Europe's Migration Turmoil
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. This week, as Europe agonises over how to deal with the flow of migrants heading westwards, we hear two different perspectives from the Continent: in Vienna they've been shocked into action, while in Prague the loudest message is "keep out." Azerbaijan is spending millions on trying to improve its image but our correspondent says it should save its money and just stop locking people up. In Ireland speed, skill and passion are the order of the day on the pitch - and having a Putin-like stare helps. While on America's Amtrak network it's less a question of speed and more a matter of finding your moment of Zen.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our site |
| 0:08.9 | at BBC online. |
| 0:10.7 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:16.0 | Today as Europe agonizers over how to deal with the flow of migrants heading westwards, |
| 0:21.0 | we hear how in Vienna they've been shocked into action, while in |
| 0:24.9 | Prague the loudest message is keep out. As a Meijan is spending millions on trying |
| 0:31.3 | to improve its image, but our correspondence says it should |
| 0:34.4 | save its money and just stop locking people up. In Ireland it's speed, skill and passion that |
| 0:40.9 | are the order of the day on the pitch and having a put-in like stare helps. While on America's Amtrak network, |
| 0:48.4 | it's less a question of velocity and more a matter of finding your moment of Zen. |
| 0:55.0 | Europe's biggest migrant crisis since the Second World War. |
| 0:59.0 | David Cameron says Britain will act with head and heart |
| 1:02.0 | and that the UK will be accepting |
| 1:03.8 | thousands more refugees. Germany and Sweden have been praised for agreeing to |
| 1:08.8 | take in large numbers of Syrians in particular. Others argue that this will do little to solve the crisis |
| 1:15.3 | and will encourage more people to try to get to Europe. The Czech Republic, like |
| 1:20.1 | the UK, has been refusing to accept binding quotas of refugees. |
| 1:25.0 | And as Rob Cameron found in Prague, the rhetoric has become increasingly hostile. |
| 1:31.0 | If Hitler rose from the dead and promised to rid Europe of migrants, would you vote for him? |
| 1:38.0 | It's an odd question for a country that suffered six years of brutal Nazi occupation, but someone at the popular Czech news |
| 1:45.3 | weekly T-DEN clearly thought it worth asking. |
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