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From Our Own Correspondent

9 Feb, 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

From Ambridge to Tunisia: Owen Bennett Jones meets a man at the heart of government power in Tunis who talks of The Archers and how Britain's the most Islamic country he's ever lived in. Michael Bristow finds the Chinese secret police not so secret as he tries to report on Tibetan protests in western China. The National Front in France hopes to be a significant force in the upcoming French elections -- Christian Fraser on how the party's changing under the leadership of Marine Le Pen. Rubbish is a hot political potato in Mexico City -- Will Grant's had a pungent day out with its binmen. And behind closed doors in Libya: it's a bride's day ... and as Saleya Ahsan tells us, it's not an occasion for the men!

Transcript

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But now with the addition broadcasts on Radio 4, here's Kate Adi.

0:21.0

Today, the man at the heart of Tunisian government on why Britain is the most Islamic

0:26.6

country he's ever lived in.

0:29.2

Not so secret Chinese police try to stop us hearing Tibetan complaints about political and

0:34.8

religious oppression. We have a particularly pungent day learning that rubbish is a hot

0:40.6

political issue in Mexico City and why in Libyan women's fashion we're told

0:45.9

there's a little for God and a little for the boys. It's been more than a year now

0:52.2

since the revolution in Tunisia, which proved to be the trigger for the so-called Arab Spring.

0:58.0

One of the biggest changes since then has been to

1:05.0

to the way some radical Islamic groups have tried to reinvent themselves as Democratic parties.

1:07.0

Owen Bennett Jones has been to Tunisia to meet a man at the heart of this change.

1:12.0

He's the founder of the Islamist party now in power and his

1:15.5

message, Islamists don't need to form religious states. They can work within a

1:20.9

Democratic framework.

1:23.0

After the 9-11 attacks, it was perhaps inevitable

1:26.4

that Western politicians, academics and journalists

1:29.5

tended to concentrate on the divisions between Islam and the West, the history of bloody

1:34.7

conflict, the precedence for a clash of civilizations, the reasons to fear the worst.

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