Prepared to Die
High tension in Cairo, plus more reports from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ foreign correspondents in Turkey, Gibraltar, Burma and Australia, presented by Kate Adie.
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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ'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.
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- Sat 10 Aug 2013 11:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM