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🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Today, after the dramatic kidnapping of the father of Columbia's best-love footballer, |
0:11.0 | our correspondent asks what the incident means for the country's fragile peace process. |
0:17.0 | Delhi's winter smog season is back, but it hasn't discouraged many of the city's residents from celebrating Duwale with |
0:25.2 | traditional smoky firecrackers. |
0:28.6 | How an ancient intoxicating traditional drink from Fiji is finding its way to bars in New Zealand |
0:35.8 | and pharmacies in the US. And Kenya's government challenges people to plant a |
0:41.6 | hundred million trees in a single day. |
0:46.1 | But first, the Mekong River is one of the richest ecosystems on Earth. |
0:51.8 | It provides a living for tens of millions of people who live along |
0:55.1 | its banks across five eastern-southeast Asian countries, but there are increasing |
1:01.4 | signs that the river is in crisis. |
1:04.3 | New dams and sand dredging projects, coupled with the effects of climate change, |
1:09.5 | have scientists worried. |
1:11.6 | Laura Bicker travelled to Cambodia to meet communities who depend on the river there. |
1:17.0 | The monsoon rains hammer on the metal roof of the bamboo house were sheltering in in the northeast of Cambodia near the border with Laos. |
1:26.3 | The torrential rain is worrying us and put a halt to her news gathering. We've come a long way |
1:32.4 | to find out more about the indigenous Boonong community who've been |
1:36.3 | displaced by a hydropower dam. It was always a risk coming in wet season. The journey has been, well let's say, interesting. Our first van got |
1:47.1 | stuck in wheel deep mud. We were lucky and managed to get a lift some of the way even with all our equipment then came |
1:54.8 | vehicle number three now I use that term vehicle loosely our last hour of travel was in a |
2:02.4 | homemade tractor attached to a wooden trailer. |
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