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From Our Own Correspondent

La Lucha

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mark Lowen reports from both sides of the border as Turkey launches an offensive against Kurdish militia in Syria. In the Colombian jungle, Mathew Charles meets the surprisingly well-groomed members of the ELN guerrilla group. Are Louis and Louise beautiful or handsome? Joanna Robertson offers a lesson in the sexual politics of French grammar. Hero or villain? Peter Hadfield reports on how Taiwan views its former leader Chiang Kai Shek. And Melissa Van Der Klugt discovers why pollution in Delhi is giving some of its residents green fingers . . . and a new found interest in growing their own veg.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:04.0

Hello, today liberation or death.

0:07.0

Deep in the Colombian jungle, we meet the guerrilla fighters still at war with the government.

0:12.0

Do you recall La Plume de Martant or not?

0:17.0

Our correspondent has some questions for you on the inclusiveness of French grammar.

0:22.0

In Taiwan, decapitated statue in its past and how pollution is turning fingers green in Delhi.

0:37.0

With the war in Syria soon to enter its eighth year, Turkey has opened up a new front in the conflict. In a military offensive

0:45.2

curiously entitled Operation Olive Branch, it's targeting the Kurdish-controlled border

0:51.0

region of Afrin. Troops and tanks have crossed into Syria and the

0:55.6

Air Force has been bombing the area. The new offensive has created new dangers as

1:01.8

Mark Lowens discovered.

1:04.8

They were still sweeping up the debris when we arrived in the Turkish town of Rayhannle

1:09.5

near the Syrian border a few hours after the rocket hit. The force of the blast had written. the remnants of corrugated iron lay mangled and burnt.

1:23.7

The pavement was stained with fresh blood.

1:26.7

The rocket was said to have been fired by the YPG, the Kurdish fighters in Syria

1:31.6

whom Turkey is now targeting in a military offensive.

1:35.0

The apparent retaliatory strike had killed 51-year-old Nader al-Fales, a Syrian refugee living in

1:42.1

Rahanler. His body we were told was being driven to the Syrian border to be buried in his homeland.

1:48.0

We raced down the road to follow the hearse, our desire to tell the story of the victims of the conflict mixed

1:54.8

with the nagging feeling that we were intruding on personal grief.

1:58.8

Just before the border post we caught up with the vehicle carrying the coffin.

2:02.8

Nader's son, Hussein, showed me a video of the aftermath of the attack, his father's body

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