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From Our Own Correspondent

Feb 11, 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

That windswept outpost of Britishness in the South Atlantic again causes tension between Britain and Argentina as the anniversary of the Falklands War approaches. Fergal Keane is in Buenos Aires where a longing to redeem the islands is deeply felt; Allan Little's in the capital of the Falklands, Port Stanley, finding out they are more concerned there about shortages of fruit, veg and eggs. Mark Lowen's our man in Athens where Greeks are becoming increasingly angry with the way their government's handling their debt crisis. Did you know the Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's family comes from Lake Garda in northern Italy. No? Well nor did most of the people living there until Christine Finn told them! And Alastair Leithead's been to a village in southern Mexico to see how the government is trying to impress descendants of the great Mayan civilisation.

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But now with the edition broadcasts on Radio 4, here's Kate Adi.

0:21.0

Today, growing resentment in Greece, the bailout hangs in the balance as the Eurozone demands

0:27.1

yet more austerity.

0:29.6

We're on the banks of Lake Garda, trackingada, tracking down Republican hopeful Rixantoram's Italian connection.

0:36.0

There's a ceremonial downing of Coca-Cola

0:39.5

as the Mexican authorities try to impress descendants of the great Mayan civilization.

0:45.7

And as tensions rise in the South Atlantic ahead of the anniversary of the Falklands War, a question

0:51.4

for Prince William. Did you bring any bananas? The Argentine

0:57.4

Foreign Minister was at the UN in New York yesterday, presenting a formal

1:01.9

complaint about as his government sees it, Britain's militarization

1:06.2

of the South Atlantic.

1:08.1

They're unhappy that Britain's sending one of its most modern warships to the Falkland Islands. They say it poses a grave danger

1:15.4

to international security. The arrival there of Prince William on a tour of duty as

1:20.9

a search and rescue helicopter pilot has also been criticized.

1:25.0

Fergalkeen was in Buenos Aires as tension once again grew between Britain and Argentina.

1:31.0

We were hemmed in. The crowd surged from behind us, pushing closer to the

1:36.2

steel gates of the Casa Rosada. Or I should say, pushing us deeper into the unwilling

1:41.8

embrace of the presidential security men who guarded the gates.

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