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From Our Own Correspondent: Fighting in the Streets

Fighting in the Streets

25/04/2015

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Fighting in the Streets

Correspondents meet victims of strife in Yemen, South Africa, eastern Turkey and Russia

Correspondents' accounts of near-anarchy in Aden, Yemen; the victims of xenophobia in South Africa; layers of history and persecution in southeastern Turkey; and Moscow revisited

Pascale Harter introduces correspondents' insights and experiences around the world. This week, there's a regrettable theme of strife in the streets as:
ORLA GUERIN endures 21 hours in a cockroach-ridden boat, to get into the Yemeni city of Aden and see what damage its civil war is doing there;
AUDREY BROWN meets the migrant workers who've been made violently unwelcome by mobs in South Africa, and now feel they have to leave;
PAUL HOWARD visits the site of the ruined Armenian kingdom of Ani in southeastern Turkey, and traces the complexity of relationships between Turks, Kurds and Armenians;
and KEVIN CONNOLLY is back in Moscow - no longer in the USSR, where he was correspondent 25 years ago, but now in a Russia preparing to commemorate its resistance to Nazi Germany during WWII.

Photo: Orla Guerin in the main casualty ward of a hospital in Aden, Yemen, full of patients wounded by sniper fire. (c) BBC

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