Revolutions are Unpredictable
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 1 March 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'When change happens, it can happen very, very fast,' Steve Rosenberg in Ukraine. Revolutions: no-one can be quite sure how they'll turn out, Kevin Connolly in Egypt. Bush fires in Australia: Jim Carey on what can be learned from the Aborigines, who spent tens of thousands of years controlling the land. The modern world is closing in on the Amish communities of the US, but Beth McLeod says they're not dying out. They are, in fact, thriving. And a conflict zone is not a place where the mentally ill thrive, as Mary Harper's been learning at a hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:01.9 | It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, |
| 0:04.6 | broadcast on Radio 4, and it's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello, today a nightmare unfolds in the city of Chestnut trees. |
| 0:14.0 | There's a message from Cairo to Kiev. |
| 0:16.5 | Revolutions can be a very long game and are notoriously unpredictable. |
| 0:21.0 | A man sells a bird and starts a mental hospital in troubled Somalia. |
| 0:25.6 | And it's too late now to put the clock back to 1788 as bushfire season ignites in Australia, the historians wonder where the |
| 0:34.3 | Aborigines better are taming the elements? The new cabinet in Ukraine has been |
| 0:39.6 | meeting this morning to discuss the deepening crisis over Russia's reported military deployments |
| 0:45.2 | in the semi-autonomous region of Crimea. The acting President Alexander Torchenoff accused |
| 0:51.2 | Russia of deploying hundreds of soldiers as well as military aircraft. of would be costs if Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine. |
| 1:04.6 | Steve Rosenberg says events are moving swiftly there. |
| 1:07.5 | It's a revolution which is far from over. |
| 1:10.1 | I've been reminded this week that when change happens it can happen very very fast. |
| 1:16.4 | When I woke up last Saturday, Victor Yerukovic was still Ukraine's president and his |
| 1:21.9 | arch rival Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister, was still |
| 1:26.0 | a prisoner under police guard in a hospital 250 miles east of Kiev. |
| 1:32.4 | By the evening everything had changed. Ms Timoshenko was up |
| 1:36.3 | on stage in Independent Square in Kiev making fiery speeches from her wheelchair. |
| 1:42.4 | Mr Janu Kovic had been removed from office by |
| 1:45.7 | Parliament and was on the run. And I was strolling through his back garden, marvelling at |
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