Jan 19, 2012
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 19 January 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The women are in charge - and the men don't seem to be doing much about it. Timothy Allen tells us that's how things are in one northeastern Indian state, where a nascent men's liberation movement is having little impact. Mark Lowen is in Libya, where one of the biggest problems facing the country's new rulers is disarming the many fighters who helped overthrow the dictator Colonel Gaddafi. One consequence of China's great migration, from country to town, is rising tension in some of the city areas where the migrants have set up home - Mukul Devichand's been investigating in the southern city of Guangzhou. Nick Haslam has been to Ecuador, finding out who must pick up the bill when the developed world asks a developing country to forgo economic growth in favour of the world's environment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the from our own correspondent office at Bush House in London. |
| 0:04.4 | We do a daily edition you can hear on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:07.4 | but this is the latest program broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.7 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, the sleepy holiday island that's become a disaster zone. |
| 0:18.0 | The new Libyan authorities try to buy off the gunman who helped bring them to power. Tension turns to violence in China as |
| 0:25.3 | city dwellers outnumber those living in the countryside for the first time. |
| 0:29.2 | And we're in the hills of Northeast India where the women are in charge and it's the men who are demanding sex equality. |
| 0:37.0 | Until recently it was only the more ardent travellers who knew about Gileo. |
| 0:42.0 | That all changed last Friday evening |
| 0:44.7 | when the Costa Concordia with more than 4,000 people aboard capsized just a |
| 0:49.4 | stones through from the island's harbour entrance. At least 11 people lost their lives, others are |
| 0:54.7 | still missing. Suddenly the island and the stricken liner were making headlines the world |
| 0:59.4 | over. This morning the Italian government feels as a serious risk that rough seas could cause the ship to sink completely. |
| 1:07.0 | The environment minister Corrada Klini has told Parliament that salvage teams have only a few days to siphon off the ship's fuel. |
| 1:15.6 | Alan Johnston is there watching events unfold. |
| 1:19.1 | The road led us out of the rolling hills of Tuscany and suddenly we were on the shores of the Mediterranean. |
| 1:25.0 | As we sped alongside a lagoon, a heron rose from water that sparkled in the sunshine. |
| 1:31.0 | It felt like the sort of journey you make when you're going on holiday. |
| 1:35.0 | It was hard to believe that we really were en route to a disaster zone. |
| 1:40.0 | But at the little harbour of Porto Santo Stefano, I began to get a sense of what the sinking of the Costa Concordia was all about. |
| 1:48.0 | Survivors were being brought in. They stood on the key site, waiting to be told what to do. Many of them wrapped in blankets and some still deep in shock. |
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