No More Boat People
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Global despatches: in this edition, why hunger is again taking hold in South Sudan - even after a plentiful harvest; Australia gets tough with asylum seekers -- and the problems pile up for those seeking a new life down under; how America's attachment to its First Amendment gives hate groups the freedom to disseminate their beliefs; we visit a cemetery in the Czech Republic: a place of awful history, but also one where you learn about a community determined to create a successful future for itself; and fine dining for only a few pounds? we meet a man in Chile dedicated to reviving his country's culinary heritage.
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.5 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello. Today, the harvest was good, the rainfall plentiful, so why is a devastating famine on the way in South Sudan? |
| 0:17.0 | I don't hate you, but we are not the same. |
| 0:20.0 | Our man comes face to face with a white supremacist leader in the US. |
| 0:25.2 | Australia stops the boat people setting foot on its shores, |
| 0:28.6 | but what's the price being paid for this tough immigration policy? And pass me the horse meat please. We're made to feel |
| 0:35.8 | part of the family on the wrong side of the tracks in Chile. Aid agencies working |
| 0:41.8 | in South Sudan are warning that 4 million people there are likely to face critical food shortages next month. |
| 0:48.0 | Ethnic violence has forced many from their homes and thousands of people have died in the fighting which began as a political |
| 0:54.8 | dispute between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Macha. |
| 1:00.5 | Tristan McConnell says all this has disrupted the planting season and livestock has been scattered |
| 1:06.0 | but despite the specter of famine there's no sign of the conflict being resolved. |
| 1:11.0 | You don't have to go much further than the airport in the |
| 1:14.0 | capital juba to see how far South Sudan has fallen in the six months since |
| 1:18.1 | conflict restarted. There are tanks and an anti-aircraft gun at the end of the runway. |
| 1:23.2 | Holking, Aleutian 76 and Lockheed C-130 cargo planes painted with a logo of the world food program, |
| 1:29.9 | a part on the apron in between flights to air-lived food to hungry parts of the country. |
| 1:35.5 | The new terminal, which was supposed to be ready to welcome guests celebrating the nation's |
| 1:39.7 | independence four years ago, is still not completed and is already beginning to rust. The array of white |
| 1:46.4 | container buildings that makes up the nearby United Nations base has been augmented |
| 1:51.3 | by a dirty scrum of tents and shelters, |
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