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🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Today, a lost childhood, a lost generation in Colombia, we meet the teenagers who were snatched from their homes to fight a guerrilla war. |
0:15.0 | Berlin has always had a lively art scene, but we find it's no place for the faint-hearted. |
0:20.8 | A year on from a fatal dam- in Brazil and lives are slowly being rebuilt. |
0:27.0 | And in New York, popping into a hospital, our correspondent has something of an odyssey through the health care system. |
0:34.0 | First lockdown, quarantine, emergency evacuation, |
0:40.0 | all the frightening terms which attach to the outbreak of a hitherto unknown virus, |
0:45.2 | coronavirus. It's spreading in China and has already put its feelers into several other countries. |
0:52.3 | Its epicenter, Wu Han, is in Hubay province, and our |
0:56.8 | correspondent Stephen McDonnell reflects on the atmosphere it's creating. |
1:02.6 | We arrive in Hernan province, on board an almost empty train. |
1:06.4 | Who'd want to head into a virus hot zone. |
1:08.8 | People are going in the other direction. |
1:10.7 | The small city of Nagnan isn't far from the border with Hube, the heart of the virus |
1:15.0 | emergency and here we hire a car. We need number plates from anywhere but Hube province. |
1:21.6 | That's why we start our journey here. Cars from Hubay are like an open |
1:25.5 | declaration that the vehicle could be carrying the coronavirus. As we approach the border, |
1:31.0 | there are checks. You drive up to a roadblock where masks |
1:34.0 | police wave over all cars to stop. Medical teams covered head-to-toe in |
1:39.0 | protective clothing use electronic thermometers to scan all passengers. |
1:43.0 | They're wearing goggles because scientists have warned |
1:46.0 | that having exposed eyes could be a way of contracting the potentially deadly disease. |
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