July 2, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 2 July 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Greek austerity bill may have been passed by the Athens parliament, but Justin Rowlatt's wondering if anyone expects it to be fully implemented. It may be one of the most polluted cities in the world but Delhi, as Anu Anand has been finding out, is home to an astonishing collection of bird life. The Libyan Mediterranean city of Misrata is still coming under rocket fire from troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi, but Andrew Harding's been seeing that families still enjoy an afternoon at the beach there. Thaksin Shinawatra may be living in self-imposed exile in Dubai but Rachel Harvey, who's been there to meet the former Thai prime minister, says he's still dominating discussion about the upcoming Thai election. And is the Amazon a resource to be exploited or one simply to be protected - questions Robin Lustig's had in mind during his travels in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
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| 0:00.0 | This is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:02.5 | We make an addition for the BBC World Service as well, |
| 0:05.3 | but this is a download of the latest Radio 4 program, |
| 0:08.3 | and here to introduce it, as ever, Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.2 | Today, a final chance for Greece to avoid third world status or has the |
| 0:16.2 | weak drama in Athens been little more than ritual and role play. There's a family |
| 0:21.3 | day out at the beach in Libya as nearby machine guns fire and rockets explode. |
| 0:27.0 | The former Prime Minister of Thailand at the centre of tomorrow's election, |
| 0:31.0 | even though he's now living in Dubai, and why the Indian capital... as This is the last chance for Greece. That was the message in an open letter to the English |
| 0:46.0 | language Athens News yesterday. It was signed by a group of 19 leading economists who argued |
| 0:52.2 | that Greece couldn't default on its debt. |
| 0:55.4 | Without the life support offered by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, they said |
| 1:00.1 | Greece would face poverty and isolation for decades. |
| 1:04.0 | Just in Rollat was there earlier this week, |
| 1:06.0 | as MPs agreed the details of an austerity programme for the country, |
| 1:10.0 | and rioters, outside the Parliament building in Athens showed their displeasure. |
| 1:15.0 | Within two hours of arriving in Athens I was in the midst of the riot. |
| 1:20.0 | I was coughing and spluttering. |
| 1:22.0 | My eyes in agony as another cloud of tear gas blew over me. |
| 1:26.0 | I blame the taxi driver. He dropped me on the wrong side of syntagma, the central square and the focus of the Well, it might have been the shortest way, but it certainly wasn't the quickest. |
| 1:44.0 | As I walked with Antonis, a PhD student I'd got talking to, I felt a tickle in my nose. |
| 1:50.0 | I sneezed. |
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