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🗓️ 10 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | World Football in Qatar is the podcast taking you behind the scenes with all 32 teams at the World Cup. |
0:07.0 | We're hearing from the players, the fans and people in Qatar, telling the truly global story of the competition. |
0:15.0 | That's World Football in Qatar from the BBC World Service. Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
0:23.0 | Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS Conversations on Haiti. |
0:35.0 | With armed gangs in control of large areas of the capital, ordinary Haitians share what it's like to live in an increasingly dangerous nation. |
0:45.0 | Going out is pretty dangerous because there's kidnapping every day and my child. She's working so she tried to live every day at different hours. |
0:56.0 | Every day someone is living home in Haiti. You pray for that same person to come back and be safe. |
1:07.0 | Haiti shares an island in the Caribbean Sea with the Dominican Republic. |
1:11.0 | But unlike its thriving neighbour, Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. |
1:17.0 | Within the last 15 years alone, it's had outbreaks of cholera, a devastating earthquake and political upheaval. |
1:25.0 | Last year, the country's president was assassinated, a crime for which no one has yet been put on trial and since then violence in Haiti has escalated. |
1:36.0 | According to human rights groups, armed gangs now control at least 60% of the capital port of Prince. |
1:43.0 | In October alone, the UN says that there were 200 killings and 100 kidnappings. |
1:49.0 | There's also evidence that these gangs are increasingly using rape as a weapon. |
1:55.0 | Before we hear from Haitians, here's a short clip from the country by our senior international correspondent, Ola Geren, |
2:01.0 | who's been highlighting what's been going on in this troubled nation. |
2:05.0 | A warning that you may find some of her report distressing. |
2:09.0 | Just in front of me, there's a grey vehicle riddled with bullets. |
2:15.0 | There are bullets on the ground. |
2:18.0 | A lot of heavily armed police here, some with their faces covered and with their weapons in their hands, there are about five or six police cars here forming a roadblock. |
2:32.0 | There's an AK-47 on the ground, some ammunition and some blood. |
2:39.0 | We're with one of the police officers here now. He says he's been a serving police officer for 27 years. |
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