The Babylon Brigade
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 9 April 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this edition: a greyish sticky dough called fufu from the Democratic Republic of Congo; pesto Genovese from Italy, made as it used to be, with a pestle and mortar; there's a dish of smoked puffin from Iceland and some of the finest cannabis lollipops in the American west. All this culinary exotica comes as part of this weekly insight, analysis, colour and description served up by reporters covering some of the week’s big news stories around the world
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, today the Iraqi militia men quoting the Bible and fighting back against Islamic State. |
| 0:20.4 | Fears of conflict again in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but in one village |
| 0:25.6 | they're finding simple things can save lives. Much giggling in Colorado, |
| 0:30.8 | Cannabis is now legal and it's powering business worth billions. |
| 0:35.8 | And on the eve of the world pesto-making championships in Genoa, we meet a man whose technique |
| 0:41.8 | brings tears to the eyes. |
| 0:44.9 | The US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Iraq yesterday talking with senior officials |
| 0:49.8 | about the fight against the jihadists of Islamic State. His visit came at the end of a the Anbar and Basra, as well as the capital Baghdad. |
| 1:04.0 | I.S. claimed responsibility for some of them. |
| 1:07.0 | This time the targets included Shia Muslim militia groups and the Iraqi security forces. |
| 1:12.0 | I.S has also been targeting Christian... and the Iraqi security forces. |
| 1:12.6 | AIS has also been targeting Christians in the territory it controls in the north and west of the country. |
| 1:19.0 | More than a hundred thousand Christians have now been forced out of an area where they've lived for almost two |
| 1:24.4 | millennia, but Owen Bennett Jones says they're now fighting back. There was a |
| 1:29.5 | striking picture on the wall. It showed an untamacked road scorched by sunlight, leading to a small village |
| 1:36.2 | with a mountain range behind it, and all along the side of the road there were crosses every |
| 1:41.4 | hundred meters, taller even than lamp posts. |
| 1:44.8 | Christian village, a guard mumbled near Moses. |
| 1:48.0 | We were in the Baghdad headquarters of the Iraq ChristianChristian Resistance Babylon Brigade. |
| 1:54.3 | They are a militia, although they prefer the phrase popular mobilization unit, whatever the |
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