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Weekend - Woody Guthrie home recordings released for the first time - BBC Sounds More than half a century after his death, unheard music by the folk icon has been released

Never-before-heard home recordings of Woody Guthrie, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th Century, are released, more than half a century after his death. Weekend spoke to Guthrie's granddaughter Anna Canoni& his daughter Nora about the new album.
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Weekend - A tribute to Awdah Adhaleen - BBC Sounds The Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra on the life and death of Awdah Adhaleen

Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead this week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Local residents allege the shooter was an Israeli settler.
Basel Adra, co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" pays tribute to his colleague and friend, Awdah.
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Weekend - A tribute to Awdah Adhaleen - BBC Sounds The Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra on the life and death of Awdah Adhaleen

Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead this week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Local residents allege the shooter was an Israeli settler.
Basel Adra, co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" pays tribute to his colleague and friend, Awdah.
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Weekend - Israel resumes aid airdrops into Gaza - BBC Sounds At least 127 people have died from malnutrition since the war began - Gaza health ministry

Interview in audio in full here from min 04:30

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Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert tells Julian Worricker on the BBC World Service’s Weekend programme that the Israeli military’s newly announced tactical pause comes too late.

“Because the whole world is pissed off with us, and I think that they have a good reason for it,” he says.

Weekend - US President to meet EU chief - BBC Sounds Trump says there's a 50-50 chance that the US and EU could reach a framework trade deal

Weekend’s Julian Worricker spoke this morning to Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch. Also featuring David Mencer, spokesman for the office of the Israeli prime minister and genocide scholar, Menachem Rosensaft

From 32:20 here 👇

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and calculated push to drive Gaza to the brink of collapse further corroborates its criminal responsibility

These acts, beyond constituting grave international crimes, follow alarming, documented patterns of genocidal conduct.”

Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza...

Not only is delivering humanitarian aid one of Israel’s most critical obligations as the occupying power, but its deliberate depletion of essential necessities, destroying of natural resources

As the war in Gaza has dragged on, the debate has grown more heated - about whether that most serious of legal terms - genocide - should be applied to Israel's actions in Gaza.

In May a group of UN experts said this on the matter: ‘While States debate terminology-is it or is it not genocide?

London running out of…Chocolate swirls

Weekend - Gulf states urge Trump to help achieve Gaza ceasefire - BBC Sounds A Gaza hospital says 24 people were killed on Saturday near an aid distribution site

This morning on BBC World Service we took time to Remember Srebrenica.
We recalled what happened&heard from survivors & relatives. David Rhode told us how he uncovered the first mass graves 30 years ago. With guests Arminka Helic and Steven Erlanger👇from min 26:30
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Weekend - The journalist who told the world about Srebrenica graves - BBC Sounds David Rohde recalls how he came across the mass graves after the genocide

The Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia 30 years ago was the worst single atrocity on European soil since World War Two. The journalist David Rohde, who uncovered and told the world about the mass graves after the genocide, recalls how he came across the story

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Srebrenica. Never forget.

Tomatoes do that to me

Don’t be afraid, boss. Next time:)

You about town, boss?

Very cryptic :)

Weekend - Retired US General says ‘zero confidence’ in Gabbard - BBC Sounds US intelligence director now says Iran could produce nuclear weapons "within weeks"

Former Commanding General of the US Army in Europe Ben Hodges says he has “zero confidence” in US Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard.

The retired general also told the BBC’s Weekend programme that he is sceptical about US military intervention in Iran.

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Weekend - Rob Malley says Iran-Israel war is a "powder keg already blown up" - BBC Sounds Israel and Iran have continued to attack each other throughout the night

Interview in full here

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The conflict between Israel & Iran is a "powder keg [that] has already blown up", according to Robert Malley, the lead negotiator of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Speaking to the BBC World Service’s Weekend, Malley says the current hostilities "may well head in a more dangerous direction".

Have fun on my behalf as well, Nick

So great to have colleagues @nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social and Chris Brown as panel guests on Weekend this morning. If you missed the show live, you can catch up here

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Weekend - Righting a wrong after 131 years - BBC Sounds A rare moment of unanimity in the French parliament

French MPs backed a bill this week that would promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of Brigadier Genera. His great-grandson Michel Dreyfus, has been speaking to Julian Worricker on Weekend programme 👇

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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: a boon to the UK, as well as audiences elsewhere | Editorial Editorial: Britain would benefit from pledging more sustained and committed support in this age of disinformation and global turmoil

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Weekend - Gaza resident: 'It feels like the end of the world' - BBC Sounds We speak to a mother of two children amid concerns over the humanitarian situation

The Israeli military is continuing with a new offensive in Gaza, despite possible ceasefire talks with Hamas in Qatar. Weekend's Rebecca Kesby spoke to Asma, a teacher and mother of two daughters who is in Jabalia, in the north of Gaza, on Friday.

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Weekend - Gaza doctor: 'I don't know how I can stand with the mass casualties’ - BBC Sounds A plastic surgeon tells of the toll the war is taking on him and his family

Top UN official told the BBC this week that Israel denying food to Gaza is 'weapon of war'
Gazans have been starving for two and a half years now.
This is a heartbreaking interview I did with a Gaza surgeon - father of small children - in December 2023
#Weekend

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When in Rome

‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family

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RIP Mario Vargas Llosa. Thank you especially for Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, one of my most loved books