Lessons for Migrants
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today our correspondents ... are in the classroom as migrants, newly arrived in Finland, are taught about Finnish values, culture and the place of women in western society; consider how much the self-styled Islamic State has been damaged by recent successes by Iraqi government forces supported by foreign air power; go to Norway, a country outside the EU but inside the single market. Is that an example the UK might follow after the referendum has been held on whether it should stay in or leave the EU? Our man in Cuba takes a stroll through Havana's poorly lit streets amid concerns that an upsurge in tourism will lead to a rise in crime; and a trip to the hopfields of southern Germany where one brewer is finding that beer and art can be an intoxicating mix.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, even the dogs live better than us. A family speaks of life in an Iraqi city overrun |
| 0:20.4 | by IAS militants. We're eavesdropping in Helsinki as migrants are told that in |
| 0:26.3 | Finland women are men's equals. Outside the EU, inside the single market, we're |
| 0:32.2 | off to Norway to learn more about that country's |
| 0:34.8 | relationship with Brussels. |
| 0:37.2 | And what on earth does beer have in common with art? |
| 0:40.3 | We're in the hop fields of southern Germany trying to find out. |
| 0:45.0 | One of the many arguments for overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003 |
| 0:49.6 | was that he made life unbearable for so many people in Iraq. |
| 0:54.0 | One of the many arguments against that outcome was that life in Iraq has been much worse |
| 0:58.4 | since. |
| 0:59.9 | The United Nations said this week, civilians there were caught up still in a staggering |
| 1:04.5 | level of violence. At least 18,000 were killed between the start of 2014 and |
| 1:10.1 | November last year, it said, as Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State Group. |
| 1:16.0 | The Iraqi army has made some headway against IAS in recent months, driving it out of the |
| 1:21.0 | mainly Sunni Western city of Ramadi and from other places. |
| 1:25.0 | Jim Muir in Baghdad says their continuing success is crucial to the country's future. |
| 1:30.0 | The little girl was sitting next to me on a foam rubber mattress in the tent that |
| 1:34.6 | suddenly become her home. I asked her what her name was, but I couldn't make out the |
| 1:39.5 | reply because her lips are split and swollen from the shrapnel that peppered her face and those of her little brothers. |
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