"This is war. This is what we have to do"

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🗓️ 6 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Home-made muskets that often fail to fire and little but lucky charms for protection – what it’s like going into battle for the rebels fighting for independence for English-speaking parts of Cameroon. Colin Freeman meets a former member of the Red Dragons. Caroline Wyatt introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. Joanna Roberson hears why the people of Rome fear the historical heart of their city is being carved up by criminals as mafia seek out cafes and restaurants to launder their money. In China, Robin Brant meets Ian Simpson whose son Michael was murdered last year. Michael was killed by his ex-wife Weiwei Fu but now Ian wants her help to win custody of his grandchildren who are living with Weiwei’s relatives in rural China. Heidi Fuller-Love discovers what life is like on the Namibian island of Impalila. It may be close to the borders of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, but it can feel a long way from anywhere. And Emma Jane Kirby meets her hero – the French musician Francis Cabrel who is revered in his home country but little known in Britain as he prefers to sing only in his native tongue.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:02.0	Hello today.
0:05.0	The Myriad Mafia is taking over the cafes and restaurants of Rome.
0:09.0	Locals fear the historic heart of their city has been carved up by criminals. In Shanghai
0:15.6	we're with the British man who's there to meet his daughter-in-law in prison.
0:19.4	Last year she murdered his son. Now he wants her help to gain custody of his grandchildren.
0:26.0	We take a tour of a remote Namibian island,
0:30.0	and our correspondent meets her musical hero in France.
0:36.0	A 48-hour curfew was imposed in parts of Anglophone Cameroon this week,
0:40.0	ahead of tomorrow's general election.
0:42.0	Shops and bars in the West African nation were forced to close,
0:46.4	and gatherings of more than four people banned. It's a year since English-speaking
0:51.1	separatists in the West made a symbolic declaration of independence
0:54.8	from the rest of the largely francophone country and the government in Yayundi wanted to prevent
1:00.3	any commemoration of that anniversary.
1:03.0	Separities have said they'll try to disrupt voting
1:06.0	and haven't given up their fight for an independent state
1:09.0	called Ambersonia.
1:11.0	Colin Freeman heard what one rebel thinks he'll do next.
1:15.0	Sitting under a tree in a refugee camp in Nigeria, Robert tells me how he's given up life as a freedom fighter.
1:22.0	For the last eight months he's been a life as a freedom fighter.
1:22.8	For the last eight months he's been a member of the Red Dragons in Cameroon, an outfit that sounds
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