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A story about life, love and loss, Goodbye to All This, Episode 1 - BBC World Service podcast
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- A story about life, love and loss, Goodbye to All This, Episode 1 - BBC World Service podcast
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- 20:48
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- "He blows a kiss and now I see it. There’s exhaustion in his eyes and in the way he stands. How didn’t I notice it before?”
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Sophie and Russell never expected anything bad to happen - not to them. But then he had some blood tests and scans and they started to feel scared. It all begins at a coffee shop in Sydney, Australia.
In mid-2011, Sophie's husband is diagnosed with lung cancer. She cares for him with the support of her family and friends until his death in February the following year. Since then, she has raised her girls alone, rising to new challenges, making lots of mistakes, and finding a new place in the world.
This is a story about life, love and loss. A memoir by Sophie Townsend.
A Falling Tree production for the BBC World Service.
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- US Election 2020: Who does China want in the White House? - BBC World Service podcast
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- 16:34
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Could the US presidential election lead to a change in relations between the United States and China?
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Tensions with China have simmered for the past three years ever since President Trump initiated the so-called trade war.
As Ed Butler hears from tech analyst Dan Wang, the trade war could prove a death sentence for Huawei, one of China's highest-profile firms. So what is likely to change after the US election, depending on who wins? Not much, says China analyst Rui Zhong, as Beijing's priorities under President Xi appear far more domestic. And Daniel Russel, former adviser on Asia to President Obama, agrees, saying the world looks very different from that previous administration. But Ian Bremmer, chair of the Eurasia Group, counsels that the election still has huge potential for the global balance of power.
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- WW2 'Brown Babies': A little-known part of British 20th Century history - BBC World Service podcast
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- 13:41
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- "I just wanted to be accepted for who I was": The story of the children born from relationships between British women and African-American soldiers during World War Two.
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The US first began sending troops to the UK in 1942 to help in the war effort. It is estimated that at least two million American servicemen passed through the UK during World War Two, and tens of thousands of them were black.
The African-American GIs stationed in Britain were forced by the American military to abide by the racial segregation laws that applied in the deep south of the US. But that didn't stop relationships developing between British women and the black soldiers, some of whom went on to have children. The African-American press called these children 'Brown Babies'.
Babs Gibson-Ward was one those children. She spoke to Farhana Haider about the stigma of growing up as mixed-race ch...
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- Global Handwashing Day: Am I using the right soap? - BBC World Service
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Over the last few months we’ve been told how important it is to wash our hands regularly – for at least 20 seconds – to protect against coronavirus. But with so many different soaps to choose from, how do we work out what’s best? Are some soaps better than others?
To mark Global Handwashing Day, Dr Michelle Wong - AKA @LabMuffinBeautyScience, a beauty blogger with a PhD in chemistry – explains how to find the best soap for your skin while we’re washing our hands more often to protect ourselves from coronavirus.
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- Coronavirus: Why is Covid-19 so infectious? - BBC World Service
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- 2:53
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Covid-19 spreads very fast - and very easily - compared to many other diseases. The way that it infects us, how long we are ill for and how we pass it on to other people all play a part.
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Airborne transmission via respiratory droplets is one of the major ways that the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus spreads and many people with Covid-19 won’t even know they have it. One significant mutation has already made it easier for the virus to attach itself to us. Scientists are keeping a close eye on how the virus is changing - will it become even more infectious?
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- US Election 2020: Could 'big government' come back into fashion? - BBC World Service podcasts
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- 16:32
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Will the 2020 US elections usher in a sea-change in economic thinking, after 40 years dominated by small government conservatism?
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Manuela Saragosa speaks to one small government conservative - Ramesh Ponnuru of the American Enterprise Institute - who says people like him no longer have a home in either of the main political parties. Economist James Galbraith says the scale of the economic challenge posed by the pandemic could compel a much greater role for the federal government in reviving and restructuring the economy.
But could this election prove as significant as the victory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his economic New Deal in 1932 - assuming that President Trump even loses? Political scientist Julia Azari says despite Joe Biden's reputation as an unassuming moderate party stalwart, there are parallels with his illustrious Democratic predecessor.
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- London's first black policeman: 'A job that had to be done' - BBC World Service podcast
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- 14:14
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Norwell Roberts became London's first black police officer when he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1967.
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He was put forward as a symbol of progressive policing amid ongoing tensions between the police and ethnic minorities in the capital. But behind the scenes, he endured years of racist abuse from colleagues within the force.
Norwell Roberts QPM spoke to Alex Last about growing up in Britain and his determination to be a pioneer in the police force.
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- Welcome to the BBC World Service - now on YouTube
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- 0:15
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- 6 years ago
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- Click here to subscribe so you don't miss a new video! https://www.youtube.com/bbcworldservice
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- Yemen: How young people are forging a future during a civil war - BBC World Service
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- 4:32
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- 6 years ago
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- Yemen is in its fifth year of war and is dealing with one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. So how are the next generation coping?
Three young Yemenis tell us how they've been affected by the crisis and how their lives have changed. But despite losing loved ones, and opportunities, many are finding ways to be hopeful.
Video producer: Nabihah Parker, BBC Minute
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- US Election 2020: How important is climate change for voters? - BBC World Service
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- 16:47
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The West Coast wildfires have lifted climate change to the top of the campaign agenda, but will it actually shift any votes?
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It highlights one of sharpest policy contrasts between the two presidential candidates - with Donald Trump questioning whether global warming is even a threat, while Joe Biden has a detailed $2.5 trillion plan to decarbonise the economy.
Justin Rowlatt speaks to David Banks, a former energy advisor to both President Trump and George W Bush, as well as Cheryl LaFleur, who served as an energy regulator under Barack Obama. Plus the BBC's North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher discusses electoral calculations behind each candidate's stance.
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This programme was first broadcast on 18 September 2020.
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- US Presidential Election 2020: Texas, Ohio, Florida & Pennsylvania - BBC World Service
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- 3:30
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Democrats have been closing the gap in the traditionally Republican state of Texas. It's now a swing state.
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And so are Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, which President Trump won by narrow margins in 2016.
Ahead of this year's election on 3 November, how are voters feeling about their state - and how Donald Trump or Joe Biden might now be the right candidate for them?
Video edited by Ellen Tsang.
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- Rulebreakers: The shepherd and the settler - BBC World Service
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- 3:40
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- 6 years ago
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- Muhammad – a Palestinian shepherd, and Danny – an Israeli settler, are on two sides of a complex conflict in the occupied West Bank.
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Muhammad has been grazing his sheep in the remote area of Rashash for 30 years. His family has lived in Palestine for generations. Danny has made his home in a nearby settlement, in the land that his Jewish forefathers used to live.
When some Israeli settlers set up an outpost – a small, unauthorised community – near Rashash recently, conflicts ensued.
Max Freedman, an American Jewish producer, travelled to the area to try to unravel the conflicts and find out more about the lives on both sides. Hear his full story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0x1y
Part of the Rulebreakers series from BBC World Service, in collaboration with Sundance Institute.
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- Fighting coronavirus in Afghanistan with the help of telemedicine - BBC World Service
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- 7:28
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Facing a new disease like Covid-19 is particularly difficult for healthcare workers in low-resource and war-torn countries. The charity Teleheal is helping doctors in Afghanistan fight coronavirus via telemedicine.
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Doctors from the UK, US, Canada and Australia volunteer for the charity, offering life-saving advice on their smartphones and laptops to their colleagues in Afghanistan. They are sent patient reports, scan x-ray images and respond with text messages or phone calls.
They discuss critical cases, send the latest World Health Organization guidelines and offer live weekly tutorials on coronavirus-related issues, including mental health and wellbeing.
The doctors are available 24/7 and are also operating in Syria, South Africa and Uganda.
The BBC spoke to Dr Waheed Arian, the founder of Teleheal and emergency doctor for the NHS in the UK; Dr Mamo...
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- 'I was accused of kidnapping my adopted son' - BBC World Service
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Adopting a child can be a challenging experience but imagine being accused of kidnapping your new baby.
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That is what happened to Keia, an African-American woman and her husband when they adopted a white child. In fact the couple, who live in the US, are constantly challenged by members of the public, suspicious about their three-year-old son.
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- Rulebreakers: Alleged hacker Lauri Love - BBC World Service
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Lauri Love describes daily life with his autism and depression, and how a nice comment from someone can turn into a painful assault for him.
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British man Lauri Love was arrested in 2013 on suspicion of stealing data from the FBI, Nasa and other US agencies.
In 2018, he won his appeal against extradition to the US. The judge cited Lauri's depression and autism as factors in the decision, saying extradition would be "oppressive by reason of his physical and mental condition".
Part of the Rulebreakers series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute.
Producers: Alice Homewood, Tim O’Leary and Moira Lam
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- 'Super bacteria' survive in space for years - BBC World Service
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Scientists who attached a strain of bacteria to the outside of the International Space Station have been stunned to find it survived for three years, in open space.
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The experiment, led by a team of Japanese researchers, involved the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans, also known as Conan the Bacterium due to its extreme hardiness. Experts say the study could help shape our understanding of whether life might exist on other planets.
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- Covid-19: Could mutations to the coronavirus make it more dangerous? - BBC World Service
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- 2:56
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- 6 years ago
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- Mutations to a virus are common in the course of a pandemic. And scientists have discovered thousands to Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus - the virus that causes Covid-19.
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Scientists believe one mutation called D614G may have made it easier for coronavirus to be transmitted between humans. As cases of people becoming reinfected with Covid-19 start to be seen, there are concerns that this is a result of new variants.
Could we be hearing more about other mutations in the future?
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- Rulebreakers: Greenland's first ever prison - BBC World Service
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- 3:19
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Greenland has long been free of traditional, closed prisons. Inmates stayed in 'open institutions', while serious offenders were sent to Denmark.
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But in 2019, Greenland opened its first ever closed prison - a state-of-the-art facility nestled among idyllic snowy surroundings.
But its beautiful design has caused controversy.
Part of the Rulebreakers series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute.
Producers: Katz Laszlo and Lene Bech Sillesen
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- A clever way to provide life-saving oxygen in Uganda - BBC World Service
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- 3:45
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Eight month old Francis was rushed to Uganda's Mbara Hospital, struggling to breathe. Two days later, he was much better - and was the very first patient to be treated with life-changing equipment.
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It allows places without reliable power supplies, to provide oxygen to patients.
Pneumonia kills about 1.4 million children under five every year. Treatment with concentrated oxygen saves lives, but the machines that make it need a constant supply of electricity.
So a team of physicists came up with a clever way to keep oxygen flowing even when the power cuts out.
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- Stunning Maldives islands saved from developers - BBC World Service
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- 2:19
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- 6 years ago
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- Local residents in the Maldives have won a campaign against developers and the government who wanted to turn two islands into a luxury resort.
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They argued the plan would have deprived local people of vital jobs and caused damage to coral reefs and the wider ecosystem.
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- Bangladesh: Losing my job as a garment worker because of coronavirus - BBC World Service
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- 3:15
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Sonia is 18 years old. She used to work in a clothing factory in Bangladesh. But lost her job because of the coronavirus pandemic and now she struggles to pay for food and rent.
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Sonia is one of thousands of garment workers who have lost their jobs in Bangladesh due to Covid-19. When global lockdowns caused shops to close, brands cancelled billions of dollars in orders.
Clothing sales fell, factories closed down, and workers were left without jobs.
BBC Minute spoke to Sonia. This is her story.
Video journalist, Nabihah Parkar
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- Welcome to the world’s largest urban rooftop farm - BBC World Service
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- 3:06
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- 6 years ago
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- Paris will soon be home to the world's biggest urban farm - the size of two football pitches - on the roof of the Paris Exhibition Centre.
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Despite delays because of the coronavirus pandemic, the development of the farm is underway and it is already beginning to produce crops.
Agripolis, the company behind the project, transforms roofs and abandoned urban areas into spaces which are covered in plants. It wants the new farm to be central to the community and residents are able to rent small vegetable plots, giving them access to ground that they don't have in the city. The farm's aim is to have a low carbon footprint and it has an on-site restaurant, which uses the produce to cook seasonal food.
Using vertical gardening techniques, and making the most of rooftop space, Agripolis hopes to provide a model of sustainable farming for cities around the world.
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- What does Covid-19 do to the body? - BBC World Service
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- 3:12
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Covid-19 can affect the lungs, mind, immune system and many other parts of the body.
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Covid-19 affects people very differently. For some, a fever, cough and breathlessness are as bad as it gets but others can be hospitalised for weeks as the virus takes hold. Covid-19 can affect the lungs and the body’s immune system, and can even lead to strokes and psychosis. Breathing problems and post-viral fatigue last for months in some cases. We still don’t know how anyone will react to Covid-19 until they get it but it’s obvious the effects can be devastating and that all health guidance should be followed.
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- Rulebreakers: The secret life of a train hopper - BBC World Service
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- In 2006, Mike Brodie dropped out of high school and, for the next three years, rode 50,000 miles for free on freight trains all across the US.
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He took thousands of photos of his travels, which have since been published in a book and exhibited at galleries around the world.
He says the transient lifestyle is a protest, and estimates some 2,000 to 5,000 people still take part in this secretive activity in the US.
Part of the Rulebreakers series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute.
Producer: Rachel Kantrowitz
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- Coronavirus: Is the pandemic a disaster for feminism? - BBC World Service
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- 16:34
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Parents across the world have had to take on the additional pressure of childcare and homeschooling during the pandemic. And in many countries, it's women who have been shouldering much of this extra work. So what has been the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on gender inequality?
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Tamasin Ford speaks to Lauren Currie, CEO of Stride and founder of Upfront - organisations focused on getting women’s voices heard - and Gill Whitty-Collins, author of Why Men Win at Work, about how the strains of the pandemic have disproportionately affected women.
Saunoamaali’i Dr Karanina Sumeo, New Zealand’s equal opportunities commissioner, explains why having more women at the table when policy decisions are made is part of the solution.
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- Hologram shows patient’s heart during surgery - BBC World Service
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Jennifer and Jon Silva, a husband and wife team working at Washington University in St Louis, in the United States, have developed a hologram that visualises a patient’s heart while they are in the operating theatre.
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The software is designed to provide real-time information in 3D and a direct view of internal tools, such as catheters. Initial tests have shown, for the first time, that holograms can improve accuracy when used during minimally invasive surgery to treat arrhythmias (heart rhythm problems).
Video by Jennifer Green, interview by Ania Lichtarowicz.
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- The pop-up proms bringing happiness to the elderly - BBC World Service
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- 3:05
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Ricky Smith taught himself to DJ so he could bring pop-up proms to elderly care homes in the US. Now he tours the US with his organisation R.A.K.E. (Random Acts of Kindness Everywhere) putting on shows to help elderly people with loneliness.
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Ricky’s desire to help others came from his own experience of hardship. He was living in LA and only had $20 left - so he decided to use it to buy pizzas for the homeless. He posted his story on social media and it inspired other people to do good - so he decided to carry it on.
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- Is homeworking messing with your head? - BBC World Service
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- 17:43
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- 6 years ago
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- Working from home may be the new normal for many former office workers - but is it good or bad for business?
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Working from home could outlast the pandemic. But workers' experiences with homeworking in lockdown are not all positive.
Manuela Saragosa speaks to some office workers who've struggled to adapt to home life, and to Dr Zofia Bajorek, research fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies in the UK, who's been surveying workers on the pressures they've faced in lockdown.
Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Manchester Business School, explains why face-to-face contact is so important for innovation in the workplace, and why flexible working with a mix of office and home will ultimately make us all happier.
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- The musician who sees colour and feels textures when she hears music - BBC World Service
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- 3:35
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Valeria, 23, discovered she could see colours and feel textures when listening to music as a child. She has a condition called synaesthesia.
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Synaesthesia is a neurological trait that results in a joining or merging of senses that aren't normally connected. Now a singer and pianist, she says it's helped her to become a better musician.
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- Coronavirus: Are more waves of Covid-19 inevitable? - BBC World Service
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- As different countries tackle spikes of coronavirus cases and lockdowns return to some places, it’s becoming clear that Covid-19 will be with us for a while.
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Many past pandemics such as the Spanish flu have had several waves of infection and first waves can be dwarfed by later ones. Could second and third waves from other pandemics give us a clue about how Covid-19's likely to continue spreading? And what's the difference between a 'spike' and 'wave'? Scientists are keeping a close eye on lots of mutations to the virus in case it develops into a strain with the potential to trigger even bigger waves.
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- Coronavirus: Why Africa's tech entrepreneurs are booming in lockdown - BBC World Service
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- Coronavirus has brought new opportunities to Africa's tech sector, despite the devastating blow it has delivered to economies around the world.
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Tamasin Ford speaks to one of Forbes Africa’s 50 most powerful women, Rebecca Enonchong, the founder and CEO of AppsTech, a global provider of digital solutions. Claud Hutchful, chief executive of Dream Oval, a technology firm in Accra, Ghana, tells us about payments app Slydepay.
Plus we hear from Moses Acquah, chief technology officer of GreenTec Capital Partners, an investment firm that supports African entrepreneurs. He’s also the founder of the networking organisation, Afrolynk.
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- Is noise pollution killing whales and dolphins? - BBC World Service
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- 6 years ago
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- Thousands of whales and dolphins die every year after they become stranded on beaches. Many end up there for natural reasons, such as illness, but could noise from human activity also play a part?
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Dr Maria Morell, from University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, studies the ears of beached dolphins and whales to try and work out if hearing damage led to their death. She’s developed a new way of finding out if a cetacean's hearing was affected just hours before they beached, to support the theory that the two might be connected - and help pinpoint human activities that may be having an impact.
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- WW2: The nun who saved 83 children - BBC World Service
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- As a Jewish girl growing up in France during the Holocaust in World War Two, Hélène Ullrich was on the run.
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An extraordinary Catholic nun defied the Nazis, risking her own life to save Hélène and 82 other Jewish children.
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- Does commuting into the office have a future? - BBC World Service
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- 6 years ago
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- With many more people working from home during lockdown and beyond, what's the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on cities and commuting?
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Does commuting into the office have a future? Manuela Saragosa speaks to Mike Hampson, chief executive of Bishopsgate Financial, which has permanently closed its office in London's financial district in favour of home working.
Luke Philpott from the commercial property agents DeVono Cresa describes the steep drop in demand for office space during the lockdown, while Tom Carroll from the commercial property company JLL argues that the office still has a crucial role to play in company life.
Urbanist Richard Florida from the University of Toronto explains why cities will continue to be vital centres of business and innovation, despite the impact of the virus.
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- Dogs with backpacks revive forests in Chile devastated by wildfires - BBC World Service
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- 6 years ago
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- Sister Francisca and Constanza Torres and their three dogs are planting seeds in areas of Chile devastated by wildfires.
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The project, which uses dog backpacks, is done in their own time and has already gained international recognition.
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- Coronavirus: When will a Covid-19 vaccine be ready? - BBC World Service
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- Scientists' hunt for a vaccine to protect us from Covid-19 has become even more urgent. But when can we expect to get one that works?
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Covid-19 infections are on the rise globally and the devastating impact of the pandemic is becoming clear. More than 150 possible vaccines are in development and there have been some promising results. But how long is it likely to take until one's widely available and is success guaranteed?
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- Coronavirus: The winners and losers of working from home - BBC World Service, Business Daily podcast
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- 6 years ago
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- Working from home has been hugely beneficial for some people - and for some smaller cities. But what's the economic cost?
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Even before the pandemic, remote tech worker Heather May swapped the office and the big city for rural Alabama and is much happier. She's on a programme similar to Tulsa Remote, which aims to attract remote workers from around the US to Tulsa, Oklahoma: Its chief executive says working from home is a longterm trend.
But what about the broader picture? Presenter Manuela Saragosa hears from Stanford University Economist Nicholas Bloom about why a boom in working from home during the coronavirus pandemic could increase inequality, and Digital Economy Researcher Sarah Bana tells us why some countries are better than others at home working.
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- Mapping the ‘unmapped’ around the world - BBC World Service
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- 3:46
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- 6 years ago
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- Tawanda Kanhema carried Street View cameras across Zimbabwe in 2018, so it would have a more complete representation on Google Maps.
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Now he’s doing the same for other extreme locations around the world.
“If you were to use certain maps as your way of getting a sense of the world, there are certain places that would completely not exist."
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- Coronavirus: Women turn food carts into disinfection units - BBC World Service
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- 6 years ago
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- Dozens of women in Afghanistan who were selling snacks around the capital, Kabul, found themselves jobless when lockdown closed their businesses.
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So they had their solar-powered food carts converted into mobile disinfection units to help tackle the outbreak.
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- Gender identity: ‘How colonialism killed my culture’s gender fluidity’ - BBC World Service
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- Some people in Western cultures say that gender is binary and divided into male and female, and that gender fluidity is a recent phenomenon. But that isn’t the case everywhere.
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In some Indian, Native American and Aboriginal cultures gender is more fluid and has been for centuries.
The BBC’s Gender and Identity correspondent, Megha Mohan, has been speaking to young people from these communities who are taking to social media in new ways to educate people about how gender identity is viewed in their culture.
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- Coronavirus: Would you go to university in a pandemic? - BBC World Service, Business Daily
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- 6 years ago
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- Students due to start university or college this Autumn are in the dark over what kind of education they can expect under social distancing measures. Many are choosing to defer their studies - and institutions may miss out on billions of dollars in fees.
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Student Jorge Beltrao tells Business Daily why he's planning to take a gap year instead of beginning his degree and Zamzam Ibrahim, former president of the UK's National Union of Students, explains why he's not alone.
Kim Weeden, professor of sociology at Cornell University in the US, explains why college campuses are such a worry when it comes to the spread of viruses.
Professor Peter Mathieson, principle and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh in the UK, says students can expect a good education regardless of restrictions.
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- Could earthworms help transform the future of organic farming? - BBC World Service, CrowdScience
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- Worms are not the cutest of creatures. But by working soil to improve it's quality, they can help to improve the crop, so could play a key role in our planet’s future agricultural success.
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BBC CrowdScience listener Dinesh, an organic farmer in India’s Tamil Nadu province, thinks earthworms are underrated. He got in touch with CrowdScience to ask them to explore earthworms, and whether they could play a bigger role in the future of organic farming.
Presenter Anand Jagatia dons his gardening gloves and digs the dirt on these remarkable creatures, discovering how they can help improve soil quality, prevent fields from becoming waterlogged and improve microbial numbers, all of which has the potential to increase crop yield.
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- Coronavirus: 'I sailed the Atlantic alone to get back to my parents in lockdown' - BBC World Service
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- 2:12
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- 6 years ago
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- At the start of lockdown, Juan Manuel Ballestero - like many others - found himself far from home. He decided the safest way back, to avoid catching coronavirus, was to sail across the Atlantic from Portugal to Argentina.
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It was a long and dangerous journey for which he had not properly prepared. But, as he told us after his arrival in Argentina, the trip did not take his elderly parents by surprise.
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- Coronavirus: How are food businesses coping with the pandemic? - BBC World Service, The Food Chain
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- 6 years ago
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- Food businesses have been some of the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Worldwide lockdowns have forced thousands of restaurants, bars and cafes to close, but many entrepreneurs have managed to keep their businesses afloat through innovation.
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The Food Chain revisits some past guests to find out how they’ve been coping and ask what they’ve learned about their business, their customers, and themselves. Tamasin Ford speaks to a chocolate maker in Ghana who hasn’t sold a single bar since the country locked down in March, and a fried chicken entrepreneur in South Africa who’s turned to feeding frontline workers to keep his kitchens and staff going.
But business hasn’t been all bad - a baker in Montreal, Canada, says he’s never sold more bread and has started selling bags of flour to meet a growing demand from home bakers.
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- The Iranian women facing jail for singing - BBC World Service
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- 6 years ago
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- In Iran, women are banned from singing solo. It’s because Shia Muslim clerics in the religiously conservative country believe that a woman’s singing voice can be erotic.
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In the past two years at least a dozen women have been sentenced to prison for singing in public, or publishing their work on social media. Most of them have left to avoid finds, prison or lashes. BBC World Service Women Affair’s Reporter Faranak Amidi speaks to two singers who faced prison for making music.
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- Ethiopia's church forests - BBC World Service
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- In northern Ethiopia, churches are fighting to protect their sacred forests.
In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, it's believed that these forests provide protective "clothing" for their sacred spaces. They can also offer the only shade for miles.
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But encroaching farmland is putting these ancient trees at risk - and livestock is thwarting attempts to rejuvenate the forests with new saplings.
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- Why are we seeing record temperatures in the Arctic? - BBC World Service
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- In June 2020, temperatures in the Arctic Circle may have reached record levels after the mercury hit 38°C (100°F) in Verkhoyansk, a Siberian town.
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Steve Vavrus, a climatologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains why heatwaves like this occur and discusses their link with global warming.
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- Coronavirus: 'Our life is dependent on the survival of plants and animals' - BBC World Service
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- "If the pandemic lasts 18 months or more, some species will be in deep, deep trouble."
Pictures of blue skies and videos of wild animals venturing into cities have been a common sight during lockdowns across the world. But the hidden toll of the pandemic has been increased risk of poaching and trafficking.
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"With the decline in tourism, unemployment for workers leads to a desperation for survival and the lucrative prospect of poaching one rhino, who lives next door, becomes that much more enticing."
Wildlife conservationist Latika Nath has spent more than 30 years studying and photographing animals and is concerned about the impact of the pandemic on wildlife.
Along with many other aspects of our life before lockdown, she hopes the coronavirus pandemic can serve as a watershed moment to curb illegal wildlife trade.
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- Hiroshima: The trees that survived an atomic bomb - BBC World Service
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- 6 years ago
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- "When people saw that the green buds had come out, they thought they could survive as well. It was comforting."
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When an atomic bomb was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured.
Despite many survivors believing nothing would grow in the city for decades, 170 trees survived and are still growing 75 years later.
Green Legacy Hiroshima is a project which sends seedlings from those trees around the world, spreading a message of hope.
Tomoko Watanabe is a co-founder of the project.
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- India's frontline doctors fighting coronavirus - BBC World Service
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- There's concern that Covid-19 deaths are being under-reported in India and not enough testing is being carried out in some states. Three young doctors tell us what it's like fighting on the frontline.
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