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From Our Own Correspondent

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🗓️ 4 September 2010

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

There's a dilemma for Jill McGivering, covering the floods in Pakistan; Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad on the changing lexicon as America redefines its mission in Iraq; Wyre Davies is in Jerusalem and detects little optimism for the Middle East peace talks which have restarted in Washington; James Reynolds is at the mine in the Atacama Desert where 33 miners are trapped far undergound and Andy Kershaw visits the arena in Kinshasa which was the site of the world's greatest boxing encounter.

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0:00.0	This is from our own correspondent. We make an addition for the BBC World Service as well,
0:05.2	but this is a download of the latest Radio 4 program and here to introduce it, as ever, Kate Adi.
0:11.1	Today, the young victims caught up in the violence in Karachi.
0:14.8	Sonia Gandhi is in the US for medical treatment. How did she become India's most
0:19.9	powerful woman despite not holding a position in government. We hear how a
0:24.4	four-legged dictator strains for the finishing line in the Sudan Derby, and in
0:30.1	spite of the country's economic troubles, the Portuguese are busy celebrating.
0:36.2	Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world.
0:39.5	It was the capital of Pakistan after independence until Islamabad was built. Now it's the country's main
0:45.3	seaport and financial hub. But in the last few months it's also been beset by escalating violence
0:52.0	between the Urdu-speaking majority and the growing minority of
0:55.4	Pashtunes.
0:57.3	Alim MacBool says it's become a city in which people are terrified in their homes, listening to gunfire and news of
1:04.1	abductions and killings and few of the 18 million inhabitants understand
1:08.8	what's triggered this bloodshed.
1:10.8	Earlier this summer in the densely packed Casper colony bloodshed. We're here to see two families who live just a few hundred meters apart, but they're now on opposite sides of a brutal urban conflict.
1:29.0	The family of one girl, Yumna, who's 13, lives at the bottom of the steep hill that dominates
1:34.8	Casper. The family of another six-year-old Leibba lives at the very top.
1:39.7	You can clearly see one home from the other but really these two families now live in different worlds.
1:46.0	No longer can you walk directly from one house to the other.
1:49.0	The deserted main road that runs between them has become a front line.
1:53.7	Scores of bullet holes all over the buildings close by
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