Miracle on the Beach
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Filling in the gaps between the headlines: shock, horror, remorse, guilt -- how a piece of gold triggered an emotional tsunami on a beach near Cape Town. Why the Pope's been so in demand on his visit to Washington, a city where it's usually money that's talking the loudest; robbed of everything she had, even her blanket: it's one of the stories of those fleeing the violence in South Sudan, the world's newest nation; electioneering gathers pace in Myanmar, formerly Burma, and there's at least one point the human rights lawyer and the man who's been called the Buddhist Bin Laden can agree on and Germany might seem the promised land to many of the migrants making the long trek up through Europe but, it seems, not all of them are happy with what they find
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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, today the disappointment waiting for some of the migrants who finally make it to Germany. |
| 0:20.7 | Why the Pope's been the hottest ticket in town in Washington, even if his car nearly stole the show. |
| 0:27.0 | An election looms in Myanmar, formerly Burma. |
| 0:30.1 | Will it finally be game over for the generals? |
| 0:32.6 | And a miracle emerges from a hole in the beach in South Africa. |
| 0:37.8 | But first there's growing speculation that the Prime Minister might announce |
| 0:41.8 | he's sending peacekeeping soldiers to South Sudan. |
| 0:45.6 | Downing Street maintains no decisions yet been made, but Mr Cameron will be at the United Nations |
| 0:50.9 | in New York next week, and the UN is keen to bring the devastating |
| 0:55.1 | civil war in South Sudan to an end. |
| 0:58.0 | The fighting has seen thousands killed. |
| 1:00.5 | More than four and a half million people have been forced from their homes |
| 1:04.0 | and Alistelithhead says that those arriving at overcrowded UN bases in the Nile floodplain |
| 1:10.0 | are bringing with them stories of terrible atrocities. |
| 1:13.7 | Angelina Niamai was lying on her side when we found her, |
| 1:17.6 | too tired and too sick to move. |
| 1:20.5 | Under a cloth pulled up to a chest was Bishar, a 36 day old son, half feeding, half sleeping. |
| 1:28.0 | Curled up against her legs was Nayabi, two and a half, sometimes coughing, |
| 1:33.0 | sometimes sobbing, ill and too exhausted to brush away their persistent flies |
| 1:37.0 | that don't buzz around your head in South Sudan. |
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