The Billion-Dollar Heist
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporters around the world. In this edition: what's happened to Moldova's missing billions? Tim Whewell has been investigating. Rupert Wingfield Hayes tells us about Beijing's controversial island-building in the South China Sea. How much cross-border cooperation is there between European intelligence services? Nick Thorpe's been making inquiries in Bulgaria. Tim Butcher, travelling in Myanmar, has come face to face with some of the country's racial tensions and the Paris authorities have been refurbishing some of the city's historic bandstands - Joanna Robertson says they have once again become a focus for summer pleasure and relaxation.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. |
| 0:11.0 | Today a runway emerges from the waves. The US is concerned about Beijing's building |
| 0:17.0 | program in the South China Sea. A billion dollar bank heist blasts a whole in the economy of Europe's poorest country. |
| 0:25.8 | A mysterious fellow passenger does a runner from the night sleeper to Sofia, |
| 0:31.0 | and we find new reasons to enjoy summer in the park in Paris. |
| 0:37.0 | The United States we learned this week is concerned about Chinese construction on |
| 0:41.0 | disputed islands in the South China Sea. Beijing in... construction on |
| 0:45.0 | the disputed islands in the South China Sea. |
| 0:44.0 | Beijing insists the building on reefs and atolls among the Spratley islands |
| 0:49.0 | is connected with fishing and scientific research. |
| 0:51.0 | But Washington says the prospect of China militarizing |
| 0:54.7 | those sites is heightening regional tensions. |
| 0:58.1 | The matter will be raised when representatives of the two superpowers sit down at a summit |
| 1:02.4 | meeting in Washington next week. |
| 1:04.7 | But Rupert Wingfield Hayes wonders if China is likely to compromise on an issue it considers |
| 1:10.1 | a vital strategic importance. |
| 1:12.7 | I suspect that until a few weeks ago the South China Sea was not a place most people around |
| 1:18.1 | the world gave much thought to, or any thought at all. |
| 1:22.0 | The Spratley Islands even less so. |
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