If you missed attacks on Iran live on the radio this morning you can listen back as the story unfolded in real time: Trump’s statement, descriptions of the jets & bombs over Tehran, live updates from Jerusalem from Joaquin Floto and Lyse Doucet tying it all together👇
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On Weekend this morning we marked 4 years of war in Ukraine.
Julian Worricker caught up with former tennis pro player Sergiy Stakhovsky who’s been fighting for his country from the very first days of the Russian full scale invasion
An extraordinary account
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On Weekend this morning we turned the spotlight onto those who suffered at Epstein’s hands and who helped bring about his downfall.
Julian Worricker spoke to Marina Lacerda who met Epstein in New York in 2002 when she was just 14.
A very powerful interview
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On Weekend this morning we turned the spotlight onto those who suffered at Epstein’s hands and who helped bring about his downfall.
Julian Worricker spoke to Marina Lacerda who met Epstein in New York in 2002 when she was just 14.
A very powerful interview
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On Weekend this morning we marked 4 years of war in Ukraine.
Julian Worricker caught up with former tennis pro player Sergiy Stakhovsky who’s been fighting for his country from the very first days of the Russian full scale invasion
An extraordinary account
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BBC World Service faces funding cliff edge in seven weeks, says Tim Davie
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War crimes prosecutors seek 45 years' prison for Kosovo ex-president
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'All of our gowns were bloodied”
An Iranian doctor recounts the scenes from her clinic during the violent crackdown of protests in the country in early January.
For her security she is not being named. Her words are spoken by a translator.
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Our legendary colleague Anthony Loyd of the Times speaking to Julian Worricker on war and peace in Ukraine live from Donbas. From min 27 here 👇
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It’s been one of those days in the office…
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Epstein survivor: DOJ partial files release 'sucks'
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Peroni fontana in London
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RIP Ornela Vanoni
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Gorgeous autumn day
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A message in a bottle- written by 2 Australian soldiers on their way to fight in the WW1 in 1916 in Europe- has been found 109 yrs later.Weekend’s Julian Worricker spoke to Deb Brown, her daughter discovered the bottle &Ann Turner, the granddaughter of one of soldiers
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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario is the winner of two Pulitzer prizes and many other awards for her work over the past couple of decades. She has covered conflicts from Libya, to Afghanistan, Sudan and Ukraine. Her storied career is now subject of a new film “Life+War”.
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Twenty-five years ago, pro-democracy protests took place in Belgrade and forced the Serb authoritarian leader Slobodan Milosevic to step down.
Srdja Popovic, one of the leaders of the student protest movement Otpor spoke to Weekend's Julian Worricker.
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Summer skies
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Kallas said today that any deal between Washington and Moscow to end the war in Ukraine must include Ukraine and the EU, adding that she will convene a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday to discuss next steps.
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Polish FM Sikorski says that changing of borders by force “has resonance for every European. We fought two bloody wars over the issue of national minorities across international borders . . . Putin has sent tanks in and that should not stand”
His interview on Weekend👇
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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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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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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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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’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
