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From Our Own Correspondent

Protests in Georgia

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie presents stories from Georgia, Egypt, The Netherlands, Iceland and Brazil.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.2

As media freedom in Egypt is increasingly curtailed, our correspondent reports his own experience

0:11.9

of being tailed on an assignment.

0:15.3

In the Netherlands, we hear the story of a Ukrainian ballet troupe who are doing their own

0:20.4

bit for the war effort by keeping the show on the road.

0:24.7

Amid the shifting tectonic plates and volcanic eruptions, one thing the people of Iceland

0:30.7

do not have to worry about is energy costs.

0:34.1

We hear why.

0:35.8

And our correspondent reveals the art of celebrity queue jumping at an Oscar's after-party

0:41.9

in Los Angeles.

0:43.1

First, Georgia, which sits on strategic crossroads between Europe and Asia, has long been torn

0:49.7

between wanting closer ties with the West, while still unable to ignore its historic ties

0:56.1

with Moscow.

0:58.1

Perceived Russian influences what brought tens of thousands of protesters out onto the streets

1:03.4

of Georgia recently, after the parliament put forward a controversial law which would

1:09.0

class NGOs and media groups as foreign agents if they receive more than 20% of their funds

1:15.7

from overseas.

1:17.7

A similar law in Russia has been used to severely limit press freedom and suppress civil

1:23.7

society.

1:25.1

And while the proposed law has been retracted for now, many Georgians fear Russian-style

1:31.0

curbs on dissent.

1:33.2

Rehandimetry has been following the events in Tbilisi.

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