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Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow gave the Hugh Cudlipp lecture at the London College of Communication. You can read the full text of his speech here.
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Despite the controversial dissolution of parliament, voting begins in presidential elections in Egypt. But what does the situation mean for the country’s transition process?
“In Tahrir Square itself the grass has died, and much youthful optimism with it.”
As Egypt prepares for presidential elections this weekend, activists claim that gains made during the revolution could be wiped out after a court ruling overturned last year’s parliamentary poll.
Egypt’s historic presidential run-off at the weekend has been thrown into chaos after a senior court ruled that parliamentary elections in January were unconstitutional.
Partial results indicate Islamist candidate Mohammed Mursi will be pitted against Mubarak-era Ahmed Shafiq in the second round of the Egyptian presidential election.
Egyptians take to the polls today to vote for the first democratically elected president in 60 years. But after being so involved in the revolution, is there a role for women in Egypt’s future?
The former Italian prime minister turned up unexpectedly at his trial in Milan – where he is facing allegations that he paid for sex with an underage prostutute and then tried to cover it up.
If it wasn’t for a hard core of violent youths, many of them football fans, manning the barricades and taking on the police a year ago, would Egypt’s revolution have gone as far as it has?
There has been widespread anger in Egpyt after 74 people died in football violence. As Jonathan Rugman reports, conspiracy theories abound about how the tragedy could have happened.
US President Barack Obama uses the State of the Union address to focus on economic inequity, calling for tax reform to a system that allows the wealthy to pay a lower rate than middle-class Americans.
Crowds fill Cairo’s streets to mark a year since the movement to oust President Hosni Mubarak began. Meanwhile, Egyptian MPs have launched an inquiry into the violent suppression of demonstrations.
Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow gave the Hugh Cudlipp lecture at the London College of Communication. You can read the full text of his speech here.
A Tunisian protester who set himself on fire to protest against high unemployment has died in hospital. It comes almost exactly a year after a fruit seller’s self-immolation sparked the Arab Spring.
As Channel 4 News asks you who you think changed the world the most in 2011, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman makes the case for a young fruit and vegetable seller from Tunisia.
From the Arab Spring to the eurozone crisis, Channel 4 News casts an expert eye on the events that changed the world this year.