The Flying River

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

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🗓️ 25 October 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Reporters around the world. Misha Glenny says surely it's a national emergency -- but it's one the candidates in Brazil's election campaign have largely ignored. The civil war drags on in South Sudan - Tristan McConnell visits a town that's changed hands, between government troops and rebels, six times and has left its people shattered. Chris Morris was with the sub-hunters on the Stockholm Archipelago. They didn't find a submarine, but it's clear there are security implications. Who do you call when you see little green men in the sky? In France, you can phone the government, as Chris Bockman's been finding out. And Bethany Bell has been visiting a lake which is much-loved in Austria and not just because of its unique rose-scented breezes.

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0:00.0	This is a download from the BBC. It's from our own correspondent.
0:05.0	We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service,
0:09.0	but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate A.D.
0:17.0	Hello, today Brazil's national emergency, no longer being ignored by the candidates battling it out for the presidency.
0:24.6	The one that got away, what Sweden's hunt for Reds in October tells us about security fears
0:30.4	around the Baltic.
0:32.3	Why hope and joy are now just distant memories at a ramshackle
0:35.9	port on the river Nile. And little green men, or just a trick of the light, the French civil
0:42.1	servants paid to investigate strange
0:44.4	sightings in the sky. The long process of electing a new Brazilian president will
0:50.2	soon be over. The two candidates left in the campaign go to a runoff vote tomorrow.
0:55.8	Last night they were involved in a final televised debate, 90 minutes of bad-tempered exchanges.
1:01.9	But many Brazilians are now fed up with the whole business, with the character
1:05.5	assassinations, the claims and counterclaims, the electoral promises which many suspect
1:10.7	would be dumped when the counting's over.
1:13.6	Only a few years ago, Brazil was roaring ahead, growth at more than 7% a year.
1:19.1	Today it's sliding into recession amid rising inflation and low investment.
1:23.8	Michigany in Rio de Janeiro says people there and that includes the presidential
1:28.4	candidates know an overhaul of the economy is now long overdue.
1:33.6	It's late spring in southern Brazil and the temperature is rising.
1:38.2	In some parts of the country it's already very hot.
1:41.4	When I visited Campo Grange, the state capital of Matogroso-Dusou so near the Paraguayan border,
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