Warfare - the Soundtrack of Their Lives
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Children who are able to survive the ongoing civil war have to grow up fast in Yemen. Kate Adie introduces stories, insight, and analysis from correspondents around the world:
According to The United Nations, one child under five dies every ten minutes from preventable causes in Yemen. Orla Guerin meets some of the families struggling on and speaks to the President Ab’d Rabbu Mansur Hadi about the conflict. In South Korea, Simon Maybin attends a lesson in the etiquette of dating, kissing and respecting your partner as the country tries to turn around its declining birth rate. In Tunisia, Charlotte Bailey hears why young men are setting themselves on fire – just as Mohamed Bouazizi did in 2010. His death was one of the catalysts of the Arab Spring. In the USA, Christine Finn follows in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau and explores the shores of Walden Pond. And as Justin Rowlatt leaves India and auctions off his belongings, he learns that you can put a price on just about anything.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Today we have lessons in love from the country with the world's lowest fertility rate. |
| 0:10.0 | The South Korean University course on how to woo, respect and even touch your partner. |
| 0:17.0 | In Tunisia when a street vendor set himself on fire in 2010, it acted as a catalyst for the Arab Spring. We hear how young men there |
| 0:26.7 | are still setting themselves alight. In the US, we wander the shores of Walden Pond. And in India our correspondent discovers that everything |
| 0:36.6 | has its price, even his old half empty bottles of shampoo. |
| 0:42.8 | For more than three years Yemen has been divided by a fierce civil war as Huthi rebels allied |
| 0:48.7 | with Iran and the internationally recognized government backed by a Saudi-led coalition battle for |
| 0:54.6 | control of the country. A humanitarian crisis has taken hold as vital ports have been |
| 1:00.9 | blocked and hospitals bombed. Today around two-thirds of the population rely |
| 1:05.8 | on aid to survive and 8 million people are on the verge of famine. |
| 1:11.2 | Orligarin went to see the toll it's taking. |
| 1:14.6 | We will never know what Muhammad Bashir might have been. |
| 1:18.4 | A fisherman, perhaps, like his father. |
| 1:21.4 | But Muhammad was born in Yemen in a season of war. He didn't live long enough to kick |
| 1:26.8 | a football or hold a pen. He never set sail on the Red Sea. He spent his final days in a hospital in Hudada province, motionless as a doll, |
| 1:38.8 | a pitiful bundle of protruding ribs and skeletal limbs. His mother, malnourished herself, sat beside |
| 1:47.2 | him, trying to drip water into his mouth from her fingertips. His father held his tiny hand. Staff at the |
| 1:56.4 | overwhelmed hospital said Muhammad had arrived too late to be saved. Days after |
| 2:02.4 | he was filmed by our Yemeni cameraman, he passed away. |
| 2:07.0 | Muhammad was two years old. |
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