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🗓️ 7 December 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Good morning. |
0:07.0 | Impeachment, a sonorous word, but our correspondent in Washington finds the process both |
0:12.0 | momentous and petty. |
0:14.6 | Much hot air in Madrid at the climate summit. |
0:17.2 | Any chance of cooling the planet though? |
0:19.8 | Kuwait, nearly 30 years on from Saddam Hussein's invasion and the memories are still sharp. |
0:26.1 | And we head to the far north, not for Santa, but for a spy with snow on his boots. It's five years since Russian forces took over parts of Ukraine, |
0:37.0 | causing many to catch their breath. |
0:39.0 | Would the West and NATO take action to push back |
0:42.0 | Vladimir Putin's ambitions were trouble spread. |
0:46.0 | In reality, it's now a grumbling conflict, with thousands killed or wounded, with Russian-backed |
0:51.9 | rebel forces facing Ukraine's national army in the east of the country. |
0:57.0 | There are checkpoints, barriers and minefields, divided families and loyalties, and as Jonah Fisher found, |
1:04.4 | politicians as well as soldiers have to tread carefully. |
1:08.0 | A gruff rasping voice spoke from the darkness. |
1:11.9 | These are provocative questions which he is not required to answer. |
1:17.0 | We were in a mud-walled Ukrainian army position trying to interview Private Alexei Kravchenko. |
1:23.0 | He was peering over the top of his machine gun towards rebel territory. |
1:27.0 | The interview wasn't going well. |
1:30.0 | The group's commander, a burly man called Suleimenko, was listening and kept butting in. |
1:35.4 | A month before, Suleimenko, Kravchenko and their fellow soldiers had been given the order |
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