On the Brink
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Insight, context and colour. Today, the barbs fly as Greece seems to be stumbling towards default; ambitious plans for a new trans-continental railway in South America -- but who stands to benefit and who will lose out? The migrants living on boulders on Italy's shoreline just along the coast from the glittering French Riviera; dissatisfaction among Estonia's Russian minority as relations between Russia and the West become colder and our correspondent makes a discovery in war-ravaged Gaza City -- the very best ice cream he's ever tasted!
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, today insults fly in the diplomatic rulebooks thrown out of the window as the Greek |
| 0:19.3 | debt crisis intensifies. There's growing unease in Estonia as relations between This and ever tasted. Finance ministers from across the Eurozone will try again today to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debts and being forced out of this single currency. |
| 0:51.0 | The country owes 320 billion dollars and is fast running out of money. |
| 0:57.0 | It will only get more if it agrees to implement the reforms demanded by its lenders. |
| 1:02.2 | Yesterday the Bank of Greece said that failure to reach a |
| 1:04.8 | deal would send Greece into a deep recession. There'd be dramatic drops in |
| 1:09.1 | income levels and soaring unemployment. The negotiating team representing the creditors, the |
| 1:15.2 | European Central Bank, the IMF and the European Commission, want Greece to come up with |
| 1:20.2 | new proposals to break the deadlock, but Chris Morris notes the rhetoric |
| 1:24.4 | between all concerned is becoming increasingly heated. Diplomacy, someone once |
| 1:29.7 | said somewhere, is the art of thinking twice and then saying nothing. |
| 1:34.0 | Well that dull fudge you can hear in high offices of state across Europe at the moment |
| 1:40.0 | is the sound of the rulebook crashing to the ground after being thrown out of the window. |
| 1:45.0 | No one appears to be thinking twice and no one is saying nothing. |
| 1:49.0 | The barbs are flying thickened fast as Greece seems to be stumbling towards default. The Greeks |
| 1:56.0 | accuse the IMF of criminal responsibility for their current plight. They say the |
| 2:00.3 | rest of Europe is trying deliberately to humiliate them. |
| 2:04.0 | The Europeans accuse the Greek government of lying to its people, of amateurism and double-dealing. |
| 2:10.0 | It's mendacious, they say, and it's playing with fire. |
| 2:14.0 | Officials in Brussels mutter darkly about a betrayal of trust. |
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