Original version

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

From Our Own Correspondent

News

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service East Asia

From Our Own Correspondent: The road through Yemen

Magazines & Reviews

The road through Yemen

14/03/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, The road through Yemen

The road through war-torn Yemen reveals a different side of the country

The road through war-torn Yemen and Moscow’s response to the opening of the trial of the suspects in the shooting down of MH17

It is five years this month since the conflict in Yemen intensified into outright war. Since then Yemeni civilians have been relentlessly pummelled by the power-struggle between the Houthi rebels aligned with regional power Iran, and government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition supported by Western powers, including the UK. In a rare lull in the violence recently, the BBC’s Chief International correspondent travelled up the road from the south to the north and gained a rare insight into daily life in Yemen.

This week, three Russians - and a Ukrainian - were put on trial, in absentia, for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014. The Dutch-led investigation team says it has proof that the missile system used to shoot down the aircraft came from a military base in neighbouring Russia. But Moscow continues to reject the evidence and reprimand those who bring it up, as Steve Rosenberg reports.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron makes much of protecting human rights and freedom of movement in his commitment to a stronger European Union. Yet France reinstituted border checks after the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, and has been criticised by the European parliament for keeping the checks in place ever since. The far-right nationalist party of Marine Le Pen is promising freedom from the European Union’s open borders and open markets. Lucy Williamson has been on the frontier between France and Italy.

This week, the film producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. But in the tightly controlled media world of Hollywood, revelations about his behaviour took years to come to light. Kirsty Lang, presenter of Front Row, tells of her own experience of dealing with the stars, their gatekeepers and the battle for access.

(Image: Taiz, home to one of the longest running battles of Yemen's civil war. Credit: David Bull/BBC)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

From Our Own Correspondent

The road through Yemen

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

About BBC World Service