Beauty and horror in South Sudan
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Beauty and brutality coexist after a battle in South Sudan: a bullet whistles over the head of our correspondent in eastern Ukraine: watching the maple syrup wars in Canada: out on the town in Colombia, despite the threat from FARC rebels: and a memento in Bosnia of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who sparked World War I. Presented by Kate Adie.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:09.0 | but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate A.D. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, today Beauty and Horror Side by Side in the aftermath of a battle in South Sudan. |
| 0:24.0 | Are you sure this place is safe, |
| 0:26.0 | the perils of a night out in one of Columbia's most troubled regions? |
| 0:30.0 | There's a walk through rural Bosnia on the trail of the man who changed the world with a single bullet. |
| 0:36.0 | And as Canada's long winter finally ends, it's time to head for the woods, |
| 0:41.0 | for some maple syrup, and big bucks are at stake as old |
| 0:45.1 | squares up to new in the scrap over sap. A deal has been signed to stop the |
| 0:51.0 | bitter conflict in South Sudan. The war in the world's newest |
| 0:55.0 | nation started in December, putting government forces against rebels. There's been relatively |
| 1:00.2 | little international attention to the conflict despite accusations of |
| 1:04.2 | widespread war crimes and the targeting of civilians because of their |
| 1:08.0 | ethnicity. A million people have been forced to leave their homes. A previous ceasefire in January was |
| 1:14.8 | violated within days and the mediator for the new peace deal expressed only guarded |
| 1:20.1 | optimism that this one would stop the fighting. |
| 1:23.0 | Alistelithhead has been in the town of Bentieu, |
| 1:27.0 | where one of the most recent battles took place |
| 1:29.0 | leaving scenes of horrific violence and brutality. |
| 1:32.0 | The fast-flying, swooping... horrific violence and brutality. |
| 1:33.0 | The fast-flying swooping birds, a blur of bright red and translucent blue, |
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