The Battle for Hong Kong
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'Caught between the demands of the masses and the stern imperatives of Beijing's control': Fergal Keane on the Hong Kong authorities' reaction to the demonstrations which have brought parts of the territory to a standstill. Nick Thorpe is in Bulgaria hearing ever-louder demands for a new European union, this one to be centred on Moscow. A spotlight on La Paz - Katy Watson's in the extraordinary capital of Bolivia as people prepare to vote in a general election. The verdant hill town of Zomba in Malawi is said to be one of the most attractive places in the heart of Africa -- but Jonathan Fryer's been learning that, for many locals, making a living's not easy. And Horatio Clare's in the Danube Delta's archipelago of waters, marshes and sighing trees listening to stories of conservation, propagation and extinction.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the programme, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, today's stormy days ahead as protesters in Hong Kong answer a call for a show of |
| 0:19.7 | strength. A battle for hearts and minds in Eastern Europe with gathering support for a new political |
| 0:26.3 | union with Russia at its centre. Down among the bull rushes in the Danube Delta we wait for |
| 0:32.4 | a visitor who may never arrive and |
| 0:35.4 | we're in a hill town they called the most beautiful of all Queen Victoria's |
| 0:39.4 | possessions but will we sample its crunchy mouse kebab. |
| 0:45.0 | Hundreds of pro-democracy activists |
| 0:47.0 | count out overnight in Hong Kong after a big rally there yesterday. |
| 0:51.0 | Most were in the Central Admiralty District with smaller |
| 0:54.3 | numbers in the commercial areas, Moncock and Causeway Bay. They'd been appeals for a |
| 0:59.5 | big turnout after the authorities called off planned talks with the protest leaders |
| 1:04.1 | due to have taken place yesterday. The protests are being seen as the biggest challenge |
| 1:08.9 | to Beijing's authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997. |
| 1:15.0 | Our correspondent in Hong Kong then was Fergalkeen. |
| 1:19.0 | He was back there to witness this display of people power. |
| 1:22.0 | Our memory of the places we've lived in is shaped by many things, |
| 1:26.0 | the landscape and visual superstructure, the smells and sounds, |
| 1:30.0 | and then the personal. |
| 1:31.0 | Our encounters with other people and more intimately how we experience change in each place. |
| 1:37.0 | Hong Kong changed my life more profoundly than any place I have ever lived. |
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