Welcome to Beyond the Headlines, a new weekly podcast from The National. This week join Editor-in-Chief Mina Al-Oraibi as she talks through some of the big stories of the week with Assistant Editor-in-Chief Mustafa Alrawi and Naser Al Wasmi from our Foreign Desk.

Beyond the Headlines Episode 1

Actions speak louder than words sometimes. So what can be gleaned from the actions at this week's G20 summit? In Qatar, the Riyadh leaks have enforced the GCC region's diplomatic boycott. And how does the hot weather affect local fishermen in the UAE? Naser Alwasmi, Anna Pukas, Joyca Karam and Anna Zacharias discuss.

G20 body language, Qatar latest, hot fish: Episode 2

We look at how Gaza is coping with a lack of electricity, check in to DC to go over the latest failures of the Trump administration, and discuss what makes Abu Dhabi the world's second best city to live in.  Naser Alwasmi is joined by Naomi Zeveloff, Joyce Karam and James Langton.

Power failures in Gaza, power failures of Trump: Beyond The Headlines Ep 3

Firsthand account of Mosul's liberation

Call to prayer as heard at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke over the phone with The National's Ashleigh Stewart. In this clip, Aldern discusses her pregnancy, and how it is not affecting her new duties leading the country.

Jacinda Ardern On Her Pregnancy

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Business Extra: A sustainable future but also trillions of dollars of opportunity

The territorial waters of Britain are littered with an estimated 37,000 wrecks from hundreds of years of seafaring history. After a boom in commodity prices, criminals have turned to the sea to recover valuable metals to melt down and sell. The National meets a group of men patrolling England's eastern coast with the goal of protecting its hidden treasures.

Modern-day pirates face jail for plundering wrecks

A ground-breaking system to store clean power from the world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm starts testing next month, a significant development in efforts to harvest renewable energy from the deepest oceans, officials said on Wednesday. The storage unit, named Batwind, will store energy produced by five wind turbines floating in the North Sea some 25 kilometres off the Scottish eastern coast port city of Peterhead.­­­­­

Read the full report: https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/uae-backs-breakthrough-in-offshore-wind-energy-tech-1.744957

Bader Al Lamki, Masdar’s Executive Director for Clean Energy

There are few places in Iraq that feel as safe as Fallujah. Perhaps it’s the people, the leisurely pace of life, or maybe just a warped sense of security.  But in many ways Fallujah feels light-years away from the tales of violence seared into our memories during the US occupation, or the brutal punishments inflicted by ISIS a decade later. Sofia Barbani gives her view after visiting Iraq.

Fallujah moves on from violence

What struck the most about Sadr City was the lack of enthusiasm for Cleric Moqtada Al Sadr’s recent win in parliamentary elections. 
I suppose I expected hope – out of everyone in Iraq, I thought they’d be the ones to openly embrace and welcome this change in leadership. But the general disenchantment with the political elite is such, that not even the residents of his eponymous Baghdad suburb are keen on Sadr’s rise to power. Sofia Barbani gives her view after visiting Iraq.

Sadr City bears brunt of Baghdad corruption

Campbell MacDiarmid returns from a week-long trip to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh to provide an update on how over 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are surviving in increasingly desperate conditions.

Full episode of Beyond the Headlines: https://audioboom.com/posts/6979190-the-view-from-hajj-rohingya-refugee-update

Rohingya refugee crisis

This audio from a 1993 Capital Radio broadcast in Abu Dhabi advertises an amusement park in Al Ain. More on this story at www.thenational.ae.

Courtesy Bob Myerscough. Not to be used without permission of the owner.

Capital Radio (93.5) Abu Dhabi, UAE

Capital Radio Abu Dhabi: Hili Fun City ad

This is a newscast from a 1993 Capital Radio broadcast in Abu Dhabi advertises Al Fardan Exchange. More on this story at www.thenational.ae.

Courtesy Bob Myerscough. Not to be used without permission of the owner.

Capital Radio Abu Dhabi: 1993 newscast

Capital Radio audio clips from the early 1980s featuring Roger Paine.

Courtesy Roger Paine

Capital Radio Abu Dhabi: Roger Paine

We follow Mike Gapes on his campaign trail for the UK election.

On the trail with Mike Gapes for the UK election

Luke Symons was arrested in Yemen in April 2017 and accused of spying after security found him carrying a British passport.
 
In January, his grandfather Robert Cummings at home in Wales received a message to call him at a prison in Sanaa.
 
Mr Cummings has news. The family has seen a document signed by a senior Houthi official ordering his release as there was no evidence against him.

Listen to their conversation.

British man languishes in Yemen prison despite release papers

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