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From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. In The Gambia, Alastair Leithead watched the old president and dictator leaving; and as he waits for the new one to arrive, he wonders if the president will be able to tackle the country's problems. In Germany, they are worried about what impact "fake" or "alternative news" could have on their election. Damien McGuinness says there's an unusual international interest in German domestic politics - and all of it is healthy. Karen Allen remembers shivering one cold evening in Africa, during the birth pains of South Sudan. In Myanmar, Jonah Fisher reflects on how Aung San Suu Kyi's government is so quick to dismiss any stories of abuses committed against the minority Rohingya community as "fake news." And Dany Mitzman is with two of the top four-legged students of a special university in northern Italy as they sniff out some of the world's most expensive delicacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, after his first full week in office, the impact, real or fictional of President Trump, is |
| 0:06.9 | hard to escape, wherever in the world you are. |
| 0:10.3 | In Germany, there are worries that some American social media sites are getting far too interested in the upcoming German elections. |
| 0:18.0 | In Africa, our correspondent wonders what |
| 0:25.0 | Donald Trump's |
| 0:30.0 | Donald Trump and Unson Suu Kyi having common. |
| 0:33.0 | And in Italy, well in Italy we're in a trump-free zone |
| 0:37.0 | with graduates from a very special university |
| 0:40.0 | which teaches them to sniff out truffles. |
| 0:43.7 | But we start with Gambia, |
| 0:45.5 | where they're still waiting for their new president, |
| 0:47.6 | Adama Barrow, to arrive. |
| 0:49.6 | He's been in Senegal and could be coming home later today, days after the former president and dictator of |
| 0:56.5 | 22 years, Yajya Jame, was eventually persuaded to go into exile in Equatorial Guinea. |
| 1:03.0 | It's by no means clear whether the new president will be able to sort out Gambia's |
| 1:08.3 | myriad problems. |
| 1:10.2 | The plan is to boost the economy and stem the flow of migrants who leave for Europe each year. |
| 1:15.6 | But Alistair Lethad says it'll be a tall order. |
| 1:19.2 | After long hot days, the sun sets quickly in the Gambia. |
| 1:23.7 | Approaching the horizon it almost rushes to bring the day to an end, but a president |
| 1:29.1 | who had his 22 years in the sun appeared to be in no rush to follow suit, lingering as a long and brutal |
| 1:35.8 | period in this narrow strip of a country's history came to a close. |
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