Digging Up The Beer
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Analysis, colour, wit and observation from journalists worldwide. Today: Pascale Harter chronicles the fury in Spain at reports that politicians are lining their pockets while the people are making painful sacrifices in the name of austerity. James Harkin on the death of a young engineer who wanted to help build a new Syria after the revolution. Jill McGivering on the Indian women being talked into hysterectomies by doctors eager to make more money. Orla Guerin meets an Afghan governor who says don't worry about the Taliban, peace is at hand - although he does keep an assault rifle close at hand! And Thomas Fessy, in newly-liberated Timbuktu, unearths the beer that had to be buried when the fabled city was seized by Islamist rebels. Produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.4 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:08.9 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.2 | Today Spaniards furious at stories of top people on the take while they're being told to tighten |
| 0:17.8 | their belts. |
| 0:19.2 | Death comes to a young engineer who wanted to use his skills to build a new Syria. The Afghan |
| 0:24.7 | governor who says don't worry about the Taliban the country's heading for peace. And |
| 0:29.6 | happy days for the reporters in Timbuktu. They found the beer hidden away when Islamist fighters seized |
| 0:36.0 | the city. There's mounting anger in Spain over a corruption scandal said to involve senior members of the ruling popular party, including |
| 0:45.2 | the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy. |
| 0:48.0 | Yesterday, prosecutors questioned the party's former treasurer. |
| 0:51.6 | Earlier, the Spanish stock market was badly shaken by |
| 0:54.1 | developments losing nearly 4% in a day its worst session since September. |
| 0:59.2 | Pascal Harter, who's in Barcelona, says people are particularly angry the scandals broken at a time |
| 1:05.7 | when Senor Ahoy wants them to make huge sacrifices. |
| 1:09.6 | It's part of his strategy to tackle record unemployment and a savage recession. |
| 1:14.0 | There's a phrase in Spain I used to find admirable for its infinite pragmatism. |
| 1:20.0 | It's lucky eye, which means that's what there is. It's said with a shrug of the shoulders and it works on nearly any occasion from I ordered my squid without batter. Waiter, well that's what there is. Two, the politician you voted for has |
| 1:35.4 | embezzled millions in public money and your town hall is bankrupt. |
| 1:39.4 | Response, oh well that's what there is. But such an epidemic of corruption is now coming |
| 1:46.6 | to light in Spain that it seems to me the national shrug of apathy is finally falling out of fashion. Taking its place is a look of abject |
| 1:56.1 | disgust and the spat out words, Kebarigwinta. This means the shame of it. |
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