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🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good morning. Today amidst all the killing and destruction in Ukraine, we hear the story of |
0:06.3 | a single death on a woman left widowed. We explore why Finland never joined NATO in the past |
0:13.6 | and the increased chances that it now will. Our correspondent in the Philippines reveals |
0:19.6 | how covering the election there earned him repeated death threats. An execution in Singapore |
0:26.1 | sets our correspondent there thinking about the balance to be struck between public safety |
0:31.9 | and the law severity. And we take you on a tour of Somalian beauty parlors, where the dress |
0:38.8 | code is informal and conversation flows freely. First, the numbers coming out of the Ukrainian |
0:46.2 | conflict are hard to absorb. Is it 10,000 deaths so far? 20,000 or 30? Statistics as |
0:55.1 | impersonal as their uncertain. Already teams of investigators have been on hand attempting |
1:01.6 | to document the killings in the hope that future war crimes trials may hold the perpetrators |
1:07.5 | to account. For now we're left with only a hazy image of the extent to which lives and |
1:13.9 | indeed whole cities have suffered destruction. Some of the worst atrocities appear to have taken |
1:20.3 | place in the North Ukrainian city of Buccia. Yoghater Lamaya has been hearing the story of one woman |
1:27.7 | who experienced this first hand. Irene Abramova was shivering as she spoke but didn't seem to |
1:35.0 | notice and I see wind was blowing through what used to be her home and the torn metal sheets |
1:41.1 | that were dangling from the roof looked like they were about to come loose. She stepped back |
1:46.8 | and gently held my arm, pulling me back too. This was my kitchen she said, pointing towards a room |
1:53.6 | that had been charred, oily black suit covering its walls and floor. Her living room was a scene of |
2:00.3 | utter destruction too. The house that Irene shared with her husband Oleg stands at the corner of |
2:06.3 | Yablungska and Vexalna streets in Buccia. Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Buccia was barely |
2:13.1 | known outside the country. A small sleepy city, home to people who worked in the capital cave, |
2:19.8 | now its name is known all over the world as a place where civilians were tortured, raped and |
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