Looking Back
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Elections in Pakistan, religious divisions in the Balkans and an ode to an Ethiopian airport. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world: Secunder Kermani looks back on the election campaign in Pakistan and assesses what it means for the country’s future. Anna Holligan travels around Bosnia - Herzegovina and finds that while the fighting may have ended more than twenty years ago, the country is even more religiously divided than it was before the war. Will Grant remembers a great man of Cuban radio - Raul Luis Galiano. As his family sort through the late broadcasters belonging they find a huge hoard of carefully preserved possessions – some useful, some of historical value and others surprisingly revealing. Mary Novakovich learns that while fish stocks are falling in Venice, local fishermen have stumbled on a new catch – tourists, and now take visitors out on expeditions to give them an idea of what life is like beyond the obvious attractions. And Horatio Clare has an apology to make; Addis Ababa Bole airport has not, as he predicted, turned out to be a huge waste of money – unnecessary and over the top. Instead, it has turned out to be a shrewd investment and a place that continues to fascinate him.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello. Today, more than two decades since the war in Bosnia, |
| 0:08.0 | the country is still bitterly divided and thousands of people are still missing. |
| 0:13.0 | In Cuba, a house clear and stir some emotional memories for the family of our man in Havana. |
| 0:19.0 | While in Venice, we've ventured far beyond the tourist sites to get another perspective of the Italian |
| 0:25.2 | city. |
| 0:26.2 | And we have a love letter to an airport. |
| 0:29.8 | Our correspondent shares the reasons for his fascination with Addis Ababa Bolle International. |
| 0:35.0 | Talks are underway in Pakistan, talks between Imran's PDI party and possible coalition partners as they try to form a government and talks |
| 0:45.6 | between rival parties as they plot to their next moves. |
| 0:49.6 | In the parliamentary election this week, the PDI won nearly twice as many seats as their closest rivals, the party of Nawa Sharif. |
| 0:57.5 | And that party has rejected the result, citing claims of vote rigging, manipulation and interference by the security services. |
| 1:06.0 | Secunda Kamani has been looking back on the election campaign in search of clues as to what |
| 1:11.6 | Pakistan can expect from its next leader. |
| 1:15.0 | Politicians, analysts, printing press workers |
| 1:18.0 | all told me that this election campaign was much more lackluster than previous ones, that for me it was my first in the country. |
| 1:25.2 | One of the most surreal moments came when I travel to Abu Dhabi to join former Prime Minister |
| 1:30.4 | Nawaz Sharif on the last leg of his journey back to Pakistan after he'd been |
| 1:34.7 | sentenced in absentia to 10 years in jail by an anti-corruption court. He was |
| 1:39.6 | returning knowing that he would be arrested but also knowing that his family's political legacy |
| 1:44.9 | depended on him being in the country. |
| 1:47.4 | I arrived in Abu Dhabi alongside another Pakistani journalist who was in an excitable |
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