The Battle for Aden
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Insight, colour, context, detail. In this edition, war rips the heart out of old Aden as the warring parties in Yemen prepare for peace talks; a day of reckoning in Canada as extensive, painful details are released about the way the country's aboriginal children were treated over more than a century; a British man, fighting against Islamic State in Syria, tells us why it's time for him to leave the battlefield and head home; a controversy in Moscow about a plan to erect a huge statue of St Vladimir - Christianity is well and truly back as part of Russia's new identity; and a bronze Jacques Cousteau stares out to sea as our man dives into the water off Mexico to swim with a shark
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, by Kate Adi. Hello. Today, the schools with cemeteries, but no playgrounds. |
| 0:16.6 | Canadians face up to one of the darkest periods of their history. |
| 0:20.9 | It's time to come home for the British man who spent five months fighting IS in Syria. |
| 0:27.0 | Religion used to be forbidden in Russia. Today we're told it's compulsory. |
| 0:32.0 | And we dive into the green waters off the coast of Mexico for a close |
| 0:35.4 | encounter with a giant of the deep. But first there's been no let up in the violence |
| 0:41.2 | in Yemen as all sides jockey for position ahead of peace talks |
| 0:45.1 | sponsored by the UN due to get underway in Geneva at the weekend. Saudi warplanes have |
| 0:51.0 | continued to attack positions held by the Houthi rebels who are fighting alongside |
| 0:55.5 | troops loyal to the country's former president Ali Abdullah Salé. |
| 1:00.1 | More than 2,000 people have died since the conflict started in March. |
| 1:04.6 | And for the civilians who are still there caught up in the fighting, life's become increasingly |
| 1:09.4 | desperate as Iona Craig's been finding out in the southern port city of |
| 1:13.6 | Aidan. |
| 1:14.6 | 24-year-old Latifah left her husband with their 14-month-old baby boy, Mansour, |
| 1:20.4 | and dashed out onto the street. |
| 1:22.4 | The small family hadn't eaten for three days |
| 1:25.6 | when word spread in the Dasa District of Aidan that an aid delivery had arrived. |
| 1:30.9 | Moments after leaving their home just a few meters from the front line of a war that has been raging in the streets of this city for almost three months, the shelling began. |
| 1:42.0 | Fearing for her safety, Latif's husband ran outside, cradling his young son in his arms, |
| 1:48.5 | while the explosions closed in around him. As he rushed down the street in search of his wife, the bullet hit, tearing through the little boy's calf and |
| 1:57.6 | into his father's stomach. |
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