1:44.7 | de Ford, better known as the Grammy nominated country singer Jelly Roll, isn't your average |
1:50.0 | Washington lobbyist. |
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