Slum landlords in Marseille
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
An accident in the historic centre of Marseille in the south of France has sent shock waves through the city. Two apartment blocks collapsed late last year with the loss of eight lives. Lucy Ash asks who is to blame - slum landlords, corrupt politicians or a combination of the two? There's growing evidence of China's attempts to control its Muslim minorities and suppress their beliefs. John Sudworth was given rare access to some of the secure facilities where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are being held in the western region of Xinjiang, even though they've committed no crime nor faced trial. In Addis Ababa, Theo Leggett hears from the boss of Ethiopian Airlines who's fighting to defend the company's reputation - he says the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 737 Max aircraft in March was not the fault of his pilots. What's it like to return to a South African township school where you taught twenty seven years earlier? James Helm makes a very personal journey. And Sonia Faleiro observes the life-changing nature of a restaurant job in Goa on India's west coast.
Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Caroline Bayley
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. Today we hear how and why the curtain goes up a few more inches on the suppression |
| 0:11.6 | of Muslim minorities in China. Hundreds of planes have been |
| 0:15.8 | grounded worldwide. Flights cancelled. Orders hang in the balance and we go back to the |
| 0:21.4 | scene of the deadly air crash this year in Ethiopia. |
| 0:26.0 | What's education like now in a South African township, a teacher returns after 27 years |
| 0:32.0 | away? And in Goa how working in a restaurant can be life-changing. |
| 0:39.3 | Marseille on France's south coast was always a characterful port, boisterous cosmopolitan and always |
| 0:46.4 | a bit ramshackle. But eight people died last year when two apartment buildings collapsed |
| 0:52.2 | in its historic centre. |
| 0:54.4 | Inevitably, there are myriad reasons for the city's decay |
| 0:58.1 | and squabbles about responsibility, |
| 1:00.8 | as Lucy Ash has found. |
| 1:03.0 | The old port is the shop window of Marseille. |
| 1:06.0 | Tourists come here to drink rosé and devour seafood |
| 1:10.0 | as they admire the boats bobbing in the marina beneath the medieval force enjean. |
| 1:15.0 | Hungry locals head for the Rue d'obagne a few minutes away, |
| 1:19.0 | where much cheaper and more varied cuisine is on offer, |
| 1:22.0 | Moroccan cuscus, Algerian cus, Algerian case. cheaper and more varied cuisine is on offer. |
| 1:22.6 | Moroccan Kuskus, Algerian cakes, |
| 1:25.5 | Neapolitan pizzas, Indian curries and Ivorian stews. |
| 1:30.8 | We were told there are people of more than a hundred different nationalities living and working on this crowded street. |
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