May 7, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Weeks of violent confrontation in Uganda: Will Ross is in Kampala where lawyers are the latest group to protest against the regime of President Museveni. Mishal Husain is in the Pakistani town of Abottabad, where the life of Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, was brought to an end last Sunday. Mishal talks of the new interest in this location which she remembers as a place her family went on holiday. President Obama was at Ground Zero this week and coincidentally, a little earlier, our correspondent Paul Adams was there with his two young sons who had awkward questions to ask about that day when the Twin Towers came crashing down. There's a new predator in the Caribbean -- the Lionfish. Tim Ecott's been to the Cayman Islands to get an idea of the scale of the problem it's brought with it. And Jonathan Fryer waits and waits for the night bus to Bolivia. But at least he has some company in the shape of a large, and affectionate, wild pig!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there you're about to hear from our own correspondent a download from the BBC. |
| 0:04.3 | We make editions of the programme for both the BBC World Service and Radio 4 |
| 0:08.8 | and this is the latest Radio 4 broadcast as ever it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:13.4 | Abbott about Pakistan now forever linked with the killing of Osama bin Laden |
| 0:18.2 | but once a peaceful spot of fishing and family holidays. |
| 0:21.7 | Also today there are words of advice for an African |
| 0:24.9 | president in the country where walking it seems has become a crime. We come face |
| 0:30.0 | to face with an unwelcome visitor in the blue waters of the Caribbean and find a wild pig keeps |
| 0:36.3 | us company as we wait and wait for the night bus to Bolivia. |
| 0:42.3 | Relations between Pakistan and the United States are under considerable strain this weekend, |
| 0:47.0 | five days after U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden. |
| 0:51.2 | Demonstrations were held after Friday prayers in Pakistan yesterday, denouncing |
| 0:55.6 | the covert American operation as an attack on the country's sovereignty. |
| 1:00.8 | Earlier a foreign ministry official in Islamabad had dismissed as absolutely wrong speculation |
| 1:06.1 | that the Pakistani authorities had been protecting Osama bin Laden in his hideaway |
| 1:10.9 | in Abbottabad. Armichal Hussein has been to the town to find out what people living there think. |
| 1:17.0 | My first sight of the house that had been Osama bin Laden's final home |
| 1:22.0 | came after we drove down a narrow dirt road winding |
| 1:25.6 | through a neighborhood of newly built and relatively affluent homes. |
| 1:30.1 | As the road cleared into an open plowed field, with just a few houses dotted around, |
| 1:35.2 | there was no mistaking that we had reached our destination. The satellite vans were back to back, |
| 1:40.8 | and crowds had gathered around the perimeter walls of the compound and in front of |
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