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🗓️ 13 October 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The Azov Sea off Crimea has become increasingly militarised and seen tense exchanges between Russian and Ukrainian coastguards. Jonah Fisher joins the Ukrainian Navy in these troubled waters. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world. In Colombia, Simon Maybin meets a group of Venezuelan migrants who’ve turned to busking on the streets of Cucuta in the hope of raising enough money to feed their starving families back home. In Hungary, Nick Thorpe visits Mohacs where invading Ottoman forces defeated those of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 16th century. What can it tell us about relations between Turkey and Hungary today? In Spain, Lottie Gross finds herself mesmerised by competing towers of people at the 27th Concurs de Castells in Tarragona. And in Brussels, Adam Fleming takes a break from reporting the negotiations on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU to play ‘Brexit the board game.’
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0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:03.0 | Hello, today Venezuela still in trouble |
0:07.0 | and with his hungry citizens continuing to stream out of their country |
0:11.0 | we're on the other side of the border in Colombia. |
0:14.8 | In Central Europe, history looms large as we assess Hungarian-Turkish relations on the |
0:21.0 | 16th century battlefield where Ottoman invaders brought an end to the Kingdom of Hungary. |
0:27.0 | In Catalonia, we marvel at competing human towers. |
0:31.2 | And you'd think a journalist whose job is making sense of EU politics would do something else with his spare time. |
0:38.0 | No, our man in Brussels has been playing Brexit the board game. |
0:44.5 | It was in February 2014 that unidentified pro-Russian gunman seized control of the parliament |
0:50.6 | and other key buildings in Crimea. |
0:53.4 | Still officially part of Ukraine, the peninsula which sticks out from the south of the country, |
0:58.6 | was annexed and absorbed into the Russian Federation a month later. |
1:03.0 | Recently, the seas which surround it have become increasingly militarised |
1:08.0 | and seen tense exchanges between the two countries' coastguards. |
1:12.0 | Ukraine has accused Russia of restricting access to the |
1:15.3 | sea of Azov, a crucial trade route for eastern Ukraine's heavy industries, |
1:19.8 | while Moscow says it's simply protecting its assets. |
1:23.6 | Jonah Fisher took to the seas with the Ukrainian Navy. |
1:27.4 | On a table in the messroom of the onyx, |
1:29.9 | Captain Maxim Benabesjug |
1:32.3 | unfurls his chart of the Azov Sea. |
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