Taking on the 'Ndrangheta Mafia
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
One of the few people able to strike fear into the international organised crime syndicate. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories and insights from around the world: In Italy, Andrew Hosken meets Nicola Gratteri the single-minded judge who has put 6,000 Mafiosi behind bars. Today, he says, the biggest threat comes from the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria whose power spreads far beyond their native Calabria. In Peru, Grace Livingstone meets some of the thousands of indigenous women who say they were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s as part of a government family-planning scheme. In the Sinai desert in Egypt, Fleur MacDonald meets the monks who have become the custodians of some of the oldest surviving Christian texts. While it was good enough for the makers of the Taj Mahal, Grace Banks hears how millennials in India show little appetite for Pietra Dura – the craft of creating images out of finely cut stone. And in Ireland, Andy Jones attends the Killorglin Puck fair – a three-day celebration in memory of the time a goat helped save the town from would-be British invaders.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello today to a library in a desert |
| 0:08.0 | the St Catherine's monastery in the Sinai. |
| 0:11.0 | To Peru to hear from women who in the 1990s say they were forcibly |
| 0:16.3 | sterilized in a government health and family planning program. In India we |
| 0:21.5 | visit a Pietredura workshop where a diminishing band of craftsmen still create |
| 0:26.6 | intricate stone mosaics using techniques handed down by the makers of the Taj Mahal, and in Ireland we join three days of |
| 0:34.8 | celebration to remember a hairy king who helped one town fight off Oliver Cromwell's |
| 0:40.8 | army. Since coming to power in June the new... Oliver Cromwell's Army. |
| 0:43.2 | Since coming to power in June, the new Italian government has been busy trying to demonstrate |
| 0:47.9 | its anti-Mafia credentials. |
| 0:50.8 | Earlier this month, Interior minister Mateo Salvini |
| 0:53.8 | dived into a swimming pool seized from a cozernostra boss |
| 0:57.8 | and swam lengths as he chatted to journalists. |
| 1:00.6 | Images released this week show military police searching through the gilded |
| 1:05.2 | furniture in expensive properties linked to the Kazamonica clan in Rome and confiscating |
| 1:11.2 | palatial villas in Sicily. |
| 1:14.0 | In the southern province of Calabria, it's the Andranata mafia which dominates, |
| 1:19.0 | though its tentacles spread far beyond the region. |
| 1:22.0 | In February, Yancutak, a young Slovak journalist, was murdered |
| 1:26.7 | while investigating the group's activities in his own country. In Calabria, Andrew Hoskin met one of the few people able to strike fear into the |
| 1:35.9 | international organised crime syndicate. |
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