Oct 1, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
An 18-hour train ride to the end of the line brings you to the very edge of Norway. Inside the Arctic Circle. But why is it that this place has such firm connections with Italy. Christine Finn has the answer. Justin Webb examines a Japanese conundrum: the country benefits from its cultural insularity and yet, if it doesn't open up to outsiders, it faces economic decline. Mark Lowen, charting the mood in Athens as international investigators assess the creditworthiness of Greece, talks of clouds of tear gas and despair closing over a troubled country. In the Pakistani city of Karachi, the American consulate moved to a new location. Mohammed Hanif says it has meant the reopening of an historic park and armed guards being replaced by youngsters playing cricket. And you used to have to go America's Great Plains for a glimpse of the mighty bison. Not any more. Rob Cameron tells us why it can now be seen wandering around a place that used to be a training ground for the Russian Red Army.
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| 0:17.0 | But now with the addition broadcast on Radio 4, here's Kate Aide. |
| 0:21.3 | Today, tear gas and despair as Greece waits to see whether it'll be allowed another |
| 0:26.2 | cash handout. |
| 0:28.0 | There's a vision of the future in Japan, a crowded railway station, but where have all the children gone? |
| 0:34.0 | Europe's largest native mammal tucks into a field of Czech grass, |
| 0:39.0 | 200 years after being hunted to extinction. |
| 0:42.0 | And we're up in the Arctic Circle, finding out why Norwegians say, |
| 0:46.0 | God bless Italian housewives. |
| 0:49.0 | It's been hard going for the team of auditors who are in Athens trying to discuss conditions for the next international cash bailout for the country. |
| 0:58.5 | Many Greeks are outraged that their governments agreed to implement further austerity measures. |
| 1:05.0 | There's been a series of strikes and protests. |
| 1:07.0 | The investigators from the EU, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, |
| 1:12.0 | have had schedules torn up and meetings |
| 1:14.8 | postponed. |
| 1:16.5 | The Greek cabinets due to meet in emergency session tomorrow. |
| 1:20.2 | Mark Lowen says there's a gathering sense of crisis in the capital. |
| 1:24.6 | It started as a murmur, a bit of excess noise coming from the street |
| 1:28.8 | as I sat inside the Greek finance ministry listening to a press conference by the minister of Angelos Venizelos. |
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