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From Our Own Correspondent: Making peace with Israel

19/09/2020

Making peace with Israel

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Making peace with Israel

Stories from the Middle East, the US West Coast, Greece, Romania and Tanzania's Serengeti.

Stories on the peace deals between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain, and from the US West Coast, the Greek island Lesbos, a Romanian village, and Tanzania's Serengeti. With Kate Adie.

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements to normalise relations with Israel, this week, motivated by a desire to build a united front against Iran. Palestinians have condemned the move as a betrayal.  Yolande Knell reports on out how the deal has gone down with young Emiratis and Israelis. 
Wildfires continue to rage across the West Coast region of the United States. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as over four and a half million acres of land have now been scorched. President Trump visited this week and blamed “poor forest management” for the conflagrations.  California’s governor insisted they’re due to climate change. Peter Bowes knows the devastation and destruction of these fires all too well....
On the Greek island of Lesbos, efforts have begun to move thousands of migrants and refugees from the fire-gutted Moria camp to a new tent city nearby. The camp had become overcrowded and squalid, and now many would prefer to leave Lesbos altogether. But where can they go, asks Bethany Bell. 
In Romania, the small Transylvanian village of Viscri has become a magnet for tourists, including the Prince of Wales. Stephen McGrath has been finding out why, and what impact it's been having. 
It would normally be peak safari season in the Serengeti region in northern Tanzania at this time of year, with carloads of tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of a giraffe, an elephant or even a pride of lions.  But this year the visitors have stayed away because of the coronavirus. Well, not all of them.  Michelle Jana Chan did go, and got a front row seat seeing some of nature’s grandest spectacles.

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