Today: Imran Khan holocaust comparison

this morning (thursday 23rd), 8.12-8.20am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by mishal husain) includes…

“You compared the Indian government to the Nazis, you said will the world stand by and watch like they watched Hitler at Munich, Did you mean to make that comparison?”

“Absolutely … RSS got its inspiration in 1925, when it was formed, by the Nazi Party. They admired the Nazi Party, they admired the racial purity of the Nazis and then the ethnic cleansing of Muslims from India, the way the Nazis dealt with the Jews. All you have to do is read the writings of the founding fathers of RSS”

including interview with …

• pakistani prime minister imran khan 

FOHC: Bullying

this afternoon (sunday 19th), 1.37-1.43pm, on bbc radio 4 

from our home correspondent (presented by mishal husain) includes …

“With the approach of Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Adam Shaw reflects on the striking contemporary relevance of his own father’s refugee status and escape from Nazi persecution in places as varied as a country estate in Northumberland and a “Lord of the Flies”-like “school” in Scotland. In a letter addressed to his father’s grandchildren, he reveals how this child refugee managed to survive largely alone and ponders whether this story is as remote from our experience as we might first imagine.“

Today: Monsey attack

this morning (monday 30th), 6.13-6.16am (partly repeated 7.05am), on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by sarah smith and mishal husain) includes …

“Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, has talked about deploying more police in areas across the ciy that have large Jewish communities, and also giving anti-hate-crime lessons to children in public schools in some of those same areas in which there are large Jewish communities.”

including report from …

• bbc reporter aleem maqbool

Today: Bethlehem 2019

this morning (tuesday 24th), 6.46-6.52am, on bbc radio 4 (repeated 2.51pm and 9.42pm on newshour on bbc world service radio)

today (presented by mishal husain) includes …

“Squeezing Bethlehem into an ever-shrinking space”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter barbara plett-usher

• ahmad alfararja, airbnb owner, dheisheh refugee camp

• clara serronik, airbnb guest 

Today: 70 Labour witnesses

this morning (friday 6th), 8.19-8.23am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and mishal husain) includes …

“Did you read the Jewish Labour Movement’s submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission?”

including contributions from …

• rebecca long-bailey mp

• impressionist jon culshaw

Today/W@1: Merkel at Auschwitz

this morning (friday 6th), 8.06-8.07am and 1.34-1.35pm, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and mishal husain) and world at one (presented by jonny dymond) include …

“Angela Merkel will make her first visit to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland today, ahead of the seventieth anniversary of its liberation next month.” 

Today: Hezbollah missiles

this morning (friday 6th), 8.37-8.42am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and mishal husain) includes …

“With your allies in Iran, you have amassed an enormous arsenal of rockets and missiles, including guided missiles, that presumably you’d use in a war with Israel.  Under what circumstances would you use that arsenal of weapons?”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

• naim qassem, deputy leader, hezbollah