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From Our Own Correspondent

Poland's political divide

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

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4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In Poland, the socially conservative President Andrzej Duda was very narrowly re-elected, defeating the more progressive mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski. Mr Duda is a close ally of the nationalist and Catholic Law and Justice government. Mr Trzaskowski favours a more proactive role in the EU and supports minorities’ rights. Adam Easton speaks with young activists. Los Angeles has become a coronavirus hotspot, LA County has more cases than any other county in the US. Hospitals are running short of beds and a second lockdown may be imposed. Hollywood films aren't being screened, and the homeless have nowhere to sleep or wash. David Willis reports on the dark side of the City of Angels. Ghana declared 2019 the Year of Return, appealing to African Americans to visit the homeland their ancestors had been taken from, 400 years after the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia. Following the George Floyd killing in the US, the appeal was renewed. Thomas Naadi meets some of the 5000 African Americans who now live in Ghana. Italy's city of Rimini on the Adriatic coast is celebrating its local son, famous film director Federico Fellini, who would have been 100 years old this year. The coronavirus has been affecting some of the plans, but not all is lost. Juliet Rix visits Fellini's favourite hotel in Rimini, and has lunch with his niece. Cuba has dealt with the pandemic better than most in Latin America, with monthly death rates now in single digits. During the worst of the outbreak , our correspondent there, Will Grant, was in the UK and has only now managed to make it back to his patch – where he found a nation well on top of Covid-19 but facing serious economic challenges. Presenter: Kate Adie Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Serena Tarling

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:06.0

Good morning.

0:07.4

Today, Hollywood is meant to produce movies

0:10.0

about unimaginable disasters, extraordinary times, but finds itself now living the dream, with

0:17.0

Los Angeles the hotspot for the coronavirus.

0:21.1

Another dream becoming reality, the idea of returning to a homeland abandoned long ago,

0:26.8

the African Americans spurred on by recent events and heading for Ghana.

0:32.0

And despite all that's happening which disrupt normal life we meet the niece of

0:36.0

film director Frederico Fellini as the town of Rimini attempt to celebrate the

0:41.5

centenary of the birth of its famous son.

0:45.4

First to Poland, where by a very narrow majority,

0:49.0

the populace President Anjay Duda was re-elected on Sunday beating the Liberal Mayor of Warsaw,

0:55.6

Rafa Chazkovsky.

0:57.8

Mr. Duda's campaign was backed by the ruling law and justice party,

1:02.1

which has mounted a sustained attack on the media and

1:05.1

independent institutions creating tension with other EU members.

1:10.1

Mr. Chaskovsky had countered with taking Poland into a more proactive role with Brussels and supporting

1:17.3

the rights of minorities.

1:19.4

Adam Easton has been sounding out young activists from both sides.

1:24.0

In the medieval market square of Rotzwaav, the capital of Lower Silesia, a small stage has been erected for President Duda to speak to his supporters.

1:34.3

When the comic prose master PG Woodhouse was imprisoned in an internment camp in the neighboring

1:38.7

industrial region by the Nazis, he wrote,

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