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From Our Own Correspondent: Poland's political divide

16/07/2020

Poland's political divide

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Poland's political divide

Stories from Los Angeles, Ghana, Italy, Cuba and from Poland's presidential election.

Stories from Los Angeles, Ghana, Italy, Cuba and from Poland's presidential election narrowly won by the socially-conservative incumbent. With Kate Adie.

In Poland,  the socially conservative President Andrzej Duda was very narrowly re-elected, defeating the more progressive mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski. Mr Duda is a close ally of the nationalist and Catholic Law and Justice government. Mr Trzaskowski favours a more proactive role in the EU and supports minorities’ rights. Adam Easton speaks with young activists.
Los Angeles has become a coronavirus hotspot, LA County has more cases than any other county in the US. Hospitals are running short of beds and a second lockdown may be imposed.  Hollywood films aren't being screened, and the homeless have nowhere to sleep or wash.  David Willis reports on the dark side of the City of Angels. 
Ghana declared 2019 the Year of Return, appealing to African Americans to visit the homeland their ancestors had been taken from, 400 years after the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia.  Following the George Floyd killing in the US, the appeal was renewed. Thomas Naadi meets some of the 5000 African Americans who now live in Ghana. 
Italy's city of Rimini on the Adriatic coast is celebrating its local son, famous film director Federico Fellini, who would have been 100 years old this year.  The coronavirus has been affecting some of the plans, but not all is lost. Juliet Rix visits Fellini's favourite hotel in Rimini, and has lunch with his niece. 
Cuba has dealt with the pandemic better than most in Latin America, with monthly death rates now in single digits. During the worst of the outbreak , our correspondent there, Will Grant, was in the UK and has only now managed to make it back to his patch – where he found a nation well on top of Covid-19 but facing  serious economic challenges. 
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