Dec 06: Spies are Everywhere
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporters tell their stories: in this edition, Carrie Gracie travels to China's most troubled region Xinjiang - it's in the midst of a crackdown on what the authorities describe as 'terrorism driven by religious extremism'. Fergal Keane, just back from Ukraine, examines the circumstances which led to one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts in decades. Mike Wendling's in the United States where a campaign to persuade the Washington Redskins football team to change its name is gathering pace. Will Ross is in north eastern Nigeria where bows and arrows, magic and ancient hunting rifles are now being used in the battle against the Boko Haram jihadists. And David Mazower's at a festival in Poland where it's clear a growing number of Poles feel profound loss about the Jewish nation in their midst which was ripped apart in the Second World War.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, today, nighttime in China's most troubled region, spies are everywhere and the |
| 0:16.5 | checkpoints are expecting us. |
| 0:19.2 | Boes and arrows and magic amulets join the fight against Boca |
| 0:22.6 | Huram in Nigeria. |
| 0:24.6 | Is it offensive and racist or just a harmless tradition? |
| 0:28.1 | The Washington Redskins are told. |
| 0:30.0 | Time to change that name. |
| 0:32.4 | And in Poland, music, theatre, storytelling, a Jewish festival, but in a town where |
| 0:37.8 | there are no Jews. But first a day of silence. That apparently is what's been agreed for next Tuesday by both sides involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine. |
| 0:49.0 | Yesterday's unexpected ceasefire announcement from Kyiv offers a glimmer of hope that the bitter |
| 0:54.4 | conflict might, after eight months, finally be nearing an end. |
| 0:59.0 | The Tuesday truce is the latest in a series of deals announced during the war, the others were all broken within days, |
| 1:05.0 | hours sometimes by both the pro-Russian rebels and government forces. |
| 1:10.0 | Fergalkeen, just back from Ukraine, has been looking at the circumstances which led to one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts in decades. |
| 1:18.0 | It was a warm morning and sunny, but already the omens were bad. A burned out army truck was smoldering on the side of the road. |
| 1:26.0 | A Ukrainian jet made several passes overhead, and constant as the passing minutes the booming malevolence of the guns. |
| 1:34.8 | On that autumn morning, three months ago, the eastern battlegrounds of Ukraine were supposed to be |
| 1:38.7 | experiencing a ceasefire, but death was still falling from the skies, on the positions of the rival armies, |
| 1:46.3 | on the long highway that runs beside the sea of Azov, on the villages, towns and farms of |
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