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From Our Own Correspondent

Presidential Promises

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Will Grant attends a campaign rally in Mexico to hear presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promise a new investigation into the kidnapping of 43 students from Iguala in 2014: ‘They took them away alive, we want them back alive” their families demand. Kim Chakanetsa is in Zimbabwe six months after Robert Mugabe was replaced by his former ally Emmerson Mnangagwa. Does the new President have a plan? Howard Johnson meets Manny Pacquiao - a boxer, basketball coach, singer, actor, entrepreneur, church pastor and politician who some talk of as a possible future leader of the Philippines. Robin Denselow is at a music festival on the West Bank designed to amplify the voices of those that live there and give the Palestinian music scene a boost. And Chris Bockman has the tale of the punk rocker turned bank robber who's returned to France after decades on the run and, apparently, come back from for the dead.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.0

Hello, today what's it like?

0:06.0

Zimbabwe without Mugabe.

0:08.0

The presidential portraits have been replaced, but what else has changed?

0:12.0

In the Philippines we meet the world-class boxer

0:16.0

and politician Manipakiao, while on the West Bank we're at a music festival hoping to give

0:21.9

Palestinians a voice and a bank robbery a secret life

0:26.4

an anarchist rocker who is declared dead many years ago and a late night phone call

0:31.3

to a lawyer our correspondent reveals the strange story behind a trial

0:36.2

that's about to grip France.

0:39.8

Soaring violence, entrenched corruption and stagnant salaries will provide the backdrop

0:44.6

for upcoming elections in Mexico.

0:47.8

In July the country will have a new president as the Constitution bars the incumbent

0:52.3

from standing again.

0:54.0

The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's candidate is trailing far behind his two main rivals,

1:00.0

tainted by his association with the current government,

1:03.4

while the anti-establishment populist rhetoric of the front-runner

1:07.6

is proving popular.

1:09.2

Will Grant went to one of his rallies in the southwest of the country.

1:13.0

We got here late, but we got here, offered Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador by way of an apology.

1:20.0

The crowd was beginning to feel faint, having spent the best part of three hours under a punishing son to see the man they simply call Amlo.

1:29.0

One person had already completely passed out, prompting the paramedics to action.

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