Into the Line of Fire
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Around the world in 28-minutes. Residents of eastern Ukraine fear the war raging around them is set to intensify. A life in hiding -- how the husband of a Pakistani woman accused of committing blasphemy fears for his life and wants the international community to intervene. We visit the heart of the Tata empire in India and, in the wake of the release from an Egyptian prison of the former BBC-correspondent Peter Greste, examine allegations that the justice system there is unfair, unjust and heavy-handed. And in the Malian capital Bamako, some are concerned about what's going to happen to a set of priceless manuscripts. Others, however, seem more concerned about football.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the programme, 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 Aide. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello, today the US Secretary of State has arrived in Kyiv |
| 0:17.9 | amid fears that America's about to step up its involvement in the war in Eastern Ukraine. |
| 0:24.0 | Peter Grester might be out, but Egypt's justice system still stands accused of being |
| 0:29.8 | unfair, unjust and heavy-handed. |
| 0:33.5 | You won't even see a dead leaf on the streets, let alone rubbish. |
| 0:37.3 | We're in Jamshid poor checking on claims that it's India's cleanest city. And as scholars from around the world ponder what to do with the ancient |
| 0:46.1 | manuscripts in Timbuktu, some people it seems would rather watch football. |
| 0:52.4 | The stakes are rising in eastern Ukraine. football. |
| 0:52.5 | The stakes are rising in eastern Ukraine. |
| 0:54.8 | There are fears the war there could be set to worsen, perhaps drawing in the United States |
| 0:59.5 | as well as Russia. |
| 1:01.2 | With the Moscow-backed rebels announcing plans to recruit a hundred thousand new fighters, |
| 1:06.4 | the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Kiev this morning for talks with President |
| 1:10.9 | Poroshenko. The Americans are considering supplying weapons to the Ukrainian government. |
| 1:17.0 | Meanwhile intense fighting continues along a near 200 mile long front in the east of the country. Some communities have been |
| 1:23.8 | virtually destroyed. There is said to be residents hiding in |
| 1:27.2 | basements without food, electricity or water supplies. Others, as Sarah |
| 1:32.2 | Rainsford's been finding out, of fleeing for the safety of Western Ukraine. |
| 1:37.0 | Alexander Petrov and his team wear military fatigues, but they're not soldiers and their minibus is definitely not bulletproof. |
| 1:44.0 | Before Ukraine was plunged into war, Alexander was a voluntary worker with a children's charity. |
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