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🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.0 | Today does it matter where a refugee is from? Poland is now accommodating a vast number |
0:11.7 | contrasting with its previous policy. One mother and her children reach safety in Munich |
0:17.7 | we hear about the long journey from their home in Kharkiv. We're in the flood hit Australian |
0:24.0 | village of Tumbulgum in New South Wales where locals are counting the cost of damage. |
0:30.9 | And as countries around the world emerge from Covid restrictions, China's cities are |
0:35.8 | transported back to the era of strict lockdowns. |
0:40.5 | First the war in Ukraine hasn't just created a grim new reality, it's brought back some |
0:45.7 | uncomfortable memories. Refugees crowding onto trains in eastern European snow to escape |
0:51.8 | a war, young men volunteering to fight for their country and being sent into harm's |
0:56.8 | way with almost no training. The possibility that a new cold war between Russia and the |
1:03.1 | US and Europeans could be upon us says Jeremy Bowen. |
1:08.2 | Maybe it is simply that memories are shaped by films and old newsreels. A moment glimpsed |
1:13.7 | in life can look familiar as if we've already seen it, even if it happened before we were |
1:19.7 | born. So am I being deceived this week in Ukraine to see connections everywhere with the |
1:26.4 | past that Europeans thought we'd left behind? Unfortunately, I don't think so. |
1:34.1 | At the height of the exodus from Kiev railway station in the vaulting ticket hall on the |
1:38.5 | stone staircases, walkways and platforms, 50,000 people were saying goodbye every day. A sense |
1:46.8 | of duty hung heavy over men who were seeing off wives and families while they stayed |
1:51.5 | to fight. Ukrainian law says men between 18 and 60 can't leave, but I haven't seen any |
1:59.2 | press gangs. A teenager in uniform, his rifle slung down his back, murmured to the girl |
2:05.8 | in his arms before she got on the train. It was something said Fred Scott, my Californian |
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