Congo warlord
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The British soldiers in Afghanistan have lost faith in their mission, there are fields full of opium poppies and the Taliban are everywhere. Quentin Sommerville talks of the mood among the troops as they prepare at last to return home. After Charles Taylor, who'll next be taken to court to face charges relating to war crimes? Fiona Lloyd Davies has been in the Democratic Republic of Congo meeting one former rebel commander who is wanted for trial. Ian Pannell has been talking to an English scholar in Syria whose library was destroyed as the struggle continues between protestors and the security forces. What makes Kenyan athletes such fine distance runners? Claudia Hammond's been jogging through the Great Rift Valley learning some of the answers. and Stephen Sackur went to Cairo to report on how the people's uprising there was faring but instead found himself captivated by a revolutionary TV chef whose recipes are being lapped up throughout the Middle East!
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| 0:19.6 | Radio 4 edition, here's Kate 80. Today, how British soldiers have lost faith |
| 0:25.1 | in their mission in Afghanistan. |
| 0:27.6 | After the Charles Taylor verdict, who'll be next |
| 0:30.0 | to face war crimes charges? |
| 0:31.7 | We have a chilling encounter with a former rebel warlord in Congo. |
| 0:36.2 | An English scholar's precious library burned to the ground amid continuing turmoil in Syria. |
| 0:42.4 | And we don't trainers and take to the hills to find out what makes |
| 0:45.6 | Kenyans the world's best distance runners. So some 500 British soldiers will be |
| 0:52.1 | on their way home from Afghanistan over the next eight months. |
| 0:56.2 | The update on the timetable for withdrawal was given by the Defense Secretary Philip Hammond |
| 1:00.9 | in the Commons on Thursday. The reality on the ground he told |
| 1:04.7 | MPs was that Afghan forces were now increasingly taking the lead. The death of |
| 1:10.4 | one more British soldier in Afghanistan was announced last night. |
| 1:14.8 | Quentin Somerville, who's been with British troops patrolling in Helmand Province, says many of |
| 1:19.8 | them no longer feel they're helping the country towards a brighter future. |
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