March 19, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 19 March 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Explosions and gunfire in Benghazi -- Kevin Connolly on the struggle for power in eastern Libya; Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in Tokyo where there's growing fear at the prospect of nuclear meltdown. Hannah Barnes has been talking to lovers of Hebrew who are determined to ensure that the language remains as up to date as it can possibly be. Two months after a Congresswoman was shot in Tucson, Arizona, David Willis looks at the impact the incident had had on America's attitude towards guns. And Monhammed Hanif has been touched by the miseries of a splendid snow leopard which has been removed from its home among the craggy peaks of Pakistan.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC. It's from our own correspondent and it's |
| 0:05.0 | introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:07.0 | Today ceasefire in Libya, reports from Benghazi this morning suggest |
| 0:11.4 | Colonel Gaddafi's forces aren't finished yet. A city with |
| 0:15.2 | 30 million people eerily quiet, there's fear in Tokyo at the prospect of nuclear catastrophe. |
| 0:21.8 | The Californian politicians who believe their jobs are so dangerous |
| 0:25.0 | they need guns to stay safe. And the story of a snow leopard removed from her |
| 0:30.4 | home in the mountains of Pakistan, all for her own good, apparently. |
| 0:37.0 | What exactly is happening in Eastern Libya this morning, a day after the government in Tripoli |
| 0:41.5 | said it was observing a ceasefire in the fight against |
| 0:44.4 | opponents of Colonel Gaddafi. This morning there are reports of his troops attacking |
| 0:49.6 | the rebel city of Benghazi. Explosions and gunfire have been heard, a fighter jets gone |
| 0:54.9 | down in flames. Western and Arab nations meanwhile are said to be preparing |
| 0:59.7 | their warplanes for action after receiving UN Security Council backing. |
| 1:04.8 | Kevin Connolly, who's along the coast in Toubruk, says that amidst the uncertainty, one |
| 1:10.1 | things clear. |
| 1:11.3 | This is a part of the world well used to the brutality and |
| 1:14.3 | uncertainties of warfare. The trouble with history is that whatever ends up |
| 1:19.1 | happening comes to seem inevitable once it's happened. While it's still going on it tends to feel a little |
| 1:25.2 | more shapeless and a lot more difficult to pin down. The ribbon of road that runs along |
| 1:30.4 | the northern coast of Africa provides plenty of lessons in humility for anyone who thinks |
| 1:35.1 | they know how today's world will look to tomorrow's. |
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