Mohammed Morsi dies
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 22 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The death of Mohammed Morsi throws into sharp relief the challenges facing modern day Egypt, and the bigger struggle to embrace democracy. Kevin Connolly reflects back on the defining moments of his presidency.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:06.1 | Today we travel in northeast Nigeria, |
| 0:08.8 | not a holiday jaunt, but a lesson in avoiding snipers. |
| 0:13.0 | Vegetables very much in vogue, |
| 0:15.0 | but the pickled variety are a necessity to widows in Kosovo. |
| 0:20.0 | How to tackle extremism, one woman has taken up the fight online against the far right in Germany. |
| 0:27.0 | And a tale of survival, the sea cow, the large not entirely conventionally beautiful but friendly manatee in the waters of Florida. |
| 0:37.0 | President, then prisoner, the rise and fall of Egypt's Mohammed Morsi, elected after the first free poll in 2012 at the |
| 0:46.8 | height of the Arab Spring, a time full of hope that Egypt would establish democratic credentials. |
| 0:54.0 | He was ousted a year later. |
| 0:55.8 | A brutal crackdown followed, leading Kevin Connolly to reflect on the lessons of history. Mohammed Morsi wasn't the first leader to feel he had the future of Egypt in his hands, |
| 1:07.0 | only to realize that he was choking in its grip. |
| 1:11.0 | Hassan albana, the assassinated founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and King Farruk, the |
| 1:16.7 | tubby little king who was forced from his throne, learned in their very different ways a similar |
| 1:22.2 | lesson. At the moment in the summer of |
| 1:25.1 | 2012 when the Constitutional Court confirmed Morsi's wafer-thin victory in |
| 1:30.6 | the country's first free presidential election, the atmosphere in Tahria Square |
| 1:36.2 | seemed to crackle with energy. |
| 1:39.3 | Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Brotherhood, Morsi was their candidate, danced and chanted in the burning heat. |
| 1:47.0 | It was 42 degrees and in the heart of the surging swaying suffocating crowd crowd it felt as though the oxygen was boiling out of the air around us |
| 1:58.0 | in a country first dominated by the British then plundered by corrupt monarchs |
| 2:02.2 | and finally held in the chains of dictatorship, |
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