Where is Dubai’s missing Princess?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In February this year, Princess Latifah the 32 year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. Matthew Price speaks to her best friend Tiina Jauhiainen, who helped her escape.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Matthew Price and this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.0 | Every weekday we ask one big question about one big story in the news. |
| 0:14.0 | Today where is Dubai's missing? |
| 0:22.0 | Today where is Dubai's missing princess? |
| 0:27.0 | Picture Dubai, what do you think of? Palm trees, sparkling seas, beaches, that holiday you're saving up for? |
| 0:38.0 | That's how it's sold to us, isn't it? But every now and then there's a story that shows us another side to Dubai. |
| 0:44.4 | It's one of the seven kingdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates. |
| 0:48.0 | Now the most recent of those stories was Matthew Hedges, a British academic held in solitary confinement in the UAE accused of spying. |
| 0:56.2 | And then there's the story we've got today, the story of a woman called Latifah. |
| 0:59.8 | She had her 33rd birthday this week, but we don't know whether she celebrated it, we don't know where she is, and we don't even know if she is alive. |
| 1:08.0 | Latifah is one of the daughters of the ruler of Dubai, and earlier this year a video of her was posted online. |
| 1:15.0 | And if you are watching this video it's not such a good thing. |
| 1:20.0 | Either I'm dead or I'm in a very very bad situation. |
| 1:25.0 | So where do I begin? |
| 1:28.0 | That video was filmed in a flat in Dubai, |
| 1:31.0 | the home of the woman who's going to tell us Latifah's full story. |
| 1:35.0 | She's from Finland, she's got platinum blonde hair, and despite everything she's been through, |
| 1:39.9 | she still somehow manages to smile. Her name is Tina Yajyanin. Tell us about Latifah then. What's she like? |
| 1:50.0 | Well Latif is my best friend. |
| 1:53.4 | She's extremely down to earth, very kind. |
| 1:57.5 | She has a big heart. |
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