The Missing Students
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Despatches from around the world. In this edition: Will Grant on the protests in Mexico City as families try to find out what happened to a group of students seized by the police; the Indian prime minister may have called for more protection for the country's women but Razia Iqbal, in Western Harayana, says many still suffer appalling violence; what's Qatar really up to in Syria? Frank Gardner sets out over a flat featureless desert in his attempt to find out; Hamilton Wende visits the casbah in Algiers and explains why he finds it filled 'with half-remembered pockets of history and of war' and where in these islands is the very best place to take a look at Venus and Mars? Christine Finn boarded a ferry and went to find out.
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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 we just want our friends back, scandal in Mexico, as families demand |
| 0:16.7 | answers in the case of the 43 missing students. |
| 0:20.6 | What's Qatar really up to in Syria? A question for an intelligence chief over dinner in Doha. |
| 0:27.0 | We find unease in the old Kasba in Algiers. |
| 0:31.0 | There are fears that violence could once again consume the country. |
| 0:35.3 | And a corner of these islands that's very quiet, very dark, and the very best place to get a |
| 0:41.2 | view of the stars. |
| 0:44.2 | It's been another harrowing week for the families of the students in Mexico who were abducted |
| 0:48.8 | by police in the small town of Iguana. |
| 0:51.9 | The attorney general announced details of what his office |
| 0:54.5 | believes to be their apparent murders outside the town, but the victims |
| 0:58.6 | families do not accept the official version of events. The protests have now come right to the front door of the |
| 1:05.1 | Presidential Palace. Will Grant has spent the week in Iguana, a town thrust into the headlines |
| 1:10.8 | for all the wrong reasons. |
| 1:13.0 | There are 43 empty desks in the main square in Iguala. |
| 1:17.0 | Each one has a photo taped to the back of a young man between the ages of 18 and 22. |
| 1:23.0 | Jorge Louise Gonzalez-Parral, Magdalena Laro Viegas, |
| 1:28.0 | Abell Garcia-Arnandes, Jorge Alvarez Nava, |
| 1:32.0 | the list goes on. |
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