Jan 29, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 29 January 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Spectacular political developments across the Arab world as viewed from the Corniche in Beirut by Kevin Connolly; Quentin Somerville in Kabul views shocking evidence of what the Taleban call justice; Madeleine Morris is in the Indian state of Andrha Pradesh finding out why microcredit, once hailed as the answer to world poverty, has been getting a bad name; James Coomarasamy explores a town in Belarus where the spirit of Lenin still marches on and David Goldblatt is in Dakar getting a crash course in how to get streetwise in Senegal. And a correspondent goes in the footsteps of a master as he learns how to survive on the streets of Dakar....
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
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| 0:17.0 | But now with the edition broadcasts on Radio 4, here's Kate Adi. |
| 0:21.1 | Pictures of an execution, how video of a stonings fuel the debate over law and order in Afghanistan. |
| 0:28.0 | A remote village in India where microcredit has brought ruin and despair. An Eiffel tar there is but no moula rouge. That's in a place |
| 0:36.6 | called Paris in Belarus. And from the chaotic streets of Dhaka, a crash course in how to get streetwise in Senegal. |
| 0:46.0 | But first, the newly appointed Lebanese Prime Minister, the billionaire businessman Najib McCarthy, |
| 0:51.5 | is meeting the country's president this morning. The briefing comes |
| 0:54.7 | after two days of talks hosted by Mr Macati aimed at forming a new government. |
| 0:59.3 | Observers say the new Premier who's backed by the militant Hezbollah movement has failed to convince |
| 1:05.2 | the Western-backed former Prime Minister Saad Hariri to join his administration. |
| 1:10.6 | Kevin Connolly has been covering the talks, which of course have been going on against a backdrop of spectacular political unrest in Cairo and other parts of the Arab world. |
| 1:21.0 | Sometimes it can be hard to judge when things are moving and when they're not. |
| 1:26.8 | Stand with your back to the city of Beirut and stare out into the dull blue waters of the |
| 1:30.5 | eastern Mediterranean and some trick of the light makes it appear that the great |
| 1:34.2 | container ships on the horizon are utterly still. |
| 1:38.9 | They're not, of course. |
| 1:40.4 | Turn away for a moment, to marvel at the way Beirut sits untidily on a narrow slip of land between the mountains and the sea like old jewellery piled onto a shelf. |
| 1:49.0 | When you turn back, the ship will have moved on but will appear to be still again. So some sorts of |
| 1:55.7 | change are easier to see and measure than others. There are soldiers at the end of |
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