Chairman Mao or Colonel Sanders
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The best in news and current affairs storytelling. Today, after a troubled week for the Chinese economy, we wonder who's more popular in China today, the author of that Little Red Book, Chairman Mao, or the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders. Violence continues to rain down on Yemen - the Islamic State group has now become involved in the civil war and is believed to have been behind a string of suicide bombings. Our correspondent witnessed the horrific aftermath of one such attack in the capital Sana'a. Chancellor Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats in Germany plan tougher action against migrants who commit crimes. The announcement follows the assaults on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve which have triggered further heated debate about Mrs Merkel's welcoming policy towards migrants. Was the recent election in Seychelles, those 'paradise islands' in the Indian Ocean, rigged? While the people wait for a court's verdict, we visit Seychelles and hear there have been big changes in the way of life there. And change is also the word employed to describe what's going on in Cuba these days. We've been taking the temperature at the seaside there, at a resort where Che Guevara, one of the great heroes of the Cuban revolution, went on honeymoon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this is the from our own correspondent office at Broadcasting House in London with a |
| 0:04.7 | download of the very latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday, January the 9th and it's |
| 0:10.9 | introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, Chairman Mao or Colonel Sanders, who's the true face of modern China? |
| 0:19.0 | Yala, come and see. |
| 0:21.0 | Children gather around at the scene of a suicide bombing in Yemen. |
| 0:25.0 | Rumour and gossip in the Paradise Islands of the Seychelles, amid allegations that last |
| 0:30.9 | month's election there was rigged. |
| 0:33.0 | And by day you can kite surf, at night you can go dancing, |
| 0:37.0 | the Cuban resort where Che Guevara went on honeymoon. |
| 0:40.0 | What on earth would he make of it now? |
| 0:44.0 | International concern about the health of the Chinese economy continues this weekend. |
| 0:49.0 | Twice in the last few days, the Shanghai Stock Exchange was shut down after share prices nose-dived. |
| 0:55.0 | The government there spent billions trying to prop up prices and exchange rates. |
| 1:00.0 | The moves led to a wave of selling on markets around the world. |
| 1:03.8 | China's troubled melage of communism and capitalism seems a long way from the ideals of the |
| 1:09.2 | great helmsman, Mausitung. |
| 1:11.8 | Steve Evans has been wondering who the real hero of China is today. |
| 1:16.0 | There he beams from the wall of every carriage on the underground in Beijing, |
| 1:21.0 | benign, kindly eyes, the father of a great enterprise. His face is everywhere |
| 1:26.4 | in China, overseeing the citizens as they scurry to work each morning. He is the guiding |
| 1:32.3 | light at the start of the working day and the warmth |
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