Kolkata rape: Modi condemns violence against women
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has condemned violence against women after a night of protests across the country following the rape and murder last week of a young doctor in Kolkata. How bad is the situation for women in India?
Also in the programme: the woman jailed in Russia for donating $51 to Ukraine; Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg's statue of his wife.
(Picture: A woman holds a candle during a vigil condemning the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, on a street in Mumbai, India. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Owen Bennett Jones. |
| 0:09.6 | Well today a Russian court has sentenced a Russian American woman woman, Kessena, to 12 years in prison for treason. |
| 0:18.1 | Her crime, having donated around $50 to a charity that supported Ukraine. |
| 0:24.9 | Ms. Carolina has US citizenship. |
| 0:27.7 | She pled guilty last week after a trial held behind closed doors. And we've just a few moments ago been speaking to |
| 0:35.3 | her partner Chris Van Hearden who's based in California still he spoke from there |
| 0:40.7 | how did he hear the news? I woke up to this this morning around 2 30 a.m. in my phone. |
| 0:48.0 | Obviously it was blown up and I and I saw the news. |
| 0:52.0 | Right and and did you think it would be a |
| 0:56.1 | sentence like this? I did not expect I did not know what to expect I knew I knew she was going to be guilty. I didn't know what to expect or how many years she's going to get |
| 1:09.2 | But I did expect a guilty verdict |
| 1:12.3 | Right and and can you just remind? expect a guilty verdict. Right. |
| 1:13.0 | And can you just remind us of the circumstances of this? |
| 1:17.0 | How come she was in Russia? |
| 1:20.0 | You know, she wanted to, her family is a mom dad grandparents all the families in Russia and she hasn't been home in a while and she |
| 1:28.7 | Her grandparents are 90 years old and she really wanted to go home. So after a back-of-forth discussion with her, she convinced me that it is safe to go home, even though I did not want it to go home but I ended up buying |
| 1:45.6 | her the plane ticket for a birthday and to go see her grandparents. |
| 1:50.8 | Oh really you you had doubts about her going? |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, 1,000 percent. |
| 1:57.0 | We had the conversation. |
| 1:58.0 | I was like, there's a war going on. |
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