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From Our Own Correspondent

Please Don't Kill Our Sons

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Around the world with correspondents' stories. In this edition: executions in Indonesia - the authorities believe they will help counter a national drug emergency. Security forces in Tunisia crack down on Islamist hardliners -- most people there insist they don't want ISIS or other militants gaining a foothold in their country; the president of Mexico has been on a state visit to Britain -- at home he faces continuing anger about the disappearance last year of 43-students; the Indian prime minister has promised a huge cash boost for the railways which are becoming ever more decrepit and dangerous and we hear about the 'marabouts' or holy men of Muslim west Africa. Theirs is an ancient tradition but these days they are quite happy to dispense advice via email, Twitter and Skype.

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0:00.0

You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4.

0:11.0

It's introduced by Kate Adi.

0:14.0

Hello. Today, please don't kill my boy. An Australian mother pleads for her son's life as he waits

0:20.6

to go before a firing squad in Indonesia.

0:23.0

Mr. Modi promises billions to improve India's huge and dangerous railway network.

0:29.0

There's a white tie dinner at the palace for the visiting Mexican president, but questions about

0:34.8

human rights when he calls at number 10. And we find out why magical bath salts from Senegal

0:41.2

have been arriving in the post in Dorset.

0:45.4

Two Australian drug traffickers sentenced to death in Indonesia seem likely to be shot by a firing

0:51.1

squad within days. The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

0:55.2

has said he's revolted by the prospect of the executions. He's repeatedly

0:59.6

asked the authorities in Jakarta not to enforce the death penalty.

1:04.0

The case has sowed relations between the two countries.

1:07.5

There are eight other people, mostly foreigners on death row in the country.

1:11.5

They too have been convicted of narcotics offenses.

1:15.0

Indonesia has some of the harshest drug laws in the world, and Kirishma Vasswani and Jakarta

1:20.7

says the impending executions have prompted a national debate about capital punishment.

1:26.2

The Drug Rehabilitation Center is nothing like I expected.

1:30.0

Nestled in the foothills of the mountainous landscape surrounding Jakarta,

1:34.0

it looks more like a chalet from the sound of music

1:37.0

than a place where hardcore drug users come

1:40.0

to rid themselves of their addictions.

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