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From Our Own Correspondent

An Unfinished Revolution

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As speculation continues about who's won the election in Libya, Rana Jawad in Tripoli hears how "Libyan women face five problems: the father, the son, the husband, the brother and the working man!" Deep in the hills of Honduras Stephen Sackur's been talking to a man who's trying to escape the country's drugs and gang culture but fears he won't be allowed to succeed. In the week China released figures showing how its economy has slowed down, Michael Bristow leaves the country in, as he puts it, the midst of an unfinished revolution. Alan Johnston descends below ground level in Rome to learn a little more about the fears which beset Benito Mussolini in the final years of his dictatorship. And did you know bird spit can be big business? It is in Malaysia. Jenifer Pak's been finding out how the market's now being flooded by counterfeiters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent.

0:04.6

You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our site

0:08.9

at BBC online.

0:10.8

But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

0:16.0

Today China's economy slows down.

0:19.0

Now its leaders must manage expectations without being swept from power themselves.

0:24.0

Why voters in Libya seem to have bucked the trend and chosen not to elect the Islamists.

0:29.5

How crime, corruption and a culture of impunity have infected every corner of life in Honduras.

0:36.4

And we learned that saliva's big in the beauty business in Malaysia, and now the market's

0:41.2

being flooded by counterfeit spit.

0:45.0

The question for economists this weekend is how hard will the rest of the world be hit by

0:49.2

the deepening economic slowdown in China.

0:52.2

The West was hoping that a robust China spending freely

0:55.3

would power revivals around the globe. Figures released yesterday show there's

1:00.0

still growth in its economy, but the boom in full swing five years ago is today just a distant

1:05.9

memory. This puts China's leaders under intense pressure. While trying to stimulate growth,

1:11.9

they also need to prevent job losses and soothe political tensions.

1:16.2

Michael Bristow has just left after living there for more than seven years.

1:20.0

It is he reckons a country in the middle of an unfinished revolution.

1:24.4

In the far north of China, in a province called Helong-jiang, there's a small town called

1:30.0

Double River Farm.

1:31.9

As its name suggests, it's a place where two rivers meet,

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