Risking Everything
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The people behind the news headlines: the migrants risking everything boarding flimsy boats to cross the Mediterranean; the inhabitants of a Russian provincial town and what they think of the country's leadership at a time of economic hardship; the families living in Delhi, alarmed by reports that the Indian capital has the worst air quality in the world; the Venezuelans having to queue at the shops for basic goods; and the Ethiopian volunteers who, by hard graft, are bringing change to a region once known for misery and famine
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.5 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, once it was said to be close to hell on earth, today fertile fields produce three harvests a year. |
| 0:17.0 | We find out how they tamed the sun-blastered desert of northern Ethiopia. |
| 0:21.0 | They're queuing outside the shops in Venezuela, a result of the |
| 0:25.5 | government's incompetence or perhaps an economic war against the country being waged by the |
| 0:30.6 | US and Europe, and air pollution soaring to dangerous levels in |
| 0:35.1 | Delhi, but why's the American embassy buying up all the pot plants? The sun's |
| 0:41.0 | out, the winds are light, the sea is calm, and along Italy's southern shores they |
| 0:46.3 | know that means thousands more migrants may be on the way. |
| 0:50.6 | The Italian Prime Minister, Mateorenci, has warned that the civil war in Libya must first be stopped |
| 0:56.0 | if the migration of people across the Mediterranean is to be halted. |
| 0:59.0 | Mr. Rensi speaking in Washington yesterday |
| 1:02.0 | said the Mediterranean was a sea, not a cemetery. |
| 1:06.3 | Many of those trying to reach the shores of Europe set sail from Libya. |
| 1:09.8 | Quentin Somerville's there. |
| 1:12.3 | What would you risk for freedom? When a Libyan |
| 1:15.4 | keyside, as the sun warmed us against the last gusts of a chill winter wind coming |
| 1:20.4 | from the Mediterranean, 20-year-old Mohammed from Gambia gave me his answer. |
| 1:26.1 | He was risking everything. |
| 1:28.6 | Life is difficult for us for poor people like me, he said. That is why you see thousands of Gambians coming from Gambia to enter Italy, |
| 1:37.1 | to find their smooth life, a better life. Mohammed had just been pulled from a dinghy by the Libyan Coast Guard. |
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