25 Feb, 2012
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Harding's in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia -- how impressed have they been there with the international gathering in London aimed at restoring stability to their country? Gerry Northam's in Japan where, a year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, they're wondering whether to dump nuclear power altogether. David Willis is looking at a ninety-year-old murder mystery in the Hollywood hills. An extraordinary tableau's revealed in a Cairo bar: Sara Hashash meets a soldier who, on his days off, joins demonstrators throwing stones at the military! And Aleem Maqbool is finding out why a town in Pakistan's north-west is known as Little Britain.
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| 0:17.0 | But now with the addition broadcasts on Radio 4, here's Kate Adi. |
| 0:21.5 | Today, winds of change blow in Somalia, but optimism remains in short supply. |
| 0:27.0 | Japan considers a future free from nuclear power, but it could mean economic meltdown. |
| 0:33.0 | We meet an Egyptian soldier who throws stones at the military on his day off. |
| 0:37.0 | Visit a town in Pakistan they call Little Britain, |
| 0:40.0 | and hear how they're trying to solve a Hollywood murder mystery with help from |
| 0:44.3 | beyond the grave. So the latest in a long string of attempts to try to bring order to |
| 0:49.7 | Somalia has come and gone as the delegates from some 40 countries were making their way |
| 0:54.9 | home from London, more violence was being reported from Mogadishu. At least |
| 0:59.3 | three foreign militants, said to be members of the Al-Shabaab rebel movement, were killed in a missile strike. military |
| 1:03.3 | said to be members of the Al-Shabaab rebel movement were killed in a missile strike |
| 1:05.2 | launched by an unmanned drone aircraft. |
| 1:08.3 | The delegates in Lancaster House said the country's problems, |
| 1:11.8 | poverty, piracy, famine and the legacy of two decades |
| 1:15.3 | of civil war could be solved with international help, but as Andrew Harding was finding out |
| 1:20.6 | in Somalia earlier this week, People there aren't so sure. |
| 1:25.0 | For the past 20 years the only law that's existed in Mogadishu has come from the barrel of a gun. |
| 1:30.3 | Today 45 year old Mohammed Harum is trying his luck with a whistle. |
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