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From Our Own Correspondent

Malta's Birds: Loved and Hunted

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today Rajini Vaidyanathan returns to the scene of the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina; Julia Langdon hears from the local people of Corfu on their five years - and counting - of economic misery; Lawrence Grissell speaks to widows in Nepal who are trying to find out what happened to their relatives who died while working overseas; David Shukman travels to one of Madagascar's most remote corners where tortoises are being protected with the help of a two-headed bull; and Mario Cacciottolo is in Malta, talking to hunters, who balance a passion for nature with an urge to shoot wild birds.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC Radios from our own correspondent,

0:05.0

the best in news and current affairs storytelling.

0:08.0

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:10.0

Hello. Today the ever more precious roots of Corfu's olive trees, just the place to store

0:16.8

your worldly wealth, trying to get answers about the mysterious deaths of Nepal's overseas workers.

0:24.4

We travel across one of the world's unique islands, Madagascar, to one of its remotest corners,

0:30.4

or at least it is for now. and why loving birds and hunting them isn't a contradiction in Malta.

0:37.0

After the shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston,

0:42.0

Americans have been confronting some of their most difficult

0:44.6

challenges this week, gun control, racism and terrorism. President Obama said the country

0:50.7

had to come to grips with gun control.

0:53.0

Others have argued that racism is the main issue to tackle,

0:57.0

or even racist terrorism, as Hillary Clinton called it.

1:01.0

Then there's the question of what to do about the Confederate flag. Some of the

1:05.5

biggest retailers in the US have announced that they've stopped selling goods bearing the flag.

1:11.1

Regini Vigenathan returned to Charleston to the scene of the crime when the

1:15.2

Emmanuel A. Ami Church reopened its doors for its first service since the killings.

1:19.7

At first glance, it was as though nothing had happened here.

1:24.0

Three carved wooden chairs covered with velvet stood on the altar at the front.

1:28.0

An American flag hung from a vertical pole, so tall it almost touched the ceiling.

1:34.8

Framed hangings bearing the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer were on either side.

1:40.2

Facing the altar in the large wood-paneled room were rows of wooden chairs, to one side were long plastic

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