Strike! Strike! Strike!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents look at some of the week's developments. In this edition, how the mounting industrial strife in France presents an increasingly serious challenge to President Hollande and his unpopular government. Illegal gold mining in Ghana - the authorities are worried about the amount of gold being smuggled out of the country and its effect on the nation's economy. Nature's taking over some of the Jewish cemeteries in Warsaw - we meet a group of volunteers trying to make some amends for the amnesia and oblivion about Jewish life in Poland before the war. The Swiss weren't just opening the world's longest rail tunnel this week, they were also using the occasion to try to re-negotiate their relations with the European Union. And we sail the south Atlantic on the Royal Mail ship St Helena - the scrapyard's beckoning and this is one of her final voyages
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the from our own correspondent office at Broadcasting House in London and you've |
| 0:04.7 | downloaded the latest edition of our programme. |
| 0:07.3 | It was broadcast on Thursday, June 2nd, 2016 and introduced by Kate Adi. Hello. |
| 0:13.0 | Today growing industrial turmoil in France. |
| 0:17.0 | More workers are walking out this morning in protest at proposed labour reforms. |
| 0:21.0 | The alarmed government is under mounting pressure. A losing battle against time and |
| 0:26.4 | against Ivy at the main Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. That brand new tunnel in Switzerland |
| 0:32.4 | and why it's all about |
| 0:33.4 | mozzarella and olive oil, v W's and malt whiskey. |
| 0:37.6 | And there's a whiff of an earlier age on board the royal mail ship |
| 0:41.7 | making one of its final voyages to |
| 0:43.7 | centilina. The battle between the French government and the unions is |
| 0:48.1 | intensifying this morning. More workers have been coming out on strike in |
| 0:52.2 | protest at the government's new employment bill. |
| 0:55.0 | Staff on the Paris Metro and commuter services are joining industrial action at railways and docks around the country. |
| 1:02.0 | Employees at nuclear plants will also take railways and are due to begin tomorrow. The tug of war between the government and the unions |
| 1:14.3 | shows no sign of stopping ahead of the 2016 football tournament which gets |
| 1:19.4 | underway in eight days time. Joanna Robertson in Paris says it's heaping pressure on the already |
| 1:25.2 | unpopular socialist government. Josie-Inbetron has a small family business, a |
| 1:30.9 | neighborhood chakutri selling sausage, poached pig-stradas, pate and jellied pig-snouts. |
| 1:36.7 | Her ham, she says, is the best in Paris and her cue of customers is long. |
| 1:41.6 | Despite the ceaseless rain outside, amongst all its other woes, France is now flooding, |
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