Kherson: After the Russian Retreat
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, the West Bank, Pakistan, the US and the Faroe Islands.
Jeremy Bowen was in Kherson in Ukraine shortly after the Russians retreated, but he found that occupation and liberation can lead to suspicion and division.
There is unease among Palestinians living in the hamlets of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank as the new Israeli government takes shape. Yolande Knell spoke to villagers there, who found out earlier this year about the Israeli Supreme Court decision to recognise a military training zone around their homes.
Samira Hussain attends one of the rallies of former PM Imran Khan on his March to Islamabad and meets him again after an assassination attempt a fortnight later - wounded but determined to continue his political fight.
In New York, there's a population explosion - of rats. The mayor has a plan to tackle the problem but requiring residents to put their refuse out after 8pm each night. But there's more to the expanding rat population than meets the eye, finds Laura Trevelyan.
And in the Faroe Islands, Tim Ecott is in amidst a sheep mustering where he learns about the local meat-eating tradition, and the desire to be self-sustainable amid the threat of European recession, inflation and the energy crisis.
Producers: Caroline Bayley and Serena Tarling Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:05.2 | Today we're in the southern Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank, where a thousand |
| 0:10.7 | people are at risk of eviction from their homes. An assassination attempt on former Prime |
| 0:16.6 | Minister Imran Khan leaves him wounded, but by no means politically diminished. Outdoor |
| 0:23.8 | dining may be all the rage in New York, but we hear how it's triggering a population |
| 0:29.4 | explosion of the rodent variety. And we slither down the grassy slopes of the Faroe Islands, |
| 0:37.0 | helping farmers herd their sheep, an activity which reaps rewards for local meat lovers. |
| 0:43.8 | But first questions are now being asked about the origin of a missile which hit Polish |
| 0:48.9 | territory this week, and the euphoria surrounding the withdrawal of Russian occupiers from |
| 0:54.8 | the southern city of Kherson is fading, underlining the uncertainty and unpredictability |
| 1:00.5 | of the war in Ukraine. Ukraine's president for Vladimir Zelensky |
| 1:05.5 | hailed the retreat as the beginning of the end of the war, but as has so often happened |
| 1:10.9 | in this conflict when Russia suffers losses on the ground, it has routinely taken to the |
| 1:16.2 | air to fight back, and on Tuesday missiles rained down on several Ukrainian cities, including |
| 1:22.9 | an intensive attack once again on Kiev's energy infrastructure. Jeremy Byrne was in |
| 1:29.4 | Kherson shortly after the Russians retreated, but as he found occupation and liberation |
| 1:35.5 | can lead to division and suspicion. Occupations inject poison into communities. It is not just |
| 1:42.9 | fear of the occupier, though that is very real. Fear is used to impose the will of the |
| 1:48.4 | occupier on people who don't want them to be there. Mercy and kindness are not on the |
| 1:53.9 | agenda. The occupation of Kherson follows a long tradition and I'm not just talking about |
| 2:00.3 | Russia. I've seen quite a few military occupations and brutality is always part of them. |
| 2:06.6 | As well as fear and force occupiers need collaborators. Sometimes they're blackmailed or |
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