[01:43.67]can gas thousands of his own people with impunity even after the United States and our allies said no,
[01:51.52]and then the world does nothing about it,
[01:54.16]there will be no end to the test of our resolve and the dangers that will flow from those others who believe that they can do as they will.”
[02:04.01]The poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has died.
[02:08.25]He was 74 and he’d suffered from ill health recently.
[02:12.09]Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland but later lived in the Republic of Ireland,
[02:16.07]who was a teacher and then had a distinguished career in poetry, winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.
[02:23.06]A BBC correspondent says that it was the political troubles in Northern Ireland that helped make Heaney famous.
[02:30.39]Supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi have protested across the country in their biggest demonstration for two weeks.
[02:38.59]Six people have been killed and dozens injured in clashes.
[02:41.81]In Cairo, the demonstrators opted for several scattered protests avoiding the capital’s bigger squares.
[02:47.47]On Thursday, another leader of Mr Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Beltagi, was arrested by the military-backed government.
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