Memorable Moments of 2017
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The migrants clinging to hope, NATO military manoeuvres and a jungle prince. Kate Adie introduces some memorable moments correspondents have shared on the programme in 2017. Benjamin Zand encounters 'lies, lies and yet more lies" as he follows the treacherous migrant route that hundreds of thousands of people have followed in the hope of reaching Europe from Africa. Shaimaa Khalil recalls growing up in Egypt and her first experience of sexual harassment aged 11 #metoo. Emily Unia watches a NATO display of military might in Romania, but can't escape noticing that some members of the press pack don't seem to be taking it seriously. Tim Whewell tries to talk his way into Abkhazia - a country which most of the world refuses to recognise. And Justin Rowlatt has the tale of the lonely death of an Indian prince reduced to living in abject poverty in a hunting lodge in a forest in Delhi. Producer: Joe Kent.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello. Today some of the stories which caught the ear over the last year and reflect our preoccupations. |
| 0:12.0 | Sexual harassment, groping having men trying to rip your clothes off in Egypt. |
| 0:17.4 | The Russian bear rises again in the East, so NATO gathers its forces, but strangely with added comedians. |
| 0:25.5 | The life of the rich, the gap with the poor, how to cope when you're an impoverished Indian |
| 0:30.6 | prince who doesn't want to mix with social inferiors. |
| 0:34.0 | And let's discuss Brexit, but only as a means to get into a country most of the world doesn't recognize. |
| 0:41.0 | All memorable moments for our foreign correspondence and the tales of |
| 0:45.8 | refugees wound their way into many of our dispatches. More than 3,000 people are |
| 0:51.8 | believed to have died in the Mediterranean this year as they tried to reach Europe. |
| 0:56.0 | In Libya, the main transit point for the migrant trade, slave markets and auctions have been exposed in shocking videos, and tales of torture and physical |
| 1:05.8 | and sexual abuse have continued to emerge all along the migrant trail. |
| 1:11.3 | Some are oblivious to this, but others think the risk is worth taking. |
| 1:16.0 | Benjamin Zand followed in their footsteps. |
| 1:19.0 | Lies, lies and more lies. |
| 1:22.0 | The migrant trail is plagued with misinformation. |
| 1:25.0 | That's what I think to myself as I sit exhausted, splattered with water on a speed bow heading to Tripoli. |
| 1:31.0 | The road is too dangerous, so Boats is the best option. |
| 1:34.1 | I've been up all night with the Libyan Coast Guard. They're pretty terrifying. |
| 1:38.7 | Most have scars torn along their faces and the leader is missing three fingers, lost to a bomb blast years ago. |
| 1:45.3 | In just six hours at sea we find 600 people, men, women and children. |
| 1:50.8 | They piled onto four shoddy boats made out of what look like crates and what do not look at all like they're made to be in the sea. |
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