Talking About Fish
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Insight, colour and analysis from reporters around the world. Mark Lowen's in Cyprus where the banks remain closed and the people have been getting angrier. Shahzeb Jillani makes the decision to work as a correspondent in the troubled Pakistani city of Karachi - his family questions his judgement! Charlotte Pritchard takes a drive through the smuggler borderlands between Colombia and Venezuela. As politicians and community leaders in Yemen discuss the future, Daniel Owen's been to one town where the talk is mainly about fish. Justin Rowlatt's investigating the mining boom bringing riches to Mongolia - he meets one man he describes as Mongolia's most influential since Genghis Khan! Producer: Tony Grant
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, |
| 0:05.6 | broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and introduced by Kate Ade. |
| 0:10.0 | Have you lost your mind? |
| 0:11.5 | A mother questions our correspondent's to move to troubled Pakistan. |
| 0:16.0 | We meet a man who's unlocked a treasure chest of gold and silver. |
| 0:20.0 | He's quite possibly the most influential Mongolians since Genghis Khan. |
| 0:25.4 | And as politicians in Yemen gather for discussions about the future, we arrive in a town where all the |
| 0:31.1 | talks about fish. But first, the Cypriot president, along with a group of his |
| 0:36.6 | senior MPs, is on his way to Brussels for talks aimed at preventing the islands slipping into |
| 0:42.1 | bankruptcy. |
| 0:43.0 | Last night their parliament approved nine bills, |
| 0:46.0 | including one to restructure the country's main banks. |
| 0:49.0 | It had been considering the conditions set by the European Union for securing an international bailout. |
| 0:56.1 | Eurozone finance ministers are expected to meet in Brussels tomorrow to discuss this. |
| 1:01.2 | It's now more than a week since the banks were open in Cyprus and |
| 1:05.1 | Mark Lowen who's there says people have been finding it increasingly hard to go |
| 1:09.6 | about their daily business. Dotted across the Cypriot capital, they snake around street corners. |
| 1:16.1 | They begin early and are slowly growing, lines of people outside bank machines, stuffing |
| 1:21.8 | wads of cash into bags and pockets. It is the surest sign yet of what |
| 1:27.0 | is happening to this nation. Fear is gaining ground and nobody seems able to stop it. At one cue in the center of the city a pensioner |
| 1:36.0 | Andres had withdrawn his latest 200 euros unsure if the cash might dry up. |
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