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🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.2 | Today we're in Finland where an underground network of shopping centres, swimming pools |
0:10.1 | and sports halls can mutate into a vast bomb shelter should it be needed. |
0:16.4 | In Florida it's the annual Republican conference known as CPAC where Joe Biden is characterised |
0:23.0 | as public enemy number one and Russia takes a back seat. |
0:28.4 | We follow the story of a giant monolithic statue as it's returned to its Pacific island |
0:33.4 | home from Chile and in Copenhagen we visit a humanitarian aid warehouse, thrumming |
0:40.5 | with robotic cranes, forklift trucks and on occasion dancing feet. |
0:46.2 | First, Ukrainians have mounted a defiant response since President Vladimir Putin's invasion |
0:52.6 | of their country began one week ago, but scores of lives have nonetheless been lost as |
0:59.0 | Russians have pounded the cities of Khacheev and Mariupol. |
1:03.8 | The assault on the capital Kiev intensifies and Moscow's propaganda machine has been |
1:09.2 | in full swing domestically, calling the invasion a special mission and trying to conceal |
1:15.8 | any Russian casualties from the outside world. |
1:19.1 | But videos claiming to show captured Russian soldiers have been circulating online. |
1:24.7 | Caroline Davis went to a village in eastern Siberia to speak to the families and friends |
1:30.7 | of one of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine who's been captured. |
1:36.0 | Still and silent, the only noise as we drive through the white plains of Siberia is the |
1:41.4 | sound of our car engine. |
1:43.2 | The odd bare branches of shrubs scratch through the snow, dark patches of forest and the odd |
1:48.5 | power-master, the only mark on the black and white landscape we feel a long way from |
1:53.1 | the Ukrainian border. |
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