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From Our Own Correspondent

Linguistic confusion and mass killers

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Damien McGuinness is in Berlin where the politicians are frustrated that British politicians don't seem to understand that no means no. Jake Wallis Simons returns to the scene of the terrorist attacks in Paris last year. James Jeffrey is in Addis Ababa, under a state of emergency, where there's confusion about what really is going on but people are partying as hard as ever. Lindsay Johns travels from Harvard to Harlem in a divided America. And Chris Carnegy meets one of the world's most prolific killers, in the South Atlantic. But his targets are mice.

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0:00.0

Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent.

0:03.0

This edition was broadcast on Thursday the 27th of October 2016.

0:08.0

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:11.0

Hello. Today, terrorists would often like to alter our lives, change our habits.

0:17.7

So how does a correspondent react when returning to Paris, where he reported the shocking attack nearly a year ago.

0:25.3

In Ethiopia's capital, under a state of emergency, there's confusion about what's really

0:30.3

happening.

0:31.3

So an obvious time to party then like there's no tomorrow. We take a

0:36.4

journey from Harvard to Harlem through divided America and we meet a man who's

0:42.0

become one of the world's most prolific killers, but he's only trying to repair damage done by humans.

0:49.0

Theresa May has now got her first European Council Summit meeting under her belt and she used the

0:54.7

opportunity to repeat her assertion that there's no turning back on Brexit.

0:59.8

Many reports of her first summit concentrated on the less than enthusiastic

1:03.6

welcome she appeared to receive from the other leaders. Her after dinner speech

1:07.9

at one in the morning lasted just five minutes and apparently was greeted with silence. Even Germany which is

1:15.0

traditionally the UK's most powerful ally in the EU appears to be losing

1:19.6

patience with London and Damien Beginners in Berlin believes there's a growing communication

1:25.1

problem between the British and German governments. He concludes that at the heart of

1:30.4

the matter it might be a different understanding of some very simple words.

1:35.4

There's one thing about the German language that if you're British you never really quite

1:40.4

to get used to. It's how to say yes and how to say no. An English friend of

1:45.9

mine Jessica once told me a story which sums up the problem. When she was at school in

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