Clinging To Hope
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The rescue workers sifting through the rubble in Mexico and the African migrants that refuse to give up on their European dreams. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.
In Mexico City, Rajini Vaidyanathan joins the search for survivors following the earthquake earlier this week. Benjamin Zand follows the deadly migrant route through Niger, Nigeria, and Libya which thousands of people pass along in the hope of reaching Europe. Steve Rosenberg takes a Magical Mystery Tour with the Russian military in Syria. Rosamund Jones visits the Icelandic isle of Grimsey – population 80 people and hundreds of thousands of birds. And Neil Trevithick visits the forests of Myanmar, where people have suffered but wildlife has been left to flourish.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.6 | Hello. Today floods, tornadoes, earthquakes. |
| 0:07.4 | The Earth has been rumbling steadily these past weeks, |
| 0:10.8 | and Mexico has just experienced literally deadly upheaval. |
| 0:15.0 | Meanwhile, they're less frequently in the headlines, the people smugglers are hard at work |
| 0:21.0 | and we hear the consequences for those heading for the beaches of Libya. |
| 0:25.2 | Our correspondent has been on manoeuvres with the Russian army and been on the receiving end of some |
| 0:30.2 | old school Moscow mind games and 60 species of bird almost enough for one |
| 0:37.2 | per human inhabitant were on a remote Icelandic island. News of migrants and But it's had little or no impact on the migrants themselves. |
| 0:54.1 | Yet another 50, a presumed, drowned this week, when their boat capsized off the Libyan coast. |
| 0:59.6 | There are increased efforts to stem the numbers trying to cross borders and seas. |
| 1:05.0 | And Benjamin Zand has been following the popular route from Niger and Nigeria to Libya. |
| 1:11.0 | Lies, lies and more lies. |
| 1:15.0 | The migrant trail is plagued with misinformation. |
| 1:18.0 | That's what I think to myself as I sit exhausted, |
| 1:21.0 | splattered with water on a speedboat heading to Tripoli. |
| 1:24.0 | The road is too dangerous, so boat is the best option. |
| 1:27.0 | I've been up all night with the Libyan Coast Guard. |
| 1:30.0 | They're pretty terrifying. |
| 1:32.0 | Most have scars torn along their faces and the |
| 1:34.6 | leader is missing three fingers, lost to a bomb blast years ago. In just six hours at sea |
| 1:40.2 | we find 600 people, men, women and children. |
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