A New Egypt
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Global despatches: some are pleased at what President al-Sisi's achieved in his first months in office in Egypt - others say that when it comes to repression, he's outdoing even his hardline predecessor Hosni Mubarak. Predicting what's about to happen in President Putin's Russia has become difficult now the country seems to have embraced an 'anything goes' philosophy. We're in the far north of Sweden learning that the Sami people believe widespread mining will ruin their traditional lands. The introduction of some democracy in Myanmar and the lifting of some western sanctions has not brought the predicted business boom, but for many citizens, the quality of life is slowly improving; and the sad story of the lonely baboon who's become trapped on a river island in Zimbabwe and is resisting all attempts to reunite him with his family.
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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. It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, today a new Egypt. That's what President Ceas says he's creating, but his critics |
| 0:20.5 | maintain he's outdoing even his hardline predecessor when it comes to |
| 0:24.3 | repression and clamping down on protest. In the far north of Sweden the |
| 0:29.4 | Sami people say they're in a fight for survival and all because of riches buried beneath |
| 0:34.4 | their traditional land. There's a sad story of a lonely babooned on an African |
| 0:41.1 | island and a question does President Putin of Russia have anything in common |
| 0:45.9 | with Frank Sinatra? |
| 0:47.7 | Our man in Moscow reckon so. |
| 0:51.0 | A court in Egypt this week sent a further 68 people to jail for their part in street violence in the capital Cairo last year. |
| 0:59.0 | Most received 15-year sentences and are said to be supporters of the deposed Islamist |
| 1:04.3 | president Mohammed Morsi. The man who ousted him, Abdul Fata Al-Sisi, says |
| 1:09.6 | he's building a new and democratic Egypt, but since his election in May, many fear the old Egypt is |
| 1:16.1 | making a comeback with widespread human rights abuse and the jailing of political opponents. Orlagerin in Cairo's been taking a look at how President Sisi is reshaping the country. |
| 1:28.0 | On a recent Sunday morning, I was sitting in my flat on the banks of the Nile with a full pot of coffee and an empty computer |
| 1:36.4 | screen in front of me. My plan was to spend a few hours writing about life in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Before I could type a word, |
| 1:47.2 | the story began to write itself when I heard a sickening thud. From my window I could see smoke rising across the river, near the high-rise |
| 1:57.2 | headquarters of the Egyptian foreign ministry. Staff were running across the lawn. |
| 2:03.0 | Soon afterwards at the scene, I found out that a bomb had killed two policemen at a checkpoint. |
| 2:09.0 | It was the latest in a series of sporadic militant attacks which have spiraled since July 2013. |
| 2:17.2 | That was when the CC era really began. |
| 2:21.1 | It was then as Army Chief that he ousted the elected President, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in a popularly backed coup. |
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