Jerusalem On Edge
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Foreign correspondents. Today, Kevin Connolly on tension in Jerusalem:- a reminder, he says, that the very thing that makes the city one of the glories of human civilisation makes it difficult and dangerous too; a walk through the Menin Gate towards Flanders fields - Chris Haslam on the storm of commercialisation sweeping through the memorial sites of World War One; some of the Russian republics want independence but Mark Stratton, travelling through the Middle Volga lowlands, finds others happy to be part of Moscow's empire; students in India have been talking to Craig Jeffrey about their right to cheat in university exams and as Berlin marks the anniversary of the Wall coming down, Jenny Hill tells us the story of one young couple's 'forbidden journey'.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this podcast. We make from our own correspondent for the BBC World Service as well. |
| 0:06.0 | But this is the edition broadcast on Radio 4 and it's introduced by Case Aide. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello, today trouble in the city which has beguiled hearts and inflamed passions for longer than any other. |
| 0:19.2 | Remembrance weekend in the Flanders fields near IPR, but our local traders now putting |
| 0:25.0 | cash before compassion. |
| 0:27.4 | Along the mighty Volga River, we find the Russian Republic where people have the reddest |
| 0:31.3 | hair in the world, and among a weekend of memories in Berlin, |
| 0:35.6 | a love story without a happy ending. |
| 0:39.3 | These have been days of mounting tension in Jerusalem, much of it connected with the temple mount or |
| 0:44.4 | harem al-Sharif, a site sacred to Muslims Jews and Christians alike. |
| 0:48.6 | Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel earlier in the week, after police used grenades, tear gas and |
| 0:55.4 | rubber bullets to disperse a group of stone-throwing Palestinians who'd barricaded themselves |
| 1:00.8 | inside the site. Muslim worshippers have been angered by a campaign by far |
| 1:06.0 | right Jewish nationalists who want to be allowed to pray there. Kevin Connolly says there's |
| 1:11.3 | nowhere in the Middle East or elsewhere, quite as sensitive as this |
| 1:15.4 | spot in the heart of Jerusalem. |
| 1:18.3 | They built the streets of Jerusalem's old city high and kept the streets narrow, so to walk in through the ancient gates in the |
| 1:25.2 | midday sun is to slide into a pool of cool perpetual twilight. The stone tiles |
| 1:31.4 | on the sharply sloping streets have been worn to a slippery smoothness by the footsteps of the faithful. |
| 1:37.0 | And it's a well trodden path the pilgrims follow. |
| 1:41.0 | St Helina, mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, passed this way around |
| 1:46.3 | the year 320. |
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