Fractured Syllogisms
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Despatches from around the world: Kevin Connolly on how Western policy makers, trying to respond to developments in the Middle East, are grappling with difficulties created by their own predecessors. As American warships prepared to fire missiles at targets in Syria, out in the Pacific Ocean two US carrier battle groups were carrying out the biggest live fire exercise in years. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes wondered if they had a target in mind. Iona Craig on a revolution in Yemen and how the nation was surprised when a previously marginalised militia group swiftly seized control of the capital, Sana'a. The economic news just gets gloomier and gloomier in France. Hugh Schofield says one area everyone agrees should be confronted is the so-called regulated professions. And the mushrooms, aided by a long wet summer, have been bursting out in the woods in Hungary. Nick Thorpe has been out to pick them. But which ones will lift his dinner to gastronomic heights and which ones might kill?
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello. Today, as the British prepare to join the American lead attack on Islamic State, we learn |
| 0:20.1 | the US navies flexing its muscles not just in the Middle East, but out in the U.S. Navy's flexing its muscles not just in the Middle East but out in the Pacific too. |
| 0:26.7 | The people of Yemen taken by surprise as a band of militia fighters ceases control of the |
| 0:31.6 | capital. In France the opticians stand accused of corruption |
| 0:36.4 | and of contributing to their country's economic stagnation. And after an unusually wet summer, |
| 0:42.3 | a bumper crop of mushrooms in Hungary, but which ones are good |
| 0:45.8 | for dinner, which ones might prove deadly. |
| 0:49.7 | So Britain is returning to a combat role in Iraq after a majority of MPs voted to back |
| 0:55.1 | air strikes against jihadists from the group known as Islamic State. |
| 1:00.0 | British aircraft could join the US-led bombing campaign this weekend. |
| 1:04.0 | The Prime Minister David Cameron told the House of Commons yesterday that Britain would need to demonstrate |
| 1:09.4 | patience and persistence rather than shock and awe to tackle the threat posed by IS. and but it's believed Mr Cameron is prepared to support such a move. |
| 1:24.5 | Britain is now part of an alliance of countries ready to attack the militants. |
| 1:28.6 | The United States and France have already launched strikes. |
| 1:32.3 | Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands are signing up. |
| 1:34.9 | And earlier President Obama announced the operation also had the backing of Bahrain, |
| 1:39.3 | Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. |
| 1:43.7 | Their support, he said, showed this wasn't just America's fight. |
| 1:47.8 | Kevin Connolly's been considering the complexities of the task they're taking on and how it might affect the wider Middle East. |
| 1:55.0 | Almost exactly a hundred years ago an old order in the Middle East was beginning to crumble. |
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