Jordan Retaliates
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The news behind the news. In this edition Paul Adams is in Jordan as the country takes the fight to Islamic State. Sian Griffiths in Ottawa talks of the plight of homeless people in an icy winter. Nick Thorpe in Hungary on why a little baby's at the centre of a storm over racism. Chris Bowlby has been trying to find details about the killing of an ancestor in China. And Christine Finn on how a pack of howling dogs helped her appreciate the Northern Lights
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.7 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.8 | It's introduced by Kate Eighty. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, anyone can end up homeless, but in a winter as icy as canadas, that can mean a death |
| 0:17.0 | sentence. |
| 0:18.0 | Hungary's most famous gypsy, just a few weeks old, but already at the center of a bitter row over racism. |
| 0:25.0 | Our correspondence on a driving range in Beijing, not working on his golf swing, |
| 0:30.0 | but investigating a death in the family. |
| 0:32.0 | And it's less Dr. Givago more than a year. but investigating a death in the family. |
| 0:32.8 | And it's less Dr. Givago, more Mrs Bean, |
| 0:36.3 | when we let the huskies do the driving |
| 0:38.1 | on a frozen river beyond the Arctic Circle. |
| 0:41.7 | But first this morning to Amman in Jordan. Yesterday, thousands took to the streets to |
| 0:46.6 | protest against the murder of the Air Force pilot captured by Islamic State militants |
| 0:51.0 | in December. The rallies followed the news that |
| 0:53.8 | Jordanian warplanes had launched dozens of new airstrikes on IS positions. A |
| 0:59.0 | military statement said that terrorist training camps had been hit as well as weapons and ammunition storehouses. |
| 1:05.6 | The country's foreign minister, Nasser Judah, warned the operation was just the beginning |
| 1:10.0 | of Jordan's retaliation for what he described as a horrific and brutal killing. |
| 1:15.0 | Paul Adams has sent us this dispatch. |
| 1:18.0 | I was half asleep when the call came through, slumped uncomfortably in the back of a car, |
| 1:22.0 | dozing off the effects of a day spent |
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