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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.0 | Today, when a leading Iranian dissident goes missing, who do his family call for help? |
0:11.1 | A journalist from the BBC's Persian Service tells us how he tried to unravel the mystery. |
0:18.2 | In Moldova, torn between the East and West since independence in the 90s, we meet those |
0:24.3 | who fear their country will be Russia's next target after Ukraine. |
0:29.5 | We step inside Denmark's vast nuclear bunker, built more than half a century ago in case |
0:35.8 | of World War III, and tore the VIP room intended for the Danish Queen. |
0:42.5 | And a visit to that rarest of treasures and ecosystem in recovery. |
0:48.1 | Cute fur seals, awe-inspiring humpback whales, and a million smelly penguins, are thriving |
0:55.0 | once more on the island of South Georgia. |
0:58.4 | But first of Myanmar, it's more than two years since the government was overthrown in |
1:03.7 | a military coup, and its leader, Anxansu Chi, arrested. |
1:08.4 | The country had enjoyed just a decade of democratic government, following half a century |
1:13.8 | of oppressive military rule. |
1:16.3 | But those years of democracy have left their mark, it seems, as nationwide demonstrations |
1:21.6 | following the coup eventually gave way to armed uprisings across the country, with civilians |
1:27.8 | fighting back against the generals, it's now a civil war, but more and more soldiers |
1:33.7 | are defecting and choosing not to fight against their own people. |
1:38.5 | Rebecca Hinchki has been across the border to Thailand to meet some of them. |
1:43.5 | He's 22, but his acne marks skin and sweet, slightly cheeky smile make him look much younger. |
1:50.8 | He's lying on a bed, paralyzed from the waist down. |
1:55.0 | His mother hovers nearby, moving his legs, passing him water or his phone, when her son |
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