July 9, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
They are celebrating in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, the world's newest country. But Fergus Nicoll, who's there, says its leaders must address some of the lessons they've been handed down by history. Who's visiting the great archaeological sites in Libya as the conflict in that country continues? Justin Marozzi's just been to one of them and had little company there other than cows and goats. David Willey in Rome talks about the country's much respected President Giorgio Napoletano and explains how he's trying to rein in some of the activities of the controversial prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. India's caste system was supposed to have been done away with decades ago but Craig Jeffrey, in Uttar Pradesh, has found that in many areas of life, it simply has not gone away. And it's proving a sweltering summer in the city of Algiers and Chloe Arnold, who lives there, has been finding out how a Scottish firm is keen on securing a slice of the market in long, cool, fizzy drinks!
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| 0:00.0 | This is from our own correspondent. We make an edition for the BBC World Service as well, |
| 0:05.2 | but this is a download of the latest Radio 4 programme and here to introduce it, as ever, Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.5 | Today, the echoes of history surrounding this morning's joyful celebrations in Africa's newest |
| 0:16.8 | nation. |
| 0:17.8 | How India is still haunted by the ghosts of caste, even though the system was supposed to have been abolished 60 years ago. |
| 0:25.2 | In the hills of Libya, we examined one of the world's greatest archaeological sites accompanied |
| 0:30.0 | only by cows and goats, and a new idea for a sweltering summer day in Algiers, a long cool fizzy |
| 0:37.0 | drink from Scotland. Leaders from many parts of Africa have been listening to a formal declaration of independence |
| 0:44.4 | by the world's newest nation, South Sudan. |
| 0:47.8 | The solemnity of this morning's occasion, taking place under a blazing sun, followed scenes of joy overnight. |
| 0:54.7 | Citizens of the new state danced in the streets of the capital, Juba, as independence |
| 0:59.1 | formally began at midnight. |
| 1:01.9 | South Sudan is expected to become the 193 |
| 1:04.8 | country recognized by the United Nations. The UN's created a new peacekeeping |
| 1:10.2 | force to help consolidate the peace, but Fergus Nickle, who's there, says that many sources |
| 1:15.6 | of potential conflict remain. I saw them first from out on the water, rusting steel |
| 1:21.8 | hulks of river boats, barges as long as 20 meters, prows a ground high |
| 1:27.6 | on the crumbling earth bank, but sloping sharply back down into the water, the stern resting somewhere beneath me on the |
| 1:35.2 | silty bed of the Nile. There are skeleton steamers too, and pleasure boats, |
| 1:40.4 | remnants of battered sunscreens flapping in the light breeze, ghost ships from a time |
| 1:46.1 | when colonial officials took to the water in the cool of evening. |
| 1:50.9 | Once ashore, I go back for a second look. A young man in blue engineers overalls, |
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