Low-Speed Rail
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Stories from around the world. Today: Will Grant in Mexico on the night horror descended on a beach holiday on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Why were 21-thousand knives handed out on the streets of Mumbai? Alex Preston was there and has the answer. Chris Morris finds out what the building with the biggest carpet in Europe can tell us about attitudes to the EU. Richard Hamilton senses a swagger of self-confidence on the streets of Nairobi but, he says, the ghosts of an older Kenya are never far away. And high-speed rail it isn't, but Will Ross finds it far from dull on the noon train to Kano in northern Nigeria.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.4 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the programme, |
| 0:07.1 | broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.2 | Today the night horror descended upon a quiet weekend by the sea in Mexico. |
| 0:17.0 | 21,000 knives are handed out to women living in Mumbai. |
| 0:21.0 | A new swagger of self-confidence in Kenya, easier now perhaps to buy a |
| 0:26.7 | Toyota than a tomato. And it may not be a high-speed service but it's certainly not dull |
| 0:32.4 | on the 31-hour train journey to Carno in northern Nigeria. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, Elvis had fun in Acapulco. Sinatra sang about it, and the Kennedy's honeymooned there. But the reputation of |
| 0:45.8 | this Mexican resort as a glamorous glittering holiday destination is long gone. It took a |
| 0:51.6 | further savage knock this week when six Spanish women in a rented beach |
| 0:55.8 | house by the Pacific were raped by mask gunman. Others in their group, including a Mexican woman |
| 1:01.6 | who was spared the sexual assault |
| 1:03.2 | were tied up at gunpoint. Will Grant says the incident is being linked to |
| 1:08.0 | drug gangs who operate in the area. It's caused deep shock throughout Mexico, not least amongst its Spanish community. |
| 1:15.5 | Even in a country where brutality has become the norm, |
| 1:19.2 | this story hit many people hard. |
| 1:21.7 | I think it was the inherent familiarity of the sort of trip the group |
| 1:25.6 | of tourists were on. In fact they weren't exactly tourists, rather young expats who lived |
| 1:32.0 | and were trying to make a future for themselves in Mexico City. |
| 1:36.4 | Like so many people do in this country, the group of 13 friends decided to make the most of the |
| 1:41.6 | bank holiday weekend, or Puente as it's called in Latin America, |
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