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From Our Own Correspondent

Turf Wars

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hindu nationalism in India, making money in war-torn Yemen and family drama in Uzbekistan. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. It’s 25 years since Hindu mobs destroyed the Babri mosque in Ayodhya; Mark Tully was there and asks whether it really did mark the end of secularism in India, as was claimed at the time. Bethan McKernan finds that business is booming in Yemen for the tribal leaders, arms traders and khat dealers who know where to look. Peter Robertson dissects the rise and fall of Gulnara Karimova who was once seen as her father's favoured successor as president of Uzbekistan. Katy Watson explores the complex history and geography of the word ‘America’ – should it be used to refer to a country, a continent, two continents? And Hannah King joins the British soldiers training the Somali National Army.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:04.0

Hello. Today the war in Yemen. It means danger and disease for many, but we hear about those making money among the ruins.

0:12.0

A presidential soap opera almost in Uzbekistan, a daughter

0:16.8

expected to take over from her strong man father, but then a falling out under disappearance.

0:23.2

We hear how to build an army from scratch.

0:25.6

We're in Somalia with British forces training local recruits.

0:29.7

And you say tomato?

0:31.1

I say tomato.

0:32.1

I say tomato. But do you say the United States or America?

0:36.6

We hear it matters.

0:39.1

Police in India have arrested a man who allegedly hacked a Muslim laborer to death before setting

0:44.7

far to the remains and sharing a video of the attack.

0:48.5

He did it, he said, to protect the honour of Hindus against Muslims. The authorities have asked the public not to share

0:55.3

the gory footage in the hope of avoiding retaliatory attacks. Tensions are already high, as it's 25 years this week since Hindu mobs destroyed the

1:05.6

16th century Babry mosque in Iodia. At the time the events were seen as the

1:11.2

greatest setback to Indian secularism since independence, but has that proved to be the case, one does Mark Tally.

1:19.0

Although Iodia is believed to be the home of one of the most popular Hindu gods, Lord Rame, it was never a

1:25.6

premier destination on India's pilgrimage circuit. The small northern temple town couldn't compete with Varanasi or Hadjoa, revered because

1:37.0

the Holy River Ganges emerges from the Himalayas there.

1:41.6

But in the first week of December 1992, some 150,000 people from all over

1:48.0

India camped in Iodia, awaiting the ceremony to mark the symbolic start of the construction of a temple for

1:56.7

Ram on the site they believed was his birthplace.

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