A Murder at Number 48
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporter despatches from far and wide. In this edition: Alastair Leithead on the wave of violence in the African state of Burundi connected to the president's third term in office. David Shukman's in the Philippines where thousands of people have been driven from their homes by a typhoon in which it rained, and then went on raining for days on end. Lucy Ash is in Beziers in southern France, a city accused of being a laboratory for the far right. Trudeaumania's back in Canada - Rajini Vaidyanathan talks of how he was swept to power on a tide of votes, many from the country's young, but the question is, can he now deliver? And it's a capital city determined to become the Dubai of Africa - James Jeffrey is in Djibouti where some locals wonder what might be lost in their republic's drive for modernity.
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.0 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello. A killing at 48 Bouyais Street. The bodies pile up in Burundi, as violence intensifies over the President's decision to stand for a third term. |
| 0:20.0 | Houses ruined crops destroyed, but in typhoon hit areas of the Philippines they're still able to manage a smile. |
| 0:27.0 | Also today are Trudeau's back in power in Canada. |
| 0:31.0 | He may be the politician for the smartphone generation, but can he deliver |
| 0:35.4 | for the country's long-suffering liberals? And evil in war once said French Somaliland was a place |
| 0:42.1 | of intolerable desolation. Today it's called Djibouti and much has changed. |
| 0:48.0 | Presidents across Africa do have a reputation for hanging on to power. |
| 0:53.0 | At the moment there are more than a dozen nations with a leader who's been in |
| 0:56.8 | office more than three terms. |
| 0:59.5 | The Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brasil and Rwanda all have presidents trying to change |
| 1:04.8 | the Constitution so they can stay for a third term and that's already happened in |
| 1:10.1 | Togo, Pukino Faso and in Burundi. There a crackdown on dissenters by the government |
| 1:16.4 | now threatens to reopen a deep ethnic divide. |
| 1:19.7 | Alistair Leithhead says recent horrific acts of violence in the capital, Büjambura, have left many afraid. |
| 1:26.8 | I've been receiving the photographs for a few weeks now. |
| 1:30.3 | Every few days they pop up on my phone, usually with a little note. |
| 1:34.4 | These are the latest found today. |
| 1:37.4 | The person who's texting me is talking about bodies. |
| 1:41.4 | Almost every day in Burundi a body is found, dumped in a storm drain or beside |
| 1:47.1 | a road. Often they have been shot or stabbed in the chest. Sometimes they've been tied up. |
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