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From Our Own Correspondent

Planes, Tanks and Teaspoons

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today: with the Chilcot Report into the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, Jeremy Bowen is in Iraq, a country in a state of perpetual war. Chris Bowlby remembers a special tea party in Prague, just as Czechoslovakia was splitting apart, where the talk was of British political stability; Shaimaa Khalil tells the story of a controversial social media star - Pakistan's Kim Kardashian. There's a month to go until the Rio Olympics but the country is embroiled in economic and political turmoil; Wyre Davies is the middle of it all. And, in South Sudan, Mark Doyle gets up close to some magnificent beasts and he discusses democracy.

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0:02.8

This is the edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday the 2nd of July 2016

0:09.6

and it's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:12.3

Hello. Today how does a country divide?

0:16.0

Czechoslovakia had to do it 25 years ago,

0:19.0

with much tea drinking and politicians fighting over the cutlery.

0:24.0

Pakistan's sexy social media star stirs up trouble with an Islamic cleric.

0:30.0

Rio de Janeiro was awarded the Olympics back in 2009 when it looked like Brazil had a

0:35.4

glorious future. The present is much gloomier. And in South Sudan we hear why the

0:41.5

big bull must have a big bell.

0:45.2

The long-awaited Chilcot report into the 2003 invasion of Iraq is finally about to be

0:50.8

published next Wednesday.

0:53.0

Gordon Brown originally commissioned Sir John Chilcott seven years ago.

0:57.2

His report, which looks at British involvement in Iraq between 2003 and when the troops left in 2009 is reported to be four times longer

1:06.7

than war and peace. In Iraq itself the government there says the battle for

1:11.8

Fallujah is now over that the last of the Islamic

1:15.0

State fighters have been killed or cleared out of the city.

1:18.0

Jeremy Burns been a regular visitor to Iraq over the years and to Fallujah.

1:24.0

During the war to expel Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait in 1991,

1:29.0

I drove through Fallujah as air-raid sirens were wailing and civil defense wardens were shouting at people to take

1:35.6

cover.

1:36.6

I was back there in 2003, not long after the American-led invasion that changed everything in this country.

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