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From Our Own Correspondent

Stories Matter

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What the murder of a Mormon family in Mexico reveals about the country; Will Grant has long chronicled the violence of the ongoing drug war. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories: Rajini Vaidyanathan reflects on the perils of living in Delhi having developed 'pollution anxiety' and become a smoker by proxy. John Kampfner was in Berlin when the Wall fell. Thirty years on he's been back to see how the city has changed. And how does a glass of radioactive water sound? It was once sold in Portugal with the promise of bringing health, strength and vigour. Margaret Bradley visits the, now abandoned, hotel that used it for baths, cooking and even colonic irrigation. And a troubled nation writes itself another rousing chapter as South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup and the squad returns as heroes. It may only be a game, but stories matter, says Andrew Harding.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:05.2

Hello.

0:06.1

Today, a nip of frost this morning, clear sharp air.

0:10.3

Not at all like pollute to Delhi, where we hear even Superman might struggle to find a solution.

0:17.0

In Germany we have memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall and reflections on how the city has changed since 1989. We visit the now abandoned

0:26.6

hotel in Portugal which once proudly boasted of how radioactive its waters were, used for cooking, bathing and even colonic irrigation.

0:37.3

And a new chapter in South African history, or just a game of rugby, what the World Cup win means for a much divided nation.

0:46.8

But first, murders in Mexico rarely make international headlines, and you're unlikely to ever

0:52.2

hear the names of the many thousands of people who die there every year as the result of organized crime.

0:59.0

But the attack on members of the Mormon community this week was different as Will Grant explains.

1:06.3

It was the kind of story which makes parents hug their children a little tighter.

1:11.1

Nine people killed in an ambush on a convoy of cars on a remote hillside of northern Mexico.

1:17.0

Initially it sounds like nothing out of the ordinary for Mexico, just another violent episode in the country's

1:22.1

endless drug war,

1:23.6

until the next awful line. The majority of the dead were toddlers and babies.

1:29.5

It was an act which laid bare the barbarism of the drug-related violence here and the ruthlessness

1:34.8

of the men who carry it out. The children were traveling with their mothers, all members

1:39.9

of a fundamentalist Mormon community in the northern state of Sonora.

1:44.4

The details remain hazy, but the simple facts are that as the first car drove along a dirt

1:49.3

track which crosses the Sierra Madre Mountains, cartelel-Gumman opened fire on the occupants.

1:56.2

Driven by Ronita Miller, in the back were her 12-year-old son Howard, her 10-year-old daughter

2:01.4

Crystal, and her eight-month-old twins, Titus and Tiana.

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