Justice for Khashoggi, a year later?

Testimony scheduled despite impeachment clashes Welcome to a new daily newsletter from The World, an award-winning daily international public radio show. Our aim each day is to connect listeners and readers to global events. We’re beta-testing this newsletter, which means it’s a work in progress. Thanks for all of your recent feedback. Keep the notes coming. Let us know your thoughts by replying to this email. Here’s what we’re tracking on Wednesday: [US President Donald Trump rallies with supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire.]( Testimony scheduled despite impeachment clashes Two former officials who were engaged in the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine [will meet with US congressional committees starting this week](. Kurt Volker, who resigned last week as Trump's special representative for Ukraine, is set to give a deposition to House staff on Thursday and Marie Yovanovitch, who was recently removed as US ambassador to Ukraine, has agreed to appear on Oct. 11. The agreed appearances come as the Trump administration continues to [clash with leaders of the House]( impeachment inquiry over their demands to question State Department officials. Also: [Trump has 'suggested shooting migrants in the legs']( North Korea fires missile? North Korea fired what may have been a submarine-launched ballistic missile from [off its east coast on Wednesday](. If confirmed, it would be the most provocative test by North Korea since it started negotiations with the US in 2018. The alleged test comes only a day after North Korea and the US resumed talks on ending its nuclear program. [Hatice Cengiz speaks at the Human Rights Under Siege event in New York City on Sept. 26, 2019.]( Khashoggi’s fiancée calls for justice It’s been a year since Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was last seen at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. His body was dismembered and removed from the building, and his remains have not been found. After initial denials, the official Saudi narrative blamed the murder on rogue operatives. Eleven Saudi suspects have been put on trial in secretive proceedings, but only a few hearings have been held. A UN report has called for Mohammad Bin Salman and other senior Saudi officials to be investigated. Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, [spoke with The World's Shirin Jaafari about her message]( for world leaders and how his death has affected her. “I cannot find closure. I'm a normal human being and as a normal human being, when you go through trauma you need to face that reality. So, I couldn't do that because I just received a call saying that he died. He was killed. I couldn't see his body ...” Cengiz said. “Jamal was a very ethical journalist, always maintaining his objectivity about his country. Jamal did no wrong to his country or to anyone. But despite that, he was punished by Saudi Arabia. So, the message I'm trying to give here, on this occasion, is that we need to see justice taking place.” Also: [International community has 'failed' in the aftermath of Khashoggi's death]( Several journalists in exile say ‘you can’t feel safe, anywhere you go’ Jamal Khashoggi was an occasional guest on El-Sharq television station, which is geared at Egyptian audiences but is produced from Istanbul. For many at El-Sharq, the news of Khashoggi’s death at the hands of his own government was terrifying — not just because of the senseless violence of the act, but because in his story [they see their own](. And: [Jamal Khashoggi's last interview with The World]( [Maung Saungkha looks on as Rohingya poet Mayyu Ali reads his poem over a video call]( Underground poetry nights are building bridges between Rohingya and Burmese writers In June this year, a small group of Myanmar residents [crowded around a projector screen]( in an apartment loft in downtown Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, to listen to poetry read via video call by Rohingya poet and refugee, Mayyu Ali, who was over 600 miles away in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. “Even when I live in the country where I was born/ I can’t name it as mine like you do./ Without identity,/ Just like an immigrant,” he said, reciting part of his poem, “That’s Me, a Rohingya,” while the audience listened, captivated. The event’s participants and organizers were fully aware that they were doing something sensitive. In a country where even the word “Rohingya” is taboo, there was a risk that the audience would respond badly. Morning meme: Sec. 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