SATURDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2020

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmbcy2)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x18x9sz3m0z)
SoftBank revealed as Nasdaq 'whale'

It's emerged that SoftBank, the huge Japanese investment company headed by Masayoshi Son, has been taking massive positions in technology stocks which could be partly responsible for the recent tech rally. We hear from Robin Wigglesworth, one of the journalists who broke the story; he's the Financial Times' Global Finance Correspondent. And Chris Low from FHN Financial tells us how the market reacted to the revelations. In Brazil, ahead of much of the rest of the world, women footballers are getting pay parity with the men and Pia Sundhage, coach of Brazil's national women's team, gives us her reaction. The BBC’s Technology reporter Zoe Kleinman reports on an increase in romance scams. And we're joined throughout the programme by Karen Percy, who's a senior reporter with the ABC in Melbourne.

(Picture of Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp, by Alessandro Di Ciommo via Getty Images)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmbhp6)
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SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bbcqrx83b)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pstk70vyl)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhjm)
Meet Australia's new fast bowling star

Australia quick Riley Meredith joins us to look ahead to the series against their oldest rivals England.

Plus, with women's international cricket set to return, we speak to two of England's biggest stars - Katherine Brunt and Nat Sciver.

And an existential threat to cricket in South Africa. We head to Cape Town to find out about the latest crisis in one of the sport's traditional strongholds.

Photo: Riley Meredith (Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmbmfb)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjhh)
The refugee children of Cox's Bazar

It's been three years since violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh. Since then home has been the crowded Cox’s Bazar refugee camp. BBC Bangla’s Shahnewaj Rocky has revisited the camp and met some of the children living there, like 3-year-old Nayeem.

My Hometown: Samut Prakan
We travel to the outskirts of Bangkok with Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai of BBC Thai to sing karaoke with his many, many cousins.

Spain’s royal soap opera
The Spanish royal family has been through a turbulent time with corruption allegations involving former King Juan Carlos and revelations about his numerous affairs. Juan Carlos recently left Spain to live in the United Arab Emirates. But his wife, Queen Sofia, has remained respected and admired. Mar Pichel of BBC Mundo tells us why.

Vietnam's second passport scandal
A growing number of rich Vietnamese are acquiring second citizenships, from Cyprus to the Caribbean. And it's not about the sunshine. BBC Vietnamese editor Giang Nguyen has been following the story, which came to light after Vietnamese MP Pham Phu Quoc's second passport was revealed.

Pinenuts and friendship in Afghanistan
Afghans love them, and China does too: a second dip into a bowl of Afghan pine nuts, with former editor Shoaib Sharifi, now with the BBC’s Media Action team in Kabul.

Image: Nayeem, born in Cox's Bazar
Credit: BBC Shahnewaj Rocky


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmvc)
Care in the Community

In the 1990s Britain closed down many of its long-stay hospitals and asylums and their patients were sent to new lives in the community. But the transition wasn't always easy. Some people had suffered abuse and found it hard to adjust to life outside. Lucy Burns has been speaking to "Michael" who has a learning disability, about his experiences both inside and outside of institutions.

Photo: A now derelict asylum in Colchester, England. Credit: Simon Webster/Alamy Stock Photo


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmbr5g)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcnc)
Why is QAnon going global?

This week President Donald Trump retweeted a false claim posted by a follower of the ‘QAnon’ conspiracy theory, stating that the real Covid-19 death toll is just 6 percent of official figures. Twitter took down the tweet saying it breached their terms and conditions. It’s not the first time the president has promoted messages from supporters of the debunked conspiracy theory that claims - in part - that Mr Trump is leading a top-secret campaign to dismantle a global network of Satan worshipping cannibal paedophiles led by billionaires, celebrities and Democrats. Acts of violence have already been attributed to those backing the outlandish conspiracy theory and the FBI now considers the movement a domestic terrorism threat. While support for ‘Q’ - said to be an anonymous security official with inside knowledge - has been growing in the United States, followers are increasingly showing up in Europe and Latin America. So why has it spread to other countries and what are the QAnon links to foreign groups? Could supporters disrupt politics outside of the US? And is QAnon a harmless online fantasy or a dangerous threat to truth, democracy and public safety around the world? Ritula Shah is joined by a panel of experts.


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmbvxl)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bbcqrxmbq)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pstk7175z)
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SAT 05:32 Comedians Vs. The News (w3ct0x38)
Rafi Bastos and Loyiso Gola

Comedy couple Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini are joined by Rafi Bastos, one of Brazil’s sharpest satirists, and South African stand-up star Loyiso Gola to take on the world’s headlines. This week, why are Canadian statues losing their heads? And why would you want to implant a computer chip in a pig’s brain?
Get involved and tell us about the funny stories where you are.
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SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmbznq)
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SAT 06:06 Weekend (w172x7cz85z9byf)
Trump panned over war dead comment

How politically damaging are allegations that President Trump insulted veterans of the US military?

Coronavirus infections on the increase in India as figures jump from three to four million in two weeks.

The Italian island of Lampedusa and the story of the migrants hoping for a better life in Europe.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are the journalist, Isabel Hilton, CEO of China Dialogue which describes itself as an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges; and Chris Smith, a consultant medical virologist and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He is also the host of the radio show – The Naked Scientist.

(U.S. President Donald Trump. Credit: Reuters)


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmc3dv)
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SAT 07:06 Weekend (w172x7cz85z9gpk)
Mass Covid tests in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong authorities embark on mass testing for Coronavirus.

India hits a milestone as more than 4 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, with fear of a spread in the countryside.

The rise of the hard-line Austrian politician, Sebastian Kurz, and the issue of migration in the country.

The Nobel Prize geneticist, Sir Paul Nurse, on what life is?

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are the journalist, Isabel Hilton, CEO of China Dialogue which describes itself as an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges; and Chris Smith, a consultant medical virologist and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He is also the host of the radio show – The Naked Scientist.

(Photo: Medical professionals collect swab sample at the community testing centre for the Coronavirus in Hong Kong. Credit: Reuters)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmc74z)
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SAT 08:06 Weekend (w172x7cz85z9lfp)
India's Covid infections soar

India reaches a grim milestone, as the country now reports more than 4 million cases of the Coronavirus.

A note change in a composition that is due to take 639 years to perform.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are the journalist, Isabel Hilton, CEO of China Dialogue which describes itself as an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges; and Chris Smith, a consultant medical virologist and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He is also the host of the radio show – The Naked Scientist.

(Photo: Medical staff and family members carry the body of a man who died from Coronavirus in India. Credit: Reuters)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pstk71lfc)
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SAT 08:32 The Documentary (w3ct0x1r)
Black Music in Europe

The 1960s

This episode looks at the music of Black Europe at the height of the 1960s. We hear about Cameroonian guitar legend Francis Bebey in Paris, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti in London and free jazz globetrotter Don Cherry in Stockholm. Clarke also tells the story of jazz group The Blue Notes, who fled apartheid South Africa for a new life in Europe.

(Photo: Clark Peters. Credit:: Alexandra Quinn)


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmcbx3)
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SAT 09:06 BBC OS Conversations (w3ct0wjy)
Covid-free nations

Vanuatu, Micronesia and the Solomon Islands are among a handful of nations that have no registered coronavirus cases. Yet, despite this enviable status, the pandemic is introducing other problems with people suffering from economic and psychological distress.

But for two couples in the United States the pandemic has produced an unexpected positive. Chloe Tilley meets those who found love during lockdown.

In Europe, the recent rise in coronavirus cases across the continent is causing some doctors to be concerned about a second wave. We share conversations with a doctor in Italy and France who are especially worried about the number of young people now being infected.

(Photo: Liz Pechan in Vanuatu)


SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pstk71q5h)
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SAT 09:32 United Zingdom (w3ct0wl7)
United Zingdom

05/09/2020 GMT

Zing Tsjeng wonders what it means to be British. She travels around the UK to find out.


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3cszf4r)
Reporting from the dangerous streets of Belarus

This past week has seen a number of journalists - including some from the BBC - lose their accreditation to report from the streets of Belarus. We hear your thoughts on working in these difficult circumstances.

Plus one listener - who first began tuning in on shortwave as a child - tells us why trustworthy news is so important to him in our series How I Hear.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmcgn7)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172x3by6y8w8fy)
American Football and the Women's Super League returns

With the new NFL season set to restart how different will the landscape look? With Coronavirus and protests we will see an NFL season like no other. We speak to Stephania Bell who is the ESPN's injury analyst and has covered the Leagues’ plans to return to play extensively. We also hear from former American Footballer and BBC pundit Jason Bell on player protests.

'Some people are afraid of what they don't know' - Balochi sisters Halima and Sarah tell Caroline Barker about their culture and how playing basketball has helped break down barriers.

The Women’s Super League returns on Saturday with Aston Villa taking on Manchester City. We hear from Canadian international and Manchester City player Janine Beckie on their plans for the new season.

Plus New Zealand cricketer Jess Kerr on how she hopes to inspire people to look at the positives in life after she became successful cricketer despite suffering injuries, having diabetes and Bells Palsy.

Photo :Chelsea players and staff celebrate with the Barclays FA Women’s Super League trophy, and their winners medals prior to a Chelsea FC Women's Training Session at Chelsea Training Ground on August 03, 2020 in Cobham, England. (Photo by Harriet Lander - Chelsea FC/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmcldc)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bbcqrybth)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pstk71ynr)
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SAT 11:32 The Documentary (w3ct0x2g)
The Soviet Feminist Army

The Soviet women spreading ideas on women’s equality in Afghanistan

They were highly trained, focused on their mission and dedicated to their goal of promoting women’s equality in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, they found women activists who had already taken up the struggle for female education and women’s rights.

In Dortmund in Germany, 7,000km from Kabul, Olga Smirnova meets Jamila Nohid, one of the Afghan women activists, who left Afghanistan when the mujahideen took over the country. She reunites her with Saodat Safarova from the former Soviet Union.

As they reminisce, Saodat tells Olga how she jumped at the chance of travelling from the USSR to Afghanistan to work with local women there. It was “a fairy-tale”, she says. Her colleagues were sent into towns and cities, but also into remote and harsh rural areas of the country.

The Soviet-Afghan war was a long, brutal campaign in which many women and children lost their homes and died. This was also a propaganda war. The claims to be promoting socialist ideology and women’s rights were part of it.

With the personal stories of Saodat, Jamila and other women involved in this struggle, Olga asks how far one can impose values from outside as part of an ideological struggle and alongside military brutality.

Presented and produced by Olga Smirnova.


(Photo: Jamila with bread. Credit: Olga Smirnova)


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmcq4h)
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SAT 12:06 Music Life (w3csz6t9)
Getting into trouble with Moonchild Sanelly and Bryte

South African musician and dancer Moonchild Sanelly is joined by Bryte, Cuppy, and Etuk Ubong. Together they discuss if there are there things they can’t say in their music, what sounds and lyrics are inspired by their environment, and how successful women are viewed in the male-dominated industry.

Sanelisiwe Twisha, better known as Moonchild Sanelly, is the ‘future ghetto punk’ star from South Africa, fusing experimental electronic, afro-punk, and edgy-pop with kwaito, hip-hop and jazz. She welcomes a group of musicians at the forefront of their respective genres. First up is Nigerian DJ, producer, and entrepreneur Cuppy. In August 2015, she set off on her first DJ tour, entitled Cuppy Takes Africa, in which she visited Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa.

In-demand trumpeter, composer and bandleader Etuk Ubong, also hailing from Nigeria, draws inspiration from the jazz greats, Afrobeat, highlife and ekombi. He also adds the sounds of water, wind and fire, which is why he calls his sound "earth music".

And finally, Ghanaian musician, singer, and producer Bryte has established himself as one of the most exciting voices in recent times by fusing African afrobeats with UK funky and bassline sounds.


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmctwm)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172x2yvvc420j6)
India records more than 4 million Covid-19 cases

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in India has passed four million. Over eighty three thousand new cases were recorded between Thursday and Friday. And it took only two weeks for the figure to jump from three to four million. This surge comes as the country is trying to further ease lockdowns.

Also on the programme; Climate change protestors have blockaded major printing works in Britain to try to stop a range of newspapers reaching readers and The World Bank withdraws funding for a dam in Lebanon which has long been opposed by environmentalists.

(Photo: An Indian health worker takes swab samples of suspected people for coronavirus COVID-19 in Bangalore. Credit: EPA/Jagadeesh NV)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmcymr)
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SAT 14:06 BBC Proms on the World Service (w3ct0x8n)
BBC Proms 2020

London Symphony Orchestra play Adès and Vaughan Williams

Thomas Adès: Dawn (BBC commission: world premiere)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

Despite the profound disruption that Covid 19 has caused to live music everywhere, BBC Proms returns to the airwaves this summer. It's a much shorter season than usual and there is no audience in the Royal Albert Hall in London but the line-up of musicians is as impressive as ever.

In this visit to the 2020 season on BBC World Service, London Symphony Orchestra, one of UK’s finest, with their music director Sir Simon Rattle play a new work by the contemporary British composer Thomas Adès and the Fifth Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The subtitle of the Adès work is ‘Chacony for orchestra at any distance’. It references not just a musical form from the Baroque, much loved by the likes of Purcell, but also uncertainty about what exactly social distancing means for orchestral musicians in a live concert. And the composer has expanded the usual meaning of ‘distance’ to a cosmic scale: he said that the inspiration behind the piece was an image of dawn constantly breaking over different parts of the Earth as seen from space.

The first performance of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony took place at the Proms in 1943, at the Royal Albert Hall, when the composer was in his early 70s. As it was his first major work in a number of years, it was an eagerly awaited occasion. The Prommers on that summer evening were treated to a radiant composition of serenity and grace, quite a contrast to the events of World War 2 then unfolding. For several previous decades, Vaughan Williams had been working on an opera based on Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Afraid that he might not be able to finish it, he used some of the music in the symphony and the spirit of that 17th century parable suffuses the orchestral writing. As Neville Cardus, one of the prominent critics of the day, wrote: "The Fifth Symphony contains the most benedictory and consoling music of our time."

(Photo: Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in 2018 Credit: Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)


SAT 15:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmd2cw)
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SAT 15:06 Sportsworld (w172x3lb6hq2m16)
Premier League preview

As the new Premier League season fast approaches with the old one only just behind us, Sportsworld previews the new season and brings you everything you need to know ahead of the 2020/21 Premier League season. We'll be joined by special guests to get all the latest from the Premier League.

Plus, we hear a special documentary about the rise, fall and rise again of Leeds United as they make their return to the top flight of English football after 16 years in the EFL.

And we'll bring you all the other latest sports news from around the world - including the US Open, the build up to the Women's Super League and we'll be discussing the return of the NFL.

Photo credit: Liverpool FC lift the 2019/20 Premier League trophy at Anfield.


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmdfm8)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bbcqrz61d)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pstk72swn)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3csws85)
‘I invested in Facebook … now I am ashamed’

Roger McNamee was a Facebook fan and an advisor to Mark Zuckerberg. Now he says he’s sad about the way the company is being run and the impact that it’s having on the world.

Zuckerberg first sought out his advice, McNamee says, in 2006, shortly after Yahoo was making a $1bn bid to buy the social media company.
McNamee, a veteran Silicon Valley investor, says he saw Facebook’s potential and urged the young entrepreneur to stay independent.
But a decade later, he saw hyper-partisan posts poisoning politics online, and during the late stages of the US presidential election in 2016 he turned from a Facebook booster to a Facebook critic.

Roger McNamee recently stopped into a studio to talk to us about his new book, Zucked, and he told us that Facebook, Google and other tech companies have serious flaws which require drastic and swift action.

Presenter: Mike Wendling
Producer: Edward Main

(Photo: Roger McNamee. Credit: Rick Smolan)


SAT 18:50 More or Less (w3ct0pxs)
Breast cancer screening

Tim Harford speaks to Professor Alexandra Barratt about the evidence around screening women in their forties for breast cancer.


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmdkcd)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 19:06 BBC Proms on the World Service (w3ct0x8n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:06 today]


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmdp3j)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3cszk38)
Director Christopher Nolan

Film director Christopher Nolan talks about his film Tenet and his obsession with time.

Chinese American author Yiyun Li on her novel Must I Go and the limitations of the language of grief.

French director Quentin Dupieux on quirky dark comedy Deerskin and making movies just for himself.

American actor Annette Bening on her new movie Hope Gap and the intimate relationship between star and screenwriter.
There’s soul music from Burundian born JP Bimeni.

And Nikki Bedi is joined by Brazilian American director and screenwriter Alexandre Moratto to talk about his picture Socrates, and by filmmaker and critic Catherine Bray.

(Photo: Christopher Nolan. Credit: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmdsvn)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172x2yvvc42zh7)
Are the Afghan peace talks finally about to begin?

As the Afghan government and the Taliban move closer to peace talks, we speak to one of the few female delegates who last month survived an attack by gunmen.

Other stories: India now has more than four million confirmed cases of covid 19. It's a record rise in infections by the virus which is spreading from cities to towns and rural areas.

The Atlantic magazine's report that President Trump called dead soldiers "losers" and "suckers" was based on accounts from unnamed individuals. A journalism professor says anonymous sources are useful for journalists, but their use could widen the United States' political divisions.

(Photo: Fawzia Koofi is one of the few Afghan women to have attended talks with the Taliban. Credit: AFP)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmdxls)
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SAT 22:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9py)
Detained in Belarus

Pascale Harter introduces analysis, reportage and personal reflections from correspondents around the world.

Mass protests continue in Belarus following an election widely believed to have been rigged by long time President Alexander Lukashenko. He has been using his best efforts to silence opposition voices. Now the police are detaining journalists, including the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg.

Five years ago, a million people came to Europe in search of work or refuge, or both. The leaders of Hungary and Germany, Viktor Orban and Angela Merkel emerged as the two poles of the ensuing debate about how to handle the situation. Nick Thorpe has met some of the migrants affected by the decisions taken then.

Being a foreign correspondent involves so much travel and uncertainty it can make it hard to maintain a normal life. A trip comes up at short notice and plans are called off. In a time of Coronavirus though, it’s all very different. More a case of where you go, there you stay. And for a spirit, like Shaimaa Khalil, who loves the open road, you can be stuck together with a loved one a little too intensely or find you’re parting for perhaps far too long.

Coronavirus cases remain high in the United States, it’s also the electoral season with not only the presidential election looming but elections for congress too. Getting out to campaign has been tricky for politicians and voting can be a challenge for the people. But in Boston, Massachusetts there is an extra complication that comes in the form of a tradition: Allston Christmas. Alice Hutton has experienced the one day a year there when thousands of renters move home.

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Bethan Head
Editor: Jasper Corbett

(Image: Law enforcement officers detain journalists in Minsk. Credit: Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)


SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pstk738w5)
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SAT 22:32 The Documentary (w3ct0x1r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:32 today]


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172x5nzctmf1bx)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bbcqrzss1)
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SAT 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pstk73dm9)
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SAT 23:32 Heart and Soul (w3ct0x3t)
Faith versus the virus: Pakistan’s struggle

Pakistan’s relationship with religion is the most distinct element of its identity. Be it politics or any other aspect of social & cultural life, religion is the main guiding force.

The country was created in the name of Islam almost a quarter century ago, where the clergy still enjoys the tremendous power. Even during the pandemic, when the holiest mosques & shrines in Saudi Arabia, Iran & Turkey were closed, the clerics in Pakistan refused to shut down the mosques in Ramadan.

The former cricketer Imran Khan’s government tried and failed to stop annual gathering of “Raiwind Tableeghi Jamat” a global Muslim missionary movement in the Eastern city of Lahore, which is thought to have resulted in transmitting the first corona virus case to the Middle East.

And now, weeks before Eid-ul-Adha, cattle markets have sprung up in and around cities, where people in large numbers are gathering to buy animals for sacrifice.

This program gives a picture of a struggle between science and faith in Pakistan. How the voices of doctors and paramedics were lost in religious rhetoric and how the government has been repeatedly backing down under the pressure from the religious leaders. Presented by: Shumaila Jaffery

(Image: Muslim devotees offer prayers for the Eid al-Adha, at a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakinstan on August 1, 2020. / Credit: FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP via Getty Images)