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From Our Own Correspondent

Shaping a New World Order

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Reporters' stories. About Iran, Togo, Mexico, Ethiopia and the United States

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Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent,

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the best in news and current affairs storytelling.

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It's introduced by Kate 80.

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Hello, today how the Iran nuclear deal has given birth to a brand new order in the Middle East.

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The traffic children of Togo, taken not by strange men at dead of night, but by close relatives or family friends. They're joking in Mexico about the great

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prison escape, but for the country's president it's no laughing matter. And in Arizona there are gifts after we stop one of the

0:35.4

world's richest men from falling out of a helicopter. The Supreme Leader of

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Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the country's stance towards the United States

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will not change, despite the deal reached earlier this week on the nation's nuclear activities.

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Key economic sanctions could now be lifted. Oil companies, the financial services

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sector, car and aircraft manufacturers are among many now keen to finalise multi-million pound contracts with the Iranians.

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And Kevin Connolly says that while the nuclear pact reached after marathon negotiations

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in Vienna may have significant economic implications, its political consequences will be no less far-reaching.

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The last time an old order collapsed in the Middle East, it seemed obvious who should be invited to construct the new one.

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When the Turkish Empire and the region disintegrated, consumed in the desert storms of the

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Great War, Britain and France were still just about major imperial

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powers. The blood of a lost generation of young men and the riches built up over centuries

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had been poured into a narrow strip of European land on the Western

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front. But in Europe there were no territorial spoils to be had. The Middle East was different. With the Turks defeated in

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Jerusalem and Damascus, there was a new world to be made. Britain, mandated by the

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League of Nations to govern the Holy Land,

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could set about honoring its commitment to the Jews of the world

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