Trapped in a Nightmare
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Human stories behind the headlines: Fergal Keane is on the frontline in Ukraine with a husband and wife who are determined to stay on in their home even as war consumes their town. Two boys talk to Quentin Sommerville about life, death and indoctrination in an ISIS-held town in Syria. Grace Livingstone is in the Venezuelan countryside finding that livelihoods are being hit hard by the financial crisis. On Mafia Island, off the coast of Tanzania, Hannah McNeish finds there are two principal topics of conversation - the performance of the new president and a fish called Jesus which, so the story goes, is as big as a car. And it is now official: the very best baguettes in the world are baked by Koreans. Steve Evans, in Seoul, talks of changing tastes in a young market with a global, fashionable appetite for the trappings of European culture and cuisine
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| 0:00.0 | This is the from our own correspondent office at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.0 | You've downloaded the latest edition of our program. |
| 0:06.5 | It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday the 13th of February 2016. |
| 0:12.0 | And it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, today the Cubs of the Caliphate, the ISIS children schooled in killing, |
| 0:21.0 | brainwashed, brutalised and beaten. |
| 0:24.3 | Chavez lives is the cry down on the farm in Venezuela, but the economic crisis there is |
| 0:29.7 | causing chaos in the countryside. |
| 0:32.3 | The replaudits for Tanzania's new president after a hundred days in office |
| 0:36.0 | but we hear he'll never be as big as the fish called Jesus. |
| 0:40.0 | And its humble pie for the French as the World Cup for Bread Making goes to South Korea. |
| 0:49.0 | But first, thousands of Russian troops are taking part in combat readiness exercises in the south of the country |
| 0:55.3 | close to those areas of eastern Ukraine which are held by pro-Russian rebels. |
| 1:00.2 | The government in Kyiv, along with NATO and Western leaders, |
| 1:03.4 | says Russia is sending armor and troops across the border to help the insurgents. |
| 1:08.0 | It's a claim Moscow denies, although it admits that Russian volunteers are helping out. |
| 1:14.0 | It's a year now since an agreement was signed in Minsk, |
| 1:17.0 | which was supposed to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, |
| 1:20.0 | but the fighting continues, |
| 1:22.0 | civilians continue to flee and to suffer. |
| 1:25.0 | Fergal Keynes been back to a town called Pesky, |
| 1:28.0 | to talk to one couple determined to stay on in their home, |
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