The Hyenas Come to Town
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
London may be infested by urban foxes and Delhi beseiged by urban monkeys but Addis Ababa, as Martin Fletcher's been seeing for himself, is plagued by urban hyenas -- and they're ugly-looking creatures! David Stern's been living in Kiev, Ukraine, for five years -- and has had to get used to living with a revolution on his doorstep. A quarter of a million people, some estimate, have been detained in Syria by either the authorities or the rebels; Lyse Doucet's been talking to two men who know a lot about detainees. The long-serving leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is ninety years old and Kim Chakanetsa has been finding out what people there think of their president, who's been in power nearly 34-years. And Neal Razzell's been making a programme with two reporters, one from China, the other from Japan. The programme's about the strained relationship between those two countries. But how did the reporting team get on?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, broadcast on Radio 4, |
| 0:06.8 | and it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello, today living on the edge of a revolution are correspondent in Kyiv on history unfolding on his doorstep. |
| 0:17.0 | The thousands of men and women who've gone missing amid Syria's brutal war. |
| 0:22.0 | 34 years at the top, how has he managed it, a question Zimbabweans ask as their leader Robert |
| 0:28.9 | McGabi celebrates his 90th birthday, and why two hideous beasts with jaws as powerful as those of great white sharks |
| 0:37.1 | as staying in the spare room of a house in Addis Ababa. Dramatic developments in Ukraine this morning. |
| 0:45.0 | After weeks of anti-government demonstrations, the presidential palace in the capital Kiev appears to have been abandoned. |
| 0:52.0 | Demonstrators who have been calling for the resignation of |
| 0:54.6 | President Victor Yanukovych are still in the city's independent square. The |
| 0:59.3 | whereabouts of the president are not known. There are reports that he's left the city. One of the |
| 1:04.4 | main opposition leaders, the former boxer Vitali Klichko, says he'll now ask |
| 1:08.9 | Parliament to vote Mr Yannukovic out of office. This morning's developments come at the end of the bloodiest |
| 1:15.3 | week since the unrest began in November. Scores of people were killed in clashes in the city |
| 1:20.5 | centre between police and protesters. |
| 1:23.0 | Our man in Kiev, David Stern, lives close by. |
| 1:27.0 | Nearly every day for the past three months, |
| 1:30.0 | I've passed through the protest camp, |
| 1:32.0 | whether working on a story or not. |
| 1:35.0 | My clothes are saturated with the smoke from the activist campfires. |
| 1:39.7 | If I'm feeling a bit hungry or cold, I can grab a quick snack or a cup of hot tea from one of the many |
| 1:45.4 | volunteer stands handing out free food. When I went to the post office to pay my |
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