“That’s the Judicial Process.”
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces dispatches by: Yolande Knell in Qaraqosh, who observes Iraq's trials of people accused of fighting for so-called Islamic State; Martin Patience, who takes his leave of Nigeria with mixed emotions after a two-year stay; Matthew Hill in Sri Lanka, who finds that the strains and tensions between those who govern and many of those whom they govern are intensifying; Harriet Constable, who reports from Kenya on the increasingly violent and costly incidence of sand harvesting; and Hywel Griffith visits one of Australia's many micro-nations to meet the white-bearded Prince Paul of Wy to discover why he has set up his own realm.
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| 0:00.0 | This edition was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday the 2nd of September 2017. |
| 0:11.3 | It's introduced by Kate Eighty. |
| 0:13.3 | Hello. Today we worry about the loss of fossil fuels, a future shortage of water, but in Kenya |
| 0:20.8 | they worry about a shortage of sand. |
| 0:24.0 | Chinese ambitions spread ever further, buying football clubs in Europe, building roads |
| 0:29.6 | and rail links through Asia, and now causing resentment because of a shortage of petrol in Sri Lanka. |
| 0:37.0 | Our correspondent in Nigeria reflects on two years reporting the corruption, the absurdity, and the sheer energy of an unpredictable nation. |
| 0:46.4 | And ever wanted to be king in your own private country, we visit a micro-nation in Australia. |
| 0:54.1 | First to Iraq where Islamic State has lost most of its territory including the city of |
| 0:58.4 | Mosul. Victory can bring peace, but there's also justice or perhaps retribution which follow. |
| 1:06.1 | The town of Karakosh, 20 miles from Mosul, was mainly Christian and badly damaged |
| 1:11.1 | in the conflict. Two courts have been established there, |
| 1:15.0 | trying those accused of fighting for or collaborating with, |
| 1:18.0 | IS. |
| 1:19.0 | Joland Nell has been to see how or if justice is being dispensed. |
| 1:25.0 | The young man wears a shabby brown prisoner's outfit |
| 1:29.0 | and his legs are shaking nervously |
| 1:31.0 | as he stands before the three judges robed in black. |
| 1:35.1 | But after sipping some water he confirms his name, Abdullah Hussein. |
| 1:40.0 | He's accused of fighting for the so-called Islamic State. |
| 1:43.8 | The decision of the court has been taken according to Articles 2 and 3 of the 2005 |
| 1:49.1 | Counterterrorism Law, one judge states formally, death by hanging. |
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