Watch Your Back!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"Watch your back Howard!" was one of the politer messages the BBC Philippines Correspondent received after making a documentary about Rodrigo Duterte. As Howard Johnson has found, journalists who question the President can become the target of organised attacks by online trolls.
Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:
The CFO of Huawei once saw Vancouver as a refuge, a base outside of China should she ever need it, now she’s not allowed to leave the city. Micky Bristow gets a glimpse of life in Canada for members of the Chinese elite.
Bee Rowlatt interviews Germaine Greer at the Jaipur Literature Festival – and wonders what its usually outspoken crowd will make of their outspoken guest.
Jasmine Taylor Coleman joins a puffin patrol in Iceland, as locals try to protect the endangered birds.
And disorganised chaos or a carefully choreographed dance? Alastair Leithead tries to figure out what’s going on in an airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and what it says about the country.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. |
| 0:06.6 | Today, Trade War, Sanctions Busting and State Sponsored Spying, the story of the Chinese |
| 0:12.3 | Tech Company, Huawei, and one of its top executives, Meng Wanjou and her second life in Canada. |
| 0:19.8 | In India were at the world's largest literary festival with Germain Greer. |
| 0:24.8 | Gender equality in the Me Too movement are on the agenda. |
| 0:28.8 | In Iceland we're on puffin patrol as volunteers helped to clean up the endangered and disappearing birds, and |
| 0:35.8 | meaningless chaos or a carefully choreographed dance, our correspondent tries to make sense of the |
| 0:41.2 | way things work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| 0:45.0 | It's as though the President of the Philippines revels in controversy. |
| 0:50.0 | In a recent speech, Rodrigo Duterte described how as a teenager he sexually assaulted a sleeping |
| 0:56.8 | maid and then confessed to a priest. |
| 0:59.8 | His office later claimed he made it all up. He once vowed that 100,000 criminals would die in |
| 1:06.4 | his crackdown on drugs and that he'd be prepared to shoot some of them himself. |
| 1:10.5 | And he's described his country's Catholic bishops as useless fools who should be killed. |
| 1:17.2 | He's been accused of attacking anyone who represents a threat, including journalists. |
| 1:22.1 | Howard Johnson knows what it's like to feel the heat from online trolls. |
| 1:28.0 | If I ever see him in the street, |
| 1:30.0 | I will punch him in the face, God forbid, read one of the comments about me. |
| 1:34.8 | The only one in danger will be this reporter if he doesn't stop the lies and bias reporting |
| 1:39.7 | he is spreading went the next. |
| 1:42.0 | I continued scrolling, Howard, watch your back. There was a |
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