The Battle For Our Beliefs
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Retaking Raqqa, revulsion in South Africa, and remembering an attempted coup in Turkey. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world.
From Syria, Gabriel Gatehouse brings a tale of two women. One is a young Kurdish fighter trying to drive out the so called Islamic State from their de facto capital Raqqa. The other is an unrepentant jihadi bride.
One year on from the failed coup in Turkey, Mark Lowen finds a nation divided and defensive.
In Russia, the men who killed the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov may be behind bars, but that doesn’t mean we know the whole story, says Sarah Rainsford who was in court for much of their nine-month long trial.
There is no shortage of scandal in South Africa, says Andrew Harding, who has the latest on ‘state capture’ and corruption.
And Carrie Gracie reveals all about her 7,500-mile journey from China to the UK, following the route of the new Silk Road. Scorching sands, smelly camels, and dodgy lodgings are just some of the challenges she and her team faced.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.7 | Hello. Today 50,000 people arrested, 140,000 sacked or suspended. |
| 0:10.8 | What's happened to Turkey a year after an attempted coup? |
| 0:15.0 | In Russia, five men are beginning long prison sentences for the murder of the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, |
| 0:22.0 | but it's a murky story of crime and punishment. and We are firm and apparently crooked businessmen at the centre of criticism. |
| 0:35.6 | And we take a long distance travel challenge, 7,500 miles from China to the UK, not for the faint-hearted. |
| 0:45.0 | After the defeat of Islamic State in the Iraqi city of Mosul, |
| 0:49.0 | attention's turning to Raka in Syria. |
| 0:52.0 | It became the de facto capital of the caliphate proclaimed by |
| 0:55.8 | IS three years ago. Locals described torture, executions and slavery. But Kurdish-led forces are advancing. They already control around a |
| 1:05.7 | quarter of the city and fighting continues. What happens when I.S. takes over? |
| 1:11.3 | Gabriel Gatehouse hears differing views. |
| 1:15.6 | This is a story about two women. |
| 1:17.8 | I met them separately in the past few weeks while reporting on the battle for Raka. One of the women was on her way into the city, the other |
| 1:26.0 | was on her way out. Sonquin is a fighter. Her Nondagair means red blood. She fought against Islamic State in her hometown Kobani when the group |
| 1:35.8 | overran the city in 2014. Now she's a commander on the Raka Front lines. The fact that |
| 1:42.3 | Sonhuin is a woman is not incidental. It's integral |
| 1:45.8 | to her motivation for fighting Islamic State. I first met her at a cemetery in Kobani. |
| 1:51.6 | She's buried many of her comrades there, but she showed no emotion. She exudes control. |
| 1:57.0 | I remember as a child being told that a woman can't do anything, she in her deliberate way a woman cannot fight a |
| 2:05.6 | woman's place is in the home that made me angry so when Islamic State swooped |
| 2:12.0 | into town an angry son, |
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