Jan 07, 2012
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Can international pressure on the military-backed government in Burma be relaxed now a series of reforms is underway? Fergal Keane has been accompanying the British foreign secretary on his visit there and offers an assessment of latest developments there. A year after the assassination of the Governor of Punjab Owen Bennett-Jones has been to Pakistan to examine the impact that killing's had there. John Sweeney talks of how it may be eighty years since millions of Ukrainians died in a famine but the tragedy remains deeply controversial today. Libby Spurrier's just been for a cruise down the River Nile and says it's clear that ten months of instability in Egypt has proved devastating for that country's tourist industry. Stephen Sackur's been getting tips on gastronomy from the man behind what some say is the world's best restaurant and he's emerged with controversial suggestions about what you might want on your Christmas table next December!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the from our own correspondent office at Bush House in London. |
| 0:04.4 | We do a daily edition you can hear on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:07.4 | but this is the latest program broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.7 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, proud and grateful that a member of his family killed the governor of Punjab. |
| 0:18.0 | We talk to the gunman's brother and hear about the impact the assassinations had in Pakistan. |
| 0:24.1 | The Burmese who are hoping the new program of reforms will lift them out of poverty. |
| 0:29.4 | We find out how ten months of instability in Egypt is devastating tourism along the River Nile, |
| 0:36.1 | and gather some unusual gastronomic tips on a bleak key side in Copenhagen. It's a year now since the assassination of the governor of Punjab, Salma Tassir. |
| 0:47.4 | He was gunned down in the Pakistani capital Islamabad in broad daylight by Mumtaz Kaddri, one of his own bodyguards and a member of Punjab's elite police force. |
| 0:57.0 | The man later appeared in court where he was sentenced to death. |
| 1:00.0 | He's appealing against that sentence. |
| 1:02.0 | Owen Bennett Jones has been to Pakistan where he found there's considerable support for the killer. |
| 1:08.0 | As Sal Mantassia was sitting in an Islamabad restaurant having lunch with a friend on January the 4th last year, |
| 1:15.5 | Muntaz Kajri was considering his angles. |
| 1:19.5 | Already on three occasions that day, Kajri had tried to line up a clear shot on Tassir and failed. |
| 1:27.1 | But as Tassir moved from his lunch table through a leafy market towards his car, Cadre |
| 1:32.4 | made his move. |
| 1:34.0 | Shouting God is great, the guard shot Tassir 27 times, |
| 1:39.0 | it took just three or four seconds, |
| 1:41.0 | then put his hands in the air and said to his fellow guards, the |
| 1:44.9 | governor moved with over 20 armed men, don't shoot, arrest me. They did. He has |
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