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Global News Podcast

Jailed Iranian human rights activist awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The committee hailed Narges Mohammadi's fight for freedom and democracy. She is currently serving a decade-long sentence for offences including propaganda against the state. Also: UN says every family in Ukraine village of Hroza has been affected by Thursday's attack, and new evidence shows we arrived in the Americas far earlier than previously thought.

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0:00.0

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0:06.4

investigating the murky world of online romance scams.

0:10.0

She was trying to get me to send her money.

0:12.6

Catch up with the whole series now, search for Love Genessa, wherever you found this podcast.

0:18.4

You win their art, you win their wallet.

0:22.4

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:26.5

I'm Nick Miles, and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 6th of October, these are our main stories.

0:32.0

The Iranian Human Rights Activist Nard Gehrs Mohamedi has been awarded their Nobel Peace Prize.

0:38.0

We look at the message that sends Tehran.

0:40.5

The UN says Thursday's attack on a Ukrainian cafe, which killed more than 50 people,

0:45.2

appeared to be caused by a Russian missile.

0:50.2

Also in this podcast, we've heard about the impact of long COVID,

0:53.9

or what about the misery of long colds,

0:56.7

and new evidence that shows we arrived in the Americas far sooner than previously thought.

1:02.1

Perhaps the ice sheets won't work to the great barrier,

1:05.0

that we have been thinking that they were, or, excitedly,

1:08.2

that they were probably multiple routes that were used.

1:16.0

We start with the words of the jailed Iranian human rights activist Nard Gehrs Mohamedi.

1:21.6

The more they punish me, the more determined I become to fight, until we achieve freedom.

1:26.6

And she has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1:29.8

The head of the Norwegian Committee in Oslo, Beror Files Anderson,

1:33.4

explained why Nard Gehrs Mohamedi deserved the accolade.

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