Stranded at Sea
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Around the world. Today - the increasingly desperate plight of men, women and children who have fled Burma but are being denied permission to go ashore in Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia. Five months after British and American forces left Afghanistan, instability is growing and the nation's political elite stands accused of failing to give the armed forces the support they need. We learn how part of the war in Jordan against the fighters who call themselves Islamic State is being waged in cyberspace. There's the story of 'a hot Hungarian sex machine on top of a Russian cream cake' causing controversy in the centre of Budapest and one about how the cheap flights revolution has touched down on an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic. The prospect of hordes of sun-seeking northern Europeans arriving is causing some apprehension!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:09.0 | but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate A.D. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello. Today nobody wants them. There's nowhere to go. The Asian migrants desperate and stranded at sea. |
| 0:25.7 | Mountain violence growing in security in Afghanistan and the country still has no defense |
| 0:30.9 | minister. |
| 0:32.1 | An aristocrat airbrushed from Hungarian history 70 years ago |
| 0:36.1 | makes a triumphant return to Budapest, and mixed feelings in the Azores as the islands out in the |
| 0:42.3 | mid-Atlantic get set for a surge of sun-seeking |
| 0:45.5 | northern Europeans. |
| 0:48.7 | The Thai Navy is this morning reported to have towed a boat full of migrants away from its islands and back out into |
| 0:55.2 | the Andaman Sea. |
| 0:57.1 | Yesterday the United Nations urged Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia not to turn back vessels containing migrants. |
| 1:04.0 | Its Human Rights Commissioner said the policy was appalling. |
| 1:07.0 | Jonathan Head says it's become clear, thousands of migrants are now adrift in Southeast Asian waters. Many are |
| 1:14.0 | ills, half-starved and dehydrated and in need of medical treatment. |
| 1:18.0 | It was six years ago that I first heard reports of the boats carrying Rohingya Muslims across the Andaman Sea to Thailand |
| 1:25.5 | and learnt of the appalling conditions on board. This week for the first time I encountered |
| 1:31.2 | one of these crudely converted fishing boats. |
| 1:34.3 | The cries of distress, the pleas for water, and the emaciated bodies we could see as we approached |
| 1:40.4 | them drifting near the time Malaysian border. These are overpowering |
| 1:44.5 | impressions I shall never forget. How people had endured two to three months |
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