Don't Call it a Drone!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Reporters worldwide. In this edition: Britain and France are to co-operate on a new unmanned combat aircraft but all involved agree - let's not call it a drone! The first round of the Syrian peace talks have come to an end in Geneva. You might think little's been achieved, but that's not necessarily the case. We go to meet the former warlord with links to Osama bin Laden who wants to be the next president of Afghanistan and to Work Street in Athens where, despite some upbeat government forecasts, the workers reckon there are more hard times ahead. And in Delhi, arguably the world's noisiest city, we visit the car horn bazaar to find the loudest hooter of them all.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, broadcast on Radio 4, |
| 0:06.8 | and it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello, today don't call it a drone. Britain and France agree to build their own |
| 0:15.2 | unmanned aircraft but that names causing problems. Recovery? What recovery? |
| 0:20.8 | In the textile factories of Work Street in Athens they expect the hard times to continue? |
| 0:27.0 | A warlord who says women shouldn't climb mountains, wants to be Afghanistan's next president. |
| 0:33.0 | And we're off to the Carhorn Bazaar in Old Delhi |
| 0:37.0 | to find the honk which can drown out all others on India's cacophonous roads. |
| 0:42.0 | So the first round of the Syria Peace Twix India's cacophonous roads. |
| 0:43.1 | So the first round of the Syria peace talks |
| 0:45.3 | ended in Geneva yesterday with little sign of any headway. |
| 0:49.4 | The Syrian government and opposition |
| 0:51.1 | are clearly still deeply divided over key issues such as |
| 0:54.3 | the ending of violence, sharing political power, and allowing humanitarian aid into |
| 0:59.7 | areas under siege. But the UN mediator chairing the talks is hopeful that progress can be made |
| 1:06.0 | in the second round of discussions which are due to begin in 10 days time. Lachta Brahimi says that he thinks the break will give both sides space to |
| 1:14.7 | consider more productive approaches and give their backers, notably the US and Russia, |
| 1:19.9 | time to exert their influence. So was anything achieved at these talks? |
| 1:24.6 | Bridget Kendall is just back from Geneva. |
| 1:27.0 | On the once green but now muddy lawn in front of the imposing |
| 1:31.8 | Neoclassical Colossus that is the UN |
| 1:34.2 | headquarters in Geneva, a forest of white pavilions stretched along the curb, like |
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