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🗓️ 14 May 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:05.6 | Good morning. |
0:06.6 | Today we hear about life in China under COVID lockdown and about life in El Salvador where gang |
0:13.1 | violence is out of control. |
0:16.2 | Refugees from Ukraine are being welcomed in Switzerland as elsewhere in Europe, but what |
0:21.3 | about those fleeing other conflicts? |
0:24.4 | Are correspondents in Berlin attend a ceremony to mark the end of World War II? |
0:29.6 | One finds himself unsure whether the right lessons of that war have been learned. |
0:35.3 | Under ringside report from the biggest night in women's boxing is the sport finally getting |
0:40.7 | the recognition it deserves. |
0:42.9 | First, the warning to China this week was stark. |
0:47.1 | Its so-called zero COVID approach is unsustainable according to the World Health Organization. |
0:53.9 | Hundreds of millions of people have been kept under lockdown in cities across the country, |
0:59.0 | while the rest of the world begins to learn how to live with COVID. |
1:03.3 | The economy has been severely jolted. |
1:06.1 | People inside China have called it an abuse of human rights, and lockdowns can in any |
1:11.2 | case only hold the virus a bay for so long that WHO said. |
1:16.9 | That criticism didn't go down too well with the Chinese authorities who seemed determined |
1:22.2 | to carry on as before. |
1:24.7 | Indeed this week it was announced that the city of Shanghai would be placed under its |
1:28.9 | tightest restrictions yet, severely limiting access to grocery stores and hospitals, news |
1:35.5 | which came as a disappointment to Rebecca Canfer, who's already gone through seven weeks |
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