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From Our Own Correspondent

Swimming in Iran

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Foreign correspondents. Nick Thorpe on the Russian speakers in Ukraine who want the future of their country linked to western Europe, not to Moscow; Thomas Fessy examines how the Islamist fighters of Boko Haram are extending their operations out of Nigeria into neighbouring Cameroon; Shaimaa Khalil in Karachi on the difficulties and the dangers health workers face trying to convince people to be immunised against polio; Chris Bockman in Montpellier has been learning what an exiled Syrian billionaire has to do with the local rugby club and what's the correct etiquette for an American woman keen for a swim in Iran? Amy Guttman has been finding out.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.7

the best in news and current affairs storytelling.

0:08.8

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:11.0

Hello, today the sun shines on the golden domes of Kiev a year after the start of a revolution

0:17.7

that's not over yet.

0:19.8

Out on patrol with the soldiers battling Boca Haram, not in Nigeria but in Cameroon, a health

0:26.2

worker risking his life trying to wipe out polio in Pakistan and a fish out of water, an American going swimming in Iran.

0:37.0

Thousands of Ukrainians took part in emotional celebrations in the capital Kyiv yesterday. They were marking the first anniversary of the start of the pro-European protests,

0:47.0

which led to the overthrow of the pro-Russian president, Victor Januqovic.

0:51.0

Many people were draped in the national flag, some laid flowers in memory of the

0:55.7

protesters who died in the demonstrations. Nick Thorpe, who was in Independence Square and known to

1:01.7

Ukrainians as the Maidan, says the mood of the crowds yesterday was

1:05.4

mixed. There was joy that Mr. Yannukovic had gone, but also sorrow about Russia's annexation

1:11.1

of Crimea and the ongoing bitter fighting in the east of the country.

1:15.8

I arrived a little late for the revolution in Ukraine, a year late to be exact, but I needn't

1:21.4

have worried it's still going on. The 62 bus from the

1:25.1

Poddil district laboriously climbs up, followed a mere scale into town. The

1:30.4

bus is old and crowded, its passengers cheered up by a young woman bus conductor who takes your coins, stamps your ticket for you and has a kind word for everyone.

1:40.0

A fine November drizzle works diligently on the windscreen. Our conductress even cleans the mist

1:46.2

from the windows with her sleeve to give travellers a view of the passing town. The centre of Kiev is one big shrine, or rather lots of little shrines to the

1:56.2

heavenly 100 who fell during the revolution, many of them torn apart by snipers bullets. Each tree has a picture of someone who

2:04.8

died trying to shelter behind it. There are heaps of cobblestones of gas masks and

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