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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Kate Adie presents stories from Haiti, South Korea, the US, Senegal and the Vatican City.
Haiti's government have declared a state of emergency after armed gangs attacked the country's airport and stormed two of the main prisons. Harold Isaac gives a first-hand account of the chaos that unfolded and how the capital went into full lockdown.
South Korean women are increasingly shunning the dating scene and choosing not to have children. And the country's birth rate recently fell again, to just 0.72. This poses a serious problem for South Korea's economy and its security, with politicians describing it as a national emergency. But, as Jean MacKenzie finds, they've been unable to reverse the trend.
Mouse Green travels on the freight trains criss-crossing the US, some of which stretch over two miles long. He meets members of the counter-culture community who call the rail cars home and uncovers a hidden world.
Senegal has been a beacon of stability in the Sahel region, which has seen a series of coups over recent years. But, as Beverly Ochieng reports, the move by the West African country's outgoing President, Macky Sall, to delay elections sparked outrage. It also follows a clampdown on the opposition over the last year.
Sara Monetta goes on an exclusive tour of the Sistine Chapel to watch how technology is being used to maintain Michelangelo's famous frescoes, as millions of people visit the museum every year. She describes the painstaking process of identifying any signs of deterioration and meets the experts involved.
Series Producer: Serena Tarling Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Today, women in South Korea are increasingly shunning the dating scene |
0:10.0 | and deciding not to have children, |
0:12.0 | our correspondent, here's why. |
0:14.8 | Senegal has had a strong and stable track record for |
0:18.7 | democratic freedoms and fair elections, |
0:21.6 | but all that started to unravel amid a clump down on the |
0:24.8 | opposition. We travel on the freight trains criss-crossing the US and meet members of |
0:31.0 | the counterculture community who call the rail cars home. |
0:35.5 | And we find out about the high-tech solution helping to maintain Michelangelo's most famous |
0:40.8 | frescoes in the Sistinee Chapel, but you'll need a head for heights. |
0:46.0 | First, Haiti has once again been thrown into a state of chaos after armed gangs attacked the country's international airport. of declared a state of emergency. Meanwhile the Prime Minister Ariel-Anri has been out of the |
1:06.2 | country on a trip to Kenya trying to broker a deal which would see a UN-backed police force deployed to Haiti to help bring the violence under control. |
1:17.0 | But so far this move has only inflamed tensions with the gangs who control swaths of the capital Porto-Plasse. |
1:24.8 | Harold Isaac describes how the situation rapidly deteriorated towards the end of last week. |
1:32.6 | That warm and sunny Thursday had started pretty much like any other normal Thursday |
1:36.8 | here. |
1:38.2 | At least as normal as any day can be in Haiti, especially in the past few years. |
1:44.0 | There had been reports of some shooting downtown, |
1:47.4 | but that's nothing out of the ordinary. |
1:49.7 | My wife and I decided to head downtown |
1:51.8 | to our offices in Port-au-Prince regardless. |
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