July 23, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Will Thursday's eurozone agreement be enough to save the European single currency and the union of European nations? Chris Morris in Brussels considers the deal designed to prevent the debt crisis from spreading. Michael Buchanan was in Helmand province Afghanistan as the city of Lashkar Gah was returned to Afghan control. For the westerners leaving, he says, their job was far from done. Some Ethiopian girls are getting married at the age of five and Claudia Hammond has been finding out about the efforts being made to stamp out the practice of child marriage. Ever wondered what sound a post-coital baboon makes? Wonder no longer. Jake Wallis Simons imitates it as part his extraordinary story about the Australian much more at home in the real jungle than its urban equivalent. And Berlin's a city noted for its counterculture, its anti-establishment stance. Steve Evans is there exploring its more gentle side.
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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 A. |
| 0:11.3 | Today, end of an era in Lachecagar, the city's back under Afghan control, but |
| 0:16.8 | for the Westerners pulling out the job they tried to do is far from complete. In Ethiopia |
| 0:22.1 | an attempt to stop girls, some as young as five, getting married. |
| 0:26.8 | In Berlin, the guerrilla gardener, bringing color to the concrete jungle of Potsdama plaits. |
| 0:32.4 | And how in Bolivia a young Australian became closely attached to a traumatized puma. |
| 0:38.0 | Now it was, according to the French President, Nicholas Sarkozyozy an extremely momentous decision. |
| 0:44.9 | He was referring of course to the hundred billion euro bailout of Greece, agreed by EU leaders |
| 0:50.4 | at a meeting in Brussels on Thursday. The rest of Europe had been awaiting their decision |
| 0:55.2 | with some nervousness. Would failure to agree mean Greece would default on its debts? |
| 1:01.0 | Would the days of the single European currency the euro be numbered? |
| 1:05.1 | What of the future of the union itself? |
| 1:07.8 | Chris Morris, who was covering the meeting in Brussels, says the deal was given a cautious welcome |
| 1:12.3 | by investors. |
| 1:13.2 | Even if most observers appear to believe the great European debt problem |
| 1:17.5 | hadn't been solved, it had simply been deferred. |
| 1:20.6 | I've spent quite a lot of time in some quite unsavory places but I never really |
| 1:25.1 | expected to have the words apocalypse disaster catastrophe and meltdown ringing in my |
| 1:31.0 | ears while negotiating my way around the European quarter of Brussels. |
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