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From Our Own Correspondent

The Colonel's Camerman

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Correspondents around the world tell their stories. In this edition Gabriel Gatehouse is back in Tripoli as speculation grows about a new military intervention in Libya; Mark Lowen is in Diyarbakir where there's been intense fighting between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants; Miles Warde is in a dusty town on the edge of Kenya where there are plans for pipelines, resort cities and Chinese-built railways but the locals wonder if any of them will ever materialise; Claudia Hammond visits what they call a 'geriatric rehabilitation centre' in Cuba where, apparently, there's never a dull moment and Victoria Gill is in Antarctica meeting the rather amusing residents of a place called Moot Point

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from our own correspondent office at Broadcasting House in London.

0:04.2

This download is the latest edition of our programme,

0:07.0

broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday, January 30, 2016.

0:12.0

It's introduced by Kate Adi.

0:14.3

Hello, today hundreds are now dead after weeks of violence in Turkey

0:19.4

how the struggle in the southeast has left the country dangerously polarized. A dusty border town in the

0:25.6

badlands of northern Kenya, can it really be transformed into the dupey of the Horn of Africa? The scientists arrive at Moot Point Antarctica, and the

0:36.2

penguins are left wondering, what an earth just happened. And we're off to a centre for the

0:41.6

older comrade in Cuba Cuba where the treatment includes

0:45.0

lots of fun and non-stop parties.

0:48.8

But first the White House signaled yesterday the United States is contemplating military action to counter the growth

0:54.8

of the Islamic State Group in Libya. The militants have taken advantage of the chaos

0:59.8

there to establish themselves in the coastal city of Sirt, from where they've launched a number of attacks.

1:06.0

The American Defence Secretary earlier told reporters I.S. was establishing training camps there

1:12.0

and welcoming foreign fighters the way it had done in Iraq and Syria.

1:16.0

It's five years now since the start of the revolution in Libya which toppled Colonel Gaddafi.

1:21.0

Gabriel Gatehouse, who is there then, has just been back.

1:24.0

We're at dinner, sitting on cushion, sipping tea, chatting, waiting for the food to arrive.

1:29.0

We're at Ali's house. Ali's brother, Anwar, is there too.

1:32.0

Back in 2011, when rebels from Mizra... Ali's brother, Anwar, is there too.

1:33.0

Back in 2011, when rebels from Mizrata captured and killed Colonel Gaddafi,

1:37.0

they brought his body to Anwar, and Anwar put the corpse on display

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