A Frugal Dinner
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporters' despatches from around the world. Afghanistan: as pressure grows on the British prime minister to bring the troops back home early, defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt considers the legacy they'll leave behind. Russia: the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk is the country's prisons capital. Alex Preston has been to meet a former convict trying to help others, recently released, to find a toehold back in Russian society. El Salvador: the murder rate in this Latin American nation has gone down significantly thanks to a truce between two notorious gangs. Linda Pressly has been talking to some of their leaders in a high security jail. France: the infamous Sangatte asylum centre may have closed but Emma Jane Kirby has been finding out that migrants continue to flow into the port city of Calais. Germany: Steve Evans gets offered relatively frugal fare at a dinner party in Berlin. But he isn't surprised.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our site |
| 0:08.9 | at BBC online. |
| 0:10.7 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Today a number of notable encounters with an Afghan general who wishes he could say sorry in English, with an industrial chemist from Syria in need |
| 0:25.5 | of a shower in Calais, with a series of surprisingly charming convicted killers in El Salvador, and with the guests at a rather frugal dinner party. at |
| 0:33.6 | a rather frugal dinner party in Berlin. |
| 0:37.4 | The body of Captain Walter Barry was repatriated to the UK from Helmand Province this week. He was killed by an Afghan soldier. A quarter |
| 0:46.3 | of all British forces killed this year have died at the hands of men in Afghan police or army |
| 0:51.5 | uniform. Some genuine officers, others Taliban |
| 0:55.4 | infiltrators. Pressure is now mounting on the Prime Minister to advance the |
| 1:00.6 | 2014 deadline for bringing home the troops. |
| 1:04.0 | 9.5,000 are stationed there at the moment. |
| 1:07.0 | Patty Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader, |
| 1:10.0 | believes Britain should accept defeat and bring them back as soon as possible. |
| 1:14.4 | All that we can achieve has been achieved, he wrote in yesterday's times. |
| 1:19.4 | Our Defence Correspondent Caroline Wyatt has spent the last two weeks with British forces in |
| 1:24.5 | Helmand and has been considering the legacy they leave behind them. |
| 1:29.2 | A lone Afghan policeman stands silhouetted on a rocky outcrop above a fort cut deep into the Afghan |
| 1:35.1 | stone. Legend has it that this fort in the hills of Nari Surrage was built by Genghis Khan when his |
| 1:41.8 | armies swept across Afghanistan. |
| 1:44.9 | The entrances that cast jagged black shadows under the rocks below stand empty, the men |
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