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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · 6d

Twenty-five years ago, pro-democracy protests took place in Belgrade and forced the Serb authoritarian leader Slobodan Milosevic to step down.

Srdja Popovic, one of the leaders of the student protest movement Otpor spoke to Weekend's Julian Worricker.

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Weekend - Twenty-five years since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic - BBC Sounds

Yugoslavia's notorious former president still casts a shadow over Serbia

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Sep 7

Summer skies

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Lili Bayer @liliebayer.bsky.social · Aug 10

Kallas said today that any deal between Washington and Moscow to end the war in Ukraine must include Ukraine and the EU, adding that she will convene a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday to discuss next steps.

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Kallas says any deal between US and Russia must include Ukraine and EU

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Sunday that any deal between Washington and Moscow to end the war in Ukraine must include Ukraine and the EU, adding that she will convene a meeting of European foreign ministers on Monday to discuss next steps.

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Aug 10

Polish FM Sikorski says that changing of borders by force “has resonance for every European. We fought two bloody wars over the issue of national minorities across international borders . . . Putin has sent tanks in and that should not stand”
His interview on Weekend👇

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Weekend - White House says Ukraine could be involved in the peace talks - BBC Sounds

A senior US official and three people were briefed on internal discussions - news reports

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Aug 4

Never-before-heard home recordings of Woody Guthrie, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th Century, are released, more than half a century after his death. Weekend spoke to Guthrie's granddaughter Anna Canoni& his daughter Nora about the new album.
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Weekend - Woody Guthrie home recordings released for the first time - BBC Sounds

More than half a century after his death, unheard music by the folk icon has been released

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Aug 2

Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead this week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Local residents allege the shooter was an Israeli settler.
Basel Adra, co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" pays tribute to his colleague and friend, Awdah.
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Weekend - A tribute to Awdah Adhaleen - BBC Sounds

The Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra on the life and death of Awdah Adhaleen

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Aug 2

Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead this week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Local residents allege the shooter was an Israeli settler.
Basel Adra, co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" pays tribute to his colleague and friend, Awdah.
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Weekend - A tribute to Awdah Adhaleen - BBC Sounds

The Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra on the life and death of Awdah Adhaleen

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 27

Interview in audio in full here from min 04:30

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Weekend - Israel resumes aid airdrops into Gaza - BBC Sounds

At least 127 people have died from malnutrition since the war began - Gaza health ministry

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 27

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert tells Julian Worricker on the BBC World Service’s Weekend programme that the Israeli military’s newly announced tactical pause comes too late.

“Because the whole world is pissed off with us, and I think that they have a good reason for it,” he says.

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 27

Weekend’s Julian Worricker spoke this morning to Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch. Also featuring David Mencer, spokesman for the office of the Israeli prime minister and genocide scholar, Menachem Rosensaft

From 32:20 here 👇

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Weekend - US President to meet EU chief - BBC Sounds

Trump says there's a 50-50 chance that the US and EU could reach a framework trade deal

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 27

and calculated push to drive Gaza to the brink of collapse further corroborates its criminal responsibility

These acts, beyond constituting grave international crimes, follow alarming, documented patterns of genocidal conduct.”

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 27

Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza...

Not only is delivering humanitarian aid one of Israel’s most critical obligations as the occupying power, but its deliberate depletion of essential necessities, destroying of natural resources

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 27

As the war in Gaza has dragged on, the debate has grown more heated - about whether that most serious of legal terms - genocide - should be applied to Israel's actions in Gaza.

In May a group of UN experts said this on the matter: ‘While States debate terminology-is it or is it not genocide?

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 27

London running out of…Chocolate swirls

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 13

This morning on BBC World Service we took time to Remember Srebrenica.
We recalled what happened&heard from survivors & relatives. David Rhode told us how he uncovered the first mass graves 30 years ago. With guests Arminka Helic and Steven Erlanger👇from min 26:30
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Weekend - Gulf states urge Trump to help achieve Gaza ceasefire - BBC Sounds

A Gaza hospital says 24 people were killed on Saturday near an aid distribution site

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia 30 years ago was the worst single atrocity on European soil since World War Two. The journalist David Rohde, who uncovered and told the world about the mass graves after the genocide, recalls how he came across the story

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Weekend - The journalist who told the world about Srebrenica graves - BBC Sounds

David Rohde recalls how he came across the mass graves after the genocide

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 11

Srebrenica. Never forget.

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 10

Tomatoes do that to me

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 5

Don’t be afraid, boss. Next time:)

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jul 5

You about town, boss?

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jun 21

Very cryptic :)

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jun 21

Former Commanding General of the US Army in Europe Ben Hodges says he has “zero confidence” in US Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard.

The retired general also told the BBC’s Weekend programme that he is sceptical about US military intervention in Iran.

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Weekend - Retired US General says ‘zero confidence’ in Gabbard - BBC Sounds

US intelligence director now says Iran could produce nuclear weapons "within weeks"

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jun 15

Interview in full here

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Weekend - Rob Malley says Iran-Israel war is a "powder keg already blown up" - BBC Sounds

Israel and Iran have continued to attack each other throughout the night

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jun 14

The conflict between Israel & Iran is a "powder keg [that] has already blown up", according to Robert Malley, the lead negotiator of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Speaking to the BBC World Service’s Weekend, Malley says the current hostilities "may well head in a more dangerous direction".

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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · Jun 7

Have fun on my behalf as well, Nick

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