You Can't Hug on Facebook
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Portuguese people are leaving the country in their thousands, travelling to the country's former colonies in search of work - Emma Jane Kirby's in Porto and Lisbon learning how recession's driving many away from their family and loved ones. The exodus from conflict-ridden Syria continues too - Kieran Cooke meets a family from Damascus now selling shoes in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. Kevin Connolly's in Cairo and asks how the military will react at the next election if the people once again select an Islamist candidate to be the country's leader. Beth McLeod has been finding out that a high proportion of Vietnam's sucessful businesses are run by women - she suggests the country's turbulent history may point at some of the reasons why. And far out in the Pacific, John Pickford's on Christmas Island where he stumbles across a reminder that this was the place where Britain carried out some of its first nuclear weapons testing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is a download of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:03.4 | We make one edition of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:06.7 | but this is the one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.7 | Here to introduce it, Kate Aide. |
| 0:11.9 | Hello, in this programme turmoil in Egypt after the ousting by the military of the Islamist |
| 0:18.2 | President Mohammed Morsi. |
| 0:21.1 | Families fracture in Portugal as thousands leave the country in search of a job. |
| 0:25.6 | Syrians on the move too, we talk to a family of Assad supporters selling shoes in Armenia. |
| 0:32.1 | And on Christmas Island, far away in the Pacific a concrete |
| 0:36.4 | reminder of the day the British triggered their first H-bomb. |
| 0:41.9 | Thirty people were killed overnight in street battles in Egypt between supporters and opponents |
| 0:46.5 | of the depose president. |
| 0:48.7 | More demonstrations are expected today. |
| 0:51.8 | Kevin Connolly, who's in the capital, Cairo, says that the Army's promising |
| 0:56.1 | fresh elections, but no date's been set, and it's far from clear the results |
| 1:01.0 | would be accepted. A little over two years ago the long reign of the brilliant teen autocrat Hosni Mubarak ended when tidal waves of protests in Cairo swept him from power. |
| 1:12.0 | Tarria Square was suddenly as famous as Times Square or Trafalgar or Tiananmen. |
| 1:18.0 | You knew the game was up for Mr. Mubarak when the uniformed security forces of the state |
| 1:22.2 | melted away. |
| 1:23.6 | The city streets were left to vigilantes, armed with everything from hockey sticks to |
| 1:27.7 | handguns. |
| 1:29.6 | It was a time of paradox here. |
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