Mission Accomplishment
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 28 January 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories: Justin Rowlatt sees the high cost Afghanistan's soldiers are paying to fight off the Taleban and hears how important American troops are to the NATO mission in the country. The US Marines are training the first female recruits to be deployed to combat units; Hannah King witnesses the gruelling training and hears the ditties. Andrew Harding is in Somalia, where Al-Shabab have launched more attacks this week; he wonders if the country is turning a corner. Jenny Hill is in the Netherlands and Germany, where far right groups hope to make significant gains in elections this year. She hears how the promise of a patriotic spring is being welcomed. And Simon Busch is in Northern Cyprus, where the turtles come ashore and the coast has yet to be covered in concrete. Could that all change with reunification of the island?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | Thank you for listening to this podcast of From Our Own Correspondent, which was first broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday the 28th of January 2017. And to kick us off as we accomplish our mission here's |
| 0:16.6 | Bridget Kendall. Hello how do you feel about being screamed at or hammered with fists? |
| 0:24.4 | Not so keen? Well then, training at the crucible isn't for you, |
| 0:28.8 | as our correspondent will explain. |
| 0:30.9 | More attacks in Somalia, but is the country also turning a corner? |
| 0:35.7 | Far-right groups in Europe, hoping for success across the continent as they aim for a patriotic |
| 0:41.4 | spring? And we take a walk through northern Cyprus the land |
| 0:46.0 | that time almost forgot. There have been contradictory messages coming from the |
| 0:52.0 | Trump camp in a number of policy areas, including the future of NATO. |
| 0:56.8 | Candidate Trump at one point referred to the alliance as obsolete and |
| 1:00.6 | criticized many members for not paying their fair share. |
| 1:04.2 | He even hinted that he might consider withdrawing from it. |
| 1:08.3 | But after her meeting with him yesterday, Theresa May insisted that President Trump was behind NATO 100%. |
| 1:16.9 | One of the countries where NATO forces, including American troops, are operating, is Afghanistan. |
| 1:23.0 | Justin Rolat says any U.S. withdrawal from there |
| 1:26.4 | could have serious consequences. |
| 1:28.8 | I just started to interview an injured soldier in a small ward in the military hospital in Kabul |
| 1:35.1 | when there was an agonized gasp from the next bed. |
| 1:38.8 | Habibraman lurched forward, reaching towards the bandage stumps, where his legs once were. |
| 1:46.0 | He's a soldier too, a bomb disposal expert I was told later. |
| 1:50.0 | Both his legs had been blown off by a Taliban bomb in Helmand a few days before. |
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