Barriers and Borders
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week, Lyse Doucet reports from her native Canada on the country’s sponsorship scheme for refugees; Joe Miller considers the major impact there has been on a Texas border town of many months of migration from Central America by women and unaccompanied children; Lucy Ash travels to the Loire Valley to visit France’s first centre for deradicalisation and discovers what local people think of it; Kamal Ahmed considers whether the Swiss, who have negotiated a bespoke deal with the European Union, offer a model for the United Kingdom to emulate in the Brexit negotiations; and Chris Terrill joins a British ex-soldier who is training wardens in one of South Africa’s private nature reserves to resist poachers.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. This edition was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday the 24th of September 2016. |
| 0:10.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, how to tackle Islamic extremism. |
| 0:16.0 | We're in the Loire Valley to hear about the 18th century chateau where the French are setting up a |
| 0:21.2 | de-radicalization boot camp. |
| 0:24.7 | Among the endless suggestions about how to implement Brexit, can Switzerland offer the answer? |
| 0:31.2 | In South Africa, we hear of yet another effort to tackle the problem of a whole range of wild animals facing extinction. |
| 0:38.0 | Send in the army, or at least the ex-soldiers. |
| 0:42.0 | First to Canada, where the sheer size of the country influences its attitude to refugees. |
| 0:49.0 | In the past year, they've taken in 30,000 people and the government in Ottawa |
| 0:54.0 | insists there are benefit to the nation. |
| 0:57.4 | Of the Syrians who've arrived, more than a third are being supported by |
| 1:01.4 | individual citizens. |
| 1:03.0 | And Lee Dousset, who herself hails from Canada, |
| 1:06.0 | has been looking at this sponsorship scheme. |
| 1:09.0 | We go to a picnic in a park on a perfect day. A gentle autumn sun bathes a rolling stretch of green |
| 1:17.1 | filled with the warmth of a family gathering. Syrian family still new to this country, Canadians who've raised money to help them settle in. |
| 1:26.0 | It's a picture postcard of a refugee welcome. |
| 1:30.0 | Children's faces painted with sparkling butterflies, Syrian musicians strumming the elegant ooed, |
| 1:36.7 | tables groaning with the favorite fare of Syrian and Canadian kitchens. |
| 1:42.3 | In the midst of this hubbub a young Syrian boy approaches me. |
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