16 Feb 2012
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 16 February 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
No need for expensive cab fares this time! The regime change in The Maldives proves a story Andrew North was able to cover entirely on foot. Can Greece ever come back from this crisis? Paul Mason's on the road to Patras encountering a deep sense of gloom. As relations between Russia and the West nosedive amid arguments over Syria, a tale from Steve Rosenberg about the time when two Englishmen used football to boost productivity in Russian textile factories. For Africa's big football match, the Cup of Nations final, Tamasin Ford was at a sweltering screening in a refugee camp in Liberia. And very different weather in County Mayo: the winds howl and the hail lashes down as Kieran Cooke inspects a structure causing controversy in the far west of Ireland.
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| 0:18.3 | presenting the BBC Radio 4 edition here's Kate 80. Today gloom on the road to Patras as the EU further delays decision on a bailout for Greece. |
| 0:29.0 | Talk of a new Cold War, as Russia and the West argue over Syria. |
| 0:34.3 | The international community appeals for calm in the Maldives, but has little to say about |
| 0:39.1 | the regime change. |
| 0:41.1 | And the big African football match, it may have brought joy to Zambia, but at a refugee camp in Liberia, it was quite a different story. |
| 0:50.0 | The people of Greece, it seems, are going to have to wait a bit longer |
| 0:54.7 | before they hear whether the European Union is prepared to hand over |
| 0:59.1 | another 130 billion euros to help rescue their indebted economy. The EU finance |
| 1:06.0 | ministers who discussed the matter further in a telephone conference call |
| 1:09.6 | yesterday are expected to make a final decision on the handout early next week. |
| 1:15.2 | The uncertainty has led to further speculation that the country may default on its |
| 1:19.9 | debts and be forced out of the group of countries using the euro. |
| 1:24.0 | Paul Mason has been to see how the dramas affecting lives and livelihoods beyond the capital, Athens. |
| 1:31.0 | As we walk into the ruined factory, Mohammed reaches into his faded bomber jacket and pulls out a book. |
| 1:37.0 | Jean-Paul Sartre. |
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