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Beyond Today

Will Saudi get away with murder?

Beyond Today

BBC

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Saudi Arabia’s 33 year-old Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has been described as a reformer. What he is selling to the outside world is a modern, forward thinking country that’s no longer dependent on oil. But one year ago today, the Saudi journalist and human rights campaigner, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Istanbul. Now we’ve got the details of exactly how it happened. Jane Corbin who has spoken to some of the very few people who know about the hit squad who killed him and the cover up that followed for her new Panorama film. We spoke to her, and Amira Fatallah from BBC Monitoring, to explore what the killing tells us about how the rest of the world should deal with Saudi Arabia.

Transcript

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Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy, welcome to Beyond Today, a space to ask one big question about

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one big story.

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Today we're asking, will Saudi get away with murder.

0:27.0

You can look at these ancient hills and see nothing.

0:37.0

Or you can see nothing to hold you back.

0:41.0

Saudi Arabia's crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has a vision

0:46.7

for his country.

0:47.7

Over 25,000 square kilometers of inspiration with room for your biggest ideas.

0:54.4

What he's selling to the world is a modern

0:57.2

forward-thinking country that's no longer dependent on oil.

1:01.6

This is who we are.

1:03.0

We are Saudi, and we're only beginning.

1:06.0

But one year ago today, the Saudi journalist

1:09.0

Jamal Koshoggi was murdered in Turkey. And now we've got the details of exactly how it happened.

1:17.0

He says this is going to be the first time that I have to actually cut up a body on the floor

1:22.0

usually you know even a butcher is able to hang up the

1:26.0

animal in order to cut the body.

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And it raises new questions about how the rest of the world deals with Saudi Arabia.

1:36.2

The founding king had around 50 sons, we don't know how many daughters.

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Why not?

1:42.3

They never counted them. They never counted the girls, the daughters.

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