Was It Worth It?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporters worldwide - today: Ruth Sherlock on how the Free Syrian Army's losing support as people turn to the Islamists for help in getting by during difficult times. Wyre Davies on a plot still unfolding: he's in a bookshop in Tunis looking out on an unfinished revolution. Mark Mardell on how experience in the US military is helping to shape the new team around President Obama. Tom Esslemont on murder in Corsica -- old scores are being settled against a Mediterranean backdrop. And it's like a scene out of 'Spooks' as our Christian Fraser's taken, furtively, into the heart of one of Europe's biggest infrastructure projects. The producer is Tony Grant
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.4 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the program, |
| 0:07.1 | broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.2 | Today men who didn't think war was worth it rise to the top of American politics. |
| 0:18.0 | Why people in Aleppo are turning their backs on the Free Syrian Army and looking to the Islamists for help. Murder on the And Hannibal conquered the mountains in just 16 days. The Italians we learn are taking considerably longer. |
| 0:38.0 | So President Obama has set out his priorities for the next four years in his first State of the Union |
| 0:44.5 | address since re-election. It was a wide-ranging speech focusing partly on building a |
| 0:49.4 | stronger America. He told Congress that 34,000 troops were coming home from Afghanistan and that by |
| 0:56.2 | the end of 2014 America's war there would be over. |
| 1:00.6 | Now the President's made a number of key appointments as he heads into his new term. |
| 1:05.1 | Mark Mardel has been considering just how much military experience has shaped them. |
| 1:10.0 | The President appears to have been to the barbers before his state of the Union speech. |
| 1:14.2 | A severe buzz cut underlined his militant mood, but it was his hands that mesmerized me, |
| 1:20.3 | palms wide apart, repeatedly chopping the air in tandem, as if measuring the enormous scope of his ambition. |
| 1:27.5 | He name-checked nearly everything on his party's wish list. |
| 1:30.5 | But one item was what they don't want. We don't need to occupy other nations or send |
| 1:36.2 | thousands of our sons and daughters overseas, he declared. Pretty important when military |
| 1:42.0 | action against Iran or North Korea is repeatedly said to be an option. |
| 1:47.0 | His choice of a new defense secretary and new Secretary of State could be intended to lock him into that promise. |
| 1:54.3 | John Kerry's hooked profile and shock of steely grey hair cry out to be crowned by laurels. |
| 2:00.6 | He's been a senator for a mere 29 years, but one can easily imagine him 2,000 years ago, |
| 2:06.0 | a patrician presence guiding imperial Rome through war and peace. |
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