Seventy-Two Snipers
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents' stories. Today: Hugh Sykes is in Cairo where the mood, at the end of a troubled week, is bleak and the outlook, apparently bleaker. Syrians caught in the cross hairs - Hannah Lucinda Smith on the real story of Aleppo's war: one of people trying to carry on with their lives amidst a conflict they never chose; Petroc Trelawny is on a bridge in Hanoi. The Vietnamese city, once the capital of French Indochina, is growing fast and economic forecasts are optimistic. Celeste Hicks suffers a head injury in Chad. It gives her a chance to see whether any of the country's extensive oil wealth has trickled down as far as the local hospital emergency room and David Stern has been in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where he walked in the footsteps of the man accused of killing President John F Kennedy and ended up facing something of a quandary. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant
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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. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello, today braving the sniper's bullet at a marketplace in Syria, walking in Minsk in the footsteps |
| 0:16.3 | of the man accused of killing President Kennedy, crossing a bridge in Hanoi part of Vietnam's |
| 0:22.3 | history, but not perhaps of its future, and suffering a |
| 0:26.2 | head injury in Chad and a close encounter with the local A&E department. |
| 0:31.9 | But first, Egypt, and the Muslim Brotherhood has called for more protests, starting |
| 0:36.6 | later today in support of the deposed President Mohammed Morsi. |
| 0:41.0 | Scores of people were killed yesterday as protesters in and around the city's |
| 0:45.4 | Ramsey Square clashed with security forces. There were also violent confrontations in Alexandria |
| 0:51.6 | and other cities. They came as the country was still reeling from |
| 0:55.5 | the deaths of hundreds of people on Wednesday when police moved in to clear two camps which |
| 1:00.9 | had been set up by the protesters. Hugh Sykes is in Cairo this morning. |
| 1:06.3 | In my rather faded elegant Central Cairo Hotel, I have a large double room with en suite, |
| 1:11.9 | high ceilings, wooden floorboards and a fourth-story balcony. |
| 1:15.6 | It'll cost the BBC 220 Egyptian pounds a night, bed and breakfast, eggs, extra, that's |
| 1:21.8 | about 22 British pounds. |
| 1:24.0 | In the wood panel dining room, the tables have cream linen cloths and sensible chairs. |
| 1:29.0 | On the walls there are prints, photographs and portraits. Random images arose with its |
| 1:35.1 | Latin name, the white Sacracur Church in Paris, a still life of flowers and avars, |
| 1:40.3 | an unlabeled, discolored and fading photograph of an oil platform at sea, and a pencil |
| 1:48.2 | sketch of an old man with a beard and gentle eyes. |
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