Feb 24, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Black Sea resort of Sochi is preparing to host the next Winter Olympics. But following an attack on tourists at a Russian ski resort, Stephen Rosenberg hears concerns that Sochi could become a target for terrorism. As the people of Dresden commemorate the anniversary of the city's bombing during World War Two, Stephen Evans meets the neo-Nazi's demonstrating there. Petroc Trelawney is treated to a day out in the Zimbabwean countryside and a history lesson from the daughter of the country's former Prime Minister. Jonathan Fryer meets the Mennonites of Paraguay, members of a Christian religious sect that set up home in the vast "green desert" of the Paraguayan Chaco. And Paul Miles takes part in the World Kick-sledge Championships where the sledges are propelled by people.
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| 0:17.0 | But now with the addition broadcasts on Radio 4, here's Kate Aide. |
| 0:21.8 | Today the security fears in Russia as it prepares for the Winter Olympics. |
| 0:26.9 | There's a neo-Nazi rally in Dresden conducted to the strains not a Wagner but Britain's |
| 0:32.1 | own Edward Elgar. |
| 0:34.6 | Memories of war overshadow a picnic in Zimbabwe, and we visit the Mennonites, a Puritan |
| 0:39.8 | Christian sect who fled to Paraguay in the 1930s. |
| 0:45.0 | Ever since the Munich Massacre in 1972, security has been a major concern for any country |
| 0:50.6 | hosting the Olympics. So fears have been raised that terrorists might be |
| 0:55.1 | planning to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics which are to be held in the Black Sea |
| 0:59.7 | resort of Sochi. Just last weekend armed men struck at a nearby Russian ski resort in the |
| 1:05.9 | Cabardino Balcaria region which forms part of the North Caucasus mountain range, an area |
| 1:11.8 | riven by nationalist and Islamist tensions. |
| 1:15.9 | Tourists were among the five people shot dead when a minibus was ambushed. |
| 1:19.9 | Steve Rosenberg has been talking to the people there who have to try to ensure the games will be safe. |
| 1:25.0 | If there's one city which Russians love writing songs about, it's Sochi, the Black Sea |
| 1:32.2 | Resort where there's always sun in the sky, |
| 1:35.2 | palm trees on the promenade and love in the air. |
| 1:38.6 | If you believe all the lyrics, that is. |
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