Jamal Khashoggi - unanswered questions

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🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

There was an international outcry following the murder of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. Saudi officials blamed rogue agents sent to persuade him to return to the kingdom. Frank Gardner reflects on his encounters with Jamal Khashoggi and the questions that still need answering. Germany has pledged to more than halve its greenhouse emissions by 2030, compared with 1990 levels. But the country still relies on coal to provide 40 percent of its electricity. Tim Mansel visits a village in Rhineland that is being eaten up by a coal mine and encounters some activists at the forefront of the climate change debate. More than 25 years on from the Oslo Peace accords, close friendships between Palestinians and Israelis are still rare. Charlie Faulkner attends a Shabbat meal in Jerusalem where an Israeli woman invites a former Palestinian prisoner to her home. Maternal mortality rates in Ethiopia have been hugely reduced thanks to an innovative programme of medical training. Ruth Evans finds out how it works at a project in the north of the country. This year the Chinese government announced that it was closing Everest Base Camp to trekkers and tourists on the Tibetan side of the mountain because of the rubbish that’s accumulated in the area. Jeremy Grange has travelled to Everest Base Camp on the Nepalese side to find out about the challenge of dealing with a mountain of rubbish.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Today to Germany and the village where a coal pit and a pit stop are on everyone's lips.
0:12.0	Politicians and diplomats wrestle with the
0:14.4	Palestinians problems. Perhaps a dinner party or two in Jerusalem could help.
0:19.6	How health care workers in Ethiopia are being trained in emergency surgery,
0:25.0	and what to do about litter, tons of it, on the slopes of Mount Everest.
0:30.0	Since the has not gone away. In London this week the UN Special Rapporteur who recently
0:45.2	published a detailed report on the affair urged the US to step up its efforts
0:50.3	to investigate the murder. The Saudi version of events is that rogue agents
0:55.7	carried out the killing and that the leaders such as the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
1:02.3	were not to blame.
1:04.2	Keshoggi was well known to other foreign correspondence, including Frank Gardner.
1:09.6	His last email still sits in my inbox, staring up from the screen as if he just written it a moment ago.
1:16.0	Yeah, Frank, that's the Arabic way of addressing each other.
1:19.0	I'll be back in my new home by Monday, but we'll make sure to call you next time I'm in London,
1:24.0	Jamal. He wrote that in March last year when I just missed him on one of his fleeting visits
1:30.0	to London. By then, Jamal Khashachoshi was dividing his time between the US, where he'd found a
1:35.6	promising new career as a columnist for the Washington Post, and Istanbul, where he'd fallen in love
1:40.9	with the Turkish researcher and planned to marry her.
1:44.0	Seven months later, he walked through the doors of the Saudi consulate in that city to collect some papers
1:50.0	and never came out alive.
1:52.0	He was overpowered by Saudi's security agents,
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