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Oppenheimer triumphed at the Academy Awards

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this week, we're in New Mexico

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to hear a lesser-known side of

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the atomic bomb story. In

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the jungles of Panama, we find out how

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a small rusted ruler and

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five extra feet can tell us

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so much about the global economy.

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And in southern Spain, we're

1:22

in Seville for the annual

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Lent procession, alongside a life-size

1:27

figure of Christ resplendent in

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purple velvet robe and shining

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gilded halo. First,

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it's a year since the UK

1:36

and France struck a new, extended

1:38

deal to try and stop the

1:40

small boats crossing the Channel. The

1:43

British government is giving the French

1:45

almost half a billion pounds over

1:48

three years to spend on high-tech

1:50

solutions like drones and

1:52

increased police patrols on the beaches.

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While there were fewer crossings last year, the number

1:57

of migrants who've been there has been a huge

1:59

difference. died trying to reach the

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UK has continued to rise. So

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will more money make a difference?

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Our correspondent Andrew Harding reports from

2:09

Northern France. When

2:12

it comes to Calais, those long

2:14

empty beaches, the plaintive screech of

2:16

seagulls, I should declare a

2:18

bias. From the age of

2:20

eight and throughout my childhood, I

2:22

would travel by ferry from Calais to

2:24

Dover at the beginning of every term.

2:26

My family lived in Belgium and I

2:29

was sent for my sins to

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a British boarding school, which

2:33

perhaps explains the tinge of gloom,

2:35

of home thickness, that claws

2:37

at me now as I drive through the

2:39

fields of Northern France under a lead grey

2:42

sky towards the coast. Not

2:44

that Calais itself helps to

2:46

lighten the mood. The fences

2:49

start before you even reach

2:51

the suburbs, meandering miles of

2:53

tall white barriers, razor wire,

2:55

cameras. It feels, and

2:57

this isn't just me talking, a local mayor said

3:00

exactly the same thing, like

3:02

you're entering a prison. Or

3:04

maybe there's even an echo of the World War

3:06

One trenches that scarred the

3:08

nearby countryside more than a century

3:10

ago. Either way, it's

3:12

now more than two decades since people

3:15

first started turning up here in large

3:17

numbers, hoping to find a

3:19

way to cross the English Channel to

3:21

enter the UK illegally. And

3:23

the impact of that big surge of

3:25

migration, a surge that has swerved and

3:27

twisted like a stream trying to find

3:30

its way past each new obstacle, is

3:32

now carved into the landscape

3:34

here. There are those

3:36

fences, of course, around the big harbours,

3:38

the entrance to the Channel Tunnel at

3:41

Saint-Gatte, the approach roads for the big

3:43

lorries that people have tried to clamber

3:45

into or onto or under. Britain

3:48

has spent a lot of money, is

3:50

still spending a lot of money, to

3:52

help France guard those big strategic points.

3:55

And you could say it's been a

3:57

successful investment. Those routes are now.

4:00

More or less closed off, But.

4:02

Then. Inevitably, bats people

4:04

began to look elsewhere. A

4:07

first from around Twenty seven T

4:09

that involves going to local sports

4:12

shops and buying flimsy little kayaks,

4:14

but it quickly became clear that

4:16

something more substantial would be needed,

4:19

which of course meant something more

4:21

expensive. And so

4:23

with the remorseless mathematical logic

4:25

came the equation. Demand

4:28

plus investment times illegality

4:30

he calls the mafia.

4:33

Which. Is what the coastline here

4:36

has been experiencing ever since.

4:38

As the small both crisis

4:40

has evolved into a multi

4:43

million pound criminal industry and

4:45

equally inevitably the smugglers who

4:47

provoked a response. A new

4:49

multi million pound security industry

4:52

completed thrones dune buggies, more

4:54

cameras and a lot more

4:56

border police. Last. Week

4:58

I went to Win Aura, a small

5:01

town South Carolina which has become one

5:03

of the most popular places for the

5:05

smugglers to lose their but. Most.

5:08

Evenings when the weather in the

5:10

season com you'll see small groups

5:12

arriving at the local train station.

5:14

People from Syria, Iraq, Sudan and

5:16

elsewhere. Whole family's to walking through

5:18

town of a north towards the

5:20

dunes to wait until dark for

5:22

the gangs to arrive with their

5:24

inflatable boats or for what's known

5:26

as taxi bugs to come in

5:28

from the see to fetch them

5:31

and take them out to other

5:33

small bug. In January five

5:35

people drown to a New Jersey in

5:37

the center of winner. When. He

5:39

talked to the French police. They tend

5:42

to focus. On the criminality and

5:44

culpability the smugglers much like the

5:46

British government does in their view

5:49

the smugglers are entirely to blame

5:51

for the deaths for overloading flimsy

5:53

but for the way this whole

5:56

coastline has like kelly be militarized

5:58

response the migrant crisis but when

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he talked to families out strongly

6:03

on the beach or to the

6:05

town's mayor you get a very

6:08

different perspective. It's not, but

6:10

they approve of the smokers, but

6:12

they tend to focus on the

6:14

suffering and desperation of the ghosts

6:17

figures drifting through that community willing

6:19

to risk their lives to reached

6:21

over and they blame mostly. Britain.

6:24

Firstly, For what they perceive

6:26

as it's loosely regulated jobs market

6:29

which seems to be such a

6:31

big you're there are strict punishments

6:33

for hiring illegal workers in the

6:36

Uk, but also because of the

6:38

success with which Britain has an

6:41

effect transplanted it's national border here

6:43

on the French territory and resentment

6:45

is building here because the more

6:48

the French police patrol that coastline

6:50

and the more the coast is

6:52

militarized, the more the problem spreads.

6:55

Further down the coast, even

6:57

inland. And here we come

6:59

to another awkward equation: Of

7:02

the number of crossings did

7:04

fool last. Yes, the journey

7:06

itself is becoming more dangerous,

7:08

and yes, the migrants remain

7:10

as determined as ever. all

7:12

of which adds up to

7:14

a rising death toll. This.

7:16

Year already. it's nine compared with

7:18

Twelve Ten. For the whole of

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Twenty Twenty three. This

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month, a seven year old Iraq

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eagles drowned in a canal thirty

7:27

kilometers from the See. The smugglers

7:30

had put twenty people, ten of

7:32

them children into a boat the

7:34

size of a family car. Andrew

7:38

Harding. In the

7:40

coming days India will be calling

7:42

national. Elections With nearly a

7:44

billion people eligible to cast

7:46

ballots, thirteen will take place

7:48

over several weeks. So many

7:50

expect Prime Minister Narendra Modi

7:52

to win a third consecutive

7:54

term in office, thanks in

7:57

part to his Hindu nationalist

7:59

strategy of. Supposing face with

8:01

politics or South Asia correspondent

8:03

Samirah has same has been

8:06

in Hindi heartland. With

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as both widespread support for Mr.

8:10

Moody's B J P as well

8:12

as so so fractures. At

8:15

the few concrete stairs in the street, I

8:17

sit inside a dimly lit shop. The.

8:20

Early morning light casting shadows on the

8:22

regulars who come in each day for

8:24

tea and company. A middle

8:26

aged man sits on cushions at the front of

8:28

the stall and poor's steaming hot in the summer

8:30

tie into several cuts laid out in front of

8:33

him. Sitting. On stools or customers

8:35

waiting for the caffeine to wake and

8:37

warm them up on this silly weekday

8:39

morning. This tea stall and

8:41

that an Rc in North India not

8:43

far from the banks of the Holy

8:45

Ganges River with made famous by a

8:47

visit from India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi

8:49

a few years earlier. This.

8:52

Is also Mr. Modi? hum Constituency,

8:54

a place he once called the

8:56

cradle of India's glorious culture. I

8:58

strike up a conversation with a

9:00

few patrons. All men are want

9:02

to know more about. Mr. Modi

9:04

is enduring popularity. One. Man

9:06

tells me about the newly paved roads

9:08

outside his home and that there is

9:11

now regular garbage collection in his neighborhood.

9:13

For him, there is no question that

9:15

he will vote for Mr. Modi again.

9:17

Another man chimes in to tell me

9:19

about the Prime Minister's welfare schemes that

9:21

he is providing food and cooking gas

9:23

to millions of people in the country.

9:26

That hungry used to be a problem

9:28

in India, but it is no longer.

9:30

He adds that many of the benefits

9:32

are not new. One political strategist tells

9:34

me they have just been. Presented repackaged

9:37

as a benefit coming directly

9:39

from. The Prime minister. Beneficiaries.

9:41

Become a little more indebted to Mr.

9:43

Modi, thinking him in the polling booth.

9:46

It is that spin on the messages

9:48

that makes Mr. Modi seemed unstoppable in

9:50

the upcoming general elections. Even for the

9:53

men at the tea stall who do

9:55

not receive the benefits, there is a

9:57

belief that hunger is no longer a

9:59

problem. India. Oh thanks to the

10:01

Modi government. The. Reality is that

10:04

millions of people in this country still do

10:06

not get enough to eat. As

10:08

the conversations continue, I ask about a

10:10

recent court decision that allows Hindu worshippers

10:12

to pray in the basement of the

10:15

local Genvec Be Mosque, about twenty minutes

10:17

away from where I'm sitting. The

10:19

mosque was built by the muzzle ruler or

10:21

unsaid back in the seventeenth century. Many.

10:24

Hindus believe it replaced the temple

10:26

dedicated to the gods shiver. The.

10:28

Court decision came as part of

10:30

a broader push to reclaim places

10:32

of worship by believers in a

10:35

particular kind of Hindu nationalism called

10:37

Hindutva. Prime. Minister and

10:39

his ruling party, the Bj. Peace

10:41

has been pursuing a Hindu nationalist

10:43

agenda since coming into power in

10:45

Twenty Four team. It

10:47

is this brand of nationalism that was

10:49

the driver behind the demolition of the

10:51

sixteenth century mosque in a yoga thirty

10:53

years ago. In it's place

10:56

now stands a grand Hindu temple

10:58

dedicated to Lord Rub. Inaugurated.

11:00

by the prime minister himself back in

11:02

January. Now. The gun. But

11:05

the mosque in Mr. Moody's constituency

11:07

is under threat, leaving believers and

11:09

hindered by emboldened but members of

11:11

the Muslim community bereft for their

11:13

future In Prime Minister Narendra Modi

11:15

is India. Really offended

11:17

by my questions. One man at the tea

11:19

stall demands to know if I am Hindu

11:21

or if I am Muslim. And

11:23

taken aback by the christian. He's

11:25

not interested in my long and

11:27

tortured relationship with good. He wants

11:29

to know my allegiance. I. Tell

11:31

him that Macys has nothing to do with my

11:33

journalism. Somewhat. Placate it by

11:35

my response, he begins to express his

11:38

decision. Since India's inception, it

11:40

has been a Hindu country. He tells

11:42

me. A supporter of Hindutva,

11:44

this man becomes more animated as he

11:46

tells me that it is only Muslims

11:48

that feels that demise that people of

11:51

other faiths and the country or not.

11:53

But. People like him are continuously

11:56

asks the question, what about

11:58

muslims. The Bgp guy. It

12:00

has made Hindu nationalism a backbone of

12:02

their political agenda. The impact

12:04

is not just been felt by

12:06

the two hundred million Muslims living

12:09

in India, the country's largest minority

12:11

group. The advocacy groups Human Rights

12:13

Watch said in a recent appeared

12:15

that the discriminatory and to visit

12:17

policies has led to increased violence

12:20

against minorities, creating a pervasive impairment

12:22

of fear. But. Divisive politics

12:24

has netted the prime minister

12:26

electoral success. Although. It

12:28

may have been my first experience in

12:31

India of having my identity questioned, but

12:33

as the country embark on a national

12:35

election, I suspect it won't be the

12:37

last. Some. Era has

12:39

same as widely predicted, the

12:42

film Oppenheimer about the creator

12:44

of the Atomic Bomb dominated

12:46

the Oscars with seven The

12:48

Kind Of Me awards. It

12:50

tells the story of the Manhattan Project.

12:53

During the Second World War

12:55

when scientists developed the bombs

12:57

that were eventually detonated over

12:59

Japan. Much as a

13:01

film is set in the town of Los

13:03

Alamos. In New Mexico where

13:06

assist Assist J. Robert Oppenheimer

13:08

carried out his research and

13:11

mythology reports on the lasting

13:13

effect on local communities. Is

13:16

you drive through the New Mexico desert,

13:18

you can see why Jay Robert Oppenheimer

13:21

chose this location. To bring together a

13:23

group of brilliant scientific brains. It's.

13:25

Remote and beautiful. There a gigantic

13:28

red rock. Practise: Stretch out

13:30

beneath. The snow covered Sangre de

13:32

Cristo Mountains named because of the blood

13:34

red color they turn at sunset. And.

13:37

Of course, there was little chance of being

13:39

discovered here when secrecy was of the utmost

13:41

importance. A. Good place to

13:43

inspire scientists to free their imaginations

13:45

in the pursuit of scientific. Breakthroughs.

13:49

But as were admiring the stunning

13:51

landscapes, it has a chilling undertone.

13:54

The creation of the atomic bomb caused the

13:56

deaths of more than two hundred thousand people

13:58

in Japan. It's hard

14:00

to comprehend. We know

14:02

those horrors weighed heavily on Oppenheimer's

14:04

mind. His legacy lives

14:06

on here in many ways because

14:09

Los Alamos is still home to

14:11

a laboratory making components for America's

14:13

modern nuclear weapons. They produce the

14:15

plutonium cause used in warheads and

14:17

just like in Oppenheimer's time, many

14:19

residents here today a top scientists.

14:22

At the side of the rocky road

14:24

as a single black and white billboard

14:27

with a quote from Pope Francis on

14:29

the Seventy fifth Anniversary of Hiroshima. It

14:31

says the possession of nuclear weapons is

14:34

immoral. The staff at the

14:36

lab must drive past is often so as

14:38

we approach I wonder if this going to

14:40

be a rather solemn air about the place.

14:43

Actually, we find quite the opposite. We get

14:45

chatting to a handful of locals walking their

14:47

dogs at the park in town. As soon

14:49

as it hits Monday, they invite us over

14:52

to the local brewery where we sit in

14:54

the sunshine enjoying a drink on the outdoor

14:56

tables. Were drinking town with a science. Problem.

14:59

They say and proudly quote the

15:01

statistic. That Los Alamos. apparently it's has

15:03

the highest number of Phds per capita

15:05

in the Us. I can't help thinking

15:08

their local pub quiz must be quite

15:10

something. There's a picture of Oppenheimer on

15:12

T shirt sold by the hipster brewery,

15:14

and a colorful graffiti style mural of

15:16

the physicists decorate the wall outside the

15:19

bar. Many of the town's

15:21

residents were extras in the film, so he

15:23

also his stories about rubbing shoulders with the

15:25

stars. Los Alamos has been inundated

15:28

with visitors since the film's release, and

15:30

the town is embracing it. I

15:32

can see they're certainly not diminishing the terrible

15:34

events of World War Two, but they've found

15:36

a way to be proud of the work

15:39

of Oppenheimer that went beyond the development of

15:41

a nuclear weapon. He brought

15:43

about some more collaborative approach to science

15:45

them before, something that is arguably benefited

15:48

the world in many ways since. But

15:50

it's impossible to ignore the fact that

15:52

the work that goes on in Los

15:55

Alamos still deeply divides opinion. The laps

15:57

production of plutonium components is being increased.

16:00

As the Usa updates has nuclear

16:02

weapons. Anti. War Campaign As

16:04

according for nuclear production here to

16:06

end and failed Oppenheimer the film

16:08

serves as a warning the only

16:10

strengthens that cause. But

16:12

some say the film revealed nothing of

16:14

the bombs other legacy. Communities.

16:17

Nearby known the Downwind as claim

16:19

they continue to suffer high rates

16:21

of cancer because of Oppenheimer's test

16:23

destination known as the Trinity Test

16:26

conducted in the New Mexico Desert.

16:29

We. Drive a couple of hours south to

16:31

Albuquerque where I'm eighteen. a cold over. She

16:34

reels off a list of relatives who died

16:36

from cancer as he flicked through an old

16:38

family photo album in her kitchen. Both.

16:40

My great grandfather's had cancer. My

16:42

two grandmothers had cancer. My father

16:44

had three different cancers. My sister

16:46

had cancer. tells me she's lost

16:48

count of the aunts and uncles

16:50

who had cancer. And her family's

16:52

not unique. Campaign. Is like

16:55

tina. have been trying to get the

16:57

Us government to include New Mexico's Downwind

16:59

A communities in a compensation scheme for

17:02

people affected by exposure to radiation. The

17:05

Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was due to

17:07

expire and June, but this week the

17:09

Senate passed the bells and a bipartisan

17:12

boat that will extend the program meaning

17:14

family's a New Mexico will have more

17:16

time to apply. Last

17:18

weekend as I stood on the red carpet

17:20

in L A covering the Oscars, I thought

17:22

about the residence in the town of Los

17:24

Alamos. He will likely be celebrating. And

17:27

Oppenheimer's overall legacy. But

17:29

along with their new same residents

17:31

of Los Alamos will have to

17:33

contend with forever being synonymous with one

17:36

of the most terrible events in history.

17:38

A beautiful place to live and work,

17:40

but a place that continues to arouse

17:43

suspicion. And on these. Am

17:45

of Audi. In recent

17:47

months, global shipping has been

17:49

severely disrupted by sushi attacks

17:51

on ships heading to the

17:53

Suez Canal far the Red

17:55

Sea, across the Atlantic, the

17:57

other canal vital to international.

18:00

Trade The Panama Canal is

18:02

also suffering major problems. This

18:05

sort cup between the Pacific.

18:07

And Atlantic is one of the world's most.

18:09

Essential Shipping Routes. Without

18:12

it cargo ships have to head. For

18:14

Cape Horn and sail around South

18:16

America. But. Sila vessels are

18:18

now getting through the canal says

18:21

me self serving in Panama. A.

18:24

Big part of my job is measurement.

18:26

The many efforts to quantify so and

18:28

economy is performing. These

18:30

measurements can be very complicated,

18:32

alarmingly detailed, and absurdly full

18:34

of deal. Did you know

18:36

fancy? Diving into what twenty five basis

18:38

points added. To the federal funds rate means

18:41

I don't blame me. But. Sometimes

18:43

one simple, crude measure can tell

18:45

us so much. About will

18:47

everyone's wealth and prosperity. These.

18:50

Days it's roughly five feet. That counts

18:52

as big news for the global economy.

18:55

Lake Get Sued is. A. Vast reservoir

18:57

in the middle of the jungles of Panama.

19:00

Motoring, Across it in a small

19:02

boat takes his past large freighters turning

19:04

up the water. That makes

19:07

for a choppy thirty minute. Ride to pull

19:09

off at a small Dog when

19:11

Nelson Gara points towards a rusted

19:13

ruler beneath a tower on the

19:15

water's edge. As you

19:17

can see the level is eighty one point

19:19

twenty feet he says jabbing his finger at

19:21

it. Know from

19:23

Strolled is also about measurement.

19:26

He misses water levels constantly.

19:28

He's the Panama Canal Authorities

19:30

hydrologist. The. Level said be

19:33

around five feet higher. he says of

19:35

the drought stricken lake. Only.

19:37

Five feet. But. They have

19:39

big implications the global trade because as

19:41

a result of low water levels that

19:44

like a tune, the number of sips

19:46

allowed to pass through the Panama Canal

19:48

each day has been cut by a

19:50

third. Still a question next at me.

19:52

How is it possible for this vital

19:55

waterway surrounded by oceans to be running

19:57

dry? Wearing bright

19:59

spectacle. And a warm smile.

20:01

The Canal Authorities historian Orlando

20:03

Acosta provides the answer. Is

20:06

the only ocean channel in the world that

20:08

works with freshwater. In. The

20:10

Canals Library in Panama City Surrounded

20:12

by artifacts of the canals construction

20:14

in the early nineteen hundreds. Orlando.

20:17

Tells me that the original design was

20:19

for a passage at sea level. But.

20:22

That was too difficult to build.

20:25

Then as now businessmen wanted to sit

20:27

goods quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific

20:29

oceans to save time and money. Having

20:32

a quick and easy route connecting the to

20:34

to Panama saves of weeks of travel around

20:36

the tip of South America. Said.

20:39

The And News came up with

20:41

the idea of using a series

20:43

of looks like the ones in

20:45

small domestic canals but much bigger

20:47

which move water on whatever is

20:49

floating on it up eighty five

20:51

feet above sea level. The

20:53

mirror Flores look is the first on

20:55

the Pacific side. They're a little after

20:58

sunrise. The clang of a bell cuts

21:00

through the early morning com. A

21:02

warning that a sip is about to pass

21:04

through it's middle gate. I

21:07

turned to see and illness square slab

21:09

like turquoise call carrier entering the lock.

21:12

So. Tall that it costs a set of

21:14

across the dog. With

21:16

only a couple of feet clearance on either side,

21:18

water gases into the blue with the chamber. Each.

21:21

Sip uses around sixty million gallons

21:23

of water to pass. Freshwater.

21:27

That comes from Lake Good Soon and

21:29

the smaller Lake Lf Weller Lake that

21:31

according to Nelson's ruler of drying up.

21:35

The Canals Seats Sustainability Officer Ilya Espina

21:37

Dumber Author: Blinds Climate Change for the

21:40

current Squeeze. She says the past he

21:42

has been the second dryness years in

21:44

The Canals. One hundred and ten year

21:46

history. That there is an

21:49

urgent hump, the solutions and away including

21:51

new reservoirs, more efficient use of water

21:53

even attempt to make it rain more.

21:57

The. Sheep in front of us. The Don Quixote

21:59

is traveling from you're Up to the United

22:01

States before going on to Asia. I'm

22:04

reminded just how much of what we buy.

22:06

Is transported by water. A

22:09

good portion of it on sit through

22:11

the Panama Canal. Much. Of

22:13

our food come through here to. Like.

22:15

The Soybeans grown by Christian Good,

22:17

a sixth generation pharma from Macon,

22:20

Mississippi who recently visited. The Canal

22:22

as part of the trade group. In.

22:24

A light southern drawl, He tells

22:26

me this route allows Us farmers

22:29

to sell soybeans to countries like

22:31

China and Japan quickly and inexpensively.

22:34

Without. This ups and it costs much

22:36

more to get his produce. the market

22:38

and customers end up paying much more

22:40

for their food. We. Reflect

22:43

that. To stand by the Panama Canal is

22:45

to see how fragile the links in the

22:47

chain. Of global trade can be and

22:49

how five extra feet can make all

22:51

the difference. Necessary.

22:55

Finally, we're in the middle

22:57

of lint season of fasting,

22:59

repentance and reflection, echoing the

23:01

story of Christ's forty days

23:03

of temptation in the desert

23:06

across Europe. Many Christian. Communities

23:08

hold public events to market

23:10

with one of the most

23:12

elaborate held in civilians southern

23:15

Spain. Seville is renowned for

23:17

the spectacle of it's processions.

23:19

During Easter week but Lent to

23:21

has it's rituals Poly Hope joined

23:24

the crush of and the Say

23:26

schools on a procession through the

23:28

city. A have

23:30

spread through the cathedral. The. Usual

23:33

hubbub of tour guides lecturing, the

23:35

clicks and pings, a smartphone, cameras

23:37

and visitor chested. And they do.

23:40

The. Crowds looked on usually son

23:42

the and tourists still wandering through

23:44

in a sundress so shorts despite

23:47

the signs banning skimpy attire but

23:49

most people would dressed for serious

23:51

business. Men: In.jackets and

23:54

ties Women: informal and

23:56

modest outfits. Night. had

23:58

just fallen and the annual. procession

24:00

of the Cofradias, Seville's neighborhood

24:02

religious brotherhoods, was about to

24:04

file in. Suddenly the

24:07

soaring knave of this vast

24:09

stone fortress of faith filled

24:11

with organ music resonating through

24:13

every gilded carved and painted

24:15

cranny. In this event

24:17

the Via Clousis, a statue of Christ the

24:20

Redeemer, is carried from its usual home in

24:22

a parish church through the streets of Seville

24:25

and taken through the Cathedral on a symbolic

24:27

journey through the 14 stations of

24:29

the Cross. At each stop

24:31

another chapter from the New Testament and

24:33

another repetition of the Lord's Prayer. It

24:36

then winds its way through more of the

24:38

city's neighborhoods on a night procession back to

24:40

its shrine. The city's worthies

24:42

exchanged discreet handshakes, kisses and saludos

24:45

to friends and colleagues along the way.

24:48

The Cathedral is filled with so

24:50

much finery. Gold, silver,

24:52

masterpieces of religious art. Every

24:55

corner houses another illustrious tomb,

24:57

chapel or monument. Kings,

24:59

popes and saints and

25:01

arguably Christopher Columbus were all buried

25:03

here. The procession too

25:06

is full of visual riches. Everyone

25:09

seemed to have an almost theatrical prop

25:11

to carry. Hall body

25:13

length red wax candles,

25:15

lanterns, staffs, staves, silvered

25:18

banners and finials and

25:20

a thicket of crucifixes of all

25:23

sizes held aloft through the whole

25:25

long ceremonial. One

25:27

in particular making Christ's suffering

25:29

brutally visible, giving that visceral

25:32

jolt that runs through Spain's

25:34

most graphic blood-and-guts sacred art.

25:37

Its gilded insignia showing the

25:39

entire toolkit needed for a

25:42

crucifixion. Not just the

25:44

crown of thorns and Roman lance but

25:47

a saw, ladder, hammer and

25:49

nails. The figure of

25:51

the Redeemer finally came into view. A Life-size

25:54

Christ Resplendent in purple velvet

25:56

robe and bedecked with gold

25:58

braid with a shiny in

26:00

gilded highlighted flanked by for of

26:02

the curly. A school deist

26:04

most baroque gold leaf candlesticks,

26:07

Rising above a small see

26:09

of purple flowers. It's.

26:11

Carried by twelve sturdy men on each

26:13

side of it's wooden platform with a

26:15

good half dozen extra that the best

26:17

and from for extra hast. That.

26:20

One notes of the more austere. Approach

26:22

The Bishop warned of the spiritual.

26:25

Dangers of today's world not

26:27

just as sin, but of

26:29

social media and creeping secularism.

26:31

but there were nods to

26:33

modernity to the Archbishop sermon

26:35

mention the current branch shriveling

26:37

Spain's rivers. Several of the

26:39

lessons will read by women

26:41

and the angel face teenage

26:43

attendants swinging cereals of smoking

26:45

frankincense turned out to be

26:47

girls. And of course

26:49

mobile phones with still everywhere.

26:52

Outside another sudden shock adorned

26:54

sushi. Distressed looking men in

26:57

rags clung to the railings,

26:59

twitching and moaning. Another

27:02

sick of from religious out a beggar

27:04

in need. Nobody. Stopped to

27:06

tend to him. Some. Stepped right

27:08

over him. So. Much

27:10

the christian charity Micelles

27:12

perhaps on charitably. Then

27:15

the bells peeled out from the top

27:17

of the he had added that tower

27:20

another of the cathedrals many treasures, drowning

27:22

out the chatter of the crowds waiting

27:24

outside. Over one hundred meters

27:26

tool and Tryst with delicate brickwork

27:28

an elegant more research is it's

27:30

a legacy of Seville Muslim past.

27:32

Originally built to be the minaret

27:35

of the greatest mosque in L

27:37

on the loose back in the

27:39

eleven seventies when they are more

27:41

had dennis the rules here. As

27:43

the procession filed out of the

27:46

Cathedral, the mood grew more serious.

27:48

They still intensely sociable in every

27:51

plaza. throngs of Sebi annals was

27:53

standing to witness it, chatting, gossiping,

27:55

wondering why everything is running Sunday

27:58

night. The. Next day. Local

28:00

papers were full of griping about

28:02

the processions. Overdue return to it's.

28:05

Home. Shrine The Crush. Of

28:07

spectators meant to add got back

28:09

long after the planned eleven thirty

28:12

pm deadline in a conservative Catholic

28:14

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28:16

he told the in a modern

28:18

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28:21

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28:23

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28:25

asked the whole point of Lent

28:28

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28:30

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28:32

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