“You must come with us!”
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week’s dispatches, introduced by Kate Adie, are:
Steve Rosenberg in Belarus reflects on the history he shares with President Lukashenko, recently re-elected in a poll widely regarded as fradulent. It’s based on their separate links with a small town in the countryside. Yet even these didn’t prevent him from being detained by the regime’s police force.
Phil Mercer in Sydney considers the strains being placed on Australia’s cohesion as many of its principal states and territories close their borders to each other. From the maintenance of urgent medical care to opportunistic flits across the country, the restrictions are causing hardship and leading to disaffection.
A deal has been initialled in Sudan between its transitional government and the main rebel alliance designed to bring peace to the long-troubled North African state. Hailed by outside governments, the agreement has, however, yet to be endorsed by all parties to the Sudanese conflict. Anne Soy reported on widespread protests in the country last year and considers whether this third peace deal will prove more durable than the preceding ones.
Five years after a million migrants and putative refugees arrived in Europe, Nick Thorpe in Budapest assesses how the Hungarian government has handled the flow of people since then – and discovers how some of those he met in 2015 seeking to start new lives in Europe have fared.
And finally carol singers and Father Christmases appear each summer on a peculiar day in Boston’s calendar – notably not disrupted by Covid-19 this year – when nearly three-quarters of those who rent their homes in the US city move house. Recent arrival there, Alice Hutton, went to meet her new neighbours to find out what it was all about.
Producer Simon Coates
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, where to draw the line when coping with a pandemic in Australia, it's at the state borders and is that a way to divide a country? |
| 0:17.2 | Once again a peace deal for Sudan we look at its chance of success this time round. |
| 0:23.7 | Hungary's government has prided itself on letting only a few migrants in. |
| 0:28.8 | We hear from Budapest what's happened since the wave of refugees and asylum seekers reached Europe five years ago. |
| 0:36.0 | And on the move but for different reasons, tens of thousands of Americans moving house in Boston all on the same day. |
| 0:46.7 | First Belarus and the continuing protests against the rule of President Lukashenko after what's viewed as a rigged re-election. |
| 0:55.7 | Journalists are now feeling the heat from the authorities, including our Steve Rosenberg, |
| 1:02.0 | who found himself taken into custody. |
| 1:04.8 | The story begins in a small town 150 miles from the capital Minsk. |
| 1:10.6 | The town of Sklov is famous for two things. The first is its vegetables. |
| 1:16.8 | Shklov is the cucumber capital of Bielerus. On the central square they've even built a monument to the much loved local |
| 1:25.6 | Gerkin. The second thing that has put Sklov on the map is its association with the president. |
| 1:33.2 | Alexander Lukashenko grew up around here, and he went on to run a local farm. |
| 1:39.7 | He used it as a launch pad into politics, first to Parliament and then to the presidency. |
| 1:47.5 | But I too have a personal connection to this place. |
| 1:51.3 | My great-grandfather, Hyam Gnessen, was born here. In 1894 he left what was |
| 1:57.9 | then white Russia in the Tsarist empire and sailed to Britain and thank goodness he did. the Army. Most of the Jews of Sklov and the neighboring villages were rounded up and executed. |
| 2:17.2 | On the eve of the war, Sklov's Jewish population had numbered 2,000. |
| 2:22.4 | I'm told that today there are fewer than 10 Jews living here. |
| 2:27.0 | Whenever I hear President Lukashenko describing the opposition leaders and peaceful protesters who've been demanding his resignation as |
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