The War That Made Itself At Home
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Storytelling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Fergal Keane on why there's little international drive to bring the fighting in eastern Ukraine to an end; Frank Gardner on how there's increasing nervousness in Jordan as Islamic State continues to gain ground in neighbouring Iraq and Syria; Stephen Sackur on signs of upheaval inside the Zanu-PF party as speculation grows about who, eventually, will replace the ageing Robert Mugabe as leader of Zimbabwe; Shaimaa Khalil's at a police academy outside the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, where the recruits keep on coming and young women are among the keenest! And Justin Marozzi visits a hospital in Qatar which specialises in treating injured falcons.
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.0 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, prepare for a Russian offensive, a warning from the Ukrainian president as ending the violence in his country |
| 0:16.0 | slips ever further down the international agenda. |
| 0:19.7 | There's an elephant time feast for the aging Robert Magabe, but behind the scenes they're scheming about the succession. |
| 0:27.0 | We meet the women police recruits in Pakistan who want to be twice as good as the men. |
| 0:32.0 | And is your bird feeling a bit sickly? who want to be twice as good as the men. |
| 0:32.6 | And is your bird feeling a bit sickly? |
| 0:35.3 | We're at the hospital in Qatar, where they care for the falcons feeling a bit under the |
| 0:39.6 | weather. |
| 0:41.7 | The Ukrainian President Petrel Poroshenko, says his country is now in a real war with |
| 0:46.8 | Russia. |
| 0:47.8 | He says he doesn't trust Vladimir Putin to help bring an end to the crisis in Eastern Ukraine. The separatist uprising he |
| 0:54.6 | insists is being orchestrated by Moscow. Yesterday Mr Poroshenko was at an EU |
| 1:00.5 | summit meeting in the Latvian capital Riga. |
| 1:03.3 | There was condemnation of Russia's annexation of Eastern Ukraine in the closing declaration. |
| 1:08.8 | The United Nations says 18 months of fighting there has claimed more than 6,000 lives and driven more than a million people from their homes. |
| 1:17.0 | Fergel Keene, who's in Kyiv, says there are few signs that the crisis will be resolved soon. |
| 1:23.0 | The soldier was red-haired with a thick beard, |
| 1:26.0 | a girth that spoke of many good dinners, |
| 1:29.0 | the flushed complexion of a man who lived a life he loved. |
| 1:34.0 | Although our time with him was short, a brief trip to the front, |
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