The man who inspired a killer
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world. Frank Gardner assesses the reaction to the bombing close to one of Islam's holiest sites. Shaimaa Khalil tells how a Pakistani assassin and the country's strict blasphemy laws influenced a killer in the UK. We go to Colombia to hear from Natalio Cosoy and the story of legislators who are struggling with a problem: how do you pass laws to force senators to turn up for work when the senators needed to pass the laws don't turn up for work. Olivia Acland travels to meet residents of a small island off the coast of Sierra Leone who learn that rich foreigners bearing gifts don't always keep their promises. And Diarmaid Fleming tells how the appearance of mayflies causes the residents of one Irish town to drop everything and take to the water in search of trout
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this podcast from from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.0 | This is the edition of the programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 |
| 0:08.3 | on Saturday the 9th of July 2016 |
| 0:11.2 | and it's presented by Kate |
| 0:13.2 | 80. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello, today how the law of blasphemy in Pakistan inspires violence |
| 0:19.7 | not just at home but here in this country. To Columbia, where parliamentary legislators are |
| 0:26.4 | struggling with a problem, how to pass laws to force senators to turn up for work if they |
| 0:32.0 | don't turn up for work to pass those laws. |
| 0:35.0 | The Chinese desire for sea cucumber causes trouble in a small island of Sierra Leone. |
| 0:42.0 | And we hear about the Mayfly which causes trout fishing |
| 0:45.3 | frenzy in an Irish town. This year's holy Muslim month of Ramadan has been |
| 0:51.4 | marked by a string of terrorist attacks across the world. |
| 0:55.0 | From Baghdad to Bangladesh, all blamed on so-called Islamic State. |
| 0:59.6 | But the most disturbing event for Muslims was last Monday suicide bombing near the Prophet's |
| 1:04.7 | mosque in the Saudi city of Medina, the second holiest site in Islam. Four security |
| 1:10.4 | guards died in the attack, but the place rather than the violent shocked people. |
| 1:16.2 | Frank Gardner looks at what led to this and reflects on his own experiences of Ramadan. Across the Middle East and beyond, the news was greeted with shock, disbelief and fiery indignation. |
| 1:28.0 | How could it be that in the closing days of the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan, a suicide bomber should target worshippers at one of the most sacred places in Islam, the Prophet's mosque in Medina. |
| 1:40.0 | Sectarian differences were quickly swept aside as militant sheer voices of Hezbollah united |
| 1:46.2 | with those of militant Sunnis of the Taliban, branding the act as an outrage. |
| 1:51.2 | The foreign minister of Iran, the regional rival of Saudi Arabia, declared on social |
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