The Heaviest Coffin
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa Khalil on the mood in Peshawar after the Taliban attack on a school in which more than a hundred children were killed; Barbara Plett-Usher on how Cubans are reacting to the prospect of improved relations with the United States; Quentin Sommerville visits the Iraqi army frontline as it tries to stop the militants from Islamic State seizing strategic Anbar province; Malcolm Billings is in a little-known Anglican place of worship hidden away in a web of cobbled streets in Istanbul and Hugh Schofield's doing some seasonal research involving whisky and chocolate biscuits in a remote corner of central France.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC Radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, today the smallest coffins are the heaviest. In Pashawa the grieving goes on. |
| 0:17.9 | Get the next plane out, but for many there's no flight to safety as the Islamic State militants march on in Western Iraq. |
| 0:25.8 | We smoke cigars and drink rum with the Lady's Smoking Club of Havana as the U.S. and Cuba finally |
| 0:32.0 | shake hands. |
| 0:33.0 | And from the vast lost centre of France, a tale of Kings, |
| 0:37.0 | Queens and chocolate biscuits. |
| 0:40.0 | Pakistani security forces have been stepping up operations against the Taliban |
| 0:45.0 | after the militants attack on a school in Pashawa on Tuesday in which nearly 150 people were killed, most of them children. |
| 0:53.2 | Officials say that in one operation in the country's northwest, |
| 0:56.6 | at least seven jihadis and two Pakistani soldiers were killed. |
| 1:00.4 | In another assault in North Waziristan near the Afghan border, a US drone strike is believed |
| 1:05.7 | to have killed at least five militants. |
| 1:08.8 | In Peshawar itself, funerals and burials of the dead took place as schools, businesses and markets closed in morning. |
| 1:16.6 | Last night there was a candle lit vigil outside the school. |
| 1:19.4 | Our correspondent Chaimachalil has sent us this dispatch. |
| 1:23.8 | You didn't need to see the pools of blood in every corner of the school auditorium to know that |
| 1:28.8 | a massacre had taken place there. |
| 1:31.4 | A thick smell hit you as you went in. The eerie silence of the shocked |
| 1:35.7 | adults, looking at the remnants of the children's belonging strewn around, itself |
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