Life Support
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Connolly has the latest from Cairo, awash with conspiracy theories after the authorities delayed the results of Egypt's presidential election. Jill McGivering's travelling across northern India investigating a growing water crisis. Major rivers are contaminated by pollution and wells are running dry. As delegates at the Rio conference study papers on future energy sources, Jonny Dymond's been to Kentucky where livelihoods built around coal mining are now in doubt. There's a building boom going on in the central African state of Chad but Celeste Hicks tells us it's still blighted by violence, poverty and disease. South Koreans are being urged to dress down now that high summer's arrived. But Lucy Williamson's been finding out they won't listen to entreaties that they should slip into something something cooler.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this is the from our own correspondent office at Bush House in London. |
| 0:04.3 | You can check out what we're up to by signing up to our Twitter feed. |
| 0:07.7 | But here's a download of our latest program on BBC Radio 4, introduced as ever by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Today ex-President Mubarak of Egypt, critically ill as the revolution which toppled him |
| 0:19.1 | itself hovers between life and death. |
| 0:21.9 | A countrywide water emergencies building in India, wells are |
| 0:25.6 | running dry, the government's being told it must act now. These are hard times in the mining |
| 0:31.0 | towns of Kentucky. People are starting to believe King Cole has |
| 0:34.7 | had his day. And we find out why the coolest place to hang out in the Korean capital |
| 0:39.5 | soul is the BBC office. |
| 0:43.4 | The most important 48 hours in Egypt's history. |
| 0:46.7 | That's the assessment of one Cairo newspaper this morning after the election authorities |
| 0:50.7 | said they were delaying the announcement of the winner of the presidential election. |
| 0:55.0 | Kevin Connolly is in the Egyptian capital this morning, |
| 0:58.0 | where there are suspicions about the motives behind last night's announcement, |
| 1:02.0 | and where the former president Hosni Mubarak is in hospital dying. |
| 1:06.0 | Somewhere inside the dark grounds of the military hospital, the old strong man of Egypt was facing the final certainty before which none of us is strong. |
| 1:16.2 | Fluorescent light, yellow and muted, gleamed bleakly from a hundred windows. |
| 1:21.8 | Rumors swirled like gusts of cigarette smoke in the midnight air |
| 1:25.2 | carried on the sudden breezes that were cooling Cairo after a sweltering day. |
| 1:31.5 | Mubarach had had a heart attack, a stroke. He had no pulse. His heart had stopped and been |
| 1:37.2 | restarted. He'd been defibrillated, medevact, intubated, ventilated. |
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