President Trump’s Legacy
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In Washington, he storming of Capitol Hill this week by President Trump’s supporters has dominated headlines, but many political pundits said that this should not have taken people by surprise. Anthony Zurcher has covered the White House throughout Donald Trump’s term in office – he charts the clear path that led to this moment, from President Trump’s 2016 campaign. On Thursday, Uganda will go to the polls pitting two very different presidential candidates against each other. Yoweri Museveni has served five consecutive terms and his main challenger, the charismatic Bobi Wine has galvanised support among the youth. But can it guarantee Bobi Wine victory? Our Africa correspondent, Catherine Byaruhanga has been finding out. One day in April , 2015 an old fishing boat overloaded with refugees and migrants sank en route to Italy from Libya – drowning more than a thousand people. Then Italian Prime Minister declared the Italians would salvage the shipwreck and recover the corpses. The boat was raised from the seabed and transported to Sicily. Linda Pressly met the man in charge. Deep among the frosty pines in Baden-Württemberg, a factory is manufacturing the industrial freezers that are needed to keep the supplies of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at extreme cold temperatures. Germany's Covid infection and death rates are rising steeply. It’s a race against time as the vaccine is rolled out. Jenny Hill visited the factory dealing with a huge influx of new orders. And we visit Venezuela which has been suffering a deep socio-economic crisis for years. But our correspondent Katy Watson found out on a recent trip to the Hotel Humboldt, which overlooks Caracas, there are those who have benefitted.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. Today, election campaigns in Uganda, very different. |
| 0:10.0 | With two leaders vying for the presidency. One features catchy tunes and |
| 0:15.2 | aspirations for a better future, the others defined by intimidation and fear. |
| 0:20.3 | In Sicily the story of a migrant boat which sank at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, |
| 0:27.0 | over a thousand were drowned, but unlike so many, the boat has been salvaged and its passengers identified. |
| 0:36.0 | We visit an industrial freezer factory in the woods of southwest Germany, |
| 0:41.0 | not a place which would usually attract attention, but in the pandemic, it's suddenly |
| 0:46.0 | vital. And we meet some Venezuelan Bolicarks, the folks who dine out in the hotel, |
| 0:52.4 | Humboldt, high in the mountains accompanied by buzzing wasps. |
| 0:57.0 | First, hardly a TV screen in the world was without pictures of Washington's Capitol Hill being stormed this week. |
| 1:04.0 | Shocking to most, but for many of those closely watching President Trump |
| 1:09.0 | and his supporters reaction to the election not entirely surprising. |
| 1:14.9 | Being a White House correspondent used to be a slightly stayed assignment, not the last four years. |
| 1:22.1 | An Anthony Zerker has had the job of following events which culminated |
| 1:26.4 | in the President being called a threat to his own country. |
| 1:31.2 | January 6th, 2021, a date which will live in infamy. |
| 1:37.0 | That's how Democratic Senate Minority Leader, |
| 1:40.0 | soon to be Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, described the events in Washington, |
| 1:45.3 | D.C. on Wednesday afternoon. |
| 1:48.1 | He was echoing the language used by Franklin D Roosevelt to describe the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December |
| 1:55.4 | 1941. |
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