Nov 03, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 3 November 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Silvio Berlusconi attends the G20 meeting in Cannes amid mounting alarm in Italy about the country's debt crisis -- Manuela Saragosa's been meeting some Italians who feel Mr.Berlusconi's become a liability and should resign. The G20 meeting is reported to be considering taking Chinese money to help bail out the beleaguered Eurozone. Much of the new Chinese wealth is in the hands of the private sector; Michael Bristow's been having lunch with an industrialist who's one of the country's new super-rich. Tamasin Ford's in Liberia ahead of next week's election runoff and hears concerns about intimidation of the media there. Damien McGuinness, our man in Tbilisi, has been examining the difficulties women in Georgia face in the workplace and in the home while Trish Flanagan has been sampling the wares at the celebrated English Market in the Irish city of Cork.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is from our own correspondent, a download from the BBC. |
| 0:03.7 | For a sneak preview of our program, you can join our feed on Twitter, |
| 0:07.4 | and there's a daily airing of From Our own correspondent on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:11.8 | but now the latest edition, as broadcast on BBC Radio... on the |
| 0:13.3 | BBC World Service, but now the latest edition as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 |
| 0:15.2 | and it's introduced by Kate A.D. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Sylvia Bellasconi is in Cannes talking about austerity, |
| 0:22.0 | but at home the demands for him to step down grow ever louder. |
| 0:27.0 | There's concern about intimidation of the media in Liberia ahead of an election run-off next week. We talk to one of China's new breed of |
| 0:35.4 | super-rich, proud of his country's history he seems less certain about its future. |
| 0:40.4 | And we may have said no two pigs feet but we still emerge from the market |
| 0:46.0 | in cork with a feast fit for a queen. The Italian Prime Minister |
| 0:51.3 | Sylvia Belasconi held a crisis meeting with senior ministers in Rome last night, |
| 0:56.2 | amid mounting alarm about the country's debt problems. |
| 0:59.6 | This morning he's in Cannes, where the G20 meeting of world leaders is expected to take a break from discussions about Greece. |
| 1:07.0 | To hear Mr Bellusconi give further details of the austerity measures he plans for his country. |
| 1:13.0 | Earlier, the Italian president, Georgia Napolitano, |
| 1:16.0 | took the unusual step of issuing a public statement, |
| 1:19.0 | urging Mr. Bellusconi to implement those reforms without delay. |
| 1:24.4 | Manuela Saragosa has been talking to Italians who've lost faith in their Prime Minister |
| 1:29.2 | and feel he should resign. |
| 1:32.2 | Italians call it Faray unona Bela Figura. |
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