Discontent on the Nile
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'Everything is worse after the revolution' - tourism workers along the River Nile in Egypt tell Matthew Teller about the turmoil in their industry. Tessa Dunlop returns to Romania to see if the lot of orphans there has improved in the last twenty years. How some refugees from the fighting in Syria are finding a warm welcome in Hizbollah communities in northern Lebanon - Sakhr Al-Makhadhi explains. Alastair Leithead meets the Yurock tribe in northern California -- an ancient people in modern America. And why Andy Martin found the huge police presence at the G8 gathering of world leaders in Ireland distinctly disarming.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is a download of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:03.4 | We make one edition of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:06.7 | but this is the one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.7 | Here to introduce it, Kate Adie. |
| 0:11.8 | Hello, in this programme, if it's safe, why all of the police? |
| 0:16.7 | The tourist industry along the Nile in Egypt rails against the new Islamist government in |
| 0:21.6 | Cairo. How some refugees from the fighting in Syria are finding |
| 0:26.1 | a lavish welcome from Hezbollah militants in Northern Lebanon. We learn that dreams can come true for the orphans of Romania, but they may have to wait 23 years, |
| 0:38.0 | and why English policemen had to listen to tales about County for Manor long into the balmy night. |
| 0:45.3 | The Egyptian Minister of Tourism Hesham Zazu resigned yesterday in protest at the appointment |
| 0:50.8 | of a new governor in the city of Luxembourg. The man, |
| 0:53.7 | Adal Kriat, has links to a former militant group which was behind a deadly |
| 0:58.2 | attack on tourists in the 1990s. The Egyptian Prime Minister has not accepted Mr Zazu's resignation, but the Minister says he won't resume his work. |
| 1:08.0 | Matthew Teller says tourism is a vital lifeline in the cities along the Nile and some of those dependent on it |
| 1:14.9 | believe the authorities aren't giving them the support they need. A voice |
| 1:19.1 | called out behind me, Mr. Hey Mr. He was a captain of the Egyptian police, a handgun holstered on his hip and he had a serious |
| 1:28.8 | look on his face. |
| 1:30.2 | I explained I was just crossing the road to meet a friend. |
| 1:33.0 | He waggled a finger at me. |
| 1:35.0 | No, no! |
| 1:36.0 | There followed 15 minutes of discussion before I was allowed to proceed. |
| 1:39.0 | After he noted my passport and my friend's name, address and phone number. |
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