Tea and Cakes in Addis
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Questions and answers beyond the headlines. Little urgency apparent as the factions from the bitter war in South Sudan gather in Ethiopia to talk about peace. President Putin's been attending another peace conference, this one in Minsk - we've been considering how his standing at home has been affected by the worsening conflict in eastern Ukraine. Our Middle East Editor has a face to face interview with Bashar al-Assad of Syria -- but was it really the BBC audience the president was hoping to reach with his answers? Three years after the sinking of the cruise ship the Costa Concordia, we return to the Italian island of Giglio to find out what effect the wreck has had on the local economy. And it's one of the windiest regions on earth -- so is China's new bullet train across the Gobi Desert in danger of being blown over?
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.7 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.8 | It's introduced by Kate 80. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, today President Putin's been talking about Ukraine, but at home echoes of Soviet |
| 0:17.0 | times. Russians are once again wary of speaking their minds. |
| 0:22.0 | Basha Al-Assad talks to the BBC, but who were his answers aimed at, who is really in charge of |
| 0:28.0 | Syria? |
| 0:29.0 | There's tea and cakes at a smart hotel in Addis Ababa as they talk and talk about the brutal civil war in South Sudan. |
| 0:37.0 | Sixteen years in jail for the captain of the Costa Concordia were on the island of Gileau. |
| 0:42.0 | What has that shipwreck done to the local economy? |
| 0:46.2 | The extraordinary marathon negotiating session between the Russian and Ukrainian |
| 0:49.8 | presidents and the leaders of France and Germany, it went on all night in Minsk, |
| 0:54.4 | shows just how difficult and intractable the crisis in Ukraine has become. |
| 0:59.2 | There is now apparently an agreement on a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. |
| 1:04.1 | Mr Putin says the truce will start at midnight on Sunday. |
| 1:07.9 | The French President, Monsieur Hollande, says much work remains to be done. |
| 1:12.9 | And perhaps another great challenge to overcome |
| 1:15.8 | is the steadily worsening relations |
| 1:17.8 | between Russia and the West. |
| 1:19.7 | Bridget Kendall in Moscow says many Russians |
| 1:22.2 | now see the United States and its allies as their |
| 1:24.6 | country's greatest enemies. Russians are feeling the pinch. Some talk of salaries |
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