June 11, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 11 June 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The bloody events in Syria are making the government in neighbouring Turkey uneasy, as Hugh Sykes has been finding out on the eve of the Turkish general election there; Chris Hogg's in Taiwan where, amid a thawing in relations with mainland China, there are businessmen who are prospering in the new climate of detente; corruption in India is now so pervasive, it reaches even the smallest country village but, as Craig Jeffrey's been hearing, it can still be a joking matter; there's a ban on divorce in the Philippines, but Kate McGeown tells us, there are ways around the ban, particularly if you have money; one of our most seasoned travellers, the reporter and presenter Robin Lustig's visited 75 countries without losing his luggage. Surely his luck can't last ...?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there you're about to hear from our own correspondent a download from the BBC. |
| 0:04.7 | We make editions of the programme for both the BBC World Service and Radio 4, and this is the |
| 0:09.3 | latest Radio 4 broadcast, as ever it's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Today are the violence in Syria is causing a general election headache for the government |
| 0:18.8 | in neighbouring Turkey. |
| 0:20.5 | A warming in relations between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland, it's good news for a man who breeds giant fish. |
| 0:28.0 | We're in the Philippines where divorce is banned, but if you're richer rather than poorer, you don't have to be unhappy ever after. |
| 0:36.1 | And why a senior radio for presenter has been spotted in the mountains of Sicily wearing his wife's |
| 0:41.4 | clothes. |
| 0:43.5 | The Turkish Prime Minister, Regep-type Erdogan, has condemned the suppression of protests |
| 0:48.4 | by the Syrian authorities as inhumane. |
| 0:51.8 | In an interview on Turkish television, Mr Erdogan said the crushing of dissent in |
| 0:55.8 | Syria was barbaric and unpalatable. Yesterday at least 30 people were reported |
| 1:01.5 | to have been killed when Syrian security forces opened |
| 1:04.6 | fire on anti-government demonstrations. Hundreds of refugees are continuing to cross over into |
| 1:10.3 | neighboring Turkey. Mr Erdogan's comments came as Turks prepared a vote in a general election tomorrow. |
| 1:17.0 | His AC party seems certain to win a third consecutive term in power. |
| 1:22.0 | But Hugh Sykes says his government is growing increasingly |
| 1:25.3 | uneasy about the bloody events over the border in Syria. |
| 1:28.6 | Sitting at an open-air Cabab cafe which is like a big tree house with tables on |
| 1:34.6 | platform straddling a waterfall and some of the tables actually in the water the |
| 1:39.0 | sun shining through wide leaves on fig trees families eating their lunch and little girl throwing pieces of |
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