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From Our Own Correspondent

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From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Quentin Sommerville talks to protestors on Cairo's streets; Andrew Harding returns to Burma and this time he doesn't need a disguise! Linda Pressly visits a unique community of sex offenders in Florida, Leo Johnson is blasting for gold in Ecuador and David Chazan learns how to be a cyber-hacker in Lille.

Transcript

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You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent.

0:04.6

You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our site

0:08.9

at BBC online.

0:10.8

But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

0:16.0

Today dynamiting for gold in Ecuador's Andes.

0:20.0

In Florida we meet the residents of a unique community for sex offenders.

0:26.0

Our correspondent learns the dark arts of cyber hacking in Leal and the joys of a glass of wine

0:32.0

in a vineyard east of Mandalay.

0:35.0

Supporters and opponents of the ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi

0:40.0

are continuing to stage large rallies in Cairo. The city has now entered the fasting month of Ramadan.

0:47.0

Although many Egyptians became increasingly frustrated with Mr. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood

0:51.9

Government, there continues to be widespread on ease at

0:55.3

the Army's intervention in the country's politics.

0:58.8

What seems to be emerging is a battle for public opinion and influence. Dozens of people have died in clashes since Mr

1:05.9

Morsi's removal. Both sides have accused their opponents of faking evidence and receiving

1:11.6

support from foreign extremists.

1:14.4

Quentin Somerville has been on the streets of Cairo during the recent demonstrations.

1:19.6

The old woman in the floral headscarf had been standing in the sun for hours. Her arms were draped

1:25.0

through the barbed wire of a barricade, just a couple of blocks from where earlier that

1:29.4

morning on a Cairo street, 50 people had been shot dead by the Egyptian army. A distance away,

1:35.9

there were hundreds of protesters behind her, mostly Muslim Brotherhood members and all of them

1:40.8

President Morsi supporters.

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