Nov 19, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 19 November 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Are the generals in Egypt really about to relinquish power? Stephen Sackur in Cairo takes a closer look at the Tahrir Square revolution as Egyptians prepare to cast their votes. David Loyn's in Burma where vested interests, the cronies they're sometimes called, look on to see what will happen with the leaders' programme of reforms; Lucy Ash is in the Republic of Dagestan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, where bomb attacks and shootouts on an almost daily basis make this the most volatile corner of the Russian Federation; Mike Thomson explains why Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has become a 'closed city' but says it pays to get to know it better and Alastair Leithead's on a whirlwind tour of Colombia - he gets an apology from the president and tells us how gold has become the country's new cocaine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is from our own correspondent, a download from the BBC. |
| 0:03.6 | For a sneak preview of our program, you can join our feed on Twitter, |
| 0:07.4 | and there's a daily airing of From Our Own Correspondent on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.8 | But now the latest edition, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 |
| 0:15.1 | and it's introduced by Kate A.D. Egyptians prepare to cast their votes but are |
| 0:20.6 | the generals who helped run the country for decades really going to hand over |
| 0:24.0 | power? In Burma, the cronies wait in the wings to see if the country's flirtation with reform |
| 0:29.7 | will prove profitable. We talk about football and fear in Dagestan the most volatile |
| 0:35.5 | corner of the Russian Federation and learn why in Colombia gold is the new cocaine. |
| 0:40.8 | Tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets of Cairo and Alexandria yesterday |
| 0:46.8 | to denounce what they see as moves by the military authorities to entrench their power. |
| 0:51.9 | The army and security forces did not intervene. Demonstrators from |
| 0:56.4 | across the political spectrum expressed their frustration at the military rulers slow pace of |
| 1:01.2 | reform, despite their pledge to return Egypt to civilian government. |
| 1:06.2 | The protests came ahead of parliamentary elections this month, the first since President |
| 1:10.6 | Mubarak was toppled. |
| 1:12.3 | Stephen Sako, who's been in Egypt with the News Channel's Heart Talk program, |
| 1:16.0 | has been trying to gauge whether the forces of repression really have been vanquished. |
| 1:21.0 | Autumn Darkness has enveloped Cairo. vanquished. armed guard. A sullen nod ushes me into a crowded compound. Uniformed soldiers are |
| 1:36.4 | huddled near their armoured vehicles. This is Egypt's Ministry of Information. It's my first visit to Cairo's house of propaganda in almost |
| 1:47.8 | 20 years. It strikes me that very little has changed. The last time I was here I was in trouble. |
| 1:56.0 | I had made a television documentary which infuriated the then information minister |
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