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🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.2 | Today we hear about Honduras and the man who went from being president to prisoner in |
0:10.6 | a matter of weeks. In Ukraine there certainly were people who felt more loyalty to Moscow |
0:16.8 | than to their own government, but what are they feeling now? And what's motivated thousands |
0:22.3 | of foreigners to fight for the Ukrainian armed forces? There's an environmental dilemma |
0:28.4 | for the West African island nation of South Humei and Principé, whether to carry on |
0:33.8 | searching for oil when climate change is already costing its people their land and their livelihoods. |
0:41.1 | Under crucial issue from the French election, which you may have missed, what should a |
0:45.5 | journalist who covers the campaign be wearing? First, it's rarely easy to fall from power. |
0:53.1 | One moment you're a president or prime minister. The next, just an ordinary citizen with the |
0:57.9 | trappings of office are quickly receiving memory. But that said, the former president of Honduras |
1:03.8 | would probably settle quite happily for being an ordinary citizen right now. Juan Orlando |
1:09.9 | Hernandez was voted out of power in January and within weeks was arrested, accused of being |
1:16.1 | part of a major international drugs ring. This month Mr. Hernandez was extradited to the |
1:21.9 | U.S., where he'll face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, charges the former president |
1:28.3 | denies. Meanwhile, back in Honduras, police say they're now busy breaking up the extensive |
1:34.9 | drug industry, Mr. Hernandez left behind, and they invited our correspondent Will Grant |
1:40.7 | along to prove it. As I sat in a hot bath into Gussie Gelper pulling ticks from my feet |
1:47.4 | and ankles, I reflected on one of the stranger days I've had at work. It began in the coastal |
1:53.5 | town of El Sabre at a cheap motel at four in the morning. In fairness to the modest lodgings |
1:59.5 | that wasn't where the ticks got me, those would come later. Rather, in the pre-dawn darkness, |
2:06.1 | we joined a unit of the DNPA, the Honduran anti-drug police, led by Captain Jose Cruz, stocky |
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