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From Our Own Correspondent

Prepared to Die

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Will the Egyptian army move in to break up the camp in Cairo set up by supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi? Caroline Wyatt has been meeting residents of a city which is bitterly divided. Christians are leaving Syria in their thousands. Diana Darke's been learning that they're being greeted with enthusiasm in neighbouring Turkey. Jonathan Head says there's been a conciliatory mood in Burma as people gathered this week to mark the anniversary of an uprising which launched the country's pro-democracy movement. There are some in Gibraltar who feel the British government's not doing enough for them - Tom Burridge is on the Rock as the latest chapter in a 300-year-old row unfolds and the BBC's new man in Australia, Jon Donnison, explains why he's finding it hard coming to terms with the sheer size of his new patch. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is a download from BBC Radio. It's the latest edition of Radio 4's from our own correspondent,

0:06.1

and it's introduced by Kate Adi.

0:08.6

Hello. In this programme, the children in Cairo who say they're prepared to die in their support of

0:14.8

ousted President Morsi. We cannot forget the past but we shouldn't dwell on it

0:19.6

one of the voices at a reunion in Burma of those who tried to overthrow the military 25 years ago.

0:26.7

We learn how the conflict in Syria is bringing life back to long abandoned villages in Turkey.

0:33.0

And there's a big prawn, a big avocado, and even a big boxing crocodile.

0:38.0

Our new man in Australia admits he's overwhelmed by the sheer size of life down under.

0:45.3

Muslims around the world have been marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with

0:49.2

the festival of Eid.

0:50.9

For many it's meant sharing festive meals and family days out. But in Egypt

0:55.4

tensions are high with the standoff continuing between the Muslim Brotherhood supporters

1:00.2

of the camp around a mosque in eastern Cairo. The last confrontation ended with scores dead and injured.

1:16.6

But Caroline Wyatt, who's in the Egyptian capital, says the thousands staging the sit-in say they

1:22.1

won't go home until Mr. Morsi is

1:24.4

returned to power. With a warm smile that reveals the braces on her teeth and

1:29.1

limpid brown eyes, 14-year-old Amina is a slightly gawky teenager on the cusp of adulthood but not quite

1:35.3

there yet. Her hair is invisible beneath a neat headscarf and she talks with a

1:40.2

confidence beyond her years. We're standing on plastic sheeting in a makeshift

1:44.9

tent in the middle of what would normally be a busy Cairo dual carriageway, but now it's a

1:50.0

protest camp bursting with families. The smell of cooking mingled with the heat of so many people

1:56.0

crammed into a small space, all sleeping, washing, eating or praying here. I mean as English is fluent, and she reminds me a little of one of my nieces when she was the same age.

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