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12/01/2019 GMT

Canada Takes In Stranded Saudi Teenager

BBC World Service - Weekend, Canada Takes In Stranded Saudi Teenager

Canada grants asylum to the Saudi Teenager, who had locked herself in a Bangkok hotel.

The Saudi teenager who battled in Thailand to avoid being sent back to her family, is on her way to Canada where she's been granted asylum.  Could she be a catalyst for change in Saudi Arabia?

Also on the programme - the museum in Belgium which pays tribute to a very early pioneer of the internet; And the logistics of shooting a sex scenes for the big and small screens!

(Photo: Rahaf in her hotel room ; Credit: AFP PHOTO / TWITTER / Courtesy of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun)

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