What Hope?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What hope is there amidst rising violence in Mexico and Afghanistan's 'forever war'? Kate Adie introduces stories and insight form correspondents around the world: The rich and poor in Mexico City may live in seemingly different worlds, but they are united by a fear of violence ahead of local and national elections. Could the prospect of peace talks in Afghanistan lead to the end of forty years of war? Lyse Doucet finds a tiny ray of hope. When Jenny Hill first met Syrian refugee Eli at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, he seemed as thrilled to be in Abensberg as the German town was to have him. But a lot has changed since then… Niall O’Gallagher’s search for the plotters behind the clandestine operation in which volunteers smuggled ballot boxes into Catalonia for its disputed referendum leads him to an unlikely location. And Benjamin Zand manages to secure an interview with one of Venezuela’s notorious kidnap gangs – only to be accused of being an undercover policeman.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. Today there's talk of peace talks in Afghanistan, |
| 0:08.0 | but what hope is there of an end to 40 years of war? |
| 0:12.0 | Among EU leaders the talk is still of migrants and we hear how |
| 0:16.4 | attitudes are changing in Germany. In France our correspondent visits the town which |
| 0:22.2 | played a secret role in |
| 0:23.7 | Catalonia's referendum on independence and what it's like to come face to face |
| 0:29.2 | with one of Venezuela's deadly kidnap gangs and for them to accuse you of being an undercover policeman. |
| 0:37.8 | The entire police force of the Mexican town of Ocampo was detained this week on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a |
| 0:45.3 | marital candidate. |
| 0:47.2 | When federal agents had tried to arrest the suspected gunman, local police had stopped them. The candidate was a businessman with little the poverty, inequality and corruption. |
| 1:02.5 | And so he decided to run. |
| 1:05.2 | About 40% of Mexicans live in poverty |
| 1:07.9 | and that number is rising. |
| 1:10.0 | And in the run-up to the local and national elections that are taking place tomorrow, |
| 1:14.3 | more than 130 candidates and politicians have been killed. |
| 1:19.5 | But fear of violence spreads far beyond the political class, |
| 1:23.3 | Ashima Kaleel has found. |
| 1:26.3 | The scent of expensive coffee and freshly baked pastries |
| 1:29.6 | wafts across the glistening streets of one of Mexico City's richest and most exclusive |
| 1:35.1 | neighborhoods. Rent for one of Polanco's lavish flats on one of its lush green |
| 1:40.1 | streets can set you back two to three thousand dollars a month. |
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