Keep A Cool Head
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces tales of true grit - and grace under pressure - from around the world. As the USA agonises over questions of policing, race and firearms, Barbara Plett Usher in Minnesota hears how little trust some protesters have in the future. As veteran reporter Jim Muir prepares to leave the BBC, he remembers first setting out for Lebanon in 1974. His beloved city of Beirut would soon be engulfed by war - a fate shared by much of the Middle East since then. Nicola Kelly talks to people in the so-called 'jihadi north' of Burkina Faso about the growing threats from militant groups which are affecting their lives and businesses. Tim Ecott is on the Faroe Islands, where there are more sheep than humans - but it's the birds which are the true owners of the landscape. And Heidi Fuller Love breaks out of the luxury-hotel bubble in the Maldives to attend a gathering in honour of a national hero: the sixteenth-century Sultan and sea captain who liberated these islands from the Portuguese empire.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:03.0 | This edition was first broadcast on the 14th of July 2016. |
| 0:08.0 | It's presented by Kate Aedie. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello. Today the vexed questions of policing, race relations and firearms return to haunt the politics |
| 0:18.6 | of the United States in this election year. A long-serving correspondent in the election year. |
| 0:22.6 | A long-serving correspondent in the Middle East reflects on how, despite strikes and civil |
| 0:27.9 | war, on retirement Beirut will always be his home. The African goat trader and his fellow villagers |
| 0:35.1 | who struggle to maintain their businesses in the face of attacks by Islamist |
| 0:39.3 | insurgents and Hebrides Bailey Fair Isle Ferrows, the birds and animals from the shipping forecast. |
| 0:49.5 | The Civil Rights Act in 1964 made race discrimination unlawful across the United States and |
| 0:55.7 | brought a revolution in racial attitudes. But many African Americans argue |
| 1:00.6 | it made little difference to law enforcement. |
| 1:04.3 | Last week a black man was fatally shot by police in the southern state of Louisiana. |
| 1:09.2 | Then last Thursday Philando Castile was stopped in his car by policemen in the Midwestern city of St Paul. |
| 1:16.2 | Beaumets later in a scene streamed live on social media, he was dead. |
| 1:20.8 | It led to street protests in St Paul and its neighbor Minneapolis, the Twin Cities. |
| 1:26.2 | 24 hours later a black former US Army Private shot dead five police officers in Dallas. |
| 1:32.1 | Barbara Plattasha has been to send Paul to hear |
| 1:34.4 | about the uneasy race relations in this election year. |
| 1:38.7 | Pastor Thomas Might is the sort of man who deals with the ruptures of racial |
| 1:42.2 | violence from behind the scenes rather than behind |
| 1:44.6 | a microphone. |
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