Hi, this is Alan Johnston. We make two editions of From Our Own Correspondent.

If you'd like to hear the version I introduce on the BBC World Service,

you can find it by going to the BBC I player. But here's the one broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

It's presented by Kate Adi.

Today the Pakistanis who blame the government for the devastation caused by the summer floods

arrested the Russians who use humour to protest about police brutality and corruption.

We join the crowds at a big football tournament

controversially being held in Yemen and shame and horror in New York

why delegates and correspondence have been steering clear of the BBC office at the UN.

It's now more than three months since the floods in Pakistan submerged vast tracts of the countryside. As winter approaches, about 7 million people still

don't have adequate shelter or bedding to keep warm, and many are turning their anger upon

the government. Jill McGivering covered the floods at

their height and is now back in Pakistan investigating allegations of

official mismanagement and corruption.

Patani's eight children play with metal bottle tops. They grate them together to make a noise. They shake them in cupped hands like dice and throw them. They tie string around them and drag them through the dust.

They fight over bottle tops because it's all they have.

Everything the family owned was swept away in the flood.

Butani herself has a proud face with strong cheekbones and fierce eyes.

As she talks to me, she pulls her toddler into her lap and puts him to her breast to stop his coughing. The other children cluster round her in the small

tent which is now their home.

It's cold at night, Patani tells me. The wind blows right through and we don't have decent blankets. No one can sleep.

Their plot of land tells the story for them. The tent is surrounded by piles of brick and

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