Weekend Edition 11/08/2012
Pascale Harter with the pick of dispatches from around the world. Stories on postwar Sri Lanka, Syria's rebels, Yemeni infighting, Indian schools, drought in the USA and the Galapagos' giant tortoise.
Insight, wit and analysis from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Introduced by Pascale Harter. In this edition:
CHARLES HAVILAND visits areas of Sri Lanka previously off-limits during its civil war;
NATALIA ANTELAVA gauges who's really in charge in post-Saleh Yemen - and it might not be who you think;
MARK LOBEL meets a Syrian rebel fighter who's financing his battle with earnings from the USA;
RAHUL TANDON learns to put up a good front to help his daughter into an elite Indian school;
BOB DORAN hears why the lobstermen of Maine are pining for a good oldfashioned freezing winter;
and HENRY NICHOLLS has an unpleasant encounter (in a freezer) with his old friend, the last Pinta Island giant tortoise which ever walked the earth - or the Galapagos Islands, to be more precise.
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