A Coup Crumbles
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The programme that takes you places. In this edition to two countries, Burundi and Macedonia, where people have taken to the streets demanding change. In both, the outcome remains uncertain, the mood volatile, the conditions dangerous. Another correspondent looks on as thousands of troops from the US and its allies take part in a military exercise in Jordan - the top brass, meanwhile, are considering how best to tackle the advance of the fighters of Islamic State across the border in Iraq and Syria. Spaniards, after years of economic woe, are deserting their traditional political parties and we're in Barcelona, hearing why the radical left could soon seize control of the city hall. And 20-years after a spectacular volcanic eruption in the largest of the islands which make up Papua New Guinea we visit East New Britain and find people there upset that the tourists continue to give their homeland a wide berth.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate 80. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, today, War Games for the Americans and their allies as Islamic State seizes key cities in Syria and Iraq. |
| 0:19.0 | There's whiskey for the top brass, but fear on the streets as a coup crumbles in |
| 0:24.2 | Central Africa. Twenty years after a volcanic eruption the islanders in the South |
| 0:29.8 | Pacific still waiting for the return of the tourists. |
| 0:33.9 | And there's talk of Democratic Revolution in Barcelona, a group of naked Italian shoppers, it seems, might |
| 0:39.9 | be to blame. |
| 0:42.1 | Islamic State militants are this morning said to have moved into the ancient ruins of |
| 0:46.2 | Palmyra in Syria after taking the city from pro-government forces yesterday. |
| 0:52.1 | The IS fighters are also reported to have taken over |
| 0:54.8 | Palmyra Air Force Base, Intelligence Headquarters, and the military prison. |
| 0:59.5 | Bodies are said to be lying in the main square. |
| 1:03.0 | Earlier in the week in Iraq, they seized control of Ramadi, a provincial capital not |
| 1:08.0 | far from Baghdad. |
| 1:10.0 | Yoland Nell tells us that these latest developments in the region came shortly after some |
| 1:15.2 | ten thousand troops, mostly from the US and its Western and Arab allies, had gathered in neighboring |
| 1:21.0 | Jordan for two weeks of joint military exercises. |
| 1:25.5 | As a hulking American B-52 bomber passes overhead, there's a thundering explosion on the |
| 1:30.9 | Baron Hill in front of us. It sends up a giant popcorn-shaped |
| 1:34.8 | dust cloud. Just minutes later, U.S. Apache and Jordanian Cobra attack helicopters |
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