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27/02/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, US sanctions Saudis

New measures announced against Saudi Arabia after revelations on Jamal Khashoggi killing.

The White House has imposed sanctions on Saudi Arabia, following revelations on the role of its Crown Prince in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. We get reaction from the expert who led a UN investigation into Mr Khashoggi's death.

Also, 317 schoolgirls have been abducted from a boarding school in northern Nigeria, in the latest kidnapping of students in the country.

And after a high-speed car crash in California, will Tiger Woods ever play again?

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other issues are Julie Norman, a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at University College London, and John Nilsson-Wright, a specialist on the Korean peninsula, Japan and East Asia at Cambridge University and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

(Photo: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi; Credit: EPA/ANDY RAIN)

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