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From Our Own Correspondent: Slum landlords in Marseille

20/06/2019

Slum landlords in Marseille

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Slum landlords in Marseille

Why is the centre of France's second city, Marseille, falling apart?

Why is the centre of France's second city, Marseille,  falling apart? Lucy Ash asks who is to blame - is it slum landlords, corrupt politicians or a combination of the two?

An accident in the historic centre of Marseille in the south of France has sent shock waves through the city. Two apartment blocks collapsed late last year with the loss of eight lives. Lucy Ash asks who is to blame - slum landlords, corrupt politicians or a combination of the two? There's growing evidence of China's attempts to control its Muslim minorities and suppress their beliefs. John Sudworth was given rare access to some of the secure facilities where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are being held in the western region of Xinjiang, even though they've committed no crime nor faced trial.  In Addis Ababa, Theo Leggett hears from the boss of Ethiopian Airlines who's fighting to defend the company's reputation - he says the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 737 Max aircraft in March was not the fault of his pilots. What's it like to return to a  South African township school where you taught twenty seven years earlier? James Helm makes a very personal journey. And Sonia Faleiro observes the life-changing nature of a restaurant job in Goa on India's west coast.

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