Cities United and Divided
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dispatches from reporters across the globe, presented by Kate Adie. Chris Morris in Berlin analyses Angela Merkel's increasing international confidence. Fergal Keane hears the echoes of history amidst Syrian refugees in the Turkish city of Izmir. Niall O'Gallagher takes the temperature of Catalan nationalism on the streets of Barcelona. Craig Jeffrey asks if "jugaad" - the spirit of creative and quick fixes - is really the solution to India's challenges. And Hamilton Wende in Maputo, the booming capital of Mozambique, finds corruption on the rise.
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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 |
| 0:08.6 | site 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 meeting the musician who left his guitar behind on his desperate flight to safety. |
| 0:22.0 | It may be a hot topic in Scotland, but in Barcelona some |
| 0:26.0 | find it hard to even talk about independence. Don't call us ingenious, the Indians who believe their governments offering compliments rather |
| 0:35.4 | than development. |
| 0:37.4 | And a huge new gas find brings dreams of prosperity to an African city more often associated with poverty, corruption and foreign intrigue. |
| 0:47.0 | European leaders have moved closer to creating a single regulator to oversee the 6,000 banks in the Eurozone. |
| 0:55.0 | It's the first step in setting up new support mechanisms for troubled banks. |
| 1:00.0 | Seventeen nations were involved in the discussions in Brussels, but the two that really mattered |
| 1:05.8 | were France and Germany, and it's often said that Germany as the continent's biggest economy |
| 1:11.2 | holds the key to solving the Eurozone crisis. |
| 1:14.9 | It's come in for plenty of criticism from abroad, either for not acting decisively enough, |
| 1:20.7 | or for demanding that excessive austerity be imposed on other European |
| 1:24.7 | countries. But as our Europe correspondent Chris Morris observes, the view from Berlin |
| 1:30.3 | is more complicated. |
| 1:32.5 | The late afternoon sun throws long shadows across the austere Berlin Wall Memorial on |
| 1:36.9 | Bernoustrassa. |
| 1:38.9 | Sections of the wall covered in fading graffiti stand next to posts of rusting metal, the same colour as the autumn leaves in the graveyard next door. |
| 1:46.0 | Between 1961 and 1989, at least 136 people died at the wall, |
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