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Richard? tell us about whats happened over the last couple of hours there. >> it is astonishing to many people that have been covering ee gupt for a long time. excuse me there. theres heavy tear gas in the air so ive been coughing a little bit. if i cough, excuse me ahead of time. were seeing a city in a state of revolt. cairo has about 18 million people in it. there were tens of thousands of people out in the streets today. the curfew was imposed about 40 minutes ago. people are still out on th...

Now left at least three people dead. >> the u.s. is calling for an end to the violence, but that does not appear likely. alex marquardt is joining us by the phone this morning from cairo where protests have stretched into the night. hi, alex. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. today is the day well get a clear sense of whether this protest has legs. the question everyone is asking is whether tuesdays protest will be able to keep up its momentum and continue today or whether the security ...

Megaprojects may turn investors like mohamed camus fantastic returns but will it also benefit cairos poorest residents in the long term. i dont think that there are apartments for people on a limited budget here in the new capital. but we are helping these people by rebuilding their houses they dont like to move out of the neighborhoods where they live and grow up you can see that with us in iraq. mohamed would certainly rather have stayed in the inner city minor renovation work in his old home ...

Be like in the desert city. urban centers created on a computer rows of uniform houses all erected in record time plan cities can be found around the world the modern prototype is brazils capital brasilia built on a towering plateau it was the late one nine hundred fifty s. architectural megaproject. sedona sent petersburg and manhattan all also conceived on a drawing board and now its egypts turn. its fifty kilometers from cairos eastern edge through sandy deserts and blistering heat. on the ho...

The twenty eight year old turns about three year olds a day just barely enough to survive. for one of the summer and for sure of course this work isnt good for my health but who else is supposed to feed my family i have to do something. karim lives in as. a slum in the middle of cairo. they call the quarter the peoples republic of china because its hopelessly overpopulated and dilapidated. houses here are practically all in need of repair the sewage system doesnt work right and the air is pollut...

In cairo slums. another new settlement on the citys eastern outskirts is one of the governments answers to this burning issue in just eighteen months it sprung up from nothing. the buildings everywhere in the development have the same design and layout. there are apartments here for about ten thousand of the citys poorest families the housing blocks have names like jewel jasmine or paradise. and there are three elementary schools and two supermarkets but otherwise there are a few shops and few j...

Here and find a cleaner. cleaner than here at least a job a school for the kids because theres nothing here. but what to do with the people in cairo slums. another new settlement on the citys eastern outskirts is one of the governments answers to this burning issue in just eighteen months it sprung up from nothing the buildings everywhere in the development have the same design and layout. there are parliaments here for about ten thousand of the citys poorest families the housing blocks have nam...

In cairo slums. another new settlement on the citys eastern outskirts is one of the governments answers to this burning issue in just eighteen months it sprung up from nothing. the buildings everywhere in the development have the same design and layout. there are apartments here for about ten thousand of the citys poorest families the housing blocks have names like jewel jasmine or paradise. and there are three elementary schools and two supermarkets but otherwise there are a few shops and few j...

Of course this work isnt good for my health but who else is supposed to feed my family i have to do something. karim lives in s. but. a slum in the middle of cairo. they call the quarter the peoples republic of china because its hopelessly overpopulated and dilapidated. houses here are practically all in need of repair the sewage system doesnt work right and the air is polluted he pays twenty euros a month here for two rooms a kitchen and a bathroom it may be cheap but its also a very basic. the...

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