April 2, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 2 April 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Visiting time at Yemen's jail for political prisoners: Genevieve Bicknell meets the families of some of those detained who tell her why they feel it's time for the country's president to step down. Mark Urban, just back from Afghanistan, talks of a new attempt to improve the tarnished image of Afghanistan's police force. How the Lost Boys, who fled the civil war in Sudan, are finding out details of their past thanks to an archive which had been gathering dust in Addis Ababa -- that's from Paul Adams. Linda Pressley travels deep into the forests of Ecuador to find out how oil exploration is threatening a way of life. Anu Anand is in Delhi where traditional story-tellers have been tempting people away from their flatscreen TVs. And Owen Bennett Jones is in Cairo wondering if he's just been ripped off by a canny taxi driver.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there you're about to hear Radio 4's from our own correspondent. |
| 0:03.6 | It's a download from the BBC and it's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:08.0 | Today the Afghan police still a serious concern for the NATO partners trying to bring order to lawless parts of the country. |
| 0:16.0 | A tale of torture at Yemen's political prison as protests intensify against the rule of President |
| 0:22.0 | Salé. We learn how the lost boys have found their |
| 0:25.6 | past thanks to an archive which was gathering dust in Ethiopia, and the traditional |
| 0:31.2 | Indian storytellers who are managing to lure listeners away from their flat screen TVs. |
| 0:37.0 | The role in deficiency of the police in Afghanistan is again in question after yesterday's attack on UN personnel in the |
| 0:45.2 | center of Mazari Sharif. They were unable to prevent the assault on a UN |
| 0:49.7 | operations center there. At least 14 people were killed. They've since made a number of |
| 0:55.2 | arrests. The building was stormed after a protest over last month's burning at a |
| 0:59.9 | small church in Florida of a copy of the Quran. The police are officially a vital |
| 1:06.0 | part of the NATO-led operation to quell the Taliban and restore the rule of law to |
| 1:10.9 | troubled parts of the country. But the commitment of these officers to |
| 1:14.7 | the cause has been questioned. There have been accusations of ill discipline, corruption and |
| 1:20.3 | drug-taking. Mark Urban, just back from Afghanistan, says the authorities have new plans to make the force more efficient. |
| 1:29.2 | When the Afghan police arrived for the operation, they hardly inspired confidence. |
| 1:34.6 | Their vehicles had been pimped in the Afghan style with machine guns, ribbons, charms, |
| 1:40.3 | and gun-toting youths hung on all corners. |
| 1:43.0 | Well, they've actually arrived on time, |
| 1:46.0 | which is quite something for the Afghan police, said the major I was standing next to. |
| 1:51.0 | A British sergeant began calling out to the policeman telling them their part in the forthcoming |
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