From the Vatican to Vienna
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Christopher Lamb on the opposition to Pope Francis within the Vatican - visible for all to see in the streets. Humphrey Hawksley, on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, hears how President Trump must understand the importance of face to China. Pay respect and give compliments because no-one wants it to end in blood. Diana Darke is in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the birthplace of Queen Dido, where the different communities have grown weary of war and are now seeking to build together. Daniel Pardo marvels at the resilience he witnesses in Chile, in the face of the worst forest fires the country has faced in its recent history. And Bethany Bell, with an intoxicating sense of giddiness, on why the Blue Danube Waltz - now 150 years old - is Austria's second national anthem.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | Good morning, afternoon or even evening. |
| 0:06.0 | This is from our own correspondent from Radio 4 which is first broadcast on Thursday the 16th of February 2017 and with tales of trolling and dancing |
| 0:16.8 | here's Kate Aide. Hello today the new White House is a fount of the unexpected and the unorthodox and foreign policy is |
| 0:26.0 | contradictory as well, especially over China. |
| 0:29.6 | So we hear the President needs to learn all about the all-important subject of face. |
| 0:35.3 | In Lebanon, almost surrounded by countries in deep division and much intolerance, our correspondence |
| 0:42.0 | spots signs of cooperation in the south of the country. |
| 0:46.1 | Chile has been wreathed in the smoke of forest fires for weeks, but in Vienna there are clear skies |
| 0:51.9 | for the sound of walsing to waft over the Danube and get dragged into politics. |
| 0:58.8 | The present Pope has been shaking up the Catholic Church and Pope Francis isn't universally popular. His who |
| 1:05.2 | am I to judge approach may be a hit with the liberals but it's upset the doctrinally |
| 1:10.3 | cautious not least inside the Vatican. His critics are becoming bolder, and signs |
| 1:16.2 | of resistance are spilling out onto the streets of Rome as Christopher Lamb has discovered. |
| 1:21.9 | I was shocked when I saw them. I was sitting just a few rows |
| 1:25.3 | behind a nun on a tram when it stopped alongside some posters of a stern looking |
| 1:30.3 | Pope Francis. Underneath his glum, almost menacing face was a list of complaints |
| 1:36.0 | against him. He'd removed priests, ignored Cardinals and take an action against an ancient Catholic |
| 1:42.4 | group, the Knights of Malta. |
| 1:44.0 | That image of Francis was the opposite of what I'd come to expect to see in Rome. |
| 1:50.0 | The tram was winding through a part of the Eternal City where you are normally greeted by images of a smiling Pope, with arms outstretched or giving a thumbs up. |
| 1:59.0 | Here in Italy, after all, the papacy is the closest thing there is to a monarchy. |
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