Dilemma for the US
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'Getting rid of Saddam was the easy bit.' The problems stack up for the United States as fighting continues in Iraq. Elves have had a place in Icelandic folklore for more than a thousand years. We find out why they're treated with such respect. Also, how countries around the world are drawing lines on the map of Antarctica, carving up the ice with their territorial claims. The climbing season on Mount Everest comes to a close; we hear it's been one of the worst on record and what happened when a British woman living in Bulgaria offered work to a gypsy boy.
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.0 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, today Antarctica's the driest, coldest, windiest place on earth, so why are so many countries |
| 0:15.8 | planting their flags on the ice? |
| 0:18.8 | How April's avalanche in the Himalayas didn't just cost lives, livelihoods have been hit as well. |
| 0:25.8 | The neighbours had warned her about gypsies. |
| 0:28.1 | We find out what happened when a British woman in Bulgaria gave work to a Roma boy. |
| 0:33.0 | And there's an elf warning why the Icelandic Highways Department |
| 0:37.1 | would rather divert roads than risk angering the elves. |
| 0:41.8 | All that and Iraq. More fighting's. the towards the capital Baghdad. The Iraqi government has formally requested US air support to fight the insurgents, |
| 0:57.0 | who seized several cities in the north. |
| 0:59.0 | There's speculation that any decision on military support from Washington could hinge now on |
| 1:03.9 | political changes in Baghdad. So is Iraq on the brink of a horrific sectarian civil |
| 1:09.8 | war? Is it about to shatter into its component parts? |
| 1:13.8 | Questions for Jim Muir, who spent much time in the country since the |
| 1:17.2 | overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003. |
| 1:20.8 | This morning he is in Erebe Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. |
| 1:25.0 | Some months before the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the man who's now President of |
| 1:31.2 | Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani, knew it was coming. |
| 1:35.1 | He wasn't keen, despite everything Saddam Hussein had done to the Kurds. |
| 1:39.8 | Getting rid of Saddam is the easy bit, he told me. |
| 1:43.0 | It's what happens after that that's the problem. |
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