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From Our Own Correspondent

The Love Hunters

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Global despatches. Today: it was Gabriel Gatehouse's local shopping mall but now the Westgate Centre in Nairobi has become known as a place of fear, suffering and death; did Angela Merkel do TOO well in the German election? Chris Morris on why forming a new government there could be a protracted business. As the Egyptian authorities move to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, Quentin Sommerville talks of the country's increasing polarisation. China's wealthy elite have found their own solution to the country's girl shortage - Lucy Ash has been meeting 'The Love Hunters' in Shanghai. And John Pickford has been finding out if there are still beachcombers to be found in the faraway islands of the South Pacific. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant

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0:00.0

Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London.

0:04.4

You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

0:08.9

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:11.2

Thank you. Today the Muslim Brotherhood banned its assets seized.

0:16.4

In Egypt the crackdown on opposition intensifies.

0:19.9

Has Mrs Merkel won too well?

0:22.3

Her election triumph means a new German government could be months away.

0:26.7

We meet the love hunters of Shanghai signing up spouses for China's richest men. And could you give it all up and live as a beach coma?

0:35.8

We're off to an isolated coral atoll in the South Seas to find out.

0:40.1

Experts from several countries and Interpol have joined Kenya's investigation into the

0:46.8

four-day siege of the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi in which at least

0:50.9

67 people died.

0:53.0

Teams from the United States, Canada, Israel and Britain

0:57.0

are helping to carry out DNA fingerprint and ballistic tests.

1:01.0

The Kenyan Interior Minister has confirmed that five militants believed to be from the

1:05.9

Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab also died. Security has now been tightened in Kenya's other high-profile buildings considered potential targets.

1:16.0

Gabriel Gatehouse was one of the reporters covering the siege.

1:20.0

For many in Nairobi, leisure time revolves around the shopping mall.

1:25.0

Westgate is my local complex, or one of them.

1:28.0

This is a city where an increasingly affluent middle class

1:32.0

and large numbers of relatively wealthy expats live alongside

1:36.0

an even larger group of people for whom a coffee in one of Westgate cafes

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