Hello there you're about to hear Radio 4's from our own correspondent.

It's a download from the BBC and it's introduced by Kate Adi.

Today, a road journey through a shattered and frightened ivory coast.

An Afghan woman who lost nine of her babies

becomes a midwife. There's a one week dash to build a home for an American

Marine seriously injured in Iraq. And we hear how a four-yard-long sturgeon changed the life of a

Danube fisherman forever.

The crisis in Ivory Coast continues unresolved this morning, with the man few people think should

be President, Laurent Bagboe, still holding out in his bunker in the poor city of Abigyan.

Close by are hundreds of troops loyal to the man who most believe won the presidential election,

Al-Aasand-Watterer.

Fighting between their supporters has spread throughout the country and has been going on for weeks. Both sides now stand accused of serious

human rights abuses. Andrew Harding's been finding out how the violence has left

huge numbers of casualties, as well as towns and villagers destroyed and many

people displaced. Monsieur Gogbeau bought himself another generous early morning

glug of French table wine and sits back in his chair to listen to the distant

boom of explosions in Abijon. Power corrupts, he says pensively. As if on cueed

ten men with guns pushed through the front gates and demand the keys to our car.

We plead and protest and to our surprise they relent and leave empty-handed.

We've been staying at Mr Gogbo's dil's dilapidated O'Bergge on the edge of the city for a few days now.

His wife and children are trapped by the fighting, but he says they're fine, and besides his girlfriend is here to look after the cooking.

Mr Gogbo is a retired petrol station manager.

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