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From Our Own Correspondent

Malaysia’s Political Drama

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A whirlwind of shifting loyalties, rotating characters, and plot twist after plot twist. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:

Jonathan Head finds himself thinking of Shakespeare as he tries to make sense of recent events in Malaysia. Jo Glanville is in Berlin as some of those driven from the city by the Nazi regime return to their old homes to teach young Berliners about this dark chapter in the city's history. Edmund Bower reflects on how a Premier League footballer has restored a sense of national pride for some Egyptians. Mo Salah has become known as “The Egyptian King of England. ” As hurricane season is approaches once again, Rossalyn Warren hears how some Puerto Ricans are still struggling to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria which tore through the island eight months ago, And Simon Busch indulges in a bit of ironic retro nostalgia as Soviet era fashion is making a comeback - think stripy high-waited sports shorts, lurid checks and string vests.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:04.0

Hello. Today anti-Semitism is reportedly on the rise in Germany,

0:09.0

but Berliners are opening up their homes to remember their previous residence, victims of the Nazi regime.

0:16.3

The Egyptian King of England a curious title but now heard in Cairo, a footballer who's rekindling national pride.

0:25.0

We're back in Puerto Rico, eight months after Hurricane Maria tore through the island

0:30.0

and as another hurricane season approaches. And Lyrrhicine's season approaches.

0:33.0

And Lyrid, striped shorts, rainbow checks, string vests,

0:38.0

Soviet-era fashion, believe it or not, making a reappearance in Georgia.

0:44.9

Malaysia's been ruled by the same coalition of parties since it gained independence from Britain

0:49.8

in 1957, and though less popular than it once was, most people thought it would be returned

0:56.2

to power early this month. But it was the opposition that emerged victorious in the general election,

1:02.1

and that's despite allegations of government

1:04.4

gerrymandering and other dirty tricks. And so the new Prime Minister is

1:09.0

former Prime Minister Mahatir Mohammed who came out of retirement to stand again.

1:15.1

Jonathan heads long been covering the twists and turns of Malaysian politics on following

1:20.5

all the leading players.

1:23.1

The day before he went back into prison to serve a second controversial sentence on charges

1:27.7

of sodomy, I interviewed Anwar Ibrahim.

1:31.2

It was February 2015 2015 and despite his public defiance he was privately

1:36.7

apprehensive about going back inside at the age of 67 with a bad back and other health issues. I asked him how he would pass the time.

1:46.0

I'll do what I did the first time, he said, and reread the complete works of Shakespeare.

1:51.0

We then spent an enjoyable 10 minutes discussing which plays best illustrated the situations

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