Oct 6, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A time of shifting and unexpected new relationships in Libya is explored by Allan Little. He's been meeting the Islamists, determined not only to be a part of the post-Gaddafi government but also to forge a new working relationship with the West; Chris Morris talks of the crisis in the Eurozone after visiting Greece, the Netherlands and five other European countries; it's fifty years since the people of Tristan da Cunha were evacuated as a volcano erupted on their island in the South Atlantic -- today, Chris Carneghy says their lifestyle's being challenged by developments in the modern technological world; Dany Mitzman talks of an anti-Mafia television station in Sicily which is under threat from new Italian legislation while Rajesh Mirchandani chews over the complications of South Africa's diverse history.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC. This is from our own correspondent. |
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| 0:17.0 | But now with the addition broadcast on Radio 4, here's Kate Aide. |
| 0:21.3 | Today the Islamists in from the cold in Libya seeking a role in the new government and a |
| 0:26.0 | fresh relationship with the West. |
| 0:28.8 | We find the modern world bringing challenges to a remote community out in the South Atlantic. |
| 0:34.0 | The Sicilian TV boss scared but determined to go on with his anti-Mafia broadcasts |
| 0:40.0 | and we sit down for a history lesson and then a feast at a primary school in Cape Town. |
| 0:45.0 | A battle is still going on for control of the Libyan coastal town of Sirt. |
| 0:50.0 | It's one of the last remaining places where fighters loyal to the ousted leader, Colonel Gaddafi, are still holding out. |
| 0:57.0 | Libya's acting Prime Minister, Mahmoud Gebreel, says the Battle for Sirt will have to be won before a timetable for elections can be announced. |
| 1:06.0 | Already there's speculation about who might be part of the new government, which will lead the country away from the Gaddafi era. |
| 1:13.0 | Alan Little says there are many voices demanding to be heard in the new Libya. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello sir, where are you from? |
| 1:20.0 | The question comes at you everywhere in Tripoli these days. I am from Britain. |
| 1:24.7 | Then welcome. Welcome. Welcome to Libya. The exchange is simple and warm. It is an almost |
| 1:31.2 | magical time in Tripoli, a moment of immense expectation and great promise |
| 1:36.5 | I'd been here six months earlier and witnessed a curiously telling and darkly comic incident in the now notorious Hotel Rixos where the regime housed foreign |
| 1:46.3 | journalists. Shortly after the NATO bombing campaign began in March, an angry crowd of young |
| 1:52.1 | men came into the hotel carrying green flags and portraits of |
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