Talk of War
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Nuclear fears in South Korea, a homeless tour of Athens, and a porcupine hunt in Tanzania. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.
Talk of war is worrying Steve Evans in the South Korean capital Seoul - he now fears for the future of his home city. In Italy, Nick Sturdee finds plain-clothes policemen following anti-migrant campaigners, while a TV drama is being filmed about the mayor opening up his town to Syrians, Bangladeshis and others. ‘Migrants wanted’ is the message Mark Stratton finds on Pitcairn Island – the British Overseas Territory with a dwindling population in the southern Pacific Ocean. Heidi Fuller-Love takes a tour of the Athens; guided by a former homeless drug addict, she’s introduced to sights of Greece most tourists are oblivious to. And in Tanzania, Dan Saladino joins one of the last remaining groups of hunter-gathers as they search for lunch.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello. |
| 0:03.0 | Today, migrants wanted. |
| 0:05.0 | That's the story on Pitcairn, |
| 0:07.0 | the remote Pacific Island with a steadily shrinking population |
| 0:11.0 | numbering only a few dozen. In Italy it's rather different. This year |
| 0:15.8 | up to a quarter of a million people are expected to arrive on its shores and the |
| 0:20.2 | backlash is growing. We take a guided tour of the Greek capital, taking in homelessness, |
| 0:26.3 | addiction and bankruptcy. And in Tanzania we join one of the last remaining groups of hunter |
| 0:32.0 | gatherers and go in search of food down a |
| 0:34.8 | warren of tunnels that Pong to pin down a porcupine. |
| 0:40.3 | North Korea tested a missile on Tuesday that analysts believe has the potential to reach Alaska. |
| 0:46.0 | Kim Jong-un described it as a gift to the Americans on their Independence Day. |
| 0:52.0 | The US and South Korea responded with a ballistic |
| 0:54.6 | missile drill of their own and the US ambassador to the United Nations said her |
| 0:59.0 | country was prepared to use its considerable military forces to defend its allies if necessary, all of which has changed |
| 1:07.1 | the attitude of our correspondent Steve Evans, who lives in the South Korean capital. Maybe I'm just too pessimistic. |
| 1:15.1 | When I walk round soul these days I feel a great sadness. |
| 1:18.7 | I wonder how permanent this great city is. |
| 1:21.3 | When there was all that raised tension earlier in the year with |
| 1:24.8 | President Trump's armada on the way, I was getting emails from Britain asking |
| 1:29.9 | if I was okay. The hysteria in Europe and the United States was mirrored by |
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