03 Feb 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
President Mubarak of Egypt is desperate to leave office with a degree of dignity, but Lyse Doucet meets people in Cairo who think the time for change is now. US-led forces in Afghanistan feel they are making progress; Robert Fox considers whether this might be the beginning of the end for the Taliban or just another lull in the fighting. Few countries are as homophobic as Uganda; homosexual acts can be punished with years in prison. But following the death of gay rights activist David Kato, Anna Cavell finds Kampala's gay community in defiant mood. Pripyat in the Ukraine is a ghost town, abandoned within hours of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power-plant in 1986; Richard Hollingham explores the ruins of a model Soviet settlement frozen in time. Tea is a popular brew in both Britain and India but it's really not the same drink at all. Indian chai is something of a surprise to taste buds accustomed to the less spicy English preparation, but Judy Swallow soon fell in love with it.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC. This is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | You can hear the version of the program broadcast on the BBC World Service and presented by Alan Johnston |
| 0:11.0 | by going to the From Our own correspondent website or indeed to that |
| 0:15.9 | of the BBC World Service but here's the addition which goes out on BBC Radio 4 |
| 0:21.6 | it's introduced by Kate A.D. |
| 0:25.0 | Today, two young men, two grieving mothers, part of the unfolding story of change in the Arab world. |
| 0:31.0 | There's a flamboyant show of defiance in Uganda after the murder of a gay activist. |
| 0:36.8 | A tour of the ghost town in Ukraine were once they lived the Soviet dream, and how the mobile phone is fueling a demand for education in the |
| 0:45.6 | lawless provinces of southern Afghanistan. There's palpable tension this morning in the |
| 0:51.6 | Egyptian capital Cairo after further violent |
| 0:54.6 | clashes between supporters and opponents of President Hosni Mubarak. |
| 0:59.2 | A number of people are reported to have been killed and injured amid chaotic scenes in Tahria Square. |
| 1:05.4 | They have been running battles between the two sides, repeated bursts of gunfire, petrol bombs |
| 1:10.4 | and stones were thrown. |
| 1:12.4 | Yesterday, |
| 1:13.0 | Prama barrack demonstrators entered the square in force, |
| 1:16.0 | trying to drive out the thousands of protesters who've been calling for the President to step down. |
| 1:21.0 | Lee's Dorset has been watching this revolution unfold on the banks of the |
| 1:25.5 | Nile. |
| 1:26.5 | Kasser Neil Bridge spans Cairo's fabled river flanked by large stone lines. It takes you to the edge of a now famous square, Mydon Tarir Freedom Square. |
| 1:38.0 | It's a journey now taken by thousands of Egyptians by day and night as they march towards a public place |
| 1:45.1 | transformed into the largest political space Egypt has ever known. |
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