Cities on Edge
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 2 November 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents' stories: Jeremy Bowen on the effect in Egypt of the upcoming trials of senior figures from the Muslim Brotherhood; you could write the history of the South Pacific as a succession of arrivals of powerful, foreign vessels in palm-fringed lagoons, according to John Pickford in Tonga; the Sudanese capital Khartoum 'changed forever' after the recent riots in the capital - that's what James Copnall's been hearing in Khartoum; Linda Pressly's been to the Spanish city of Melilla, on the north coast of Morocco, to meet the so-called 'mule women' and find out why they're prepared to shoulder such heavy loads and Russians have never been famous for their smiles, but Jamie Coomarasamy's wondering if times have changed and they're now no longer trying to keep a straight face! The programme is produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, by Kate Adi. Edy. Hello. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, cities on edge. |
| 0:14.0 | The security forces in Egypt on alert as senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood go on trial. |
| 0:20.0 | These are nervous days in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. We hear how recent riots there have changed the country forever. |
| 0:28.0 | Why women are doing the heavy lifting at a European outpost in Africa, and a shock for our man back in Moscow. |
| 0:36.1 | Have Russians really learned how to smile? |
| 0:40.0 | The deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi goes on trial on Monday, along with 14 other |
| 0:45.8 | senior Muslim Brotherhood figures. |
| 0:48.1 | At least a thousand people, including members of the police and army, were killed in outbreaks of violence which followed the |
| 0:54.7 | overthrow of Mr Morsi. |
| 0:57.0 | Since then the security forces have detained numerous leaders and supporters of the Muslim |
| 1:01.7 | Brotherhood. This week they arrested |
| 1:04.1 | Esmel Arian, deputy leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. Jeremy |
| 1:09.7 | Bowen, who's met Mr. L. Arian and several of the other Islamists up in court next week |
| 1:15.0 | says the trial seems certain to create yet more upheaval in Egypt. |
| 1:20.0 | I wasn't surprised to see Isam Al Arian with a big smile in the photo released by Egypt's interior ministry after his arrest. |
| 1:28.0 | He smiles a lot. |
| 1:30.0 | Before President Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011, I used to meet Isam on one of the islands in the river Nile in Cairo, in a scruffy flat that back then was the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. |
| 1:43.6 | After the revolution they moved into a spanking U HQ. |
| 1:47.6 | It was burnt down during the coup against the Brotherhood in the summer. |
| 1:51.8 | Islam, it was always first names with him, was friendly to Western journalists. |
| 1:56.8 | He used to answer his mobile phone, make jokes, and agreed to interviews. |
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