Three Questions for Mr Leung
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 4 October 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The questions arising from a week of protest in Hong Kong are asked by the BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie; the Yangon River in Burma, now Myanmar, doesn't have the mightiest of reputations. But on its banks lay one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. Andrew Whitehead caught the ferry to see how Rangoon, as it used to be known, looks in today's era of political and economic change; Lyse Doucet is in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital where residents heard this week the militants from Islamic State were only a few miles away; the Turkish parliament has voted to take the fight to IS and Mark Lowen's been to the border between Turkey and Syria to consider the consequences; Wyre Davies is covering the Brazilian election and wonders if it can be won by the environmentalist daughter of a rubber tapper from the Amazon jungle.
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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. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, today three questions for Hong Kong's leader as a week of peaceful protest starts |
| 0:20.3 | to turn violent. As Syria's nightmare continues, three and a half years of war, |
| 0:25.6 | a hundred and ninety thousand dead, neighbouring Turkey struggles to cope with the consequences. |
| 0:31.6 | Tomorrow's election in Brazil could a rubber tapper's daughter consequences. Asian capital which has kept the world at bay for half a century, not a McDonald's or a Starbucks in sight. |
| 0:47.0 | There were tense confrontations in Hong Kong this morning between pro-democracy protesters and those opposed to the movement. |
| 0:54.8 | The worst clashes were in the commercial districts of Moncock and Causeway Bay. |
| 0:59.6 | And for the first time, dozens of counter-protesters have now arrived at the main demonstration site outside government |
| 1:06.0 | headquarters. |
| 1:07.8 | After a week of mass protests, Hong Kong's leader, CY Lung, had said the authorities were ready to talk to the activists who want |
| 1:15.4 | fully free elections in the vote for the Territory's next leader. |
| 1:19.2 | But the talks were called off after violent scuffles yesterday. Carrie Gracie, who's been covering the protests |
| 1:25.0 | all week, says she has three questions she'd like to put to Mr. Long. |
| 1:29.9 | My first question would be, why do they hate you so much? |
| 1:33.4 | If CY Long was being straight with me, he might say, it's impossible to be both Beijing's |
| 1:37.6 | man and Hong Kong's man, and that the Chinese Communist Party is a jealous God, that legitimacy in Hong Kong |
| 1:44.5 | would make him suspect in China because it would mean real local power and the |
| 1:49.0 | Communist Party would see that as a threat. If this was his answer I would broadly agree. The prevailing |
| 1:55.6 | politics of Beijing is you're either with us or against us. The problem is this has |
| 2:01.3 | made him nothing more than a number to many of his citizens. |
| 2:05.0 | They call him 689. |
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