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ratings:
Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Feb 26, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our correspondent - who can't be named - describes life in Tripoli with its empty streets, boarded up shops and burnt out buildings.
Barbara Plett describes the strange goings on at the United Nations with Libya's diplomats divided over support for Colonel Gaddaffi's regime.
Mark Mardell witnesses the conflicting emotions in Washington over the upheaval in the Middle East and asks why it seems that the United States so often backs the bad guys?
Jonty Bloom explores the linguistic divide behind the political impass in Belgium.
And Mark Lowen reports on the end of the BBC's Serbian Service after more than seventy years of broadcasting.
Released:
Feb 26, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Insight, wit and analysis as BBC correspondents, journalists and writers take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie and Pascale Harter.