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🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Katie Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, the USA, Ivory Coast and Bolivia.
At a UN school in Gaza, a teenage girl passed a handwritten note to BBC journalists listing her hopes for a more peaceful future. More than a decade on, Jeremy Bowen remembers that brief encounter - and whether her wishes will ever become reality. Speaking to young Israelis and Palestinians today, he discovers that mistrust between communities is as deep as it's ever been.
The US swing state of Georgia is undergoing a green energy boom, which is generating thousands of new 'green' jobs - but the issue of climate change remains a controversial one. Jordan Dunbar discovers how evangelical Christians are finding new ways to discuss the environment with sceptical Republicans, by focusing on a religious duty to protect the planet.
Abidjan in Ivory Coast is being transformed by a massive programme of road-building and infrastructure improvements - but tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes and businesses in the process. This phenomenon is becoming increasingly common across Africa as cities modernise and expand at unprecedented rates - but at what cost? Sira Thierij reports.
In the town of Copacabana in Bolivia, dozens of vehicles arrive almost every morning outside one of the oldest churches in South America. The Blessing of the Automobiles has been held here since the 1950s. Rebecca Root joined the daily procession
Series producer: Serena Tarling Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill & Katie Morrison
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Hello. |
0:05.6 | Today the US Battleground State of Georgia saw record early voter turnout this week. |
0:12.4 | We pay a visit to hear how green issues are being |
0:15.3 | championed by both parties. Just don't mention climate change. We're an ivory |
0:21.6 | coast where the larger city has seen rapid gentrification of its |
0:26.0 | neighborhoods. We speak to those who've been forced from their homes in the process. |
0:30.4 | And in Bolivia, indigenous and Catholic beliefs combine in a daily ritual of car blessings, |
0:38.5 | luring drivers seeking spiritual safety on the roads from the Atacama desert to neighboring Peru. |
0:46.2 | But first, the killing of Hamas leader Yajya Sinwa in Gaza is Israel's biggest victory so far in the war against Hamas. |
0:55.0 | Xinwa was one of the masterminds of Hamas's October 7th attack on Southern Israel, |
1:02.0 | which killed around 1,200 people and saw more than 250 people |
1:06.6 | taken hostage. |
1:08.8 | Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organization by the UK government has controlled Gaza since 2007. |
1:17.0 | Sinwa took over the leadership of the organisation after its previous political leader, Isel Hanir was killed in an Israeli attack on the |
1:26.3 | Iranian capital Tehran back in July. |
1:30.2 | It remains to be seen how this will impact prospects for a ceasefire in the region. |
1:35.2 | More than a year on from the October 7th attacks, |
1:38.6 | more than 42,000 Palestinians have been killed |
1:42.2 | in the subsequent bombardment and |
1:44.3 | invasion of Gaza according to the Hamas-run health authority. |
1:49.1 | As the wider ramifications are being understood, |
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