Death from Above
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Insight, analysis, description and colour. Today, death on a dusty highway in Baluchistan and what that might mean for neighbouring Afghanistan; how the people of Hiroshima, where America set off an atomic bomb in 1945, feel about the imminent visit by President Obama; the Swiss have never joined the European Union so why are they so interested in the result of the in/out referendum in Britain next month? We hear how Turkey's Kurdish population fits into the President Erdogan's plan to continue being the dominant force in the country's politics and finally there's an account of a day delightfully wasted on a slow train journey across the south-eastern tip of Australia
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the from our own correspondent office at Broadcasting House in London, |
| 0:04.4 | and the program you've downloaded is the edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on May the 26th, 2016. |
| 0:11.0 | Sitting in the presenter's chair as ever is Kate Aide. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello, today, death on a dusty highway in Balochistan and a new man at the top of the Taliban. |
| 0:21.2 | In neighbouring Afghanistan, they don't believe that means pieces on the Taliban. In neighboring Afghanistan they don't believe that means |
| 0:24.3 | pieces on the way. The Swiss are outside the EU, so why is our in-out |
| 0:29.9 | referendum next month so important to them. In Hiroshima they're folding paper as |
| 0:35.8 | they prepare for tomorrow's historic visit by the American president and high-speed |
| 0:40.8 | rail travel may be coming to Australia. |
| 0:44.0 | We celebrate with a Devonshire cream tea on the slow train to Melbourne. |
| 0:50.0 | At least 10 people were killed yesterday in the Afghan capital Kabul when a suicide bomber blew himself up alongside a bus. |
| 0:57.0 | The blast came a few hours after an announcement from the Afghan Taliban that it had appointed a new leader, a cleric called |
| 1:04.8 | Heibatula A Konsada. He succeeds Mullah Mansour who is killed in an American |
| 1:10.3 | drone strike in Pakistan at the weekend. |
| 1:13.4 | San Joa Mujumda, who's in the Afghan capital, |
| 1:16.2 | has been considering what the events of the last few days |
| 1:18.8 | might mean for the Taliban and for Afghanistan. It was late afternoon as the hired taxi wound its way along a dusty highway in the Pakistani province of Beluchistan. |
| 1:29.0 | Apart from the driver, there was only one other person inside the Toyota Corolla, |
| 1:34.3 | a bearded man of about 50 wearing a turban. There was hardly any traffic on the road |
| 1:40.3 | which crossed a sparsely populated barren landscape with mountains on either side. |
| 1:45.0 | A rocket or several of them, launched by an American unmanned aircraft, was fired into the vehicle. |
| 1:51.0 | Within minutes, a pile of burning twisted steel was all that was left |
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