Dec 17, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 17 December 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The polar bear's back in the news - this time it's at the centre of controversy in Canada where some believe it's a far better animal to be the country's national symbol than the one which currently holds the honour, the beaver -- Lorraine Mallinder has been finding out that some Canadians reckon the beaver's just too boring for the job. At the end of another stressful week in the eurozone Chris Morris tells us that the Germans don't seem too concerned -- the Christmas party season's on their minds! The revolution's brought a new look to Libya but Tarik Kafala, who's been back to Tripoli after many years away, says not everything's changed. Jill McGivering's in Indian Kashmir where questions are being asked about thousands of unmarked graves. And a celebrated bookshop owner passed away this week in Paris and Christine Finn, who worked in his shop recently, tells us what made this store, over the bridge from Notre Dame, so special.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the from our own correspondent office in Bush House in London. |
| 0:04.0 | We also make editions of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:07.0 | but you've downloaded the latest Radio 4 programme. |
| 0:10.0 | It's presented by Kate Aide. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, Crisis, what crisis? |
| 0:15.0 | In Germany, the problems of the Eurozone are set aside as the festive season gets into full swing. |
| 0:20.0 | The Indian authorities are being asked about thousands of unmarked graves in the mountains of Kashmir. |
| 0:27.0 | Revolution gives a new look to Libya, but not everything it seems has changed. |
| 0:32.0 | And why it's a time of mourning in the Paris bookshop |
| 0:35.3 | where the authors don't just sell their books they eat and sleep there too. |
| 0:39.7 | There have been further grim warnings that the countries of Europe shouldn't fall out over plans to rescue the Eurozone. |
| 0:47.0 | Don't argue over this, said Mario Monte, the new Italian Prime Minister. |
| 0:51.0 | We all need to work together. The head of the International Monetary Fund, |
| 0:54.8 | Christine Lagarde, says the debt crisis can't be solved by Europe alone. She maintains all countries |
| 1:00.8 | have to cooperate to avoid a 1930-style depression. |
| 1:05.0 | The German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her Parliament finding a solution would take years |
| 1:10.0 | and there would be setbacks along the way, but the end result she insisted would be a stronger Europe. |
| 1:16.0 | Chris Morris says that German people don't seem too concerned about their position within the Eurozone. |
| 1:22.0 | Crisis, what crisis? |
| 1:24.0 | There's no sense of the Eurozone falling apart at Frankfurt's Christmas market. |
| 1:29.0 | The cobbled streets are full of people drinking Gluvine, apple wine, champagne and hot chocolate. |
| 1:35.2 | There are sweetmeats, nuts, wooden toys and the biggest sausage stall I've ever seen, |
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