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🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.6 | Today, how going off-script by Nigeria's new president led to a country-wide scramble |
0:11.6 | for petrol. The chaotic aftermath of India's worst rail crash in over 20 years, as families |
0:18.8 | frantically searched for news of their loved ones. Joining the hunt for Ukraine's missing |
0:24.6 | children and speaking to the mothers going to Russia to try and get them back. And in |
0:30.4 | Panama, a much quieter springtime in the rainforest this year, as the planet warms, the rhythms |
0:37.0 | of bird migration appear to be shifting. |
0:41.0 | We start in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and other latest in a line of governments |
0:45.8 | which have tried to eradicate the country's lucrative opium poppy trade. Around 80% of |
0:52.0 | the global opium supply used to come from Afghanistan, and nearly all the heroines sold in Europe |
0:58.1 | is still made from raw Afghan opium. Under the previous Afghan government, the United |
1:03.8 | States spent billions trying to eradicate this trade, which it claimed was a major source |
1:09.0 | of funding for the Taliban's fighters, a claim which the Taliban hotly denied at the |
1:13.8 | time. Now the Taliban themselves are in power in Kabul, and last year their supreme leader |
1:20.4 | in turn announced a new ban on poppy growing. BBC analysis of satellite images has shown |
1:26.9 | cultivation has dropped dramatically over the last year. But as Yogi Telemire heard, this |
1:33.7 | apparent success comes at a cost for many poor Afghan farmers who are struggling to survive. |
1:40.0 | Our car rattled along the bumpy mud roads, deep in eastern Afghanistan's Nungarhar province. |
1:47.1 | Despite the rough terrain, we chosen to use a small, nondescript vehicle to keep a low profile |
1:52.9 | for safety reasons. Winding around the foothills of the spin-car mountain range by the border |
1:58.4 | with Pakistan, we met up with two pickup trucks full of Taliban fighters. They were part |
2:04.3 | of an anti-narcotics unit, and after a lot of effort convincing senior officials, we'd been |
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