Sept 15, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How did the lifeboat of the North Atlantic, as it's called, manage to cope with thousands of unexpected air passengers? Jo Fidgen is in Gander, Newfoundland, with a story of 9.11 kindness. In Sudan, there are fears of a new offensive by government troops once the rains have stopped -- Julie Flint's in the Nuba mountains in the south. Nick Thorpe's at a monastery overlooking the River Danube in Romania. There they've been celebrating a holy day when people come to have their ailments washed away by holy water. Thomas Dinham tells of a febrile atmosphere in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, in the days after a mob laid seige to the Israeli embassy there. And in the week when the president of the European Commission spoke of a fight for our political and economic future, Paul Henley argues that increasingly Europe is becoming a continent of extremes.
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| 0:19.6 | Radio 4 edition, here's Kate 80. Today, fear amid the mud in southern Sudan. |
| 0:25.0 | Hundreds of thousands flee their homes after finding themselves on the wrong side of a border. |
| 0:30.0 | Black hooded monks and flocks of swallows look on as a holy days observed on the banks of the |
| 0:34.8 | river Danube. |
| 0:36.3 | In Cairo there's unease in the wake of the storming of the Israeli embassy there, and we find |
| 0:41.9 | out how a remote community on the edge of the Atlantic |
| 0:44.7 | coped with the unexpected arrival of 38 jumbo jets. The rains are pouring down in |
| 0:51.0 | Sudan and there is concern about a new outbreak of |
| 0:53.8 | fighting there in South Kordofan state not far from the border with the newly |
| 0:58.0 | independent south. Many of the tribesmen in the remote Nuba Mountains supported the South in its long battle for secession from the capital cartoon. |
| 1:07.0 | But now they find themselves living on the wrong side, the northern side of the new borderline. |
| 1:12.0 | And Julie Flint's been hearing they're worried |
| 1:14.8 | that when the rainy season comes to an end in a few weeks time they will once again come |
| 1:19.6 | under attack by government forces. |
| 1:22.7 | It was not perhaps the most complimentary of greetings. |
| 1:25.7 | Julie Flint, the man exclaimed, waving at me from the other side of an ocean of mud. |
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