Egypt - Ten Years On

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In 2011, Kevin Connolly was a witness to the seething demonstrations on Tahrir Square, unprecedented unrest on the streets - and longtime President Hosni Mubarak's fall from power. It was a time of high hopes and ideals - but a decade later, Egypt's military is still firmly in charge of the country and real change seems a long way off. Did journalists mis-read the situation back then - and how might it evolve now? Pascale Harter introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. The Roma minority in Bulgaria - as in other countries in Europe - is all too often marginalised, stereotyped and sidelined. Amid the lockdowns and dangers of the Covid era, prejudice against Roma people has grown even more virulent - while the conditions many of them live in have worsened even further. Jean Mackenzie reports from Sliven in Bulgaria on a settlement struggling to survive the pandemic. It's Oscars season and countries around the world are submitting their entries for the Academy Award 'Best International Feature Film'. But Pakistan's contender, a comedy of faith and manners called 'Zindagi Tamasha', or 'The World is a Circus', has turned into a spectacle in its own right - even though it's not even been screened in public in Pakistan itself. Secunder Kermani explores the country's culture wars, and talks to the film's director. The pangolin - a small, shy, scaly mammal which lives on ants and grubs - might not be as famous or as charismatic as other threatened creatures like elephants, pandas or tigers. But it's still the world's most-trafficked animal, and endangered across Africa and Asia. In India, though, one conservationist dreamed up a special strategy to protect it - and enlisted a village priest to help. Geetanjali Krishna reports on an ingenious plan to save the species. (Image: Poster of President Hosni Mubarak being torn down during a protest in Egypt in 2011. Credit: EPA/Ahmed Youssef)