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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Germany, the Red Sea, Argentina, the Hungary-Serbia border and Costa Rica.
BBC security correspondent, Frank Gardner takes us behind the scenes at the Munich security conference, where the sudden announcement of the death of Alexei Navalny brought home the diplomatic challenges facing world leaders.
Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis say they will continue to target ships in the Red Sea, in solidarity with Palestinian people in Gaza. This has had a major impact on global shipping and the US and UK has retaliated with air strikes. BBC Persian’s Nafiseh Kohnavard has been given rare access to US navy warships patrolling in the Red Sea.
In Argentina, President Javier Milei, has defended his huge public spending cuts after annual inflation in the country soared beyond 250 per cent. Our South America correspondent, Ione Wells, has been finding out what people in Argentina make of his controversial plans for change.
Migration continues to fill headlines – from the ongoing saga of the Rwanda asylum plan to Republicans playing hardball over how to stem illegal crossings on the US-Mexico border. Our Central Europe correspondent, Nick Thorpe, is never far from a border flash-point, and reflects on the characters he has crossed paths with on the frontier of Hungary and Serbia.
Costa Rica is often portrayed as a gold standard of eco-tourism and its Corcovado national park is one of the best places on earth to watch wildlife. But, there are concerns that some species there are in decline, in part due to illegal gold mining, hunting and logging in the region. Qasa Alom has been exploring the challenges.
Producer: Sally Abrahams Production coordinator: Sophie Hill Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Today we're on board a US Navy warship hunting for Huthy drones in the Red Sea. |
0:11.2 | As inflation in Argentina saw us above 250%, what do people there make of the new |
0:17.6 | president's efforts to control the economy? |
0:21.1 | We hear about life along the Hungary-Serbia border, where people smugglers confound the guards keeping watch. |
0:28.0 | And we're on the trail of illegal gold miners in the rainforests of Costa Rica. |
0:35.0 | First, more than 50 heads of state prime ministers, spy chiefs and tech bosses |
0:40.0 | conveneed last weekend at the high-profile Munich Security Conference. |
0:46.5 | The wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the future of the Transatlantic Alliance were the main topics |
0:51.5 | of conversation. That is, until news broke of the sudden death |
0:55.8 | of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. |
1:00.4 | This week his widow Yulia sent a video message to the world, vowing to continue his legacy. |
1:07.0 | For a journalist, these events can be a rare opportunity to speak to the people who shape our world. Our security |
1:14.4 | correspondent Frank Gardner was there. The police helicopter hovered above us. |
1:19.6 | The cordon's were up and the German police were out in force. |
1:23.5 | Someone big was clearly about to arrive. |
1:26.3 | We knew it wasn't Carmeler Harris the US Vice President because her |
1:29.7 | motorcade had already swept in, announced by blue lights and sirens. |
1:34.4 | And then there was the answer. |
1:36.4 | Striding across the road, flanked by bodyguards, his face set in grim determination, |
1:41.5 | a man instantly recognizable in his trademark skin-tight black sweatshirt |
1:46.0 | and military-style trousers. Ukraine's President Philodomir Zelensky walked quickly past me, |
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