Sahafa BBC
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The human stories behind the news headlines: dodging bullets while trying to reach Yemen's port of Aden, where the hospital is overwhelmed with casualties. The Africans who moved to South Africa for a better life, and ended up having to seek refuge from violence. In Turkey's south-east, a hundred years after the Armenian minority was massacred, the Kurdish minority has hopes for a stronger presence in national politics. China and Russia are best buddies at the moment, but it hasn't always been thus, as one woman whose life mirrors the relationship between these two countries knows all too well. And what are the chances of getting pneumonia each time you stay in the same, foreign country? That's if you count Russia and the Soviet Union as the same country.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC Radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we hear that when you get shot at by people in... Hello. BBC seems to work in Yemen. Not able to wash for three days and no bath or shower in sight. |
| 0:27.0 | That's reality for some who've had to flee South African violence. |
| 0:31.0 | Weak tea, but strong emotions in eastern Anatolia, a region with a turbulent past. |
| 0:38.3 | And what are the chances of getting pneumonia each time you stay in the same foreign country. That's if you count Russia and the |
| 0:45.6 | Soviet Union as the same country. Saudi airstrikes and street battles have |
| 0:50.3 | continued in Yemen this week, even though with less intensity, and despite an announcement |
| 0:55.4 | by Riyadh that its initial military operation was over. |
| 0:59.2 | The bombings are aimed at halting the advance of Shia-Huthi rebels from the north, but there's no sign that these |
| 1:05.0 | fighters who are supported by Iran have been beaten, and Yemen's embattled president remains |
| 1:10.2 | in exile. |
| 1:11.2 | Almost a thousand people are estimated to have been killed over the past |
| 1:15.0 | month and many are questioning if Yemen can survive in its current borders. |
| 1:20.0 | Orlaguerans recently been to the southern Yemeni port of Aden, where she heard calls for the country to be divided. |
| 1:27.0 | As we lined up in front of our rusting boat, a colleague who was staying behind, decided to take a photo. |
| 1:33.6 | Thanks, I said, nice to have a picture of the team. |
| 1:37.0 | It's not for that, he replied. |
| 1:39.7 | If anything goes wrong, it will help identify your bodies by your clothing. We were well aware of the risks |
| 1:46.5 | of entering this particular war zone and our trip had been meticulously planned, but suddenly the intense African heat turned cool. |
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