March 26, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Crisis in the Eurozone -- Chris Morris in Brussels says we're ignoring it at our peril. Sue Lloyd Roberts hears two opinions about Saudi Arabia: do its women live pampered lives or are they kept prisoners? Nick Thorpe's in a village in eastern Hungary where vigilantes say Roma crime is raging out of control. Crazy names for serious people in the Philippines, Kate McGeown investigates. And Gabriel Gatehouse is in The Netherlands trying to ask the Royal Family if they still ride about on bicycles.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, it's from our own correspondent, and it's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, crisis in the Eurozone, they're protesting against austerity and not just in London. |
| 0:13.0 | Two contrasting opinions of Saudi Arabia, a land where women are pampered and privileged, |
| 0:18.0 | or the biggest women's prison in the world. |
| 0:21.0 | Black uniformed vigilantes prepare to advance on a gypsy town in eastern |
| 0:25.3 | Hungary and we meet Pinky, Balsy, Gearly, Peanut and a man called Babe. We're in the Philippines |
| 0:31.8 | asking what's in a name? |
| 0:34.7 | Trade unions are expecting hundreds of thousands to take part in today's March in London against |
| 0:39.6 | the government's austerity programme. |
| 0:41.8 | It comes after 18 months of turmoil involving debt crises in |
| 0:45.4 | a number of countries across Europe. A summit meeting which ended in Brussels last |
| 0:50.0 | night was supposed to have seen the unveiling of a grand plan to save the European |
| 0:54.8 | single currency, the euro. Some progress apparently was made, but much of the |
| 1:00.2 | talking was instead about Libya. Chris Morris says the battle for the |
| 1:04.2 | Eurozone doesn't always make the news but it's of huge importance. |
| 1:09.5 | No-fly zone or Eurozone, tsunami or sovereign debt. |
| 1:15.0 | Put like that it's hardly surprising that the crisis consuming Europe's common currency |
| 1:20.0 | has faded from the headlines in recent weeks. |
| 1:23.0 | It can't compete with the life and death drama |
| 1:26.0 | of the extraordinary events which have rocked our world |
| 1:29.0 | since the beginning of the year. |
| 1:31.0 | If things go on like this in Libya, in Japan, foreign news budgets will be following |
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