Not Welcome Here
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tales of revolutions, rainforests and the migrants returning home from Libya. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world: In Nigeria, Colin Freeman meets some of the migrants who have given up on their European dreams and accepted the UN’s help to return home.
The ‘Velvet Revolution’ in Armenia saw its prime minister (and former president) relinquish power – all without a shot being fired. Rayhan Demytrie was in the capital Yerevan as tens of thousands of people took to the streets demanding change.
“Scum of the earth” is how one Goan politician described visitors from other parts of India, prompting Sushma Puri to try and find out what other residents of the southern Indian state think about domestic tourists.
The usual rule of thumb in rainforests is that you hear lots and see little, says Huw Cordey, but things were different in Suriname thanks to his guide Fred Pansa, who might just become the most famous South American conservationist from a country few have heard of.
And in France, Hugh Schofield stumbles across the grave, and the story, of the once-celebrated, and now largely forgotten English war poet Richard Aldington.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:05.0 | Today Armenia has a long history of invasion and turbulence, |
| 0:09.0 | but it's just managed a bloodless revolution. In Goa you'd think all tourists were welcome, |
| 0:16.3 | but one Indian politician has declared that Indian tourists are the scum of the earth. |
| 0:26.6 | Which is the most tree-covered country on the planet? Our correspondent is there on a hunt for rare birds. And in France another reminder of the Great War a hundred years ago with a story of a largely |
| 0:36.4 | forgotten English poet. |
| 0:40.2 | Border patrols, wire fences, naval interception vessels, widespread attempts across Europe |
| 0:46.4 | to stem the flow of migrants. |
| 0:48.8 | But increasingly efforts are being concentrated to convince people not to set off in the first place and to encourage |
| 0:55.9 | those already en route to turn back. |
| 0:59.2 | Such as Nigerians. |
| 1:01.0 | In the past year, six and a half thousand have accepted help from the EU and the |
| 1:05.8 | UN's International Organization for Migration to return home. Colin Freeman wanted to |
| 1:12.2 | know what happens when they get back to Nigeria. |
| 1:15.0 | Evans William tells me he sold everything but the kitchen sink to fund his dream to get to Europe |
| 1:21.0 | and I mean everything, it's bad, |
| 1:23.5 | his fridge, his TV, his spare clothes on his mobile phone. |
| 1:26.8 | After borrowing yet more cash, he finally had enough to pay a smuggling gang |
| 1:31.1 | to take him from Nigeria across the Sahara to Libya. In all it cost him a thousand |
| 1:36.4 | dollars but he wasn't worried. Once in Europe he figured he could quickly earn enough to |
| 1:40.8 | pay off his creditors and eventually return home to start the business of his own. |
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