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🗓️ 25 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today we meet America's political refugees, the growing number of people packing up and switching |
0:06.6 | states because they feel ideologically isolated. |
0:11.7 | In Argentina, the election of a far right leader has brought an end to years of left-leaning |
0:17.0 | Peronism, but will his radical manifesto become a reality? |
0:22.0 | A fire at a wedding in Iraq has highlighted the lapsed safety |
0:26.8 | standards in the country after decades of war. And we're in Iceland where our correspondent has been tracking a volcano that's poised to erupt |
0:36.4 | and witnessed the evacuation of a town lying in its path. |
0:40.2 | But first Russia. |
0:43.0 | President Vladimir Putin has overseen an unprecedented crackdown on domestic opposition |
0:49.0 | since his country's invasion of Ukraine. |
0:52.0 | Repressive laws were passed, which effectively criminalise |
0:56.3 | all anti-war activism in the country. |
0:59.9 | The recent trial of artist Sasha Scotlandotelenko underscored the heavy-handed |
1:05.0 | enforcement of these laws as well as the inconsistent way in which justice |
1:09.8 | is applied in Russia. Steve Rosenberg was in the St Petersburg courtroom when she was sentenced and he reflects |
1:17.8 | on how her case compares to other crimes. |
1:28.0 | In a St. Petersburg courthouse, a dangerous criminal is walking towards me. I mean, she must be dangerous. |
1:30.0 | She's flanked by six policemen. Surely only dangerous criminals require an |
1:36.3 | escort of half a dozen police officers. The defendant, Sasha Scacchelenco, is |
1:41.9 | ushered into the courtroom and locked inside a metal cage. |
1:46.4 | And to make sure that such a dangerous offender can't slip through the bars, the police take |
1:52.0 | up positions around the caged dock. |
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