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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Unspun World with John Simpson 20240604 01:44:00

It could also severely affect water supplies to annexed crimea, which is currently controlled by russia. you come from crimea, don t you? what are you hearing from there about the situation? the situation in crimea was always contrasted with what was happening in donbas, in eastern ukraine. so the russian official narrative was that, listen, this could have been happening here in crimea near your homes, but russia came and it brought safety and security. but now crimeans don t seem to have that any more, especially after the explosion at the crimean bridge a few weeks ago. people are starting to feel that this war is coming closer to their homes. another country on a knife edge is brazil. the second and deciding round of the bitter presidential election takes place there on sunday. the left wing former president lula ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Unspun World with John Simpson 20240604 01:47:00

To all sorts of things. if bolsonaro wins and and if lula wins, the country could be taken in a totally different direction, couldn t it? yeah. i mean, i vejust come back from the amazon, which i think is perhaps an example where you can think about that stark difference. i was up in the north, right on the border of venezuela, where, in the last four years, the illegal gold mining has really boomed. and that certainly has been a lot of people put that down to jair bolsonaro, not so much supporting the illegal mining but saying that illegal mining should become legal and there should be more allowances to be able to mine on indigenous land. but lula says that if he becomes president, there ll be no illegal deforestation, no illegal mining. we could see the amazon going in a very different direction. but when it comes to brazilians voting, i think the amazon is less important. and what s important to them is poverty, economy, ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Unspun World with John Simpson 20240604 01:50:00

Lula and bolsonaro. they are massive personalities, whether you love them or hate them, and people are choosing the person, as opposed to perhaps the way forward. i think brazil, time and time again, comes back to that the personality and the individual character of the person to lead the country. ever since the 1950s, and perhaps before, scientists have been warning that our way of life was threatening the future of the planet itself. in the late 1970s, it looked briefly as though the world might do something about it. then, ronald reagan became president of the united states and the moment passed. it s always seemed like something that would happen in the distant future - 2030, 2050, 2100. in fact, of course, it s already started. rather frighteningly so. the bbc europe correspondent ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Unspun World with John Simpson 20240604 01:56:00

And so if you look at the carbon footprint per person, it s pretty high. so, lots of difficult decisions to be made. nick beake, just back from the arctic. the arrival in power of rishi sunak here in westminster should calm the frenzied political atmosphere in britain for a while. it has been pretty crazy for some time now, with borisjohnson thrown out by his parliamentary party, then replaced by liz truss, whose policies affected the pound so badly and then, afterjust a few weeks, it looked as though borisjohnson might actually be coming back. well, that hasn t happened, of course, but it s interesting to see how reluctant british politicians and journalists seem to be to link all this directly to the brexit vote back in 2016. maybe it s because brexit has been so uniquely divisive in britain. 0utside this country, though, most political observers seem to regard it as a given that these things are closely related. ....

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