15 Oct 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 15 October 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Is the name of Bahrain being dragged into the mire by a string of alleged human rights abuses? Frank Gardner gives his assessment after meeting the King and the Prime Minister - and joining the riot police on patrol. Yolande Knell in Cairo says that with every month that has passed since President Mubarak was overthrown, public frustration has mounted. Katya Adler's investigating the scandal in Spain of the so-called 'ninos robados' or stolen children - sold off to 'more deserving' parents. A long way from Abidjan and a long way from Monrovia: John James is in that part of Ivory Coast close to Liberia and sometimes referred to as the 'Wild West.' It's a part of the country which was hard hit during the struggle, earlier this year, for the country's presidency. And Andrew Harding talks to Zargana, his friend the Burmese comedian, who's just been released from a 59-year prison sentence. Jeeves and Wooster, Andrew hears, were a great comfort in his cell.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC. This is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.4 | You can hear the version of the program broadcast on the World Service by following the link to the I player on the top of our website. |
| 0:10.8 | To keep up with our latest reports and get a sneak preview of the stories you can sign up to our |
| 0:15.3 | Twitter feed as well. But now with the addition broadcast on radio four here's Kate |
| 0:20.3 | Adi. A kingdom in turmoil, why Bahrain's simmering rebellion seems set to boil over again. |
| 0:27.0 | Also this morning, the scandal in Spain over the Ninos Robados, the baby stolen at birth and sold to families considered more deserving. |
| 0:36.6 | On the road home to Liberia with refugees who say it's a place of hope as well as goat soup, and some joy in the morning in a jail in Burma even |
| 0:46.2 | though Jeeves and Worcester will have to remain behind bars. Allegations of murder, beatings and torture in police custody during Bahrain's failed spring |
| 0:55.9 | uprising are currently being examined by an international team of human rights investigators. |
| 1:02.2 | Their independent report commissioned by the King of Bahrain |
| 1:05.0 | is almost ready for publication. Bahrain's Western allies have expressed their own concerns. |
| 1:11.6 | This week Democrats in the US Congress tried to hold up the |
| 1:14.6 | proposed sale of almost 53 million dollars worth of American military |
| 1:19.0 | vehicles and missiles to the kingdom. Frank Gardner has been back to the Gulf State to assess the human |
| 1:25.1 | right situation and hear the testimonies of some of those who've given evidence to |
| 1:29.7 | the Commission. In a white-walled village where the sun made me squint, I went to see a doctor. |
| 1:36.0 | Father Mahaji is petite and elegant, her headscarf framing her face, her eyes shining beneath plucked |
| 1:42.0 | eyebrows. Please, she gestured beneath plucked eyebrows. |
| 1:42.6 | Please, she gestured, have a chocolate, while I just put my son to sleep. |
| 1:47.3 | Like several others in her profession, she stands accused of abandoning her ethics and joining |
| 1:51.7 | the uprising earlier this year. |
| 1:54.0 | She said she didn't, the prosecutor say she did, but I was more concerned with her treatment |
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