Show Of Force
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
For the first time since the Vietnam War, a US aircraft carrier has arrived in the country. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world:
Jonathan Head watches a show of military diplomacy as a 100,000 tonne, nuclear-powered carrier docks in Vietnamese waters with more than 5,000 crew and 70 aircraft on board. A spot of misery tourism and a night on the town in Dublin help Louise Cooper understand what’s really going on in Ireland’s economy. At the height of the European migrant crisis, Richard Hall walked the Balkan route. As he retraces his footsteps he finds fewer migrants but more dangers. In Democratic Republic of Congo, Sally Howard joins the impressively dressed lady dandies or sapeuses. And what’s it like to be teased by the Dalai Lama? Justin Rowlatt finds out
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. Today fences have gone up, borders have closed, |
| 0:08.0 | but still people risk everything to reach Europe. |
| 0:11.0 | We retrace the migrant trail that leads to Serbia and beyond. |
| 0:16.5 | Do economic statistics reflect economic reality in Ireland? We seek answers with the help of a rather pricey gin and tonic. |
| 0:25.0 | Expensive tastes are on show too in Democratic Republic of Congo, for fashion that is, |
| 0:31.0 | as we learn how women are embracing the cult of the dandy |
| 0:35.8 | and what's it like to be teased by one of the world's leading religious figures |
| 0:40.1 | our correspondent meets the Dalai Lama. |
| 0:42.3 | The news that Donald Trump has agreed to meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un |
| 0:48.0 | was not the only diplomatic first for America this week. |
| 0:52.0 | A giant US aircraft carrier docked in Vietnam for the first time |
| 0:56.4 | since the end of the war in the 1970s and its arrival marked an unexpected improvement in relations between the former adversaries. |
| 1:06.0 | Jonathan Head went there to see the USS Carl Vinson, a hundred thousand ton nuclear poweredpowered carrier with 70-plus aircraft and more than 5,000 crew on board. |
| 1:18.0 | The proper way to arrive on a U.S. supercarrier is from the air, |
| 1:22.0 | crashing down onto the deck while strapped into the seat of a |
| 1:24.8 | Navy transport aircraft, just like the fighter jets that give the carrier its unique military |
| 1:30.0 | muscle. Our approach to the USS Carl Vincent was more sedate in a ferry boat from |
| 1:36.2 | Danang to the carrier's rust-stained rear dock from where we were ushered up narrow stairways to the |
| 1:42.0 | flight deck. We passed hundreds of crew members, now in |
| 1:45.4 | civilian clothes cheerfully lining up for a ride back to the city and some well-earned R and R after |
| 1:51.5 | their long voyage from California. We could see the Vietnamese |
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