Feb 10 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 10 February 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The generals in Cairo watch and wait as the demonstrations continue: Jon Leyne considers their possible role in the days and weeks ahead. Bethany Bell attends a spectacular Viennese ball and finds that the possible succession in Egypt is the talk of the town. Across Europe there is growing anxiety about the cultural impact of immigration, fuelling the growth of populist political parties who say Europe's Christian heritage is under threat. Chris Bowlby reflects on the religious symbolism of the immigration debate. A group of prominent Indians recently praised the country's media for exposing corruption. Mark Tully considers whether India's media is itself a part of the problem. And the Russian woman whose baby workout shocked the blogosphere has some advice for her critics.
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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 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 Egypt's all-powerful military bide their time as huge demonstrations continue in Cairo. |
| 0:31.0 | We listen in as they discuss the Egyptian succession on the dance |
| 0:35.0 | floor in Vienna. The Russian mother at the center of an internet baby care row comes |
| 0:40.1 | out fighting and reporters are humiliated, TV executives humbled as Indians decide |
| 0:46.5 | they prefer their news fair, honest and free of corruption. |
| 0:51.4 | The Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gath has publicly rejected what he called American |
| 0:56.4 | attempts to impose its will on the government in Cairo. |
| 1:00.2 | He said he was amazed at Washington's calls for an immediate lifting of the state of emergency |
| 1:05.2 | that's been in place in Egypt for decades. President Obama's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, |
| 1:10.4 | has responded by saying, the genie was out of the bottle and protests would |
| 1:14.7 | only get bigger unless the pace of reform quickened. This morning thousands of |
| 1:19.5 | protesters are again gathering in Central Cairo, demanding that the Egyptian President Hosni |
| 1:24.8 | Babarak leave office immediately. |
| 1:27.5 | John Line says it's still far from clear what the future holds for Egypt, its rulers and its |
| 1:32.3 | people. |
| 1:33.8 | The policeman shoved me aside as he rushed to chase a group of protesters. |
| 1:38.5 | Then he turned back for a moment. |
| 1:40.5 | Excuse me, he said. Earlier as the confrontation brewed on that first-day protests, another officer told me of his |
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