A Poet at War
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Foreign correspondents. Today: can a meeting of presidents halt the fighting in eastern Ukraine? Why the international health workers who've come to tackle the Ebola virus in west Africa are not always welcome. Deported from the US - and back home in Guatemala; why life is difficult for many of the returnees. On leaving Pakistan, there are many happy memories -- but none of them, one departing correspondent says, feature the national airline PIA. And it may be a cool damp summer in Switzerland, but the stories coming from parliament are distinctly hot and steamy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, talks in Kiav, |
| 0:03.0 | broadcasting house in London. |
| 0:04.8 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the program, |
| 0:07.1 | broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.2 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.6 | Hello, talks in Kiev today about a war few had predicted and fewer know how to stop. |
| 0:18.9 | The Morgues are full, neighbourhood sealed off, no end in sight to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. |
| 0:25.7 | Why is it that the best English in Guatemala is spoken by ex-jailbirds? |
| 0:31.2 | And we find out what's going on in Swiss politics, or rather what's coming off. |
| 0:37.0 | The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in Kiev today for talks about the fighting between pro-Russian separatists and government |
| 0:45.1 | forces in eastern Ukraine. |
| 0:48.2 | Western countries meanwhile condemned the unauthorized entry there yesterday of a Russian aid convoy. Both Germany and the |
| 0:55.0 | United States say it's a dangerous escalation. The pro-Western leadership in Kyiv |
| 1:00.4 | blames Russia for orchestrating a separatist rebellion in the East, a charge Moscow denies. |
| 1:07.0 | Steve Rosenberg says that despite the German leader's intervention, few believe the violence |
| 1:11.9 | will cease anytime soon. |
| 1:14.0 | This is the story of a poet. |
| 1:16.0 | He's asked me not to reveal his name, |
| 1:19.0 | because like many people from Luhansk, |
| 1:21.0 | who've witnessed months of violence and bloodshed, he'd prefer not to attract attention. |
| 1:27.0 | But of all the people I've interviewed in Ukraine over the last few months, it's the poet who's made the biggest impression on me. |
| 1:34.0 | We first met last December. |
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