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🗓️ 30 November 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Good morning. |
0:07.0 | Today, scores of deaths in a crackdown on protests in cities across Iran. But there's a government news blackout, so how do you report on |
0:16.0 | what's happening when the authorities suppress information and threaten journalists, even those |
0:21.6 | living outside the country. |
0:24.1 | In Sudan, protests have become a way of life, as many relish the newfound freedoms, but maybe it's |
0:30.5 | a bit too soon to celebrate and will the generals step aside to allow fair elections. |
0:36.0 | Thousands have taken to the streets in Georgia too, worried that a billionaire with Kremlin |
0:42.0 | connections is threatening the country's hard-won reforms? |
0:46.2 | And what's it like covering demonstrations around South America when you're both a journalist |
0:51.5 | and a breastfeeding mother. |
0:54.0 | Earlier this year on Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by a series of major attacks on churches |
1:00.4 | and international hotels. More than 250 people died. |
1:05.5 | The bombings were carried out by a small cell of Sri Lankan Islamists and seven months on the |
1:11.2 | country is still in shock. There was another consequence too a new wave |
1:15.6 | of harassment of Muslims who make up 10% of the population by the majority Buddhist |
1:21.2 | Sinhala community according to Jill McEvering in the capital, Colombo. |
1:26.9 | She didn't strike me as sad, at first. |
1:30.0 | Her eyes were mischievous when she smiled. |
1:32.3 | She talked me through the sepia photograph framed on the wall, |
1:35.4 | a picture from another age, a formal portrait of family members in a stiff row, |
1:40.8 | herself a thin girl of about eight, her father a self-made businessman in spectacles and |
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