May 21, 2010

From Our Own Correspondent

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🗓️ 21 May 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The carrots and sticks which the authorities in Saudi Arabia hope will persuade their people that protest is not a sensible option -- Michael Buchanan is gauging opinion in the desert kingdom. Who'll be the next president of Russia - Putin, Medvedev or someone else? It's a question preoccupying correspondents in Russia, among them the BBC's man Steve Rosenberg. As nuclear power plants around the world check their safety procedures after the apparent meltdown in Japan in March, Nick Thorpe visits a power station on the River Danube in Romania. The American president's on his way to Ireland but Kieran Cooke's been finding out that thousands of Irish, prompted by a tottering economy, are preparing to emigrate. And Kevin Connolly visits the casbah in Algers walking, he assures us, in the footsteps of Tarzan of the Apes.

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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 the carrots and sticks preventing the Arab Spring from taking root in Saudi Arabia.
0:19.6	The lessons to be learned from the catastrophe at Fukushima. We get a view from inside a nuclear
0:24.4	power plant on the river Danube. The American president's flying in, but
0:29.0	thousands are getting ready to
0:35.0	leave how islands tottering economy has created a new wave of immigration.
0:36.0	And what on earth was Tarzan of the Apes doing in Algiers?
0:39.0	We're in the Kaspar trying to find out.
0:42.0	Barak Obama is preparing to travel to Europe. the Kaspar trying to find out.
0:43.0	Barak Obama is preparing to travel to Europe at the end of a week which has seen him concentrate
0:47.6	on the Middle East.
0:49.1	Yesterday he had an apparently difficult meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
0:54.6	Earlier he announced a program of economic help for those countries in the region
0:59.2	which have been shaken up by popular uprisings. Saudi Arabia has not seen the sort of protests which have
1:06.0	been going on elsewhere, and it wasn't mentioned in the President's speech.
1:10.8	Yet it's a country still central to American policy in the Middle East, and millions
1:15.8	are being spent on protecting its oil riches amid worries about Al-Qaeda and doubts
1:20.9	about the future ambitions of nearby Iran. Michael Buchanan, who's in
1:25.4	Saudi Arabia, says it's a place which, above all, value stability. There were
1:30.7	hundreds of them, migrant workers from South and East Asia, coming to Saudi Arabia to work for meager but tax-free wages.
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