This is the BBC.

And thank you for listening to this podcast of From Our Own Correspondent,

which was broadcast on Radio 4, on Thursday the 19th of January 2017.

With Kate Adi away, it's introduced by Emily Buchanan.

Hello, today the governor of Indonesia's capital Jakarta may have been doing a good job and he's been riding high

in the opinion polls, but now he's fighting and crying to stay out of jail.

The first president of the Seychelles has been honored with a special burial plot.

We hear why the symbolism is important.

Remembering Hong Kong's handover to the Chinese, not just the politics but the sandwiches too. And our correspondent struggles

to keep the bile down in a Bolivian meat market.

Iraqi armed forces and their militia allies are continuing their push into

Mosul. After a distinct slowdown in their offensive in November and December, the

pace appears to be picking up again. A military spokesman has claimed on state TV

that three quarters of Moses neighborhoods have been taken back

from the so-called Islamic State group. But prizing IS fighters out of a large densely populated urban area has proved extremely difficult.

John Beck recently met some men who'd survived under IS rule for many months and know exactly how hard it is to remove the militants.

A niqab saved Abu Alawi.

For more than two and a half years it helped keep the middle-aged former police

officer hidden from ISIS and safe from the bullets and knives that killed almost

all his colleagues. When the jihadist arrived in his hometown of Hamam al-Alaleil in mid-2014 as they swept across

northern Iraq, the first thing they did was to round up police and army officers.

They killed the higher ranking men immediately, but eventually offered an amnesty of sorts to the rest.

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