Nov 05, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
America has the Wild West, Russia has its Wild East. And Reggie Nadelson's there, in the port of Vladiovostok. The city, once closed to foreigners, is getting a big makeover. It'll be the new San Francisco, some claim. Paul Moss is in Athens where it's been a week of uncertainty and high political drama. Herman Cain is the choice of many Republicans to be the man to contest next year's presidential election. But his campaign's been sidelined by allegations of sexual harrassment. Mark Mardell's joined him on the campaign trail. There's a new rail line in Jerusalem. Matthew Teller says it provides interesting travel possibilities but it's also proving controversial. And Hugh Schofield's been to the south of France to talk to the iconic fashion designer Pierre Cardin and hear how he saw off all his rivals.
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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 4 |
| 0:15.2 | and it's introduced by Kate A.D. The people of Greece take stock at the end of a |
| 0:20.5 | momentous week for their own beleaguered economy and for the whole future of the European Union. |
| 0:26.0 | Also today, the pizza man who wants to be President of the USA tries to sing his way out of scandal. We take a tram ride through the complex |
| 0:35.6 | political geography of Jerusalem and here plans to transform a port city eight time |
| 0:41.2 | zones east of Moscow into the San Francisco of Russia's far east. |
| 0:45.8 | A Greek tragedy? Perhaps it won't be. Last night's vote of confidence in the |
| 0:51.6 | government of George Papandreou came at the end of a week of uncertainty |
| 0:55.4 | and high political drama. |
| 0:57.6 | Can a deal to rescue the Greek economy now be implemented or will the Greeks have to leave the Eurozone? |
| 1:04.0 | And might that mean an exit from the European Union itself? |
| 1:08.2 | These were all matters debated exhaustively but hardly conclusively at the G20 meeting of world leaders in can. |
| 1:15.0 | Paul Moss has been canvassing opinion in Greece itself in the capital, Athens. |
| 1:20.0 | The joke I made was not in good taste. One of those things you say and then instantly regret it. |
| 1:26.8 | I was standing in the queue for a train ticket at Athens Airport and asked the man next to me if the ticket machine was working. |
| 1:33.2 | Yes, he said, but it only takes euros. |
| 1:36.2 | Well, I replied, if I wait in this queue for long enough, you'll soon be using Drakmar's. |
| 1:41.2 | His face fell. And in that crestfallen look you could read the dilemma |
| 1:46.3 | facing all Greek people because on the one hand they really don't like the EU's |
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