'A Win-Win Outcome'
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The stories behind the week's news: what's led to this outbreak of fighting in Yemen? Who stands to lose and who to win? Why some are not convinced about the deal reached in Lausanne on Iran's nuclear programme. The Nigerian election: a great moment for democracy but the new president faces a people with high expectations. The steady growth in the wealth of some Chinese - it means consumption is now more important than investment in driving the nation's economic growth. And the mighty money spinner that is coffee -- where on earth can you find the most delicious cup of all?
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Eighty. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, today Yemen torn apart by war. |
| 0:14.0 | But how did an impoverished group of tribesmen get the |
| 0:17.0 | training, the weapons and the money to take over half the country? |
| 0:21.0 | A daunting task ahead for the new president of Nigeria, his people |
| 0:25.8 | have high expectations. A million Chinese millionaires, is it an awkward |
| 0:31.7 | statistic for leaders who still preach the virtues of socialism and |
| 0:35.5 | equality? |
| 0:37.4 | And the smell, the taste, no milk, no sugar, no need, we sip what's arguably the most delicious coffee in the world. |
| 0:45.0 | The United Nations Security Council is to meet later today to discuss a Russian |
| 0:51.2 | proposal for a pause in the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen. |
| 0:55.3 | Moscow says it's acting out of humanitarian concerns. |
| 0:59.1 | According to the UN, more than 500 people have been killed in the past two weeks, 90 of them children. |
| 1:05.8 | There's been house-to-house fighting in Aidan. |
| 1:08.8 | Rebels have stormed the Presidential Palace. |
| 1:10.9 | There have been repeated airstrikes. The Saudi-led coalition is helping forces loyal |
| 1:16.2 | to President Hardy, who are trying to beat back and advance by Shia-Huthi rebels, Frank |
| 1:21.7 | Gardner's in the Saudi capital Riyadh. |
| 1:24.8 | The Romans had a name for Yemen. |
| 1:26.9 | They called it Arabia Felix, happy Arabia, because of its lush rain-fed mountain scenery. |
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