This Time It's Different
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Twisted metal, smashed concrete and anger on the streets of Mogadishu. Bridget Kendall introduces stories, analysis, and insight from correspondents around the world.
After decades of war and years of terror attacks Somalia has seen a lot of violence, but this time it’s different says Alistair Leithead following the truck bomb which killed hundreds of people in the capital. As the Chinese Communist Party meets for its five-yearly congress, Carrie Gracie goes underground on the Beijing subway to gauge the mood in the city. John Sweeney is in Malta where the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has raised questions about corruption and organised crime. Linda Pressly reports from Sweden where hundreds of migrant children appear to have switched off from the world around them – refusing to talk, eat or get out of bed. How can 'Resignation Syndrome' be cured? And on the Faroe Islands, Tim Ecott joins the annual gannet hunt – the young birds are a prized local delicacy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. Today in China, confidence and ambition were on display at the Communist Party Congress this week, |
| 0:11.0 | but what do ordinary Beijingers make of it all? Our |
| 0:15.2 | correspondent in Malta visits the spot where on Monday a journalist famous for |
| 0:20.7 | uncovering corruption was murdered. From Sweden the children who go months |
| 0:26.6 | without getting out of bed or even speaking or eating a little understood medical |
| 0:32.1 | condition affecting young asylum seekers. |
| 0:35.9 | And we join the intrepid Pharaoh Islanders on their annual hunt for a local delicacy, lowered |
| 0:41.7 | down a vertical cliff face above a raging ocean. delicate has declared war on al-Shabaab. The Islamist militant group is thought to have |
| 0:54.9 | been behind the truck bomb that killed hundreds and injured hundreds more in the |
| 0:59.8 | Somali capital on Saturday. In accordance with Islamic custom the dead were |
| 1:05.2 | quickly buried. The streets were also swiftly repaired but as Alistelith |
| 1:10.4 | had found out the cleanup operation can't erase the mounting anger and frustration of locals. |
| 1:18.6 | The man from Mogadishu's Ministry of Sanitation has one of the worst jobs in the city, but he's very good at it. |
| 1:25.3 | When a bomb goes off, Abdiocese Goude cleans up. |
| 1:29.5 | Just a few days after Somalia's biggest ever truck bomb had torn through a busy junction, |
| 1:34.4 | collapsing buildings, blowing off roofs and incinerating cars stuck in a traffic jam, |
| 1:39.8 | his workers were resurfacing the tarmac road where the blast had taken place. |
| 1:44.6 | A massive pile of twisted metal and smashed concrete, |
| 1:47.8 | all that was left of the multi-story hotel, which took the full force of the explosion, |
| 1:52.0 | had been taken away in trucks and the ground leveled. |
| 1:55.0 | Corrugated blue metal sheeting now lined the road, |
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