the Himalayan Tsunami
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Indians living in the shadow of the Himalayas are being told they could face further life-threatening weather events -- Jane Dyson tells the story of a man and a mule who were unable to contend with the power of nature. Jake Wallis Simons drinks beer with an Israeli settler who tells him that whatever the outcome of the current John Kerry peace initiative, he and others like him still believe in their rights to the land. Shaimaa Khalil is in Libya, meeting the founder of a well-known militia group and asking him about al-Qaeda and about the Libyans who've gone to join the fighting in Syria. There's much talk in Latin America about legalising marijuana and liberalising other drug laws - Will Grant in Mexico takes a look at who might make money from the change. And Frederick Dove travels to China to find out if it's true that the Chinese are falling in love with the game of cricket.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is a download from BBC Radio. It's the latest edition of Radio 4's from our own correspondent, |
| 0:06.1 | and it's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello, in this programme a man and his mule caught up in a great Himalay and tsunami. |
| 0:15.4 | A cold beer in the desert as an Israeli settler tells us he's going nowhere whatever the |
| 0:21.1 | outcome of John Kerry's peace initiative. We talk about |
| 0:24.6 | Al-Qaeda and about gardening at an Islamist stronghold in Libya and could test match |
| 0:30.6 | cricket be on its way to China? |
| 0:33.3 | There's a man at the ministry who hopes the answers no. |
| 0:38.3 | Indians are being warned that the devastating floods which killed thousands of people close to the Himalayas earlier this |
| 0:44.1 | summer could become a regular occurrence. It was the region's worst disaster in |
| 0:49.3 | living memory. Some environmentalists say it was caused by rising temperatures due to global warming, |
| 0:55.0 | others point to deforestation or suggest that haphazard construction projects may have been at least partly to blame. The floodwaters swept away |
| 1:04.9 | mountainsides, towns and villages, roads, bridges and livelihoods were destroyed. |
| 1:10.2 | Jane Dyson, a frequent visitor to this part of India, has been hearing from someone |
| 1:15.6 | who escaped the deluge, but only just... |
| 1:19.2 | Marvia recently returned to his village in the Indian Himalayas, only seven weeks after having left. |
| 1:25.0 | He was thin, tired, and that typical Marvia sparkle had gone from his eyes. |
| 1:30.0 | I had been with him in April this year on his last frantic days at home. |
| 1:35.0 | He was finishing off work on his house, repairing the roof ahead of the monsoon, |
| 1:39.0 | and helping to weed the potato crops. |
| 1:41.0 | He'd said he wouldn't be back home until mid-November and he was |
| 1:44.5 | leaving his younger sister behind to manage the harvest single-handedly. |
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