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🗓️ 30 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Kate Adie introduces stories from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, India, Tibet, Ireland and Guinea.
What are the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians? Yolande Knell has been asking Israelis and Palestinians about their hopes and fears for the future, and whether the recent war in Gaza can be an impetus , or impediment, for a future peace settlement.
In India, the Muslim minority which makes up about 200 million people, has been feeling under pressure as a result of the deepening religious polarisation that has marked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's time in office. Yogita Limaye has been hearing their concerns.
China has introduced educational reforms in the western region of Tibet, which mean that most Tibetan children are now educated in boarding schools, where they are taught in Mandarin Chinese, not Tibetan. Micky Bristow hears concerns from parents that their Tibetan culture is being erased.
Ireland has been experiencing a housing crisis, which has been compounded by a rise in people applying for asylum, and seeking shelter from the war in Ukraine. This has led to increasing numbers of homeless people on city streets. Bob Howard visited a cafe in Dublin that tries to makes the lives of the homeless a little easier.
Guinea in West Africa has so many poisonous snakes, that it accounts for one in ten of all snakebite deaths in Africa. Despite this, there is only one specialised snakebite clinic in the whole country. so many people turn to traditional healers and natural remedies, with sometimes devastating consequences, as Sam Bradpiece has been finding out.
Producers: Polly Hope and Arlene Gregorius Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Today we're in India where the general election is fast approaching. |
0:09.3 | We hear how the country's Muslim minority is growing anxious over the prospect of another |
0:15.0 | win for the Hindu nationalist B.J.P. In Tibet, we hear of fears that children are losing |
0:22.1 | touch with their culture because of the influence of their Chinese boarding schools. |
0:27.0 | We drop in at a cafe in Dublin that helps feed homeless people from all around the world. |
0:34.0 | And beware the Mambas, cobras and vipers of Guinea. |
0:39.0 | Will our correspondence Magic Beans be enough to keep the snakes at bay. |
0:45.0 | First to the Middle East. |
0:47.0 | This week the American abstention in a UN Security Council vote |
0:51.0 | meant that for the first time a resolution passed demanding |
0:55.7 | a ceasefire in Gaza. This is widely being read as an expression of Washington's |
1:00.6 | frustration at Israel's conduct of the war against Hamas, as well as its failure |
1:06.1 | to come up with a convincing post-war vision for Gaza or solve the decades-old conflict |
1:11.9 | with the Palestinians. |
1:14.0 | For years, the international formula for peace in the Middle East |
1:17.8 | has been the idea of an Israeli state and a Palestinian one |
1:21.6 | existing side by side. But with the so-called peace process long stalled, |
1:27.6 | many local people had begun to give up on the two-state solution. Now that there's a new global impetus to find a path for peace, |
1:36.0 | can the plan be resurrected? Our Middle East correspondent Yoland Nell has been asking Israelis and Palestinians. |
1:45.0 | Living in flimsy makeshift tents in a sprawling campsite on the Egypt border, |
1:50.0 | most Khazans have lost loved ones and much of what they owned. |
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