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From Our Own Correspondent

Will Greece and Turkey go to war?

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greece and Turkey have agreed to hold talks to help defuse their stand-off over disputed gas reserves near their shores. Ankara had deployed a research vessel accompanied by warships near a Greek island, and military exercises on both sides followed, giving rise to fears of war between the two long-term rivals, as Heidi Fuller Love reports from Crete.

Pakistan was shocked by the gang-rape of a woman on a motorway leading out of the city of Lahore late at night. Sexual violence towards women in Pakistan is commonplace, but this case led to a backlash, as police appeared to blame the victim. As women come together to campaign for change, could it be a turning point to make everyday life safer for women, asks Secunder Kermani.

Peru now has the highest per capita death rate from coronavirus in the world. More than half of the nation’s territory is Amazon rainforest and the indigenous people who live there have been badly affected by the pandemic, but have received little help, with little medical treatment available, as Dan Collyns reports.

In the republic of Georgia, there are still people trapped inside ageing Soviet-era institutions, isolated from society simply for having a learning disability or a mental illness. But one woman has made it her life's work to help patients leave these clinical establishments, and to provide family-style homes for everyone she can prove is capable of independent living. Robin Forestier-Walker was invited along to one such rescue mission. Concerts and music festivals around the world have been cancelled but there is one festival that did go ahead, high up in the Alps in Switzerland. It featured live rock music and raclette cheese. Ben Russell went along.

Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:05.3

Good morning.

0:06.3

Today we hear from Pakistan, where victims of a crime can find themselves in the police

0:12.1

firing line. The crime is rape and one

0:15.1

particular case has sparked a campaign for change. The tentacles of the

0:20.2

pandemic spread even further to the Amazon rainforest and the Peruvian health

0:25.4

service is stretched meaning many from the indigenous communities are dying in their

0:30.2

hammocks rather than hospital beds.

0:33.4

Change for the better in the Republic of Georgia,

0:36.3

where old-style Soviet attitudes to mental health and illness

0:40.4

are being challenged by a one-woman campaign. And in these rather joyless times

0:46.0

our correspondent has been to a festival in Switzerland. Naturally, it involved cheese.

0:51.2

First to the Eastern Mediterranean where there's been a standoff for some weeks between Greece and Turkey.

0:59.0

It's over disputed gas reserves near the shores of both countries.

1:03.2

Ankara had deployed a research vessel accompanied by warships near a Greek island,

1:08.8

raising the temperature and the threat of possible conflict between the two countries, NATO allies, but long-term

1:16.0

regional rivals, still in disagreement over the status of Northern Cyprus.

1:21.8

Heidi Fuller Love has been tracking the row from Greece as agreement to

1:26.0

hold talks beckons. Married to a Frenchman I'm the country's representative as

1:32.0

far as my creak neighbors are concerned.

1:34.7

So when the news broke that after weeks of European humming and arring, the French President

1:40.0

Emmanuel Macron was sending fighter jets and battleships to the disputed

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