Jan 14, 2012
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Afghan women still suffering in silence - ten years after the fall of the Taliban. Caroline Wyatt, who's just back from Kabul, examines how their lives might change once the international community withdraws its troops from their country. Nick Thorpe's been to meet the president of Hungary - a man at the centre of a political and constitutional storm. Laura Trevelyan's in Haiti where, two years ago, a 35-second earthquake killed more than three hundred thousand people. She finds the process of reconstruction is still going on -- some say it's taking too long. Sara Hashash is in Cairo where they're trying to salvage what they can from thirty truckloads of ancient books, manuscripts and other documents damaged and destroyed during fighting in the capital last year and our Europe correspondent Chris Morris takes a break from talking about bail-outs and over-the-counter derivatives and heads off to Copenhagen for a heart-to-heart with the Queen of Denmark.
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we're mixing with presidents, prime ministers and royals in the Caribbean, in Budapest and in Copenhagen. |
| 0:20.0 | Why does the controversial Hungarian leader say he can't get no satisfaction? |
| 0:25.0 | How does King Gorme the old fit into the long history of European monarchy? |
| 0:30.0 | And why were 30 truckloads of priceless |
| 0:33.2 | manuscripts strewn around a garden in Cairo? |
| 0:37.0 | All that a little later. |
| 0:38.0 | First, though, we're finding out why Afghan women may have good reason to fear the day when Western soldiers stop patrolling |
| 0:44.8 | their streets. |
| 0:46.5 | This new focus on the plight of women in Afghanistan comes after the international media |
| 0:51.2 | highlighted two cases which led to intervention by |
| 0:54.1 | President Hamid Karzai. In one a young woman called Gulnas was raped and |
| 0:59.5 | sent to prison for the crime they call adultery by force. She was subsequently pardoned by the |
| 1:05.4 | president. Then a child bride called Sahar was rescued by police after being tortured |
| 1:11.2 | by her in-laws. Her case followed a UN report which suggested |
| 1:15.5 | that more than half of all Afghan women are still subject to forced or underage |
| 1:20.4 | marriages, while many have also suffered violence in the home. |
| 1:24.9 | Caroline Wyatt is just back from the Afghan capital, Kabul. |
| 1:28.9 | Outside, it was a gloriously sunny winter's day. |
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