Aug 02 2014
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 2 August 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Despatches by reporters around the world. In this edition, Chris Morris, who was in Gaza twenty years ago, returns to chronicle how things 'have got worse, much worse'. Claudia Hammond, in Cyprus, on the latest attempts to find out what happened to those who went missing decades ago during fighting between the island's Greek and Turkish communities; Tim Mansel is in Sierra Leone amid growing alarm over the spread of the Ebola virus in west Africa. Why a seagull observed in Vatican City could be a disturbing omen for peace - that's from Alan Johnston and Petroc Trelawny finds out where the newly-weds like to go in Guangzhou, one of China's fastest-developing cities.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, today the Cypriots waiting for a knock on the door 40 years after their loved |
| 0:17.2 | ones went missing. |
| 0:19.4 | Growing alarm in West Africa as the Ebola virus spreads to a fourth country. We find out why |
| 0:25.2 | newlyweds prefer the old to the new in one of China's fastest developing cities. |
| 0:30.0 | And it's an invasion, it's brutal and sometimes messy. |
| 0:34.0 | Our man gets a bird's eye view from a palace rooftop in Rome. |
| 0:38.0 | But first, medical officials in Gaza say more than 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli |
| 0:45.9 | missile strikes since the collapse of a temporary ceasefire yesterday. |
| 0:51.1 | Many of the deaths have been in and around Raffa in southern Gaza, where two Israeli |
| 0:55.2 | soldiers were killed and the third was said by Israel to have been captured during a Hamas |
| 0:59.8 | ambush. The Palestinian group says it has no information on the whereabouts, the missing 23-year-old |
| 1:06.1 | soldier, and that he may have been killed in the fighting. |
| 1:09.7 | The health ministry in Gaza says more than 1,600 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been |
| 1:15.0 | killed in the Israeli offensive. There have been more than 60 Israeli casualties. |
| 1:19.4 | Chris Morris has sent this dispatch. Just before I left Gaza, I had a brief moment of calm, |
| 1:26.0 | sitting overlooking the seafront in Gaza City, |
| 1:29.0 | where a couple of small boats were dragged up on the beach |
| 1:32.0 | and two young boys were playing with a piece of driftwood. |
| 1:35.9 | Then came the boom of artillery quickly followed by another, the first some distance away, |
| 1:41.4 | the second considerably closer. It dragged me back to the reality in |
| 1:45.5 | which nearly 2 million Palestinians have been living for weeks. This was the same |
| 1:50.3 | stretch of beach on which four boys from the Baca family were playing football two weeks |
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