Catholic Olympics
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From Mogadishu -- Gabriel Gatehouse on how the al-Shabab militants have managed to lose friends and influence among the population of Somalia and given a boost to the African peacekeepers there Andy Martin's talking of a rift in the Irish church as Dublin prepares to welcome tens of thousands of Catholic visitors to the capital for an event some have called the 'Catholic Olympics.' A shaded graveyard in Kabul: Andrew North says the memorials there tell a story about Afghanistan's strategic value and the many times foreign soldiers have marched onto its soil Chancellor Merkel of Germany likes straight talking, Steve Evans in Berlin believes. During the visit to Berlin of prime minister Cameron, she used vocabulary British politicians would hesitate to voice in public. And the repressive policies of the apartheid era may be long gone but colour remains a preoccupation in South Africa as new mother, Tara Neill, has been finding out
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this is the from our own correspondent office at Bush House in London. |
| 0:04.3 | You can check out what we're up to by signing up to our Twitter feed. |
| 0:07.7 | But here's a download of our latest program on BBC Radio 4, introduced as ever by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, the biggest warlords in town, a description of the African peacekeepers apparently |
| 0:19.2 | seeing off the militants in Somalia. |
| 0:22.0 | There's serious discord in the church in Ireland just as Dublin |
| 0:25.8 | prepares to host a huge Catholic conference. Chancellor Merkel gets the day off |
| 0:30.7 | after using some words few British politicians would dare voice in |
| 0:34.6 | public and a black dad a white mum, a partate maybe long gone but color is |
| 0:40.8 | still causing headaches in South Africa. |
| 0:44.0 | The United States has announced its offering more than $30 million in reward for information leading to the location of seven key leaders of Al-Shabaab. The Islamist group, which is based in Somalia, |
| 0:55.9 | but count several hundred foreign fighters among its members, has publicly allied itself to Al-Qaeda. |
| 1:01.5 | In recent months an African Union force consisting of |
| 1:05.2 | soldiers from Uganda, Burundi and Kenya as well as a contingent of Ethiopian troops |
| 1:10.4 | has notched up a number of crucial victories in its fight against al-Shabaab. |
| 1:15.2 | Gabriel Gatehouse has been traveling with the AU force in Somalia and sends us this |
| 1:20.2 | dispatch from the town of Afgoi until recently a key al-Shabaab |
| 1:24.4 | stronghold west of the capital Mogadishu. We were standing in the shade of some |
| 1:29.1 | trees sheltering from the vicious midday sun when the unmistakable strains of Greek began |
| 1:34.6 | emanating from the pocket of a young man in camouflage fatigues. |
| 1:38.1 | Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum |
| 1:42.0 | the young man reached for his mobile and squinted at the screen. |
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