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From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Opposition leader Raila Odinga declares himself the ‘People’s President’ in Kenya. Kate Adie introduces stories wit and analysis from correspondents around the world.

Expecting trouble, Alastair Leithead attends a controversial swearing-in ceremony in Nairobi but the government’s show of force didn’t come from the security forces sent to police the event. The water crisis engulfing Cape Town is making headlines around the world, but Pumza Fihlani says a lack of running water has long been a way of life for millions of others in South Africa. Laurence Blair examines how immigration is becoming a political issue in Chile and how the recent arrivals and their hosts are having to adapt. In Switzerland, Katherine Forster revisits the site of a fancy dress party that changed her life and finds a country that, at first glance, appears the same. And Emma Levine plays chess in Armenia against an eleven yearold who is hoping to become one of the world’s youngest ever grandmasters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:04.0

Good morning.

0:05.0

Today it's cold and soggy outside, but in Cape Town after years of drought,

0:10.0

they may have to turn off the taps,

0:12.0

and not all South Africans are sympathetic to the city dwellers.

0:15.6

Chile is relatively stable among volatile Latin American neighbours, but now sees migrants

0:22.4

as a political problem, even provoking the cry of

0:25.6

build a wall from one presidential hopeful. How about a cheap skiing holiday?

0:30.8

But in Switzerland? We hear of a life-changing encounter, including a fancy

0:35.8

dress party.

0:37.5

And we're in Armenia, where being beaten by an 11-year-old at chess offers an insight into how the country dominates in the game.

0:47.0

Kenya has a new president, at least that's what the long time opposition leaderila O'Dinger would like you to

0:54.2

think. On Tuesday he had himself sworn in as an alternative people's

0:59.6

president. The East African country has a history of political violence.

1:04.2

Scores of people are reported to have been killed since voting last August,

1:08.7

and more than 1500 people died in the violence that followed a disputed election in 2007.

1:16.2

And so Alistelith head was expecting trouble in Nairobi as he attended the controversial

1:21.4

swearing- in ceremony.

1:24.0

There's a pattern to Kenyan political protests, so well known that this week's well advertised

1:30.0

opposition inauguration ceremony was already being called

1:33.7

tear gas Tuesday before the first riot policeman had even opened fire.

1:38.1

When Uru Kenyatta, son of Kenya's first president, was inaugurated for a second term in office last November.

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