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From Our Own Correspondent

US election: Georgia, the new swing state?

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the US, lots of eyes are still on the outcome of the election in Georgia. Joe Biden appears to have to have narrowly won the state, but the margin is so narrow that local law requires a recount. Suzanne Kianpour hails from Atlanta, Georgia, and found herself back there as the votes were being counted. Parts of South East Asia’s largest remaining rainforests, in Indonesia’s Papua province, are being cleared to make way for oil palm plantations. Rebecca Henschke has been investigating allegations a Korean palm oil company was involved in unfair land deals with local tribes, and she hears from clan elders about what’s been lost. Venice is built on a lagoon, with canals for streets, and floods a common occurrence. There was a particularly devastating surge a year ago today. A flood barrier, delayed for decades, finally had its first full test last month. Called Mose, like Italian for Moses, will it be able to stop rising Venetian seas? Julia Buckley has been testing the waters. Iran has often been accused of repression at home – and assassination abroad. The regime targets its critics and enemies anywhere in the world and has been implicated in attacks from Argentina to the Netherlands. Jiyar Gol has been investigating the killings of two Dutch-Iranians . Have you come across the Greek dish kleftiko? It's slow-cooked lamb. The name is related to the words kleptocracy and kleptomania, the “klept” part of it being from the Greek for thief. In the case of the lamb recipe, the theft refers to sheep rustling. A tradition that goes back a long way in Crete, says Heidi Fuller-Love, but has recently become more serious.

Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.6

Good morning.

0:05.9

Today you can't eat money, a realization that's come to tribal elders in Indonesian

0:11.8

Papua, regretting

0:13.7

selling their ancestral jungle land to a palm oil company.

0:18.0

Parting the Red Sea, the biblical tale of Moses,

0:21.6

stretching out his hand on the waters obeying.

0:24.6

The new flood barrier in Venice is called Moses.

0:28.2

Will it hold back the devastating high tides?

0:32.1

Two mysterious deaths in the Netherlands, Dutch Iranians,

0:36.0

thought to have been assassinated on the orders of the Iranian authorities,

0:40.0

we ask why.

0:41.0

And sheep rustling, surprisingly an honourable tradition, at least in Crete,

0:47.0

resulting in dishes of cleftico, though it's all taken a rather sinister turn now.

0:54.0

First to America, where some are celebrating victory while others such as President

0:59.1

Trump seem convinced that they haven't got the result yet, or at least the result they want.

1:05.3

Kew spotlights on some of the states where it was a close-run thing, and lawyers being called

1:11.0

upon to instigate proceedings.

1:13.7

Georgia appears to have been one by Joe Biden,

1:16.9

but the margin was so narrow that local law requires a recount.

1:21.6

A reminder that 20 years ago in Florida, Al Gore's fate hinged on the quaintly named

1:26.9

hanging chads there.

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