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🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.0 | Today, brass bands sound in the streets of Libraville and the West African nation of |
0:10.5 | Gabon, celebrating the end of the Bongo dynasty, but the future is somewhat murky. |
0:18.1 | In Pakistan, our reporter recounts the challenges of covering the case of ten-year-old Sara Sharif |
0:24.5 | after her relatives fled there. |
0:27.3 | The Norway Russian border has, in recent years, seen an influx of Russians fleeing conscription, |
0:33.8 | which is now dwindling, but now a new border has formed in a river. |
0:39.0 | And as our Rome correspondent returns from parental leave, he recounts his experience of becoming |
0:45.2 | a father using a surrogate in Canada. |
0:49.3 | First to Morocco, where the relief effort continues after a devastating earthquake struck |
0:54.7 | the centre of the country just over a week ago, killing nearly 3,000 people. |
1:00.8 | The Quake, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, is the strongest to hit the area for |
1:06.3 | more than a hundred years. |
1:08.7 | It struck late on a Friday night, leaving many who were sleeping trapped in collapsed buildings. |
1:15.1 | The epicenter was in the High Atlas Mountains south of Marrakesh, an area where the fragile |
1:21.0 | infrastructure it will prepare for such a strong Quake. |
1:25.2 | And many Moroccans now face the prospect of a harsh winter without homes. |
1:30.6 | James Coppnell, a former Morocco correspondent, has been in the High Atlas. |
1:36.2 | Amsmeez is, I should say, was a pretty little town. |
1:40.8 | It follows the curve of the road from Marrakesh into the mountains with incredible views across |
1:45.8 | the valleys that turn a gentle shade of peach when the sun begins to set. |
1:51.3 | Foreign tourists have come here for decades to hike in the hills, the Moroccans for a |
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