21/01/2012
Kate Adie hosts despatches from correspondents in Yemen, Syria, India, Pakistan and Israel.
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ correspondents don't often go out gardening -- perhaps that's because it gives them a guilty conscience! At least it does Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem. He's been losing sleep over his lemon tree. Humphrey Hawksley's been meeting children in India who work, sometimes in poor conditions, to produce goods sold in shops on Western high streets. Owen Bennett Jones is in Pakistan where the agenda of the news anchors ranges from assassination and political venality to gossip and who's had a hair transplant. Jeremy Bowen, heavily shadowed by government minders, tries to find out the degree of support for the campaign to oust the president Bashar al-Assad and Stephen Sackur has been to report in Yemen where a political vacuum seems to suit an al-Qaeda-backed insurgency.
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Duration: 00:25
Bashar falls back on father's brutal methods
Bashar al-Assad should discard the ruthless techniques learned from his father, Hafez, but it might already be too late, reports Jeremy Bowen.
Duration: 05:02
Yemen's descent into chaos
In Aden, Stephen Sackur finds a country in the process of disintegration and al-Qaeda appearing to fill the political vacuum.
Duration: 05:44
Pakistan's political soap opera
Owen Bennett Jones finds a never-ending national drama among the county's political elite
Duration: 05:26
India's exploited child cotton workers
In Gujarat Humphrey Hawksley meets the children who work, sometimes in poor conditions, to produce goods sold in shops on Western high streets.
Duration: 05:26
Growing the world's most expensive lemons
In a region where most land is desert and droughts are commonplace, water is a hugely important issue. Kevin Connolly has been reflecting on the water debate, starting on his own doorstep.
Duration: 05:39
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- Sat 21 Jan 2012 11:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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