The Worst Possible News
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Despatches from reporters across the globe. Jon Donnison was in Gaza as the city came under Israeli attack and a BBC man took a distressing phone call. Gabriel Gatehouse was in Goma as rebels took the town in eastern Congo with UN peacekeepers standing by, seemingly unable to intervene. Petroc Trelawny was in a part of France which is taking a special interest in the vote in Catalonia which many feel could be a step along the road to Catalonian independence. Owen Bennett Jones has been talking to a famer in New York state who feels consultancy might be a better earner than growing onions. And cup cakes? Salsa classes? Nightclubs? Mary Harper's been seeing signs of Africa both old and new in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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| 0:00.0 | This is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:02.0 | You can access the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service |
| 0:05.8 | by going to BBC online. |
| 0:07.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 |
| 0:10.9 | and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:13.0 | Today the worst possible news for a father in Gaza, |
| 0:17.0 | red faces for the blue helmets charged with keeping the peace in Congo. |
| 0:22.0 | The American farmer who hopes trading |
| 0:24.3 | influence will be a better earner than trading onions, and skyscraper |
| 0:29.0 | cleaners required, a booming economy equals new job opportunities in Ethiopia. |
| 0:35.0 | A fragile ceasefire continues to hold in the Gaza Strip this morning. |
| 0:39.0 | One Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces yesterday near the town of Khan Yunus. |
| 0:45.2 | He was the first to be killed since the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel came |
| 0:50.0 | into effect on Wednesday night, ending a week of fighting between the two sides. |
| 0:55.8 | Israel launched its offensive in what it said was an effort to prevent Palestinian rocket |
| 1:00.1 | fire. |
| 1:01.1 | John Donison has spent the week in Gaza and was there as one of his BBC colleagues |
| 1:05.6 | heard that his house had been bombed. |
| 1:08.4 | My friend and colleague, jihad Mashrawi, is usually the last to leave our Gaza Bureau. Hard-working but softly |
| 1:15.2 | spoken, he often stays late, bevering away on his laptop. He has a cool head, unflappable, |
| 1:22.3 | when others like me are flapping around him. |
| 1:25.4 | He's a video editor and just one of our local BBC Arabic service staff who make the office |
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