War in Nagorno-Karabakh - or Artsakh
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Fighting has continued in Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory inhabited and run by ethnic Armenians, but officially still part of Azerbaijan. The armed clashes have included Azerbaijani shelling of residential areas in the main town Stepanakert, from where Jonah Fisher reports that residents have had to take shelter or flee to neighbouring Armenia. US President Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 and was taken to a top military hospital on Friday. It was a fast-moving and seismic day not only for the staff at the White House - where suddenly everyone was wearing a mask, as Tara McKelvey observed - but also for the nation at large. The Vatican, the headquarters of the Catholic Church, has been the subject of rumours about financial secrets for a long time, something Pope Francis has hoped to change with greater transparency. And so a senior cardinal has suddenly been forced to resign over alleged financial wrongdoings. And the Church also published a "consolidated balance sheet"; a first says veteran Vatican observer David Willey. Polio has been all but eradicated from the world - except in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This despite regular vaccination campaigns. So what's been standing in the way of their success? Conspiracy theories are only part of it, as Secunder Kermani has been finding out in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The Greek island of Corfu is home to a small Serbian community, who still honour the lives of the Serbs lost in the First World War. The survivors of a gruelling winter trek across the Balkan mountains to the Adriatic coast, were taken to safety in Corfu by Allied ships. But thousands died there of disease, buried at sea, in the "Blue Graveyard", as Mary Novakovich reports.
Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we consider the recent goings on behind the elegant facade of the White House. |
| 0:12.0 | Our correspondent speaks of shouting and tears. |
| 0:16.2 | We have a story of financial intrigue and power games in another seat of influence, the Vatican, which may be lifting the veil on its accounts. |
| 0:26.3 | It was hoped that polio had been eradicated worldwide. |
| 0:30.0 | It should have been, but we ask why it persists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. |
| 0:36.2 | And yet another reminder of World War I on the Greek island of Corfu, where there's still a small |
| 0:42.2 | Serbian community, descendants of the Great Retreat of |
| 0:45.9 | 1915. |
| 0:48.7 | First to the reappearance of war in the Caucasus, another chapter in the region's fraught |
| 0:54.1 | un-naborly history. |
| 0:55.9 | Fighting's been going on since the end of last month, |
| 0:58.8 | despite appeals for a ceasefire by the international community. |
| 1:03.0 | Jonah Fisher has been in the thick of it. |
| 1:06.2 | I've just spent a couple of days in the Artsakh Republic. |
| 1:09.5 | It's got a border crossing, a president, a foreign Minister, even its own mobile phone network. |
| 1:16.0 | If you've never heard of it before, don't worry, and don't reach for the map either. |
| 1:20.4 | You won't find it. |
| 1:21.7 | Not a single country in the entire world recognizes Artsak as an |
| 1:26.4 | independent state. Not even Armenia and it's effectively pulling all the |
| 1:31.6 | strings there. |
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