Bellingcat Founder Eliot Higgins on Navalny, Syria and Skripal

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this week's episode Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, tells the dramatic story of how he went from college dropout to pioneering a new category of reporting that has cracked some of the biggest cases in the world. Drawing from his new book We Are Bellingcat, Higgins reveals the tools his investigators use, from software that helps pinpoint the location of an image, to an app that can nail down the time a photo was taken. He discussed Bellingcat’s investigations into the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons, and the recent poisoning of Russian politician Alexei Navalny. The event will be hosted by Manveen Rana, senior investigative journalist at The Times and Sunday Times. To buy Eliot and Bellingcat's new book click here: https://bit.ly/39NIVEP To sign up for our live online event with KATE WINSLET on February 10 click here: https://bit.ly/3rrDscz Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Rory Stewart, and I'd like to tell you about an intelligence squared event
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0:10.1	politics and power from the Caesars to Sunak, who gets to Winpar, who is excluded. Does power
0:16.6	always corrupt, or are there examples of leaders who've maintained their integrity while an
0:21.2	authority? And how does the nature of power vary across different times and cultures? These are
0:26.4	just some of the questions that Mary and I will be trying to answer. In person tickets
0:30.7	are now sold out, but you can still watch online on the 13th of November at 7pm BST,
0:36.1	put your questions to us live as we discuss power and politics down the ages.
0:40.9	Hello podcast listeners, before we go to this week's episode, I just want to tell you about an
0:45.6	upcoming event we have next week with Oscar award-winning actor Kate Winslet on our award-winning
0:52.5	series How I Found My Voice. If you'd like to join Kate Winslet and Samira Ahmed and ask your
0:58.4	questions about her life and career, you can do so next week on February 10th and we have a special
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1:17.3	all your questions on the Titanic, the reader and everything in between.
1:22.2	Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of Intelligence squared.
1:27.2	Today we have a very special guest for you, it's Elliot Higgins, founder of the Investigative
1:32.8	Outlet Bellencat, which has exposed some of the biggest scandals and stories in recent memory
1:39.0	from working with Alexei Navalny to expose the Russian state's involvement in his poisoning
1:45.4	just last year to proving that Assad used chemical weapons in Syria. Elliot and Bellencat have been
1:51.6	at the forefront of exposing global crime. In the episode he spoke to Non-Venrana, senior investigative
1:57.6	journalist at the Times and Sunday Times and host of the excellent podcast stories of our times.
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