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Global News Podcast

Trudeau says India may be linked to Sikh leader's death in Canada

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, says there are "credible allegations" that India was involved in Hardeep Singh Nijjar's death. Also: US citizens freed from Iran in $6bn prisoner swap, and the blue crab -- loved by the Koreans.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Life's Less Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service, bringing you extraordinary

0:05.9

personal stories from around the globe, search for Life's Less Ordinary wherever you get

0:11.3

your BBC podcasts.

0:15.8

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

0:21.9

I'm Robin Brandt and in the early hours of Tuesday 19 September, these are our main stories.

0:27.5

Canada says it's told India of its concerns that Indian intelligence services might be connected

0:32.9

to the killing of an exiled Sikh leader.

0:36.0

Five American prisoners who were detained for years in Iranian jails are on their way home

0:40.8

as part of a complex exchange deal mediated by Qatar.

0:44.6

And world leaders meeting at the United Nations in New York have warned that global attempts

0:48.8

to end extreme poverty and tackle climate change are in reverse.

0:56.2

Also in this podcast, at $80 million a pop, the F-35 Lightning 2's joint strike fighter

1:02.4

is not the kind of thing you want to lose if you can help it.

1:05.6

But that is exactly what has happened and now the US military is appealing to the public

1:10.9

to help it find its stealth fighter jet following a mishap over South Carolina.

1:20.2

We start in Canada where the country's prime minister Justin Trudeau says the Indian government

1:25.6

could be behind the fatal shooting of a Canadian citizen in June in Canada.

1:30.5

The Sikh leader Hadib Singh Nijar was shot dead outside a Sikh temple on the 18th of June

1:36.0

in British Columbia.

1:37.6

Mr. Trudeau made the announcement in a statement to Parliament.

1:40.6

Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential

1:46.2

link between agents of the government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen,

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