09/06/2011
Kate Adie introduces despatches from Kevin Connolly in Israel, Rayhan Demetrie in Bishkek, Tracey Logan in Dublin, Tom Blass in Antwerp and Lucy Williamson in Seoul.
Amid uproar in and around Syria, Kevin Connolly considers suggestions that there have been attempts by the authorities in Damascus to manipulate the news agenda to distract the world from events going on in their country. A year after violent disturbances in the Kyrgyz town of Osh, Rayhan Demytrie, who covered those events, considers the difficult legacy they've left in their wake; Tracey Logan is in the Republic of Ireland examining how an EU directive, aimed at protecting Ireland's peat bogs, is being widely flouted. Tom Blass takes a walk in a Belgian village which has been swallowed up by the inexorable growth of Antwerp's docklands. And South Korea's a country which takes recycling very seriously - it's causing our correspondent there, Lucy Williamson, some difficulty.
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Introduction
Duration: 00:24
Violence of Six Day War returns to Golan Heights
On the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war, Israeli troops open fire on unarmed protesters trying to reach the border in a symbolic gesture, as Kevin Connolly witnessed.
Duration: 06:04
Unwelcome in Kyrgyzstan
A year after violent disturbances in the Kyrgyz town of Osh, Rayhan Demytrie considers what life is like now for the Uzbek community.
Duration: 05:07
Turf cutters seek right to harvest Irish peat bog
An EU ban limiting rights to harvest peat for Irish home fires has been met with strong resistance, as Tracey Logan reports.
Duration: 05:36
Villages at risk from Belgian consumerism
Tom Blass takes a walk in a quiet Belgian village swallowed up by the inexorable growth of Antwerp's docklands from the growth in demand for goods and commodities.
Duration: 05:25
Beware the Seoul recycling monitor
Lucy Williamson gets to grips with the complexities of Seoul's recycling system.
Duration: 05:12
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- Thu 9 Jun 2011 11:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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