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🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Good morning. |
0:06.4 | Today, every country has its own way of dealing with the pandemic. |
0:10.6 | However, Turkmenistan stands out as claiming to have no coronavirus cases. |
0:16.0 | Interestingly, it's a very secretive country and we hear it says it's living in an era of |
0:22.4 | supreme happiness. In Tanzania too there's less than total |
0:27.8 | transparency about COVID-19 statistics. Our correspondent hears claims of a data lockdown and locals have been told |
0:36.4 | that God and prayer will keep them safe. Singapore is known for efficiency and |
0:42.4 | for implementing a strict lockdown, though last week's |
0:45.7 | election results have put a crack in the armour of the ruling party, perhaps changes on the |
0:50.5 | way. |
0:51.5 | And face coverings. There are many views on the way. And face coverings. There are many views on the subject, but our |
0:55.5 | correspondent in Berlin appears to have ended up with one he says looks like a |
1:00.3 | pair of Y fronts. First to Bosnia, which still bears the scars of the Balkan Wars in |
1:07.1 | the 90s, this month marking the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica. It's still divided and as I've found on |
1:15.7 | several visits there in the past few years old enmities are still entrenched |
1:20.3 | while the economy is sluggish and asking about politics produces a tirade of contempt. |
1:27.0 | There are few opportunities for the young, says Guy Delauni, and they're leaving in droves. |
1:33.0 | They're still burying the victims at Potachari Cemetery. |
1:37.0 | This year there were nine coffins set out in front of the 7,000 stark white obelisks, marking the graves of those who'd already been laid to rest. |
1:46.7 | Relatives gather to say their final goodbyes, as prayers and devotional songs echoed back |
1:51.6 | off the walls of the old battery factory opposite the cemetery. |
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