The Fight Goes On
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Myanmar’s drug vigilantes, on the front-line in Mosul, and the mystical music of Morocco. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.0 | Today the long drawn out fight for Moses is officially over. |
| 0:09.0 | We find out who's left among the rubble. |
| 0:12.0 | In the Falklands, with a tiny population during its war over 35 years ago, |
| 0:17.0 | it's not so tiny now. And we're in the world's biggest fish market in Tokyo and also dancing in Morocco. |
| 0:26.8 | More than 250 million pounds worth of drugs was burnt in Myanmar, formerly Burma, to mark the UN's World Anti-drugs day. |
| 0:35.6 | Police officers wearing gloves and face masks set fire to neatly stacked bags of pills and |
| 0:41.2 | powders under a sign that announced destruction ceremony of seized narcotics. |
| 0:47.4 | It was designed to send a message, but Myanmar remains among the world's largest producers |
| 0:52.4 | of opium. |
| 0:53.6 | Much of the heroin ends up in China, but demand is growing at home. |
| 0:58.0 | In the northern Kacin state, among many of the country's jade mines there's talk of an epidemic but as |
| 1:04.1 | Nicola Kelly found some community leaders are fighting back. |
| 1:07.9 | You have to be very brave Mrs media, Kiang Baum warns me, |
| 1:14.0 | tucking a whip beneath his leather belt, |
| 1:16.2 | a sinister glint in his eye. |
| 1:18.7 | Sometimes drug users react violently, |
| 1:21.8 | some are even armed. You will have to be very quick on your feet. |
| 1:27.0 | I nod slowly as he turns on his heel and swagger towards a derelict church behind us. There his loyal followers are singing |
| 1:35.8 | Kumbaya angelically, while brandishing wooden battens and buttoning up their military fatigues. |
| 1:43.6 | The first cockrel has just crowed when I joined Pat Jossan, a vigilante squad |
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