The Heat Is On
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Gaza's power struggle: the city where mains electricity is available for two hours a day. Kate Adie introduces this and other reports from Italy, Alaska, Nigeria and the Black Sea.
The UN has said that conditions in Gaza are becoming increasingly "unliveable". Education and healthcare are declining, and energy is becoming increasingly scarce. Yolande Knell visits some old acquaintances to find out how Gazans are managing.
Tim Whewell takes a ferry across the Black Sea joining the Ukrainians, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Uzbek truckers seeking routes that avoid Russia.
In Sicily, Manuela Saragosa meets a wine maker trying to resist the rural mafia which wants his land.
Claire Marshall gets a glimpse of the fast-disappearing Inupiat way of life in Alaska, and eats a glistening chunk of whale meat.
And Alastair Leithead joins the celebrations marking 50 years since the creation of Lagos State in Nigeria.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Today, ancient trading routes cross the Black Sea, |
| 0:08.0 | but we meet truckers trying to avoid any land which is Russian. |
| 0:12.0 | One man against the mafia, a Sicilian winemaker, holes out against |
| 0:16.5 | the mob. You love Wales, don't we all? Would you eat one? Our correspondent faces a dining dilemma in Alaska. And 50 years after the |
| 0:27.6 | creation of the state of Lagos, never mind this week's report of huge disparity in wealth in Nigeria, it's carnival time. |
| 0:37.0 | Today's headlines from the West Bank once again tell of violence. |
| 0:42.0 | Meanwhile in Gaza, the UN has warned of increasingly unlivable |
| 0:46.1 | conditions. The narrow strip of land has long been a place of tension, tension between Israel |
| 0:52.3 | and the Palestinians and between the Palestinians |
| 0:54.8 | themselves. For the past 10 years the Islamist group Hamas has governed there and |
| 1:00.4 | in the summer of 2014 over 50 days of fighting with Israeli forces caused |
| 1:05.8 | widespread death and destruction. |
| 1:08.6 | Yoland Nell was in Gaza during that conflict and this week she's been back. |
| 1:13.0 | Along the golden sand a few girls and boys |
| 1:18.0 | squeal with delight as the waves lick their feet |
| 1:21.0 | much as on any other Mediterranean beach. |
| 1:24.4 | Except that I'm in Gaza City, where an energy crisis means that sewage treatment plants |
| 1:30.1 | aren't working properly. |
| 1:31.9 | The sea is contaminated. It stinks. So as much as they'd love to plunge |
| 1:37.4 | into the cool water to escape the sticky heat this summer, many families are avoiding it. |
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