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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.4 | Today our correspondent in Ukraine reflects on the challenge of keeping the country's |
0:11.1 | ongoing conflict in the global spotlight. |
0:14.7 | Argentina's elections last weekend did not result in the predicted win for the country's |
0:20.0 | outlandish far-right candidate Havia Miele, but further surprises may be yet to come. |
0:27.5 | The idyllic holiday destination of Mauritius has long been a hub for international drug |
0:33.1 | trafficking, now its battling its own drug epidemic. |
0:38.0 | And we take a pilgrimage to the ancient monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, where women are |
0:44.2 | banned, but Russian rubles are welcome. |
0:48.2 | But first, when Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel from Gaza on the 7th of October, |
0:55.2 | 200 of the people killed were foreign nationals. |
0:59.2 | At least 30 of them were from Thailand. |
1:02.7 | In addition at least 19 Thai workers are believed to have been abducted by Hamas, with many |
1:08.9 | more still missing. |
1:11.2 | These victims are some of the 25,000 or so Thai migrant workers who are employed on |
1:17.8 | Israel's farms and orchards. |
1:20.6 | Jonathan Head traveled to North East Thailand to meet the communities they come from. |
1:26.5 | In the shaky video they posted early on the morning of the 7th of October, the Thai farm |
1:31.1 | workers seemed unconcerned by the noises of war coming over from nearby Gaza. |
1:37.0 | They'd all seen rocket attacks before, and kept up a running commentary as each projectile |
1:42.2 | was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome Defense System. |
1:47.0 | That one was loud, said one of them, it's like waking up in a movie. |
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