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From Our Own Correspondent: Battlefields

Battlefields

28/06/2014

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Battlefields

Conflicts past and present - in Kenya, Iraq, Antarctica, Trinidad & Tobago and Spain

Tales of conflict - open and covert, past, present and future - from Kenya, Iraq, Antarctica, Trinidad & Tobago and Spain

Pascale Harter introduces correspondents' tales of conflict - whether it's military or diplomatic, open or covert, or from the past, present or future. Andrew Harding finds that Kenya's unity, as well as its tourist industry, may be cracking under the strain of terror attacks along the coast. Fergal Keane argues that there's no way foreign powers can deny responsibility for Iraq's apparent slide into chaos - while Cathy Otten meets the Kurdish Peshmerga commanders who were taking fire from ISIS as early as 2013. Matthew Teller explains why even though Antarctica is one of the world's few stateless territories, governed by an international treaty and supposedly free of military or industrial manoeuvres, a whole range of countries are jockeying to lay claim to pieces of it. Sunity Maharaj reflects on the gang and police violence in Trinidad & Tobago which has turned the streets of Port of Spain into danger zones. And Tom Holland gets into the swing of things (the swing of axes and sword, that is) among medieval battle enthusiasts on the plains of Spain.

Producer: Polly Hope

Photo: Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces hold a position on the front line in the village of Sulaiman Bek, located between the capital Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, on June 26, 2014/ (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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