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From Our Own Correspondent

Domestic Strife

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories. This week Paul Wood hears warnings of civil war returning to Lebanon; Andrew Harding reflects on the Pistorius trial; Darius Barzagan can't get the images of MH17 out of his head; Niall O'Gallagher joins Catalans celebrating their National Day and calling for independence; and Lucy Ash meets Ivory Coast's most famous actress to talk about infidelity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London.

0:04.8

You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

0:09.2

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:11.9

Today we hear from Ukraine how our correspondent now thinks of time as before MH17 and after

0:19.3

MH17.

0:21.6

South Africa's trial of the century has ended with some wondering was it ever

0:25.6

anything more than a celebrity court case in Barcelona we're urged to make love

0:31.0

but certainly not in Spanish.

0:34.1

And why focusing on men's infidelities in Ivory Coast

0:37.7

isn't just a bit of fun.

0:40.9

President Obama has said that the fight against Aya's militants will go on for years.

0:46.1

He's called for a campaign to degrade and ultimately destroy, as he put it, the so-called Islamic

0:51.5

state, including airstrikes in Syria.

0:54.8

The rapid advance of the Islamic State, or ISIS, has created hundreds of thousands of refugees

1:00.3

and crises across the region.

1:03.0

Paul Wood, who's been traveling in Syria and Iraq,

1:06.0

is now back on base in Beirut,

1:08.0

but he warns of serious consequences for Lebanon.

1:12.0

Here are two stories from a summer reporting on the Islamic State.

1:16.0

The first is about a little Yazidi boy.

1:19.0

It is one of the bleakest I have covered.

1:22.0

We saw him in hospital, half paralyzed and impassive as the nurses

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