The American Dream in Trouble
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Talking points from around the globe. In this edition, the gulf between rich and poor in New York just goes on growing -- working hard doesn't seem enough any more, the next rung on the ladder increasingly appears to be out of reach; more shootings in the Somali capital Mogadishu - rebuilding may be proceeding there after two decades of civil war, but the security situation remains precarious; sixty thousand churches in Ghana, but some ministers seem more interested in making money than saving souls; thousands turn out for a free festival in Morocco where the aim of the musicians was to show that music and Islam can live together in harmony; and our correspondent spends the night in one of the oldest houses in the Faroe Islands. It was, she tells us, quite literally a door into the islands' past.
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.0 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, today going home to Mogadishu, the Somalis hoping the days of false |
| 0:14.6 | dawns could soon be over. A startling rise in the number of New York's |
| 0:19.2 | homeless is the American dream in trouble? Thousands gather in Morocco to show that music and Islam can live in harmony. |
| 0:27.0 | And perhaps it's the way they tell them. |
| 0:30.0 | We struggle to appreciate the sense of humour in the Faroe Islands. |
| 0:35.0 | There's been praised this week for the courage and dedication of MPs in Somalia for the |
| 0:39.4 | way in which they carry on with their work despite the danger of attacks against them. |
| 0:44.2 | Two of their colleagues were shot and killed at the weekend. |
| 0:47.2 | The praise came from Nicholas Kay, the senior United Nations official in the capital, Mogadishu, who said political progress was being made in |
| 0:54.9 | Somalia, but there was still, as he put it, a long way to go. |
| 0:58.8 | The same might be said about the capital city itself. |
| 1:02.1 | Twenty years of civil war left Mogadishu in ruins. |
| 1:05.6 | But today much of it is being rebuilt with some help from foreign investment. |
| 1:10.0 | But Andrew Harding says the shootings there show that the security situation remains precarious. |
| 1:16.7 | The clouds were so low we missed the runway altogether on the first attempt, swinging sharply |
| 1:21.3 | up and out over the sea for another try. It was the first rain in months, |
| 1:26.1 | and Mogadishu Airport was struggling to cope. A lake had formed on the tarmac outside |
| 1:30.6 | the terminal. I've been flying into Mogadishu for 15 years. It's never a dull experience. |
| 1:36.7 | I've landed during mortar fire. I've come to a warlord's private airstrip in the sand dunes outside |
| 1:42.0 | town and I've been here to meet |
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