Netanyahu's Likely Victory
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 13 April 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
An election campaign in Israel but little mention of the peace process. Yolande Knell says voters there just want to live normal lives. They're picking up the pieces in Rio de Janeiro after the fire which destroyed the 200-year-old National Museum. Tim Whewell says they've lost artefacts that simply cannot be replaced. The Romanian government is not happy that the former head of its anti-corruption directorate is now in the running for the new post of Chief Prosecutor for the European Union. Tessa Dunlop says it's worried the former basketball player knows all their dirty secrets. Sarah Sands takes a trip up the Suez Canal, scene of Britain's humiliation in 1956, in a British destroyer. She ponders the importance of trade then and now. And in India law students are being taught Harry Potter. Rahul Tandon has taken a class.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, today a national tragedy when the National Museum burns down. |
| 0:10.0 | We hear how Brazilians are coping. |
| 0:12.4 | In Romania, the former head of the country we hear how Brazilians are coping. |
| 0:13.0 | In Romania, the former head of the country's anti-corruption organisation |
| 0:17.0 | is in the running for a top job in Brussels, |
| 0:19.0 | but her own government is doing its best to stop her. Our correspondent ponders the importance of trade |
| 0:26.1 | as she takes a trip up the Sioux's canal on a British warship. And in India, law students |
| 0:32.0 | are discussing the legality of wizardry in the world of Harry Potter. |
| 0:37.0 | Benjamin Netanyahu looks likely to become Israel's longest serving Prime Minister, after a tough election campaign against |
| 0:45.3 | a former Army Chief Benny Gants. |
| 0:48.3 | Final results for this week's vote put his Likud Party narrowly ahead, taking 36 out of 120 parliamentary seats, and left Mr. |
| 0:56.4 | Netanyahu well placed to form a new governing coalition with small right-wing and religious |
| 1:02.0 | parties. Under him Israeli politics has shifted to the right |
| 1:06.0 | and solving the decades-old Palestinian conflict has slipped down the agenda. Our Middle East correspondent Yoland Nell has been talking to |
| 1:14.6 | voters and hearing about the importance of football. |
| 1:17.8 | Watching Arsenal saved my life, said Daniel Wolf. It saved all our lives, added his dad Robert, and prevented a war. |
| 1:27.0 | Imagine what would have happened if seven people were killed here. |
| 1:30.0 | Just days before Israel went to the Poles, I stood with the wolves, a British Israeli family, in a quiet village north of Tel Aviv, surrounded by the rubble of their home. |
| 1:41.0 | It had been destroyed by a powerful rocket fired from Gaza two weeks earlier. |
| 1:47.4 | Daniel was the only one who'd heard the warning siren at 5 a.m. |
| 1:51.3 | because he'd been dozing on the sofa after watching a |
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