The President's Golden Scissors
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 28 September 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents' stories: behind the scenes at the UN General Assembly in New York - Nick Bryant says it's been about so much more than the keynote speeches in the assembly hall. Andrew Harding was covering the seige in Nairobi in which more than 60-people were killed. Many of the city's residents, he says, feel personally scarred by the horrors of what happened at the Westgate Centre. Havana Marking talks of her bid to track down the Pink Panthers, the gang thought responsible for a string of daring jewel heists in the south of France this summer. There's a visit to Dushanbe in Tajikistan: Jamie Coomarasamy takes a look at the president's spectacular building programme while Nick Thorpe is in Austria where hydropower is a major issue and the hills are alive with the sound of disagreement.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear BBC Radio 4's from our own correspondent. It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello. Today an historic week at the UN General Assembly in New York and why some of those headlines were about events which never |
| 0:14.9 | happened. |
| 0:15.9 | Who'll controlled the water flowing down from the high peaks of the Alps? |
| 0:20.2 | In Austria, the hills are alive with the sound of disagreement. We find out what's on the menu at the early morning circumcision parties in Tajikistan, and head for a deserted war memorial in Montenegro on the trail of Europe's most |
| 0:35.2 | notorious diamond thieves. But first to Kenya where senior security officials have |
| 0:41.6 | been summoned to appear before the |
| 0:43.0 | Parliamentary Defence Committee on Monday. This follows the attack by members of the |
| 0:47.8 | Al-Shabaab group on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi in which at |
| 0:51.7 | least 67 people were killed. |
| 0:54.0 | The chairman of the Defence Committee said the time for responsibility and accountability had come. |
| 1:00.0 | Andrew Harding, who was with the BBC team providing coverage of the siege, says an attack |
| 1:05.1 | by the Somali-based militants had not been unexpected. |
| 1:09.4 | A few months ago I was sitting in Dr Jassine Nure's kitchen above his private hospital in Mogadishu. |
| 1:15.0 | Some wounded soldiers had just been brought into the Somali capital, |
| 1:18.0 | the survivors of a massive roadside bomb that had gone off on the outskirts of the city. |
| 1:22.0 | Dr. Neur, a short talkative man, was taking |
| 1:25.7 | a break from surgery, sipping tea and telling me a chilling story about a young relative, |
| 1:30.5 | a 19-year-old who had recently arrived on his doorstep unannounced. |
| 1:34.7 | The young man had grown up in exile in Germany, so many families have fled abroad to escape Somalia's |
| 1:40.6 | endless anarchy. But as Dr. Nure put it, the boy had spent too much time in front of his computer, reading about jihad. |
| 1:48.0 | And so he'd come back, without even a suitcase, to join Al-Shabaab, the Islamist militants who claimed responsibility for the horrors in Nairobi. |
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