Newshour: Judith Kerr dies

today (thursday 23rd), 2.56-2.59pm, and 9.43-9.49pm, on bbc world service radio

newshour (presented by razia iqbal and paul henley) include …

“The children’s author Judith Kerr who published more than 30 books over a career that lasted 50 years has died at the age of 95. It is rare to come across a writer beloved by all who read her let alone all who meet her. Among her best-known books was The Tiger Who Came To Tea – I knew it by heart, I’d read it so often to my children.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter razia iqbal 

• bbc presenter harriett gilbert 

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Newshour: Golan Heights

this afternoon (wednesday 22nd), 2.36-2.49pm, on bbc world service radio (repeated 9.36pm, and repeated 10.35pm on thursday on the world tonight on bbc radio 4)

newshour (presented by julian marshall) includes …

“Today, we’re going to head to the north-eastern tip of Israel, to the Golan Heights. This is a small country, so from here, Jerusalem to the Golan, it’s about a two-and-a-half-hour drive, and it’s a stunning landscape. This is also occupied territory, but my goodness it feels so different to the West Bank.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter tim franks

• menachem ender, golan resident

• amal safahi, bookshop owner, majdal shams

• bassal shafani, tennis coach, majdal shams

• uzi arad, former negotiator

Newshour: Bahrain conference

this evening (monday 20th), 9.06-9.18pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by james coomarasamy) leads with …

“Palestinians boycott US-led economic conference:

Palestinian officials say they won’t attend a US led conference in Bahrain aimed at bolstering the economies of the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians say they won’t participate, and that nobody can negotiate on their behalf.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter tim franks 

• aryeh eldad, former mk, resident of kfar adumim

• shabtai shavit, former director of mossad

• ahmed majdalani, palestinian minister for social development 

• ziad khalil abu zayyad, spokesman for fatah 

Newshour: Two developments

this afternoon (monday 20th), 2.20-2.29pm, on bbc world service radio (partly repeated 10.18pm on the world tonight on bbc radio 4)

newshour (presented by razia iqbal) includes …

“Two separate developments suggest the landscape may be shifting. Last month, before winning the Israeli general election, the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex parts of the occupied West Bank – in other words, make them fully part of the state of Israel. And there’s wide speculation that next month President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner may at last unveil his ‘deal of the century’ to chart a new way forward for the Israelis and Palestinians. So how’s all this playing out in Israel and the occupied territories?”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter tim franks 

• aryeh eldad, former mk, resident of kfar adumim

• shabtai shavit, former director of mossad

• ahmed majdalani, palestinian minister for social development 

Newshour/MN: Eurovision

last saturday/sunday night (18th/19th may), 9.51-9.54pm on bbc world service radio, and 12.25-12.27am on bbc radio 4 

newshour (presented by razia iqbal) and midnight news include …

“So far it’s been relatively protest-free.”

including reports from …

• bbc reporter william adams 

• bbc reporter david sillito 

Newshour: Water in Israel

this afternoon (thursday 9th), 2.24-2.29pm (repeated 9.43pm), on bbc world service radio

newshour (presented by razia iqbal) includes …

“Israel now produces most of its drinking water from sea-water, and other parts of the region are looking to do the same. Is desalination really the magic bullet?”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

• boris liberman of ide technologies

• gidon bromberg, israeli director, ecopeace middle east

• yossi cohen, restaurant owner, sea of galilee

• yuval steinitz

Newshour: Darfur refugees

this evening (sunday 5th), 9.53-9.59pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by james menendez) concludes with …

“A group of about 4000 asylum-seekers is living in Israel. Many of these escaped from Sudan during the civil war in the Darfur region which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. I’ve been talking to • Monin Haroon, who’s now studying in Jerusalem after spending three years in detention.”