Excitement and disgust
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pastry police, pardoned bulls and pricey pigeons. Correspondents’ stories with Kate Adie. Stephen Sackur's visit to Venezuela ends rather more abruptly than he'd intended, foreign journalists are rarely welcome he discovers. In Spain the debate about the ethics of bullfighting has started its annual dance and Antonia Quirke finds both excitement and disgust. One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, a President Lenin will soon take office in Ecuador. Joe Gerlach watches election day unfold from an airport lounge in the capital. Flora Bradley-Watson is among the pigeon fanciers of Istanbul talking politics and feathered friends. And Owen Bennett-Jones finds himself answering, rather than asking, questions as he gets to know the Somali Americans living in Minneapolis.
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| 0:00.0 | And with, |
| 0:03.0 | some pricey-police and some pricey pigeons, here's Kate Adi with, |
| 0:06.1 | From Our Own Correspondent, which was first broadcast on Saturday, April 8th, 2017. Hello. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, the specter of fake news stalks the land of journalism. |
| 0:18.0 | Our correspondent faces tough questions in America about what the press chooses to cover or not. |
| 0:24.0 | In Ecuador, we watch election day unfold with victory speeches on all sides. |
| 0:30.0 | Waving an orange handkerchief can be a matter of life and death in Spain for a fighting bull. |
| 0:36.0 | And Turkish politics may be turning violent, journalists are in jail, |
| 0:40.0 | but at least Turkish pigeons are doing all right. |
| 0:44.0 | The Venezuelan opposition leader Enrique Capriles has been banned from public office for 15 years. |
| 0:51.0 | He claims that the move is politically motivated and large demonstrations are expected |
| 0:56.1 | today. |
| 0:57.1 | There have already been repeated violent clashes between police and protesters. On Thursday a man was shot dead as thousands demonstrated against what they call an attempted |
| 1:07.3 | coup by the socialist president, Nicholas Maduro and his government. |
| 1:12.1 | Judges loyal to the president recently tried to strip the |
| 1:14.9 | opposition-controlled National Assembly of its powers. International |
| 1:19.0 | condemnation followed as did an embarrassing U-turn. But the protests continue. The country's long |
| 1:25.9 | been engulfed in a severe economic crisis. Bread and other staples are in short |
| 1:31.0 | supply. Hospitals have run out of medicine. Violent crime is endemic. |
| 1:36.0 | Stephen Sackers just back from Venezuela on a visit that ended rather more abruptly than he'd intended. |
| 1:42.0 | Foreign journalists are rarely... more abruptly than he'd intended. |
| 1:43.0 | Foreign journalists are rarely welcomed in the Bolivarian Socialist Republic of Venezuela. |
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