No Love Lost
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Relations between Japan and South Korea have often been delicate. But they may now have reached their lowest ebb since they established diplomatic relations in 1965. Peter Hadfield reports from Tokyo on the background to the dispute and how it's playing out in Japan.
The European migrant crisis has receded from its peak of 2015, but large numbers of people are still seeking refuge in Europe, their first stop often being the Greek islands. But the camps are overcrowded and the people living there close to despair, as Charlie Faulkner finds out on Lesbos.
It's now 30 years since the first partly-free elections in Poland as it began to emerge from the Soviet shadow. Kevin Connolly, who reported on those elections in the city of Gdansk, has just returned. He notices distinct similarities in the restaurant menus then and now but a significant difference in what is actually served up.
In southern Chad, as the rainy season begins to recede, the grass is lush, the grazing is good and the nomadic Wodaabe people are gathering for the annual Gerewol festival - a week of what you might call speed-dating under the stars. Mark Stratton has been to watch.
There are a few basic rules if you're planning to drive your car into the Australian Outback: take lots of water, tell someone where you're going and make sure the car has enough fuel. Christine Finn says it's easy to forget.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, they're not in the headlines these days, but migrants are still heading for Europe, |
| 0:12.0 | and in the Greek islands the camps are dangerously full. |
| 0:16.0 | How to measure the passage of time in an entire nation? |
| 0:20.0 | Well, we start with our correspondent looking at the menu in Poland. |
| 0:25.0 | We drop in on a spectacular courtship ritual in the Back of Beyond in Sub-Sahauer and Africa, |
| 0:31.0 | then consider the dangers of getting stuck in the back of beyond in Australia. |
| 0:37.0 | First, while the very public row between China and the United States over trade tariffs has the world's markets glued to every |
| 0:45.2 | twitch and move, in its shadow is another less public row between South Korea and Japan, with relations between the two described as at their lowest |
| 0:55.1 | point since they established diplomatic ties in 1965. Peter Hadfield has |
| 1:01.0 | been looking for reasons in Tokyo. |
| 1:04.0 | The sleepy old man in a chair outside the Korean Air Office wore a smart blue uniform that said, |
| 1:10.0 | yes I really am a security guard. |
| 1:13.0 | And as I walked past him through the sliding glass doors, |
| 1:16.0 | he suddenly jumped up and raced after me. |
| 1:19.0 | These days, guarding any Korean facility in Japan is a nervous occupation. |
| 1:24.6 | Live bullets have been sent to the Korean embassy in Tokyo with the message, |
| 1:28.4 | I've got a rifle and I'm hunting Koreans. |
| 1:31.6 | Meanwhile outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul, two people died after setting |
| 1:35.9 | themselves on fire during anti-Japanese protests. Inside the airline office, a row of empty seats would normally be filled with eager customers booking flights |
| 1:46.7 | but these are not normal times the Japanese government has issued a travel warning to its citizens, |
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