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From Our Own Correspondent

18 Feb 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Guns remain the ultimate arbiter of disputes in post-Gaddafi Libya. And in Benghazi Gabriel Gatehouse says disarming the militias is a priority for the country's new leaders. Bill Law's been in Bahrain as violence between protestors and security forces has left many casualties in recent days. Justin Rowlatt meets a Brazilian who admits to cutting down swathes of Amazonian rainforest. But maintains he was doing what his government considered appropriate. There's growing resentment between the people of Hong Kong and Chinese mainlanders - Juliana Liu's been exploring the tensions... while in New York City Reggie Nadelson looks around a vast wedding emporium where you can spend thousands on a wedding dress - and many do!

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presenting the BBC Radio 4 edition here's Kate 80. Today, how the men with guns are still in charge in Libya as it emerges from four decades of dictatorship.

0:28.0

The migrant workers caught in the crossfire as the protests escalate once again in Bahrain.

0:34.8

We hear how a man who cut down vast swaths of Amazon rainforest insist it was his patriotic duty,

0:40.4

he was following government orders. Find out how a locust is breeding resentment

0:45.2

between the people of Hong Kong and visitors from mainland China, and join the

0:49.8

Courtney's and Ashley's, the Kate's and Samantha's, at the Wedding Palace in Manhattan where anything is possible.

0:56.0

There have been celebrations in towns and cities across Libya,

1:00.0

as people mark the anniversary of the start of the revolution which toppled Colonel Gaddafi.

1:04.8

But efforts to rebuild the country are being hindered by armed militia guilty of widespread abuses of human rights.

1:11.8

The allegation came from Amnesty International

1:14.4

which talked in a report of war crimes against suspected Gaddafi loyalists,

1:18.8

unlawful detention and cases of torture, some of which have resulted in death. The country's new

1:24.8

leaders it claims have done nothing to investigate the abuses, nor to hold those

1:29.0

responsible to account. Gabriel Gatehouse, who's in Eastern Libya where the revolt started

1:34.3

says order cannot be restored until the authorities succeed in disarming the

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