Dec 10, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 10 December 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'A political system which had considered itself as solid as rock has started to show cracks.' Steve Rosenberg's in Moscow on a weekend of more demonstrations. The Americans are preparing for their withdrawal from Iraq and Gabriel Gatehouse has been considering what exactly's been achieved during their nine years there. There's a view from Hungary where Nick Thorpe's been looking at how the country's affected by the crisis in the Eurozone. It's forty years since Bangladesh came into being and Mark Tully, who remembers the long struggle which preceded its birth, wonders if too much celebration of that anniversary will lead to further bitterness. And Linda Pressley's in eastern Cuba climbing mountains and asking awkward questions about the love life of Fidel Castro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the from our own correspondent office in Bush House in London. |
| 0:03.9 | We also make editions of the program for the BBC World Service, but you've downloaded the latest |
| 0:08.5 | Radio 4 program. It's presented by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.7 | Hello, more demonstrations are taking place across Russia this morning. |
| 0:16.0 | They're protesting about alleged election fraud and against Vladimir Putin himself. |
| 0:21.0 | What exactly has been achieved in Iraq? There's claim and |
| 0:25.3 | counterclaim as the Americans finally pack their bags. Also today the ripple |
| 0:30.4 | effect of the Eurozone crisis. In Hungary, the homeless cues are getting longer. |
| 0:36.5 | And we're climbing the mountains of Eastern Cuba and asking awkward questions about Fidel Castro's |
| 0:41.1 | love life. |
| 0:43.0 | Protesters in Russia are taking part in some of the biggest demonstrations the country's |
| 0:47.9 | seen for more than a decade. |
| 0:50.1 | They're calling for a rerun of parliamentary elections. |
| 0:53.6 | There's a heavy police presence in Moscow |
| 0:55.8 | where tens of thousands of people have assembled in Revolution Square. |
| 0:59.7 | Another large demonstrations underway in St. Petersburg. |
| 1:03.0 | Rallies are also taking place elsewhere in the country. |
| 1:06.5 | In last Sunday's election, the governing United Russia Party of Vladimir Putin |
| 1:11.0 | narrowly won a majority in Parliament. |
| 1:13.4 | Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says the Kremlin's watching today's events very closely. |
| 1:19.5 | On August the 23rd, 1989, 2 million Soviet citizens linked arms and formed a human chain. |
| 1:26.8 | It stretched 400 miles from Estonia through Latvia and into Lithuania. |
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