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From Our Own Correspondent

Indigenous Australians and the police

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In Australia, the killing of George Floyd in the US has resonated strongly with indigenous Australians, who often face prejudicial policing, and make up a disproportionate number of Australia's prison population. Shaimaa Khalil met members of the Aboriginal community in Sydney. Turkey has so far had relatively few deaths from coronavirus, for the size of its population. That's according to the official data. But in the past week numbers of new infections have surged, following the easing of restrictions in early June. Could there be a second wave? Orla Guerin has been following events in Istanbul. The vast container ships that travel the oceans to supply us with food and other goods have not been left untouched by the pandemic. Fear of the virus means the crews are no longer welcome in many ports, and they have seen their employment rights eroded, Horatio Clare reports. Around a quarter of the world's population already eat insects as part of their diet, but many still recoil from the idea. And yet insects may be an answer for future sustainable food production. So how to make them more palatable? A laboratory in Kenya is working on it. Grasshopper biscuit anyone? Emilie Filou had a taste. In much of Europe, residents had been enjoying free movement for many years, when coronavirus lockdowns closed the borders. Suddenly friends, relatives even lovers on two sides of a border could no longer see each other. But a hotel which sits right on the Franco-Swiss border, with entries on both sides, offered a solution, as Imogen Foulkes has found. Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:05.5

Good morning.

0:06.5

Today, spare a thought for those at sea.

0:09.1

We're on a container ship from China with sailors not welcome in ports because of the pandemic.

0:15.0

In Turkey with border problems, thousands of refugees are not a little political tension.

0:21.0

They say they might be tired of the pandemic, but the virus isn't tired at all.

0:27.0

Something tasty for tea and a bit different.

0:30.0

How about biscuits made from grasshoppers in a Kenyan laboratory?

0:34.8

And sneaking past lockdown restrictions,

0:38.0

we visit a hotel on the Franco-Swiss border,

0:41.0

which has been the scene of Amorous Liaison.

0:45.6

First to Australia which has seen protests and demonstrations about the treatment of its

0:50.6

indigenous people.

0:52.4

It's been a fraught subject for many years. Three decades ago

0:56.3

a royal commission found a disproportionate number of them in custody citing

1:00.9

prejudicial policing and heavier sentencing.

1:04.0

Today the proportion in prison has in fact increased

1:08.0

with a high number of deaths in custody, says Shima Kaleil in Sydney.

1:13.0

At least 20,000 people took to the streets in Sydney recently,

1:17.0

when indigenous Australian activists and their supporters

1:21.0

used the momentum generated by the Black Lives Matter movement to shine a light on

1:25.8

injustices here.

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