A Walk in the West Wing
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: summoned to the White House to talk to the president of the United States of America - but what was it like meeting one of the most powerful and important men in the world? After that interview, Mr Obama flew on to Kenya and we learn how the need for ever-greater security is just one of the factors which bind Kenya and the US together. While the rest of Greece is counting its money, we set sail for an island counting on its own history to see it through the current economic crisis. The house in the Pakistani city of Karachi offering hope and treatment to children suffering from drug addiction and, in many cases, years of neglect and abuse. And we make use of the sun and a mobile phone app as we hunt for a place to cross the Zambezi River in Africa
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.0 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, today a stroll through the West Wing with the President of the United States. |
| 0:14.4 | The tourist season moves into top gear in the Greek islands with new bailout talks set to |
| 0:19.6 | begin in Athens. A tall house in Karachi where Pakistan's forgotten child drug |
| 0:25.4 | addicts get a second chance. And in a rainstorm in Mozambique we come across the |
| 0:31.0 | tomb of the neglected wife of one of the world's most famous explorers. |
| 0:35.0 | The President of the United States and Kenya sit down for talks in Nairobi this lunchtime. |
| 0:42.0 | The fight against extremism will be at the top of |
| 0:44.4 | their agenda. Kenya's been working closely with American security agencies |
| 0:48.9 | in its battle against the Somalia-based and Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group. |
| 0:54.5 | The militants have carried out a series of attacks inside Kenya, which have cost more than 400 lives. |
| 1:01.0 | Mr Obama's father is from Kenya, and as Karen Allen tells us now many people there |
| 1:06.3 | see the American president's visit us something of a homecoming. |
| 1:09.6 | Fast food, freeways, and Fashion. |
| 1:14.0 | Kenya's capital Nairobi feels a little more like America with every passing day, and the arrival |
| 1:19.5 | of the American President, the first time a sitting US head of state is visited cements those ties |
| 1:25.1 | still further. The familial bond of the current president to East Africa's |
| 1:29.8 | Economic Powerhouse continues to make a good many Kenyans beam with pride. |
| 1:35.4 | Barak Obama's father was born in Kenya and escaped the poverty of his country to win a scholarship |
| 1:40.4 | Tarvard. It's the story of hope that Obama Jr seems to embody for many Kenyans, even if it had an unhappy chapter with the elder |
| 1:49.2 | Obama estranged from his son returning to Kenya and descending into alcoholism. |
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