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🗓️ 9 November 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | Your listening to more or less on the BBC World Service with me, Ben Carter. |
0:11.4 | The killing of the prominent Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which some have |
0:16.2 | called an assassination, has led to widespread condemnation of the Saudi regime, and in |
0:21.9 | particular its leader, Muhammad bin Sama. |
0:25.0 | Major development in the disappearance of a Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi, |
0:29.6 | Saudi's public prosecutor, confirmed on state TV that Jamal Khashoggi is dead. |
0:34.8 | Khashoggi disappeared on October 2nd after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. |
0:39.6 | Turkish investigators have said he was murdered by a Saudi hit squad. |
0:45.0 | It's also focused attention on the murky world of assassinations. |
0:49.3 | An assassination is defined in the dictionary as... |
0:52.2 | The murder of an important person for political or religious reasons. |
0:57.6 | Assassinations and assassination attempts have taken place throughout history. |
1:02.0 | US presidents feature prominently. |
1:16.5 | John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin in 1963, as was Abraham Lincoln in 1865. |
1:23.8 | Other presidents were more fortunate. |
1:25.9 | Shots rang out as President Reagan left the Washington Hilton hotel this afternoon, shortly |
1:30.7 | after the speech you saw him deliver live here in the cable news network. |
1:34.6 | We are told the president is safe. |
1:37.1 | Ronald Reagan survived an attempt on his life in 1981, as did Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. |
1:43.9 | But how likely is an assassination attempt to succeed? |
1:47.4 | Ben Olkin is professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, |
1:52.8 | in the United States. |
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