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From Our Own Correspondent

The Revolt Against Austerity

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

'Crisis' and 'Hope,' two words which have continually cropped up in the Greek election campaign. Chris Morris has been out with campaigners from the leftist Syriza party. Kamal Ahmed talks of chasing the stories in the bubble that is the World Economic Forum in Davos. Devastating floods in Malawi, Rosie Blunt's been meeting families who've lost everything. Kevin Connolly's in Auschwitz where they are getting ready to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp. And the birds are doing well. So are the whales and the seals too. But Juliet Rix, far away in the South Atlantic, finds these are difficult, indeed fatal, times for the rats of South Georgia.

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0:00.0

You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, 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 Adi.

0:14.0

Hello, I think we're almost there.

0:16.2

Campaigners for Syriza, confident ahead of tomorrow's election in Greece.

0:20.2

But their revolt against austerity is causing anxiety in capitals across Europe.

0:26.0

In Malawi, misery, just a few days of flooding but a disaster which will last for years.

0:32.0

Champagne, Caviar, Bowl of cherries, the size of apples, some of the

0:36.8

stories doing the rounds at the World Economic Forum in Davos. And all aboard with

0:41.6

Captain Beluga, we're sailing to the distant South Atlantic to see for ourselves an extraordinary wildlife success story.

0:50.0

They were playing an old Leonard Cohen song at one of the final

0:53.4

series of rallies in Athens ahead of tomorrow's landmark general election in

0:57.5

Greece. Perhaps not surprisingly the left-wingers are

1:01.0

apparently set for victory like the tone of the song.

1:04.0

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

1:07.0

Of course the ripples of a series of victory might take some time to reach New York,

1:11.0

but without doubt they'll be felt swiftly in cities like

1:14.8

Madrid and Rome as well as Berlin.

1:17.6

Chris Morris has been out with the party's campaigners in northern Greece.

1:21.6

Knight had fallen, but the foot soldiers of Serraza were still hard at work, leaflets in hand and

1:26.2

a spring in their step.

1:28.1

We were on the streets of a left thereupoli, literal translation freedom town, going from bar to bar looking for voters to charm and

1:34.9

kajole. I was with among others a civil servant a self-employed photographer and an unemployed

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