Open For Business
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
All manner of visitors are seeking an audience with the powerful in Zimbabwe these days. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:
Fergal Keane was once blacklisted in Zimbabwe, and resorted to undercover reporting, but now the country is “open for business” he hears, as he is welcomed into the President’s office - ahead of politicians, would-be investors, and even a former leading light in the opposition. Linda Pressly speaks to one of the survivors of a fire that killed 41 teenagers in a state-run children’s home. She is an orphan, the daughter of a drug dealer and a sex worker, but has big plans for herself and her brother. Kirsty Lang meets a woman from New Zealand who arrived in Petra as a backpacker 40 years ago and has been there ever since. But why are some women being warned about the dangers of ‘Jack Sparrows’ in the ancient Jordanian city? Laurence Blair is on manoeuvers with naval officers from Bolivia – the landlocked nation that is hoping the International Court of Justice will force its neighbour, Chile, to give up some of its coastline. And, as he prepares to leave India, Justin Rowlatt reflects on his three and half years in South Asia – and finds time to savour one last street shave
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. Today, the birth of a fighter in Guatemala, |
| 0:08.6 | her one teenage girl avoided being forced into prostitution |
| 0:12.4 | and escaped the horrors of state care. |
| 0:15.8 | If you're thinking of visiting Petra, beware the Jack Sparrows, the curious advice being given |
| 0:22.0 | to women travellers to the ancient Jordanian city. |
| 0:25.9 | We're also on manoeuvres with the Navy in landlocked Bolivia, |
| 0:29.7 | and in India our correspondent reveals how a street chave helped him discover a path to a kind of transcendence. |
| 0:39.0 | There's to be a general election in Zimbabwe next month and while the current president |
| 0:44.6 | Emerson Mann and Gagwa insists it will be free and fair, the opposition |
| 0:49.3 | movement for democratic change claim the electoral commission is too close to the ruling party |
| 0:54.8 | and too many of its staff are linked to the military. |
| 0:57.6 | European Union observers have been invited to monitor the poll though for the first time in 16 years, which seems to |
| 1:06.1 | signal things will be different to how they were under Robert Magabi. |
| 1:10.6 | In the capital Harare, Fergalkeen has found other signs of change. |
| 1:15.0 | The Russian looked from the minister's assistant to me and back again. |
| 1:19.0 | These are not matters, he said, we wish to talk about in public. |
| 1:24.3 | The assistant has asked the Russian delegation what it was they planned to discuss with the |
| 1:28.4 | minister. |
| 1:29.4 | There were three of them. |
| 1:30.9 | They huddled and whispered. |
| 1:32.4 | None wore a tie, in this the inner sanctum of the Zimbabwean executive |
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