Feb 4, 2012
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and on to the drum-beating heart of Syrian protest, Tim Whewell confronts the question: how much longer will the regime of Bashar al-Assad survive? Alan Johnston tells us Italy's young are worried about the economy and the future -- and many are deciding to emigrate. As protestors in Russia prepare again to take to the streets in anti-Putin demonstrations, James Coomarasamy's testing the public mood outside the capital. Will Ross is in Addis Ababa where the latest Chinese contribution to Ethiopian life is dominating the landscape. And how do you deal with evil spirits, ghosts and fallen angels? Kate McGeown is in a consulting room behind a karaoke bar in the Philippines finding out!
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| 0:02.8 | This is from our own correspondent. |
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| 0:18.3 | presenting the BBC Radio 4 edition here's Kate 80. Today, more violence in Syria. |
| 0:25.0 | How much longer can the regime of Basha Al-Assad survive? |
| 0:29.1 | Why many of the best and brightest young Italians are packing their bags and leaving the country. |
| 0:35.0 | Black humour in Russia as demonstrators take to the streets again and why you need a large |
| 0:40.2 | stick when you're dealing with ghosts in the Philippines. |
| 0:44.0 | Members of the United Nations Security Council are expected in a few hours time to vote on a |
| 0:49.9 | resolution on the violence in Syria. Reports from the city of Holmes speak of a |
| 0:54.9 | government offensive leaving many dead. Residents reported sustained tank and |
| 0:59.8 | mortar fire. Syrian activists said more than 200 people had been killed in the deadliest day of violence |
| 1:06.2 | since the unrest began 11 months ago. |
| 1:09.1 | There's been no independent verification. |
| 1:11.9 | Tim Huels just back from Syria where he tried to work out |
| 1:14.8 | whether the opposition movement was gaining ground. It was the potted plants on |
| 1:19.7 | the breakfast table that I couldn't decide about. So unnecessary as decoration and yet so perfectly |
| 1:25.8 | positioned to catch every word of a whispered conversation. Braving the ridicule of colleagues and |
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