East or West?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents with stories from the news. Today, Steve Rosenberg on how Ukraine's caught in a tug-of-war between Russia and the European Union; a huge refugee camp by the Sahara Desert is hit by drought - Chris Terrill says it's difficult for the inmates and the aid agencies trying to help them. But it's a boon for the Islamic militant groups looking for recruits; freak weather has killed thirty thousand cattle in the American state, South Dakota - Sybil Ruscoe's been there to see how the ranchers are coping; James Menendez has been travelling in Burma, also known as Myanmar. The place is fast modernising, but transformation has yet to arrive on its railways. And Robin Lustig goes hiking through Peru's Andean foothills looking for coca growers and finding out why they're dubious about their government's anti-drugs initiative. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is from our own correspondent, a download from BBC Radio, and here with the latest edition is Kate Adi. |
| 0:06.7 | Hello, today how the worst storm in 150 years brought death and despair to cattle ranchers in America's Great Plains. |
| 0:16.1 | In the Sahara Desert, its lack of rain that's the problem, although not for Al-Qaeda, for whom |
| 0:21.2 | drought is proving an effective recruiting sergeant. |
| 0:25.2 | We're in the Peruvian town where future prosperity might depend more on caffeine than |
| 0:29.7 | cocaine and in swiftly changing Burma where modernization has yet to catch up with the slow train from Mandalay. |
| 0:39.0 | But first, police in Ukraine have forcibly broken up a demonstration against President |
| 0:43.4 | Yannukovic in the capital Kiev. Dozens of people are reported to have been |
| 0:48.6 | hurt when police used battens and tear gas to disperse a crowd of several hundred in the early hours of this morning. |
| 0:55.9 | The US Ambassador in Ukraine has condemned what he described as the violence against peaceful |
| 1:00.7 | protesters. Earlier thousands thousands gathered on Independence Square to protest against the President's |
| 1:06.7 | refusal to sign a partnership deal with the European Union. |
| 1:11.2 | Georgia and Moldova initialed the trade agreement at a summit in Lithuania yesterday. |
| 1:16.8 | Mr. Yannakovich, who's spoken of coming under pressure from Moscow, says he still wants to sign |
| 1:22.0 | up, but economically his country is still too fragile. |
| 1:26.0 | Steve Rosenberg's been traveling in Ukraine trying to find out whether its people believe |
| 1:30.3 | their future lies with the West or the East. |
| 1:34.0 | In the second half of the 20th century, Europe's geopolitical fault lines were very clear, and |
| 1:40.1 | so was the language used to describe them. |
| 1:42.8 | Europe was divided by an iron curtain and consumed by a cold war, |
| 1:48.2 | and everyone on both sides of this divide |
| 1:50.8 | knew exactly where they stood. Well, it's more than 20 years now since that |
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