An Audible Gasp
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Insight, wit and story-telling from reporters worldwide. In this edition, Gulf governments get paranoid as tensions pile up on their doorsteps and western reporters ask tricky questions; so many Syrians are seeking refuge in Jordan that aid agencies are struggling to help them find food and shelter; on the election campaign trail with Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar - she may win the most votes, but she won't be the country's next president; the debt we owe the Namibian Beetle - just one of the potentially life-saving lessons scientists are learning from close observation of plants and animals. And the honey-making that's going on high above the sales floors of some of the most elegant shops in Paris
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the From Our Own Correspondent Office in London. |
| 0:03.4 | Thank you for downloading our latest programme. |
| 0:05.7 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello. |
| 0:08.6 | An audible gasp in Bahrain, as a question about democracy is asked in part of the world where it hardly exists. |
| 0:16.4 | Why thousands of Syrian refugees are packing their bags and heading home to Syria, despite |
| 0:21.9 | no let-up in the violence there. We hear about the fog |
| 0:25.5 | collectors of Chile's Atacama Desert, how scientists are learning from nature, and an |
| 0:31.1 | audience with the rock star of beekeepers and a taste of the honey |
| 0:34.8 | being produced at some of the smartest addresses in Paris. A furious rouse broken |
| 0:40.3 | out in the Gulf with the discovery of a large quantity of arms in Bahrain. |
| 0:44.7 | The government there said yesterday it had uncovered a terrorist organization and arrested |
| 0:49.5 | 47 of its members. |
| 0:51.5 | The group, it says, has strong links with hardline elements |
| 0:54.6 | across the water in Iran and that imminent terrorist attacks are being |
| 0:58.6 | planned. The announcement comes amid heightened tension between Bahrain and Iran. |
| 1:04.0 | Ambassadors have been recalled and relations are said to be at an all-time low. |
| 1:09.0 | Frank Gardner's just back from a conference in Bahrain where he had something on his mind. |
| 1:14.0 | I had to ask the question. Well, I suppose I didn't actually have to ask it, but I did feel compelled |
| 1:20.0 | to seize this opportunity. There they all were lined up on the podium, Yemen's |
| 1:24.7 | foreign minister, Tunisia's foreign minister, Helen Clark from the UN Development |
| 1:28.9 | Program and the Secretary General of the GCC, That's the Gulf Arab equivalent of the EU. |
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