Black Lives Matter
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 11 February 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The fuller story. In this edition, crime's a major talking point as campaigning intensifies in the US presidential election - activists under the banner 'Black Lives Matter' are drawing attention to the number of young African-American men who've been shot by the police; security forces are standing by as a presidential election looms in Uganda - some aren't happy that President Museveni is trying to extend a rule which has already lasted thirty years; Malaysia may be a rainbow nation made up of ethnic Malays, Chinese, Indian and indigenous people but resentment is festering and a controversy over the prime minister's financial affairs threatens to polarise the country further; thousands of migrants have come ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa - it's a place which used to rely on its tourism, today the holidaymakers are staying away and … as Valentine's Day approaches, we look inside the world of internet dating - more and more people are using it but some say it's addictive, impersonal and it's made looking for love a depressing business
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to hear a download of BBC radios from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | This is the edition broadcast on Radio 4 on Thursday the 11th of February 2016. |
| 0:10.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, today the Black Lives Matter campaign. |
| 0:15.6 | They talked about it at the Super Bowl. |
| 0:17.6 | Now they're talking about it all over the United States. |
| 0:21.1 | The big man will win again, they're saying in Uganda, but not everyone's happy that President |
| 0:26.1 | Museveni, who came to power 30 years ago, plans another term in office. |
| 0:31.6 | We don't want to bump into a corpse when we go swimming, why holidaymakers have |
| 0:35.6 | abandoned an Italian island out in the Mediterranean. And swipe right if you like them, left if you don't. Have dating apps made looking for love just |
| 0:45.5 | like online shopping? Crime is proving to be a major talking point as campaigning intensifies |
| 0:52.4 | in the US presidential election. The |
| 0:54.7 | murder rate in many big American cities is on the rise. The numbers in Chicago are |
| 0:59.4 | particularly shocking. In January alone more than 250 people were shot, nearly 50 of them died. |
| 1:07.0 | Now campaigners using the slogan Black Lives Matter are drawing attention to the number of African Americans who've been shot |
| 1:14.0 | not by gangsters but by the police. They received some high profile support at |
| 1:19.2 | the weekend when the singer Beyoncé showcased their campaign during her halftime performance at the Super Bowl. |
| 1:26.0 | Mike Wendling is just back from the poor and mostly black south side of Chicago. |
| 1:31.0 | Nobody used to listen to William Calloway. |
| 1:34.8 | Calloway is 26 years old, black, religious, a local activist and community organizer. |
| 1:41.0 | For years he looked into cases, mostly of young African American men shot dead by police, and he tried to find journalists who would report on them. |
| 1:50.0 | Cases like that of Dakota Bright, a 15 year old who was shot while walking home. |
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