Sept 17, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 17 September 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reprisals and revenge in a desert oasis as the battles continue against the final Gaddafi loyalists -- Justin Marozzi's been learning of the tensions in a small community in the far south of Libya. Katy Watson in Doha on how the Gulf state of Qatar was one of the first countries to declare its support for the Libyan rebels and how it is now reaping the benefits. Jonathan Head, who accompanied Turkish premier Erdogan on part of his North African tour, contends that a Turkish leader, elevated to the status of an Arab champion, is extraordinary. Claudia Hammond is in Costa Rica: tle elderly there reach a greater age than in any other nation in the Americas but the burden, she tells us, hangs heavily on the country's healthcare system. And Daniel Schweimler took some long bus trips and walked a great distance to visit a remote part of Argentina which is almost untouched by the modern world.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC. This is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | You can hear the version of the program broadcast on the BBC World Service by going to the |
| 0:10.0 | from our own correspondent website, or indeed to that of the BBC World Service. |
| 0:16.0 | But here's the edition which goes out on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:20.0 | It's introduced by Kate A.D. |
| 0:22.8 | Today fighting continues in Colonel Gaddafi's final |
| 0:26.2 | strongholds and in a desert oasis in the far south of Libya |
| 0:30.1 | it's time for reprisals and revenge. |
| 0:33.0 | A rock star welcome in North Africa for Prime Minister Erdogan. |
| 0:37.0 | We find out why suddenly it's cool to be Turkish. |
| 0:40.0 | They're the longest lived people in the whole of the Americas, but for Costa Ricans it means |
| 0:45.6 | their health care is now in crisis. |
| 0:48.6 | And we're off to a distant corner of Argentina to find out if life is good in a place almost untouched by the modern |
| 0:54.8 | world. Fierce fighting has been reported from Libya this morning where forces loyal to |
| 1:00.8 | the deposed leader Colonel Gaddafi are still holding the strongholds of Baniwaite. The who are believed to have little access to food, water and electricity. |
| 1:15.0 | In the south of the country, some of the ancient desert people, the Tuareg, have been staunch |
| 1:19.7 | Gaddafi loyalists. |
| 1:21.5 | There have been accusations that they've been carrying out brutal |
| 1:23.8 | attacks on his behalf. Justin Morazzi's been to one Desert Oasis where |
| 1:28.3 | local people have been settling scores. Really Mr Justin, now we are in good condition. Believe me, I'm too happy to see you, my God. Now I feel |
| 1:37.3 | shy. The exuberant greetings are one of the great joys of traveling in Libya. In this case my old friend Muhammad Ali |
| 1:44.6 | from the southern Libyan Oasis town of Godamps was particularly effusive, having |
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