Rio Rubbish
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents' tales: why they're arguing about Macchiavelli on a rubbish tip in Rio as the second round of the Brazilian election approaches, Neil Trevithick; Shaimaa Khalil investigates the upsurge in violence on the India/Pakistan border in Kashmir; Julia Macfarlane accompanies a group of British doctors who've gone to help out Palestinian medics in Gaza; has the historic city of Timbuktu recovered from a brutal period of conflict and occupation by Islamic extremists? Chris Simpson has been finding out. And the Star Wars film crew have been to the remote Irish island of Skellig Michael and so too has our man Vincent Dowd.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, today it's all changed in the election in Brazil, but on a rubbish tip in Rio, |
| 0:20.0 | they're still arguing about Maciavelli. |
| 0:23.2 | India and Pakistan are arguing again too |
| 0:26.0 | about who started the latest cross-border skirmish in Kashmir. |
| 0:30.6 | We're talking about Timbuktu on the back of a motorbike in Wagadougu, and Men of God made the journey in the Middle Ages, |
| 0:38.5 | now Hollywood's following in their wake, towards a remote outcrop of the west coast of Ireland. |
| 0:46.2 | So who's going to be the next president of Brazil, the largest and most populous country |
| 0:50.7 | in South America? |
| 0:52.3 | The election goes to a runoff vote in 10 days time. |
| 0:55.7 | The environmentalist from the Amazon is now out. The president, who many thought would step |
| 1:00.9 | straight back in, is beginning to look shaky. The pro-business |
| 1:04.6 | pro-US outsider suddenly looks worth a bet. In the meantime there are voters to be |
| 1:10.4 | one over and while the rich are being assured they are not about to be hit hard |
| 1:15.1 | the poor are hearing that for them life could just get a little better. |
| 1:19.7 | The pledges from the presidential hopefuls underline the huge gulf which exists between Brazil's |
| 1:25.1 | haves and have-nots. |
| 1:27.1 | Neil Trevithic has been talking to some of those who've been trying to make ends meet on a rubbish |
| 1:31.6 | tip in Reide-Geniro. |
| 1:34.4 | Smoke drifts like mist across an apocalyptic landscape of rubbish and rubble. |
| 1:39.8 | Huge pigs snuffle through the haze, while to my left a goose tries to separate tiny newborn |
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