00:00Protests have continued in Albania against a massive coastal development project linked
00:05to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.
00:10Hundreds of demonstrators on Wednesday took to the streets of Tirana for the fourth day
00:15to voice their opposition to the project that the government says would be transformational
00:20for the former communist nation.
00:43The luxury projects linked to Kushner's investment firm and Ivanka Trump
00:49spans an abandoned island and a nearby stretch of seafront on Albania's southern coast.
00:55It has drawn opposition from environmental campaigners and critics of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
01:02On Tuesday, Rama said Albania should not be a country that fears an extraordinary project
01:08like this one, adding that, quote,
01:10there is absolutely no chance that the investment will stop as long as I am here.
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