June 2, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The E.coli outbreak in Germany is the subject of a despatch from Steve Evans in Berlin who's been finding out how it's sending ripples throughout Europe, affecting sales of fruit and vegetables and altering families' eating habits. As General Mladic prepares to face war crimes charges in The Hague, Nick Thorpe's been touring Bosnia meeting family and supporters of the man who was the military leader of the Bosnian Serbs. It's crisis time for the pornographers of Los Angeles: Ed Butler's been discovering that their customers are no longer keen to pay for the product. Picturesque Street in Moscow isn't as lovely as it sounds, according to our man there Steve Rosenberg; but it does have a tale to tell about Russia itself. And why does the sight of a foreigner riding a bike make Cambodians laugh? Guy Delauney, a keen cyclist and resident of the capital Phnom Penh, is well placed to provide an answer to that one!
Transcript
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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 Aide. |
| 0:14.0 | Today a drive-through Ratcombe-ladiches Bosnia as the former Army commander prepares for his |
| 0:19.0 | court appearance tomorrow in the Hague. |
| 0:21.7 | A crisis for |
| 0:22.6 | pornographers in California as the Health and Safety Brigade |
| 0:26.3 | issue their orders. Golden icons and rotting pipes, |
| 0:30.1 | a street in Moscow which tells a story about Russian history, and why the sight of a foreigner |
| 0:35.2 | on a bicycle makes them raw with laughter in Cambodia. |
| 0:39.8 | But first, several hundred new cases of food poisoning have been reported in Germany this week, |
| 0:45.0 | as the search continues for the source of an E. coli outbreak, which has already killed 17 people. |
| 0:51.0 | Trade in fruit and vegetables across Europe and beyond is being affected. |
| 0:56.0 | Russia has announced it's banning the import of all fresh vegetables from the European Union. |
| 1:01.3 | The German government meanwhile is warning consumers to avoid cucumbers, |
| 1:05.4 | lettuce and tomatoes. Steve Evans has been gauging the mood at a vegetable market in |
| 1:10.5 | Berlin. There are cucumbers at the Turkish market in Berlin. There are cucumbers at the Turkish market in Berlin, some, but not as |
| 1:16.2 | many as usual. The traders bark the merits of their produce in Turkish and German, but |
| 1:21.8 | they've not much to shout about Spanish cucumbers. |
| 1:25.2 | The few stalls that have decided to offer them have big piles of unsold ones, unsold even |
| 1:31.2 | with the word Holland written all over the labels and even at half the normal price |
| 1:36.3 | 99 cents instead of the usual 2 euros a kilo |
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