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Family of Malcolm X sue over the civil rights leader鈥檚 assassination

They have accused government agencies of complicity in his murder in 1965.

The family of the US civil rights leader Malcolm X have filed a lawsuit accusing government agencies of complicity in his murder in 1965. They allege the FBI, the CIA and New York Police knew about the plot to assassinate him but did nothing to stop it. There's been no response yet from the law enforcement agencies.

Also in the programme: we reflect on the progress made in the first week of the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan's capital Baku; and a hidden garden in Venice has opened to the public for the first time in 500 years.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss this and more are Charlotte Kilpatrick, an American journalist based in the UK who specialises in politics and health issues, and Loren Landau, Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford.

(Picture: Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of the civil rights leader Malcolm X, speaks alongside attorney Ben Crump and their legal team during a news conference to announce a lawsuit against government agencies in New York City on November, 15, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

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The Man Booker International 2018

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