16 Oct 2010
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2010
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A huge welcome -- from some at least --as the President of Iran comes to southern Lebanon, Jeremy Bowen was there watching. Humphrey Hawksley's in Kiev as Ukrainians look nostalgically back to the days when they were part of the Soviet empire; a mixed press for the Commonwealth Games but Sam Miller finds there are technological reasons to be cheerful; Joanna Jolly's in Nepal where the world's tiniest man reckons his height is a passport to financial security. And Nick Thorpe tells tales of tragedy and hope after a week spent on the road covering the story of toxic sludge leak in Hungary.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there you've downloaded the BBC Radio program from our own correspondent. |
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| 0:10.2 | This though is the edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:13.0 | It's presented by Kate Aide. |
| 0:15.0 | Today a rock star welcome from some in Lebanon for the visiting president of Iran. |
| 0:21.0 | Tales of despair and survival from the Hungarian villagers. of countryside for the old Soviet way of doing things and a passport from poverty for the |
| 0:35.7 | Nepalese man who's just two foot tall. There was a low-key reception for Iran's |
| 0:41.7 | President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad when he flew into Tehran |
| 0:45.2 | airport in the early hours of yesterday morning. It was in sharp contrast to the enthusiasm he |
| 0:50.6 | encountered earlier in the week on his two-day trip to Lebanon. |
| 0:54.0 | The visit was seen as a gesture of encouragement to Iran's Lebanese allies, the powerful Shiite |
| 0:59.6 | group Hezbollah, but it was condemned as provocative by both Israel and the United States. |
| 1:06.0 | Jeremy Bowen, in Beirut, suggests the Iranian leader was keen to send out a message that Iran |
| 1:12.0 | is one of the big players in the Middle East. |
| 1:14.7 | Ali Hamdan pointed to the floor. |
| 1:16.8 | When you're dealing with the Iranians, he said, it's all about carpets. |
| 1:22.0 | Mr Hamdan is the charming and always amiable foreign affairs chief of Amal. |
| 1:27.0 | It's the senior Shiite political movement in Lebanon, |
| 1:30.0 | though it's been outgrown by his bulla. |
| 1:32.0 | His boss, Nabibari, a name Older. though it's been outgrown by his bullar. |
| 1:32.5 | His boss, Nabibari, a name older listeners might remember from the Civil War of the 70s and 80s, |
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