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Why a large group of false killer whales ended up stranded in Tasmania and the epic struggle to save them. You should never have started it. The somewhat startling words from President Trump seeming to imply that Ukraine is to blame for the current war against Russia, which of course fully invaded Ukraine three years ago.
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Sebastian Usher in Jerusalem. The UN Refugee Agency says Pakistan is planning to order all Afghan refugees without valid visas to leave Islamabad and its twin city of Rawalpindi by the end of the month. More than a million and a half of the Afghans in the country are thought to be undocumented. Azadeh Mashiri reports from Islamabad.
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Azadeh Mashiri Still to come in this podcast... Time Travelling with the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop as its pioneering archive goes live to the world.
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To Syria now, and some two months on since the fall of the Assad regime, families of the disappeared are still searching for their missing loved ones. Over 100,000 Syrians are estimated by human rights organizations to have disappeared since the uprising against the rule of the Assad authorities began in 2011. It's thought that number includes more than 3,000 children.
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The BBC has found evidence that some of them, detained with their families, were transferred to orphanages by order of the security apparatus. Our correspondent Lina Sinjab has this report from Damascus.
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Speaking to journalists last night, Mr Trump even said Ukraine's President Zelensky had an approval rating of just 4%. But on Wednesday, Mr Zelensky hit back, insisting he enjoyed support from more than half the country and that the US leader had fallen victim to fake news.
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Lina Sinjab in Damascus. Around 90 individuals of a species known as Force Killer Whales stranded on a beach in Tasmania will be euthanized after authorities said there was no way to save them. More than 60 of the animals, part of the dolphin family, have already died after the mass stranding near Arthur River in the islands northwest.
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Andrew Peach spoke to Dr. Vanessa Pirotta, wildlife scientist and author from Macquarie University in Sydney.
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Wildlife-Scientist Dr. Vanessa Pirota. Now to a case at the heart of the US music scene, as ASAP Rocky has been cleared on two charges of assault with a semi-automatic weapon. ASAP, whose real name is Rakeem Mayers, was accused of firing a weapon at another rapper, confusingly known as ASAP Relly, whose real name is Terrell Ephron. Here was the moment the verdict was read out in the LA courtroom.
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Speaking in Kyiv, Mr. Zelensky said, Washington's previous demands for $500 billion for his country's minerals were, as he put it, not a serious conversation. He insisted he could not sell his country. Well, on the ground, the diplomacy, or lack of it, continues. The American special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has been visiting Kyiv.
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Paul Moss asked her about the incident that happened between the two men.
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Our Los Angeles correspondent Emma Vardy. Now for this. The Sound of the TARDIS Time Machine from the BBC TV series Doctor Who, made by the pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Their archive is being made available for the first time for use by musical artists and producers. It's hoped the move will help to continue a legacy of helping invent and develop electronic music and sampling.
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Mark Ayres, who is a current member of the Radiophonic Workshop and its archivist, spoke to Priya Rai.
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Arriving by train to the capital, he's insisting that Ukraine's European allies would still be excluded from any peace talks. Our Eastern Europe-Correspondent Sarah Rainsford is following the story for us.
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And that's all from us for now. But there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Paul Mason and the producer was Stephanie Prentice.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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Yes, so there is no doubt, Europe is being sidelined.
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Sarah Rainsford in Poland. One man who knows Mr Trump and his approach to foreign policy is General H.R. McMaster, who was National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018 and the author of At War With Ourselves, which is a book about what it was like to serve in the Trump first term.
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He has a top piece of advice for European leaders interacting with Mr Trump, but first told us more about how the comments were received.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 19th of February, these are our main stories. Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy lands in Kiev amid divisive comments from the President about the war in Ukraine and President Zelensky saying his US counterpart is caught in a disinformation bubble.
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National Security Advisor in Donald Trump's first time General H.R. McMaster. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump's senior advisor Elon Musk says he's determined to drive through his policies despite facing what he says is almost total opposition in Washington.
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The two men have given their first joint interview to Fox News' Hannity programme, much of it focused on cutting government spending, with Elon Musk claiming his Department of Government Efficiency would save the US from bankruptcy. He vowed to take on anyone who stands in his way.
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The first joint interview between Mr. Trump and his advisor Elon Musk appears to confirm Washington's policy of imposing the terms of any peace. Hamas tells Israel to pull out of Gaza if it wants its hostages back. And Rihanna's partner A$AP Rocky is cleared of firing a semi-automatic weapon at a rival musician. Also in this podcast.
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Emily Jaschinski ist Washington-Korrespondent für Unheard, ein News-and-Opinion-Website. Sie hat meinem Kollegen Priya Rai gesagt, dass beide Männer vorsichtig waren, was sie gesagt haben, obwohl Interviewer Sean Hannity Donald Trump-Supporter war.
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Sebastian Ascher ist in Jerusalem und folgt der Geschichte.
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Frank Gardner. In a separate development, Ukraine's security service says it has uncovered 12 agents spying for Russia who were working to find out where Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets were being hidden. Security officials said they were also suspected of sharing information about the location of air defence systems in the south and north-east of Ukraine.
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The statement said some of those arrested were deserters from Ukraine's armed forces.
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The Italian city of Venice is to replace the glass steps on its famous Slippery Bridge after 14 years of almost daily falls. The US State Department says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end the fighting in Gaza and secure the release of Israeli hostages is within reach. Its spokesman is Matthew Miller.
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There's concern that young people are asking for anti-ageing skincare products intended for much older consumers. MUSIC
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Denmark has freed an anti-whaling activist who'd been detained in Greenland for five months after rejecting a Japanese request for his extradition. Tokyo had accused Paul Watson, a US-Canadian citizen, of damaging a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic in 2010 and injuring one of its crew.
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Mr Watson's lawyers had accused Japan of trying to silence him and argued that he would not be given a fair trial. Sean Lay asked him how it felt to be released.
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Paul Watson, anti-whaling campaigner and founder of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation. A woman from the Philippines who spent nearly 15 years on death row in Indonesia has headed home. Mary Jane Veloso was convicted of taking two and a half kilograms of heroin in a suitcase from Malaysia to the island archipelago in 2010, but she's always claimed that she was duped into carrying the drugs.
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Asia Pacific editor Mickey Bristow told me more about the case.
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So she's going to get quite a reception in the Philippines when she gets back?
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Mickey Bristow. For many years, anti-ageing skincare was something only grown-ups had any interest in. Now, very young children are asking for products once intended for much older consumers, but that creates dangers as some of the creams contain potentially harmful ingredients.
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As a result, the largest pharmacy chain in Sweden, Apotec Jartat, is restricting the sale of some skincare products, raising the question, should other countries follow suit? Hannah Mullane investigates. She first spoke to a young British girl who has an interest in such skincare products.
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All previous attempts have collapsed. A Hamas spokesman said the talks were positive and serious and a deal was possible if Israel stopped setting new conditions. A three-stage proposal is on the table. From Jerusalem, our Middle East correspondent Yoland Nell reports.
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That report by Hannah Mullane. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against subsidiaries of the tech firm Apple, accusing them of trading in-conflict minerals. Some mines in eastern Congo are run by armed groups accused of committing massacres of civilians. Lawyers have gone to court in France and Belgium, arguing that Apple is complicit in these crimes.
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The details from Will Ross.
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Will Ross. Apple says it audits suppliers. Next to Italy. Now, what would Venice be like without its bridges? A network of them cross the city's many islands, but one bridge has remained a point of controversy for locals and tourists alike –
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It is, of course, the Constitution Bridge, a modern addition to the Grand Canal, which has become notorious for its slippery glass steps, leading to numerous injuries and costly lawsuits. Now, Venice City Council has decided to replace its slippery glass steps with a safer alternative. Ella Bicknell reports.
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll. The producer was Liam McSheffrey. The editor is Karen Martin.
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I'm Alex Ritz, and until next time... Goodbye.
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Yoland Nel. So what's been the reaction on the ground to the news regarding possible ceasefire developments in Gaza? The BBC has received audio messages from both Gaza and Israel. First, Ailon Kishet from Tel Aviv, who has a cousin that is a hostage in Gaza.
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Khaled was injured in a missile attack last month. He got in touch from Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip.
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Khaled contacted the BBC afterwards to say he was OK. Previous ceasefire talks have collapsed, so why is there more optimism about this set of talks? I spoke to our Gaza correspondent Rushdie Abu-Aloof, who's currently in Istanbul.
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The UN's special envoy to Syria has warned that unless the country gets urgent support, it could be plunged back into conflict. Geir Pedersen told the UN Security Council that the war there has not ended despite the departure of former President Assad.
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Mr Pedersen highlighted recent clashes between Turkish-backed groups and Kurdish forces in the northeast where a US-brokered ceasefire has been extended until the end of the week. Meanwhile, the Israeli government has approved a plan to expand settlements in the occupied Golan Heights.
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The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said this was necessary because of what he called the new front that had opened up in Syria. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967. An armistice was signed between the two countries in 1974 and a buffer zone was established.
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But following the fall of President Assad last week, Israeli troops entered the buffer zone and, it was claimed, some crossed into Syrian-controlled territory, although Israel has denied this. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from the Syrian village of Hadar, where she witnessed firsthand the incursion by Israeli troops.
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Lucy Williamson reporting. The American TV channel CNN has said a man it filmed being released by rebels from a Syrian prison who claimed to be a civilian was in fact a former intelligence officer with the deposed regime. The man was featured in a widely shared report which showed him being freed from a locked cell.
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I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Wednesday 18th December, these are our main stories. The US State Department says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end the fighting in Gaza is within reach. Russian politicians have vowed revenge for the assassination of a Russian general on the streets of Moscow. Ukraine said it carried out the attack.
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CNN said local residents had now identified him as a lieutenant in President Assad's Air Force Intelligence Directorate. Our media editor Katie Razzell has more.
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KT Razzle. Ukraine's security services have said they were behind a bomb attack in Moscow which killed a Russian general. The head of the army's chemical weapons division, Igor Kirillov, is the most senior military figure to be assassinated on Russian soil since the conflict with Ukraine began.
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Ukrainian security officials said he'd directed the use of banned chemical weapons on the front line and called him a war criminal. The Kremlin described the bombing as terrorism. Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg sent this report from Moscow.
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Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. The UK imposed sanctions on General Kirillov in October. He was accused by Ukraine and its allies of coordinating the widespread and regular use of banned chemical weapons. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports.
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This morning we saw a video that eloquently illustrated the evil of antisemitism and the extent to which it has consumed the minds of some Australians. The video that we saw was absolutely chilling and horrific.
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The brazen way, the open and confident manner in which these people spoke about killing and torturing and wishing death upon Israelis and particularly coming from our medical professionals who we look to for care and support was a ghastly thing to see.
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What about this link between her detention and that of Mohammed Abedini's?
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The link between your sense of smell and your political leanings. Los Angeles and the surrounding areas have often experienced wildfires, but not ones that spread so quickly with so little warning at this time of year. The speed with which they took hold on Tuesday night stunned Californians. As we record this podcast, at least two people are dead and a thousand buildings have been destroyed.
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Still to come, how a glass of milk a day might help stave off bowel cancer.
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It's not every day that we run more than one story on a particular theme here on the GNP. We usually bring you a range of stories on a range of topics, but today has coincidentally happened to see a glut of newsworthy stories about various aspects of health, and it seemed strange. Churlish not to include them.
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So over the next few minutes, we've got an intriguing insight into the politics of smell, a look at the latest research on Alzheimer's and how calcium could be a secret weapon in the battle against a particular type of cancer. But first... A blood test for various forms of cancer has shown early promise as being a possible way to help detect tumours early.
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In a test on 91 blood samples, a mix of those in patients with or without cancer, it picked up 56 of the 59 samples with cancer. Anna Hsu is a professor of molecular diagnostics at the University of Oxford and lead researcher on the study. She's been telling Evan Davis what it involved.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are without power. To give you a sense of the terror spreading across this part of California over the past 24 hours, have a listen to these residents and reporters.
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Professor Anna Hsu. It's been known for some time that head injuries can increase the chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases like dementia. But now scientists have looked at whether one of the causes of this post-injury dementia could be the reactivation of dormant viruses in the brain, viruses that all of us carry around unwittingly for much of our lives.
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Dana Cairns from Tufts University in Boston is the lead author of the new study. She explained its findings to Rebecca Kesby.
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Donna Cairns of Tufts University in Boston. Next, to a story that many listeners are showing an interest in online, how a glass of milk a day could reduce the risk of bowel cancer, according to a new study from Oxford University and Cancer Research UK. Our health reporter Philippa Roxby told us more.
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Philippa Roxby. Now, Covid saw many people lose their sense of smell. For many of those who did, it was disorientating to say the least. But a new survey suggests that many people simply don't care about smell. A quarter of American college kids questioned said that they would give up their sense of smell. in order to keep their smartphone.
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6% of respondents said they'd happily give up their sense of smell to watch Netflix. Maybe people hadn't thought about it carefully when they answered the questions, but a new book about smell suggests that we do undervalue it. Jonas Olofsson is a Swedish psychologist at Stockholm University. The title of his book is The Forgotten Sense. He's been talking to Evan Davis.
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Jonas Olofsson, a Swedish psychologist. Finally, after all that health news, let's go back in time to end this edition. Back to the days of the pharaohs, to be precise, and some of the most remarkable finds made in Egypt for more than a century. Archaeologists there have unveiled what they're saying is one of the greatest discoveries since the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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The site near Luxor includes previously undiscovered burial sites, along with a temple to a ruler widely regarded as one of the greatest female pharaohs. Carla Conti has this report.
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X. at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Chris Kouzaris and the producer was Mark Duff. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson.
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The fires, fuelled by hurricane-force winds, have turned the skies red and orange. They couldn't have happened at a worse time for California, which is being battered by the seasonal Santa Ana winds, winds which could yet develop into the worst windstorm in a decade.
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The largest fire is in the sought-after Pacific Balisades neighbourhood, which is east of LA and home to Hollywood celebrities who've had to abandon their homes like so many others. President Biden has been in the area and has told the US military to assist firefighters overstretched by the disaster. He's also approved a major disaster declaration for California to help survivors.
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Just before we came into the studio, I spoke to our correspondent, David Willis.
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It's incredible, isn't it? And it's blowing the fire to new places at an incredible rate.
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And briefly, David, the authorities really struggling to cope with this. The fire, they say they cannot contain it.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Thursday 9th January, these are our main stories. President Biden promises extra help from the Department of Defence to tackle the wildfires threatening Los Angeles as 70,000 people flee their homes.
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David Willis. Southern California has been hit by devastating wildfires before, but how much of a part has climate change played in this latest bout of extreme weather? Here's our climate change correspondent, Matt McGrath.
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Matt McGrath, and he was speaking to Mark Lowen.
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And with not just the fires but so many extreme weather events around the world making the news more and more often, we're making a special edition of the Global News Podcast in the coming days to try to find out where this trend is going and how quickly, how big the risks are and what we should all be doing about it as societies and as individuals to try to reduce the risk.
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If you have a question, please email us, or better still, send us a voice note. The address, globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. European politicians have warned Donald Trump against using military force to take control of Greenland after he refused to rule out that scenario.
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The President-elect reiterated his desire to acquire the mineral-rich island on Tuesday, saying the autonomous Danish-controlled territory was critical for US national and economic security. Both France and Germany have said the EU will not let other nations attack its members' sovereign borders. Our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams is following developments.
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European nations warn that borders must not be altered by force after Donald Trump refused to rule out military action to seize Greenland. And a deadly Russian glide bomb attack on Ukraine kills at least 13 people in the southeastern city of Zaporizhia. Also in this podcast, Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney successfully negotiates the release of an Italian journalist from jail in Iran.
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Paul Adams. Mark Jacobsen is an Arctic security expert from the Royal Danish Defence College. He explained in more detail why Donald Trump wants control of Greenland.
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Mark Jakobsen, Associate Professor from the Royal Danish Defence College. A deadly Russian glide bomb attack on Ukraine has killed at least 13 people in the southeastern city of Zaporizhia. President Zelensky has condemned the attack and urged Ukraine's Western allies to put pressure on Russia to end the war. From Kiev, here's our Eastern Europe correspondent, Sarah Rainsford.
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What could be the most important archaeological find from the days of ancient Egypt since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and...
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Sarah Rainsford. An Italian journalist detained in Iran last month has been freed. The news was given by the office of Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Maloney, who is said to have personally taken charge of negotiating her release. Her relatively short time in custody is in sharp contrast to many other foreign nationals.
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There had been speculation that her arrest was prompted by the detention of an Iranian national in Milan. Our Europe editor Paul Kirby has been following the case.
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Indeed, it says it will rely on community notes similar to those used on X, where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. This is how Meta's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, explained the move.
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The move has already been discussed by X's owner Elon Musk, who responded cool on his platform. For more on the change and its significance, here's our chief technology reporter Chris Vallance.
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So just tell us how this new system is going to work, because they're sacking their very own fact checkers who they appear now to have lost confidence in and replacing them with an army of not even volunteers, just anyone who wants to take issue with a fact that's going to be on one of their platforms.
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And his intervention comes on the day that his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., visited Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic. While answering a journalist's question during a news conference in Florida, it was difficult to separate humour or bombast from genuine policy.
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Chris Vallance. The United States says members of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF and Allied Militia, have committed genocide in Sudan. The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said he based this on the systematic murder of men and boys and the brutal sexual violence against women on ethnic grounds in Darfur. Barbara Platasha sent this report from Washington.
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Barbara Pletosha. It's just been a very stressful time in India. It always is around now, with the annual civil service examinations and the chance to secure a coveted job in government. Students in the state of Bihar have been protesting for weeks, claiming there were irregularities in the tests. Archana Shukla reports from there.
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Just how likely is it, then, that the next President of the United States will try to take these territories with military force? A question for our North America correspondent, Neda Torfik.
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Archana Shukla. A small hilltop village in southern Italy has banned its residents from becoming seriously ill. The mayor of Belcastro in Calabria, on the toe of the Italian peninsula, has ordered people to, in his words, avoid contracting any illness that may require emergency medical assistance. The mayor described the order as obviously a humorous provocation,
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Is this yet another case of someone who lives in this area trying to focus attention on the gulf in health provision and much else between the poor south of Italy and the wealthy north?
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And yet this is one of the richest countries in the world. I mean, what does he expect? What does he want to happen?
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And what happens if any residents of the village defy his decree and get ill?
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Laura Gotzi. Reserving a spot around the pool or on the beach is nothing new. But a growing seaside trend in Australia has sparked a national debate. It's so serious that the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has weighed in on the issue. More from our Sydney correspondent, Katie Watson.
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll and the producer was Alison Davis. The editor is Karen Martin.
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I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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As you say, it was in response to a reporter's question. Did he plan to say this or was it something that he came up with on the spur of the moment?
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So let's hear what Donald Trump Jr. had to say to reporters when he flew into Greenland.
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The debate over the territory's future has largely excluded its people, many of whom have a fierce desire for independence. Mark Lowen spoke to two residents of Greenland, Klaus Iversen, who was born in Denmark and moved to the island 16 years ago, and Aga Nirviana, who has Inuit heritage, the indigenous people of Greenland. Just what does Aga think about Donald Trump's bid to buy her homeland?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 8th of January, these are our main stories. The US President-elect Donald Trump has refused to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
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Agar Naviana and Klaus Iversen speaking to Mark Lowen. In our earlier podcast, we covered the first reports of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake which has hit Tibet's southern border with Nepal, killing at least 126 people. That figure is expected to rise as rescue teams battle freezing temperatures and aftershocks to search the rubble of destroyed homes for survivors.
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Chinese state media said thousands of buildings were damaged around the city of Shigatse. Tibet is an autonomous region of China. Foreign journalists aren't allowed in. Laura Bicker sent this report from Beijing.
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The social media giant Meta is ending fact-checking on Facebook and other platforms, saying it wants to prioritise free expression over censorship. The outgoing US Secretary of State has accused the paramilitary rapid support forces of committing genocide in Sudan.
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Laura Bicker. One of the areas affected by the earthquake in the Himalayas was Mount Everest itself, but it's the middle of winter, treacherous conditions for climbing, so surely hardly anyone was there. Well, one person who was is climber Joost Ko Busch.
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He was attempting a solo climb of Everest's West Ridge and was camped on the edge of the mountain when the earthquake hit, as he told Rebecca Kesby.
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Eust Cobush. Residents of a town in the English county of Nottinghamshire have been left scratching their heads and watching their step because of a mystery pile of bananas. A plate of the fruit has been left at exactly the same spot in Beeston every month for more than a year. Steve Nibbs investigates.
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Australia's Prime Minister weighs in on using cabana tents to reserve the best spots on the beach.
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We meet the climber who spent an earthquake on the side of Mount Everest. US President-elect Donald Trump has ramped up threats to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, saying he can't offer assurance that he wouldn't use military or economic coercion. He also said eliminating the artificially drawn US-Canada border would be beneficial to national security.
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America's tech giants are on the march. Just days before the return of Donald Trump to the White House and hot on the heels of Elon Musk's online outbursts against some of America's erstwhile European allies, exes rival Meta has announced that it's abandoning the use of third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram and threads.
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We don't know. So we talk a lot about the impact of artificial intelligence on everything from medical diagnoses to even lyric writing. Is AI making a difference in predicting the weather too?
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We find out about some of the possible solutions to these extreme weather events.
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And you've got some incredible equipment which we'll tour a little bit later on. We'll come back to you later in this podcast. We're also going to be joined by our tech editor Zoe Kleinman, Greya Jackson from The Climate Question, Marco Silva from BBC Verify and Myra Anubi from People Fixing the World.
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OK, so we've been talking about extreme weather events and forecasting the weather and hovering over it, climate change. So to explain the links and differences, Greer Jackson of The Climate Question is here. Hello, Greer. What's the difference between weather and climate?
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If it's not a stupid question, why does climate change cause extreme weather?
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We'll be finding out why extreme weather events are on the increase, what role climate change plays and how we can better predict, contain and even prevent some of the most devastating results. But first let's start with a reminder of why all this matters.
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So how much extreme weather is caused by climate change?
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It's going to be an... It's going to be in the trillions, isn't it?
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Great. Take a listen to this. We've got a question from Avner in Israel that we'd like to put to you.
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That's an interesting question, isn't it? Because politicians, many politicians, don't like spending money if the fruits of that money, if the results aren't seen while they're still in office.
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Greer, thank you. Greer Jackson of The Climate Question. So we know what the scientists say, but there are still people out there who believe man-made climate change and the resulting extreme weather events which we report on a hoax or conspiracy. Joining me now is Marco Silva from BBC Verify. Marco, how does that work?
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So just to be completely clear, for the record, you are not part of some global cover-up. I'm not spraying anyone. OK. Marco, some people... might think that these conspiracy theories are just so spurious they're hardly worth our time and attention. Do they have a point? Why do these things matter?
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Yeah, and possibly even worth nodding to the fact that it's awful to have to say it, but people who believe these theories do have the right to vote and politicians know that.
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Marco, always fascinating. Thank you so much. Marco Silva from BBC Verify. With extreme weather events on the rise and most nations a long way off from meeting their targets for tackling climate change, it can all feel quite disheartening. But there are many people who are pushing ahead with their own solutions and projects to combat extreme weather events.
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Myra Anubi from the BBC's People Fixing the World podcast joins us now. Hello, Myra.
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Happy New Year to you. Myra, with what's happening in L.A., there's a lot of talk, of course, of wildfires at the moment and how another disaster like that could be prevented in the future.
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And Myra, you've also been finding possible solutions to the problem of flooding.
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Chris and I have decamped from the BBC Weather Centre and come up to the Global News podcast studio. Chris, we heard there from the US in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, from the drought in the Amazon in Brazil, from the wildfires in Los Angeles and Portugal, and then the devastating flooding in Valencia in Spain. Where do you want to start?
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Oh, that took me back to my school geography lessons. Myra, thank you. Myra Newby from the BBC's People Fixing the World podcast. Chris Fawkes from BBC Weather still with me. Chris, we heard there about some great, really societal projects that people are taking on around the world.
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But what can people do in their own homes to protect themselves from the kind of extreme weather events we've been talking about?
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later, with a special thanks to Chris Fawkes from BBC Weather and our other guests Zoe Kleinman, Greya Jackson, Marco Silva and Myra Anubi. If you want to comment on this podcast, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on at Global News Pod.
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This is an important subject and we're thinking maybe we should be doing more regular Global News Podcast weather specials. Do let us know your thoughts. This edition was mixed by Jack Graysmark and the producer was Anna Murphy. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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So more of them to come. And of course, it's not just fires, is it? We heard about another... extreme weather event that hit the US last year. And of course, that was Helene.
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And then there was that terrible drought in the Amazon. What was going on there?
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Yeah, talking of rainy seasons, everyone will remember the images of the flooding in Spain. Cars literally being tossed around like toys, more than 220 people dead. And there were complaints about the way officials handled it, weren't there? Yeah.
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Yeah, that's fascinating because definitely the complaint at the time, I just remember the stories that we were running, was that people, even if the information had been there, they didn't feel they'd been warned. Yeah, that's right.
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So being able to provide people with enough warning that an extreme weather event is coming is a key part of limiting their impact. But how does weather prediction actually work? So I'm back in the BBC Weather Centre with Chris Fawkes. And Chris, how does this work? How does weather prediction work? Show me your machines.
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This is a special collaboration between the Global News Podcast and the BBC Weather team. I'm Alex Ritson and two weeks on from the start of the LA wildfires, we're looking at the increasing and terrifying number of news stories around the world involving extreme weather. I'm here at the BBC Weather Studio in London with weather reporter and meteorologist Chris Fawkes. Chris, hello. Hello.
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So, Chris, obviously I am not an expert in this like you. What I see on the screen is it's a huge map of Europe. I can see, I imagine those are the clouds just off the coast of Spain. But what I can't really tell as someone who isn't an expert is what all this means. Show me what I should be looking at.
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It just looks like a fluffy cloud on the screen. It's when you click on there and then I guess you're right clicking, aren't you? And then the numbers come up. which give you that backstory.
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So, Chris, that's what we have currently. I'm going to go and see Zoe Kleinman. Can you come with me, our technology editor? Let's see where she thinks the technology is. might be evolving. So, Zoe, you're on the line. Hello. How are you doing?
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Well, Chris and I have just been looking at the finest state-of-the-art current weather prediction technology, but you're the expert on what's going to come, aren't you? How is it going to change?
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So what kind of crime are we talking about? Chris Burrow spoke to our America's editor, Leonardo Rocha.
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The airstrikes across Gaza have killed more than 400 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. It said many of those who died were children. More than 600 people are reported to have been injured. It's the largest wave of airstrikes since the start of the ceasefire, which began on the 19th of January.
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Leonardo Rocha. In March 2020, images of army trucks trundling through the streets of Bergamo in northern Italy gripped the attention of a world just beginning to grasp the reality of the global pandemic. They were there to move bodies because the local crematorium simply couldn't cope with the scale of the disaster. There were almost six times as many deaths in Bergamo as the year before.
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By some estimates, as many people died there during the first wave of Covid as in whole countries like Canada or the Netherlands. Five years on, Mark Duff has returned to the city to gauge what sense, if any, the people of Bergamo have managed to make of the tragedy that ravaged their community. CHOIR SINGS
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Israel's foreign ministry spokesman Oren Marmerstein blamed Hamas, accusing it of repeatedly refusing to extend the ceasefire and release the hostages.
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Mark Duff The last surviving British pilot from the Battle of Britain has died at the age of 105. John Paddy Hemingway took part in the nearly four-month campaign in 1940 to defend his country against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's Air Force, the Luftwaffe. David Lewis looks back at his life.
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David Lewis. The rock band Queen, the jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and the Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan have been announced as this year's recipients of the Polar Music Prize, the closest thing music has to a Nobel Prize. Created by ABBA's manager Stig Andersen, the award was first given to Paul McCartney in 1992. This report from Colin Patterson.
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And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod.
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This edition was mixed by Rebecca Miller and the producers were Carla Conti and Stephanie Tillotson. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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The Red Crescent says hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of casualties. And Rosalia Bolan from the children's charity UNICEF, who's in Almawasi in southern Gaza, says people are turning to her for help and advice.
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Hamas has responded furiously, accusing Israel of treachery for overturning the ceasefire agreement. It also says Israel is exposing the remaining Israeli hostages to what it called an unknown fate. So, why has Israel launched this new wave of strikes now? I asked our Middle East regional editor, Mike Thompson.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday 18th March, these are our main stories. More than 400 people are dead, according to Palestinian officials, as Israeli warplanes bring an explosive end to the Gaza ceasefire. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are holding a much-anticipated phone call about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine.
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Mike Thompson. A highly anticipated phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on finding a way to end the war in Ukraine is due to take place over the next couple of hours. The US president is pressuring his Russian counterpart to sign up to a 30-day ceasefire. Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that both leaders would build on earlier discussions.
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Mr Trump has said he will discuss dividing up assets such as Ukrainian land and power plants. But most observers agree that the Russians will only accept keeping the areas that they've conquered and occupied. Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford is following developments. I asked her whether this was really a negotiation or was Vladimir Putin still firmly in control?
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Sarah, ahead of the call, Kirill Dmitriev, who's been named by Mr Putin as his special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation, has been speaking. What's he had to say?
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Our Eastern Europe correspondent, Sarah Rainsford. After an unplanned extended stay on the International Space Station, two American astronauts are finally making their way back to Earth. Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams successfully undocked from the ISS at the start of a 17-hour journey home. Their mission was supposed to last eight days, but technical issues prevented their return.
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This report from our science editor, Rebecca Murrell.
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Also in this podcast, two American astronauts stranded in space for nine months are on their way back to Earth and... Being with the musicians, not knowing how it's going to be night after night, the challenge.
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Rebecca Murrell reporting. So, if all goes well, after 286 days, Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams will splash down on Tuesday night. But how long will it take them to adjust to life back on Earth? The BBC heard from Colonel Katie Coleman in Massachusetts. She's a veteran astronaut of two space shuttle missions and has logged more than 500 hours in space.
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Herbie Hancock takes one of the biggest prizes in global music. The Israeli military says it's continuing to strike targets belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad across the Gaza Strip. The statement from the security agency and the Israel Defence Force said that in the past hours they'd hit what were described as terrorist cells, weapons stockpiles and additional military infrastructure.
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Colonel Katie Coleman. Still to come in this podcast.
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Five years on from Covid, we hear from people in the Italian city of Bergamo.
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In Peru, the government has declared a 30-day state of emergency after a wave of violence in the capital Lima and neighbouring town of Calau. It means that free movement has been suspended and allows the police to search people's homes without a warrant. More troops will also be deployed to combat crime. President Dina Baluarte is reportedly considering introducing the death penalty.
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What really happened to the Egyptian boat that sank in November, killing 11 people?
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Los Angeles is bracing itself for more wildfires, with strong winds set to return to the city. Forecasters are expecting gusts of more than 100 kilometres per hour and four fires continue to burn. President Biden has warned it will cost tens of billions of dollars to rebuild the parts of Los Angeles that have been destroyed.
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This was the response of people on the streets of Gaza.
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After a space of crime during the wildfire, several people have been charged with burglary and looting. Speaking at a news conference, the LA County Sheriff, Robert Luna, said the charges would serve as a warning to anyone who intended to take advantage of the tragedy.
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Our correspondent David Willis is in the Palisades, one of the worst affected areas, and gave us this update.
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David Willis in Los Angeles. Hundreds of people have been trapped in an abandoned mine shaft two kilometres underground since November, but now the rescue and recovery operation in the small South African town of Stillfontaine is gathering pace. On Monday, 26 miners were brought up alive and nine bodies were recovered. They were working in the mine illegally.
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Human rights activists have criticised the government's tough stance on illegal mining, which saw them deny the men food and water in order to force them out. The authorities have defended their actions, saying the miners shouldn't have been there in the first place. Myne Jones in Johannesburg gave us more details.
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Mayuni Jones. The BBC has been told of safety failings on board an Egyptian dive boat that sank last November, killing 11 people. The Egyptian authorities had previously blamed the disaster on a massive wave. Joe Inwood has spoken to nearly a dozen survivors, including one woman who spent 35 hours trapped in an air pocket.
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Caution remains the watchword given the failure of all previous attempts to end the violence and secure the release of hostages. But this time, just maybe, there seems to be more substance to the hope. A spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, Majid al-Ansari, said a deal was close but not done yet.
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That report by Joe Inwood. Anthony Blunt was the late Queen Elizabeth's advisor on the British royal family's extensive and priceless art collection. But was the Queen kept in the dark by the intelligence service MI5 about the fact that he was actually a spy during the Cold War?
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Well, that is the question raised by the release of MI5 files at the National Archives in the UK about Anthony Blunt, who was leading a double life as a secret agent for the Soviet Union. The papers show that in 1971 the Queen officially knew nothing about Blunt's security record and it seems likely that she was only fully briefed in 1973, nine years after he had already confessed to being a spy.
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Here is Anthony Blunt himself speaking in 1979 when he was asked whether Queen Elizabeth knew about his confession.
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Miranda Carter has written a biography called Anthony Blunt, His Lives.
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Miranda Carter speaking to Nick Robinson. And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Nicola Brough and the producer was Richard Hamilton.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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I've been talking to our correspondent in Jerusalem, Amir Nada.
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So it's the deadline that's maybe forcing the issue. But what has emerged about the outline of the deal? What would happen?
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And that is the thing, isn't it? Even if there is an agreement, the parties have got to deliver.
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Meanwhile, on the ground in Gaza, the violence, the hunger and the deprivation continue unabated. Amand Bazarol is project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, based close to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. She has been telling Nick Robinson about another difficult night for Palestinian civilians.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday 14th January, these are our main stories. There are signs a ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza could be agreed soon.
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Amand Bazarul from MSF. The man who tried to prosecute Donald Trump for election interference in the 2020 US presidential poll has said a jury would have convicted him. Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation has now been shut down, but he says that does not mean the president-elect is exonerated for what he described as an unprecedented criminal effort to hold onto power.
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Donald Trump has responded by calling Jack Smith deranged. Here's our North America correspondent, Nomia Iqbal.
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A US Justice Department report says Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn his election defeat in 2020, and desperate efforts continue in South Africa to rescue hundreds of illegal minors. also in this podcast.
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Nomia Iqbal. The Russian war against Ukraine is seeing more action far away from the front line. Ukrainian sources speak of a fiery night as targets deep inside Russia were hit, including oil refineries in Saratov and Engels on the Volga and chemical plants in the regions of Tula and Bryansk. Russia claims to have shot down the Ukrainian drones and missiles used.
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I heard more from our Europe regional editor, Danny Aberhart.
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And this all just six days before Donald Trump takes over.
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And of course, we've long had the predictions that, well, from Donald Trump, that the war will end shortly after he takes office. Have we got any more flesh on what's going to happen?
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Let's stay with the conflict now, where it's emerged that Russia is using Ukrainian prisoners of war as leverage to force their families back in Ukraine to carry out sabotage. The BBC has seen evidence that Russia is using bribery and threats against POWs to persuade worried relatives to carry out spying and sabotage.
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Ukrainian officials say about half of all POW families are approached by Russian agents. Will Vernon sent this report.
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How much did the late Queen Elizabeth really know about her top art expert? MUSIC Time and again over the course of the conflict in Gaza, hopes have emerged that a ceasefire deal to end the suffering of civilians on both sides is within reach. Today, hopes have risen once again after mediators reported a midnight breakthrough at talks in Qatar.
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The Freedom Party and the Austrian People's Party did briefly govern together six years ago. What are the chances of them actually being able to pull this off, make another coalition?
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There's been intense speculation about his future in recent months, with the party heavily trailing the Conservatives in the polls. Mr Trudeau said he was a fighter. but it had become clear that he could not lead the liberals to victory in October's general election. More from our North America editor, Sarah Smith.
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Bethany Bell. The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has released a special edition timed to mark the 10th anniversary of an Islamist attack on its offices in Paris. Twelve people were killed, including the magazine's editor and a number of other cartoonists, columnists and members of staff. Your regional editor Danny Eberhardt reports.
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Danny Eberhardt. In the war in Gaza, there appears to have been the tiniest bit of movement towards a ceasefire deal. On Sunday, the BBC was shown a list of 34 hostages whom Hamas suggested it's willing to give up in return for a ceasefire and release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. However, Israel has said that Hamas has not clarified who on the list is still alive.
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One of the names there is 84-year-old Oded Lifshitz. He was abducted along with his wife Yocheved. She was released after 16 days, but Oded remains in captivity after 458 days. Tim Franks spoke to their daughter Sharon.
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Sharon Lifshitz Now to the drink absinthe, which used to be considered so dangerous it was banned in countries across Europe and the US. Known as the Green Fairy, it was thought to trigger madness. Listen carefully now, because deep in the BBC archives, we found a programme called Absinthe Makes the Art Grow Fonder. Here are Michelle Roberts and George Rowley tasting the heady spirit.
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Now, though, sales of absinthe worldwide are soaring, up 40% to 50% on the year. The drink is especially popular here in the UK. Jane Payton is an alcoholic drinks educator and founder of the Absinthe, aptly named School of Booze. Sarah Montague asked her to explain absinthe's reputation for being highly dangerous and inducing hallucinations.
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Jane Payton. And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll and the producer was Alison Davis. The editor is Karen Martin.
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Sarah Smith. So what do Mr Trudeau's allies make of his decision? Catherine McKenna is a former Liberal MP and was a minister in his government for six years, mainly dealing with the environment and climate change. Rebecca Kesby asked her whether she thought Justin Trudeau had made the right decision today to step down.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Tuesday 7th January, these are our main stories. Justin Trudeau has announced he's stepping down as the Prime Minister of Canada after nine years in office. The US Congress has met to certify Donald Trump's election victory. Proceedings passed off smoothly in contrast to events of four years ago.
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Catherine McKenna. Well, across the border in the United States, it's minus three Celsius as a huge winter storm brings heavy snow and freezing temperatures to the east coast. Of course, it's not just America's weather we're focusing on, but the changing political temperature, because in a fortnight, Donald Trump will return as president.
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Four years ago, on January the 6th, hardly anyone would have predicted this, when a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol building to try to stop Congress certifying Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. As is customary, this process is carried out by the vice president who brings Congress to order with a gavel. The result of that?
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Kamala Harris had to certify Donald Trump's 2024 victory, which also meant that she had to acknowledge her defeat last November, according to the Electoral College.
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I asked our Washington correspondent, Nomia Iqbal, how it all went.
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Do we have any idea how the transition is going? And also, will Donald Trump have all his picks for the key offices in place before January the 20th?
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Briefly, I mentioned the weather, the winter storm set to get worse. How are people coping?
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President Biden has announced a ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling in most US coastal waters two weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House. Mr Trump, who has promised to boost energy drilling, called the ban ridiculous and claimed he would overturn it immediately. Michelle Fleury reports from New York.
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Michel Fleury. It's not often that we like to have silence in a podcast. But a new book called The Natural History of Silence suggests that even something we think is silent rarely is. Its author is the eco-acoustic historian Jérôme Souer.
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Austria's president has invited the leader of the far-right Freedom Party to try to form a coalition government. Also in this podcast.
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Eco-acoustic historian Jérôme Souer. Still to come...
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The drink absinthe, once banned by governments, now rehabilitated and soaring in popularity.
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We examine the concept of silence and what it really means. Justin Trudeau has resigned as Prime Minister of Canada after more than nine years in office. He's also stepped down as leader of the Liberal Party and prorogued Parliament until 24 March to allow his successor to be chosen.
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Herbert Kickle has one of the lowest personal approval ratings of any politician in Austria. Yet the leader of the Freedom Party could become Austria's first far-right chancellor since the Second World War when it was under Nazi rule. The party won the most votes and MPs in September's general election.
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However, the Austrian president, Alexander Van der Bellen, didn't ask Mr Kickle to form a government. On Monday, after talks to form a centrist alliance collapsed at the weekend, the president was left with no choice but to ask the Freedom Party leader to try to build a coalition.
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If the Freedom Party and the centre-right Austrian People's Party can't form a coalition government, this could trigger a fresh election. I got more from our Vienna correspondent, Bethany Bell. Just how controversial a figure is Herbert Kickle?
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Welcome to the Level Up Podcast. I'm your host, Paul Alex. I went from being a cop to an eight-figure entrepreneur that helps average people like you and me make money every single day. I created this podcast to help you get motivated and to crush your goals. Let's win together. Remember, I have your six. Get ready to level up right now.
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You tying up expenses, maximizing efficiency and solidifying your foundation. The trick is to know when to switch gears. Look, what's the bottom line here? Balancing growth and profit isn't easy, guys. I'm gonna be honest with you, but it's necessary. Growth fuels your vision and profit sustains it. You need both to build a business that lasts. Thanks for tuning in to Level Up Podcast.
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What's up everybody and welcome back to the Love All Podcast. I'm Paul Alex and today we're going to be diving into a topic that every entrepreneur needs to understand. Balancing growth and profit. Here's the deal. Scaling your business is exciting, but it can also drain your resources if you're not careful. On the flip side, chasing profits alone can stunt your growth.
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So let's talk about how to walk the fine line and win at both. First, growth requires investment. It has to be with strategy, guys. When I started scaling my businesses, I reinvested heavily into systems, marketing, and people. But here's the key. I didn't just throw money at everything. I tracked ROI, I measured progression, and I pulled back on things that weren't working.
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Make sure to check out my YouTube channel, OfficialPaulAlex.com, for more motivational episodes. Growth is about calculated risk, not reckless spending. Second, profit is your business oxygen, guys. Let's keep it real. You can't grow if you're running on empty. Profit isn't just the end goal. It's what keeps the lights on and fuels your next moves.
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Look, early on, I learned the importance of balancing the books. Profit isn't just greed, it's survival. Without it, the growth is just a pipe dream, guys. And lastly, time. Timing is everything. Look, there are seasons when you want to put growth as a priority, pushing for market share, building the infrastructure, expanding your reach. But then there are seasons to focus on profitability.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
Tom Brook in New York. Still to come in this podcast, how the civil war in Sudan affected the National Museum.
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The United Nations mission in South Sudan is warning that the detention of the country's first vice president, Riek Machar, has brought the country to the brink of a return to civil war. Dr. Riek's SPLM in opposition movement says he's under house arrest alongside his wife.
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Riek Macha was made the first vice president as part of a peace deal after a civil war between his forces and troops loyal to President Salva Kiir, which killed an estimated 400,000 people from 2013 to 2018. James Copnell sprach zu Isaac Kuath Gang, dem Repräsentanten für Riek Machars SPLMIO-Movement in den USA. Er begann mit dem Frage, was in Juba gestern Abend passiert ist.
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And will pigs' livers solve the problem of transplant organs? But we start our podcast in Egypt, where six tourists died when the submarine they were on sank in the Red Sea just four months after the sinking of another dive vessel in the same area, leaving 11 people dead or missing. The Russian embassy in Cairo has said that all the people who died today were from Russia.
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China has reportedly ordered state-owned firms to pause new deals with businesses linked to Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, following his announcement that he plans to sell two ports in the Panama Canal to a US consortium. Tracey Burcham reports.
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Tracy Bircham. Over the past year, doctors around the world have successfully transplanted genetically modified pig kidneys and hearts into human patients. But now scientists in China have made history by doing the same with a pig liver. Our China correspondent Stephen McDonald told us more.
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I got the latest from our correspondent in the Egyptian capital, Sally Nabil.
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Stephen MacDonald. Earlier in this podcast we heard about the situation in South Sudan. Well, to the north, in Sudan, the civil war there continues to rage. But there have been developments. The country's military leader, General Abder Fattah al-Burhan, has visited the presidential palace in Khartoum after landing at the city's international airport just hours after it was recaptured by the army.
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Mr Burhan declared the capital free des paramilitary rapid support forces or rsf however the scars of battle remain including at the national museum when forces of the sudanese army retook areas of the capital the national museum appears to have been looted the director itlas abdel latif ahmed spoke to our former sedan correspondent james copnell
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Ikhlas Abdul Latif Ahmed spricht zu James Copnell. Der investigative Arbeit des ghanaischen Journalisten Anas Aramio ist so gefährlich, dass er seine Identität versteckt. Sein kontroversiales Dokumentar in 2018 über Korruption im afrikanischen Fußball hat einen riesigen Aufschlag getroffen, insbesondere von einem ghanaischen MP, der für ihn gehalten wurde.
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Jetzt hat Mr. Anas einen Defamation-Gesetz gewonnen, und hat 18 Millionen Dollar im Gericht gewonnen. Alfie Habershon berichtet.
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And that's all from us for now. But there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Holly Smith and the producer was Oliver Berlau.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritz and until next time, goodbye.
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A lot of people might be surprised even to discover that there are submarines full of tourists going down to the seabed.
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Because the potential for disaster, particularly with the submarine, is clearly there. And as you've indicated, the Egyptian tourist boat industry has a fairly checkered track record.
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Ja, Präsident Trump hat immer eine schwierige Beziehung mit China, aber Südkorea und Japan sind die zweitgrößten Alliierten Amerikas. Das wird die Beziehung strengen, nicht wahr?
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Shigeru Ishiba, der japanische Premierminister. Nick, ist es möglich, dass Donald Trump mit diesem Thema nicht weitergeht?
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Let's head to the Middle East now, where Parliament in Israel has passed a highly contentious bill that would increase political influence over the appointment of judges. Thousands of protesters in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have been rallying for several days against the plans, which have been pushed forward by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Demonstrator have also been condemning the resumption of hostilities in Gaza. Our Middle East regional editor Sebastian Usher told me why people have been out on the streets against the bill.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 27th of March, these are our main stories. A tourist submarine sinks off the Egyptian Red Sea city of Haggadah. At least six people are confirmed dead. President Trump imposes 25% tariffs on foreign car imports.
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Yes, what are the latest developments in Gaza?
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A new documentary which claims it is setting the record straight on the pro-Palestinian protests that engulfed US college campuses last year has got the backing of the Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon. It's the latest in a series of films highlighting Palestinian grievances, some of which have faced strong resistance and in some instances even calls for outright bans.
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And Parliament in Israel passes a contentious bill that would increase political influence over the appointment of judges. Also in this podcast, the Ghanaian journalist who won a multi-million dollar court case.
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Members of the International Olympic Committee have been transported to this remote, scenic destination next to the Ionian Sea in southwest Greece for what's been described as the most important presidential election in recent history.
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That's John Tibbs, an Olympic PR veteran who's been advising host cities and sporting federations for decades. As he explained, under the outgoing President Thomas Bach, the leadership role has been transformed.
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So there are some big shoes to fill. With six men and one woman in the running, guessing a winner dominates conversations throughout this Greek resort. Any clues are scarce. The ultra-secretive election process has been compared with a papal conclave. All that's missing is puffs of white smoke. Under the rules, official contact with IOC members and open debates has been restricted.
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It annoys a lot of people, like presidential contender Prince Faisal bin Hussein of Jordan.
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Prince Faisal is not among those considered favourites in the election. Despite the closed nature of choosing a new president, most people agree there are three front runners, including Britain's two-time Olympic champion and current boss of World Athletics, Lord Sebastian Coe.
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Few will argue against Sebastian Coe's list of achievements, but Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., whose father was president of the IOC between 1980 and 2001, has been inside the organisation for much longer. And then there's Zimbabwe's Olympic swimming champion Kirstie Coventry, who it's said has Thomas Bach support, hoping to become the first female leader of the IOC.
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This upmarket holiday destination in Greece is designed for total relaxation. Right now, the air is filled with tension and intrigue.
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Evan Osnos from The New Yorker. Now, for our next story, I would like you to imagine the unthinkable, poisoning your baby and setting up a GoFundMe page to raise money and boost followers on social media. That's what a mother in Australia is alleged to have done. The Queensland woman claimed she was chronicling her child's battle with a terminal illness.
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But the police allege she was drugging the one-year-old and then filming her in immense distress and pain. A detective has said there are no words for how repulsive offences of this nature are. Asia-Pacific regional editor Celia Hatton told me more about the case.
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Also in this podcast, the Indian actor Saif Ali Khan is said to be out of danger following surgery after he was stabbed by an intruder at his home. And Pakistan's national flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines, is being accused of poor taste with its latest advert.
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And get. It seems incredible. But get social media likes. That was one of the motivations.
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One would like to think this is a unique and isolated case.
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Celia Hatton. Still to come on the Global News Podcast, the space rocket funded by the Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral and reached orbit for the first time.
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The ad, for those who haven't seen it, features France's tricolour flag, a mid-flight PIA plane heading straight for the Eiffel Tower and the words, ''Paris, we're coming today.''
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Associates of the Indian actor Saif Ali Khan say he's undergone surgery and is out of danger after being stabbed by an intruder at his home in Mumbai. The attack took place early on Thursday in an upmarket neighbourhood of the city. Police say they're searching for the attacker. Khan's team say there had been an attempted burglary but did not share more details.
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Here's our South Asia correspondent Yogita Lemoye who's in Mumbai.
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We begin with the Middle East and fears of last-minute hitches are dogging the Gaza ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, which was announced in Qatar on Wednesday. A planned vote by the Israeli cabinet on the Gaza ceasefire has been delayed. Israel has accused Hamas of backtracking on parts of the agreement.
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here in India. A rocket belonging to the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, called New Glenn, has blasted off successfully from Florida and entered orbit for the first time.
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The rocket booster, the part designed to land on a platform in the Atlantic so that it can be reused, failed to land. But that didn't stop Elon Musk, the owner of rival company SpaceX, from congratulating Mr Bezos for reaching orbit on the first attempt. Does this mean things are heating up in the billionaire space race?
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Dr Ken Kramer is a research scientist and founder of Space Up Close, a website which reports on astronomy and science. He was at the launch.
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Dr Ken Kramer speaking to Amal Rajan. Pakistan's national flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines, is being accused of, at the very least, very poor taste with its latest advert. The image it uses bears what some see as a striking resemblance to the terror attacks of 9-11. David Lewis takes up the story.
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What were they thinking? That's the general musings of some social media users. The ad, for those who haven't seen it, features France's tricolour flag, a mid-flight PIA plane heading straight for the Eiffel Tower, and the words, Paris, we're coming today, emblazoned in capitals.
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It's meant, innocently enough, to let viewers and vacationers know the Pakistani national carrier is resuming flights back to the City of Lights – Unfortunately, it bears more than a passing resemblance to the 9-11 terrorist attacks. And the backlash is big. Criticism has gone right to the top. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered an investigation into how it happened.
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A BBC correspondent says Hamas is trying to get one or two of its members on the list of Palestinian prisoners to be freed. On the Israeli side, a far-right party in the governing coalition has demanded that Israel ensures it can resume fighting as soon as the first phase of the ceasefire ends. In Gaza itself, Israel has continued to carry out strikes. Mark Lowen is in Tel Aviv.
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His deputy also lashed out at the poster. The September 11, 2001 terror attacks saw hijackers crash passenger jets into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Nearly 3,000 people were killed. The alleged mastermind of the plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was later arrested in Pakistan.
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US forces also killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the country. Understandably, the ad has been lampooned on socials. And then some. Is this an advertisement or a threat? Asked one user on X, formerly known as Twitter. Yikes, said one account. This has to be intentional. Lol, wrote another. If this was a way to get eyes on the company, it's worked.
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The graphic's been viewed more than 20 million times. The airline, well, they haven't yet commented on the incident. The PIA, however, is no stranger to controversy. In 2017, the airline was roundly ridiculed after staff sacrificed a goat to ward off bad luck. That was after one of the country's worst ever air disasters.
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Two years later, their flight attendants were told to slim down or get grounded. Staff were told they had six months to shed excess weight.
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David Lewis. We return now to our top story, the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Israel is delaying a cabinet vote on the Gaza ceasefire deal after accusing Hamas of reneging on elements of the agreement. Its forces have continued to pound the territory, killing more than 70 people. I asked our Arab Affairs editor, Sebastian Usher, what was holding up the deal.
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Is there an element of theatrics in this with all sides needing to show that they've gone right up to the wire?
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Yeah, and as you're indicating there, even if this does go ahead in the next few hours, there's still going to be massive challenges in its implementation.
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Sebastian Usher. And that's all from us for now. But there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was produced by Alice Adderley and mixed by Vladimir Muzhechka. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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Mark Lowen. Here's our international editor, Jeremy Bowen, on how the ceasefire deal, which is due to take effect on Sunday, was reached.
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Jeremy Bowen. Our correspondent in Jerusalem, John Donison, has been testing reaction to the agreement on both sides.
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John Donison in Jerusalem. To South Korea now. On Wednesday, he was arrested on charges of insurrection and abuse of power. Today, he's not speaking. The country's impeached president is giving nothing away. Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law last month, and investigators want to know why. But while he's refusing to cooperate in custody, he may well be being permanently removed from office.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday 16th January, these are our main stories. Israel is delaying a cabinet vote on the Gaza ceasefire deal after accusing Hamas of reneging on elements of the agreement. Its forces have continued to pound the territory, killing more than 70 people.
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President Biden has used his farewell address to reflect on his four years in office, saying he was proud of what had been achieved.
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Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker and biographer of Joe Biden. He told Emma Barnett that he sees President Biden's legacy as mixed.
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South Korea's arrested president has refused to take part in a second day of questioning over his attempt to impose martial law. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket has successfully reached orbit on its delayed inaugural flight, but failed to land as scheduled on an offshore platform.
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So what's his legal status? Can the Trump administration actually deport him?
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Astronomers prepare for one of the most impressive meteor showers of the year. To the Indian Ocean, where the French territory of Mayotte has been devastated by the worst cyclone to hit the island in 90 years. Cyclone Chaideau brought fierce winds of more than 220 kilometres an hour. French media report at least four people have been killed.
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France's interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, has been holding an emergency summit with ministers. He said the French state was mobilising support.
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At least 12 lawmakers from his People Power Party voted with the opposition to secure the required two-thirds majority. Han Dong-hoon is the party's leader.
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Our Africa regional editor, Richard Kegoy, is monitoring developments. He told me around 320,000 people live on the islands.
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Richard, Mayotte is France's poorest territory. Many of the houses are literally shacks and they have just been blown away.
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And Richard, the cyclone is now heading west towards the coast of Mozambique as well as affecting parts of Madagascar and Comoros. What more can you tell us?
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Richard Cagoy in Nairobi. Isak Andik, the founder of the multi-billion dollar Spanish fashion retailer Mango, has died at the age of 71 after a hiking accident in northern Spain. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez paid tribute to Mr Andik on social media, praising what he called his hard work and business vision that transformed a Spanish brand into a global fashion leader. Tom Bailey has more.
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Tom Bailey Stargazers in parts of North America and Northern Europe will be out in full force this weekend with the hope of catching the annual Geminid meteor shower at its peak. Dozens of shooting stars will grace the night sky, travelling at speeds of more than 240,000 kilometres per hour.
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Whilst most meteor showers are associated with comets, the Geminids are very different because they're caused by asteroid debris. Sean Farrington has been finding out more from René Breton, Professor of Astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Centre in England.
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Mr Yoon has now been stripped of his powers and banned from travelling overseas, but he remains president and has vowed to keep on fighting for his political survival. The Prime Minister, Han Duk-soo, has taken over as acting president, promising to stabilise the situation. Our correspondent, Jean McKenzie, sent this report from Seoul.
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Yeah, exactly. René Breton from the Geodral Bank Centre for Astrophysics. Malcolm in the Middle is considered one of the most influential sitcoms of the 21st century. First airing in the year 2000, the show captivated TV audiences of more than 20 million people, rivaling The Simpsons.
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Its sharp humour and unique storytelling made a household name of Bryan Cranston, who went on to star in the acclaimed crime series Breaking Bad. Now... Eighteen years after the final episode, Malcolm in the Middle is making a return, as Mark Duff reports.
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Joe McCartney and the producer was Ella Bicknell. The editor is Karen Martin.
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Jean McKenzie. So, a breakthrough for protesters in Seoul. But for demonstrators in Georgia, their political crisis appears to be deepening. Protests continue in the capital Tbilisi after the Parliament elected Mikhail Kavalashvili as the country's new president. The former Manchester City footballer, known for his nationalist and anti-Western views, was the only name in the contest.
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This demonstrator said Mr Kavalashvili was not fit for office.
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The opposition is calling the election a sham, arguing the government is turning the country towards Russia and away from the EU. The outgoing president, Salome Zurabishvili, said she won't be stepping down, insisting she holds Georgia's only remaining legitimate institution. I got the latest from our correspondent in Tbilisi, Rehan Dimitri.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 15th of December, these are our main stories. The South Korean parliament has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol over his failed attempt earlier this month to impose martial law.
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Have we heard anything from Mikhail Kavalashvili? As you say, he's a former Manchester City striker, also played for the Georgian national football team. So he's someone everyone's going to know. Has he put any comment out there? Is he someone who could unite the country?
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Rehan Dimitri in Tbilisi. As Syrians mark a week since the fall of Damascus, Syria's regional neighbours have been discussing their country's future. Joining them was the outgoing US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Speaking at a news conference after the talks in Jordan, Mr Blinken set out the challenge facing Syria and the wider world.
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The United States says it's in contact with the Islamists who ousted President Assad in Syria, even though they're part of an organisation it regards as terrorists. Cyclone Chaido causes devastation on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. Also in this podcast... Malcolm!
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Our Middle East analyst Sebastian Ascher watched Mr Blinken speak. He gave this analysis of Saturday's talks.
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Sebastian Usher. The Assad regime left behind a network of military bases, once the cornerstone of its grip on the country, now evidence of the most serious human rights abuses. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson has been to see what remains of one of the regime's key airbases. Her report is distressing.
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The early 2000s smash sitcom Malcolm in the Middle is returning to TV screens. Many thousands of South Koreans have been celebrating on the streets of Seoul in freezing temperatures after their parliament voted to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol because of his failed attempt to impose martial law.
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Lucy Williamson. Ceremonies have been taking place in Luxembourg and Belgium today, ahead of the 80th anniversary of one of the key battles of the Second World War. The Battle of the Bulge, a German counter-offensive designed to split Allied forces, began on 16 December 1944. Our Europe Regional Editor Danny Eberhardt has this report.
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More civilians are fleeing the fighting in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as rebels push towards the city of Bukavu. Also in this podcast... Emotional scenes in Israel as three more hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are freed and reunited with their families. And... High emotion too in the occupied West Bank as more than 180 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel.
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Hamas has freed three Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of 183 Palestinian prisoners as part of the deal for a ceasefire in Gaza. The border crossing to Egypt from southern Gaza has reopened, allowing the first medical evacuation since May of last year. Thirty children with cancer were among the first to leave the territory.
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International news organisations are not permitted free access to Gaza. Our correspondent Wira Davis sent this report from Hostage Square in Tel Aviv.
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Rua Davis in Tel Aviv. Long before the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan more than three years ago, Islamists repeatedly targeted what is known as the country's only luxury hotel, the Serena Kabul. A symbol of Western opulence for 20 years, it's been under the management of the Aga Khan Fund, based in Switzerland. On Saturday, though...
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The hotel announced that the Taliban has taken over and it will now operate under the Afghan state. Guests at the Serena Kabul included foreign dignitaries and visiting journalists. Rachel Reid, who writes for the Afghanistan Analyst Network, was one of them. She told me more about what made the hotel a prize Taliban target.
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And how dangerous it was, because it was the target of multiple deadly attacks by the Taliban.
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So the Taliban have now taken control of its management. Which way is it going to go? Because on the one hand, they say they want more tourism, but on the other, they disagree with basically everything the hotel stands for.
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Rachel Reid from the Afghanistan Analyst Network. The governing body of world cycling, the UCI, has banned the controversial technique of repeatedly inhaling small doses of poisonous carbon monoxide to boost the performance of elite cyclists. The UCI says it's made the move to protect the health of riders. Ella Bicknell reports.
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The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has accused Russia of bombing a building in Ukrainian-occupied Russia, where dozens of civilians were reportedly sheltering on Saturday night. The Ukrainian military has posted video from the Kursk region. It shows the damaged temporary evacuation shelter. The BBC has not been able to independently verify the material.
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Social media can often feel like a never-ending stream of doom and gloom, but there is one wholesome corner of the internet gaining traction, an Instagram account that celebrates the joy of finding... Good stick. Yes, you heard that right. The joy of finding a good stick.
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With three million followers, Official Stick Reviews shares clips of people across the world finding interesting pieces of wood. Why is it so popular and how did it all begin? The BBC's Jeanette Kawachi spoke to the creators Boon Hogg and Logan Juggler.
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As we record this podcast, a rescue operation is underway as it's believed there could be almost 100 people trapped under the rubble, including women and children. I got more from our Europe regional editor, Danny Aberhart.
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Boone Hogg and Logan Juggler. In the grey months of a British winter, we need some exotic colour to cheer us up. What better tonic, then, than a celebration of the most romantic of flowers, the orchid? Here in London, the Royal Botanic Gardens is hosting its 29th Orchid Festival, this time with Peru as a source of inspiration.
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It's been organised by Professor Michael Fay, an orchid specialist who's been obsessed with the flower for 60 years. Johnny Diamond asked him just why orchids have become associated with romance and seduction.
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Professor Michael Fahey. And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Martin Baker and the producer was Alison Davis.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time. Goodbye.
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Is there any way this could have been a military target, a legitimate military target?
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Tariff is the most beautiful word in the world. So said Donald Trump on the election trail. Ever since then, the rest of the world has waited to see whether he would follow through and start what many fear will mean an international trade war. White House officials say the president has signed an executive order imposing steep tariffs of 25% on Canada and Mexico and 10% on China.
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He's also threatened to target the European Union with tariffs. Officials in Canada understand that the 25% tariffs on exports will come into force on Tuesday. Brian Lanza, who advised the Trump presidential campaign, insisted what was happening was a negotiation, not a trade war.
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For its part, Canada has promised an immediate and forceful response. The Canadian High Commissioner to the UK, Ralph Goodale, told the BBC's Simon Jack that Donald Trump's policy was foolish.
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As we record this podcast, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is travelling to Panama on his first trip abroad since taking office. His visit follows President Trump's extraordinary threat during his inauguration speech to seize the Panama Canal. Mr Rubio will then visit four other Latin American countries where he'll focus on migration from Panama City.
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Our State Department correspondent, Tom Bateman, sent this report.
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The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for over 30 years. Over that time, this instability has had a devastating effect on the entire region, resulting in the deaths of millions of people.
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Over the past few weeks, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the eastern DRC, including the seizure of the strategically important city of Goma. Now, the president of neighbouring Burundi, Ivar East Endayi Shimaye, whose troops have been helping the Congolese army fight the M23 rebels, has warned that the wider region is at risk if peace isn't brought to the eastern DRC.
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Camilla Mills has been following developments.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 2nd of February, these are our main stories. Ukraine says Moscow has bombed a boarding school in part of Russia held by Kiev. Dozens of elderly Russians are thought to be trapped in the rubble. Canadian officials say new tariffs imposed by the US will come into force on Tuesday.
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Camilla Mills. He's arguably the most famous scientist of the last century or so. Albert Einstein, the father of the theory of relativity. Now, physicists at the University of Nottingham in central England are trying to protect a rare artefact that's been hanging rather anonymously all on a wall in the institution, a blackboard signed by the man himself.
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Dr Emma Chapman is a cosmologist in the physics department at the university.
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Why orchids are identified with romance and seduction.
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The Happy Pod: Football while fasting -- Egypt's Ramadan pastime
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Ramadan is a time of prayer and reflection for Muslims worldwide. In Egypt, they also mark it using one of their nationwide passions, football. Since the 1960s, street tournaments have spread to nearly every town, involving everyone from children to old men. Some professional footballers take breaks from the training schedules...
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Our China media analyst Kerry Allen. These days, darts is earning serious recognition as a global sport, thanks in recent years to the teenager Luke Littler, who recently won the World Championships, aged just 17. The sport is now expanding worldwide, with official tours in Australia, Scandinavia, North America, Asia and Africa. And in South Africa...
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It's even being used as a tool to teach young people maths. That initiative was started by Devin Peterson, a nine-time world championship player from South Africa. He spoke to Katie Smith about his mission to grow the sport across the continent.
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to take part in the communities that first taught them to love the sport, often undeterred by heavy fines imposed by their clubs. It's been a lifelong passion for 70-year-old El-Sayed Mohamed, who used to play with a ball made out of old socks. He says the tradition has much evolved since the early tournaments.
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South African darts champion Devin Peterson and you can hear more from him on Sports Hour, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Each year, the Royal Television Society hosts the Television Journalism Awards, celebrating the most prestigious... and changemakers in the British journalism space.
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The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue won in the Breaking News category this year for his reporting on the Trump assassination attempt for BBC News. In his acceptance speech, he said that his disability hasn't held him back.
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I spoke to Gary, who this week has been made the BBC's chief North America correspondent after reporting on the US for the past decade. He was the first disabled person to be posted as a foreign correspondent and, throughout his career, has overcome many barriers to get to where he is today. Here on The Happy Pod, we thought his accomplishments were well worth celebrating.
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We don't often refer to your blindness on air. Most people would think of being blind, particularly the situations you face on a daily basis, as a disadvantage. I've known you for many years. You have this incredible way of seeing the positive side. And you've talked about how actually sometimes you even regard your blindness as an advantage, as a positive.
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Our new chief North America correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue. And remember, you can now watch some of our interviews on YouTube. Just search for The Happy Pod. This edition was produced by Harry Bly and Ella Bicknell. It was mixed by Sharmini Ashton-Griffiths. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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I got more from the sports journalist Mohamed Koudba.
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The Happy Pod: Football while fasting -- Egypt's Ramadan pastime
And some professional footballers get involved too, risking the anger of their clubs.
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Yeah, and as you say, this happens during the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is when Muslims fast, so they're playing these games of street football. Well, you'd have thought when they least wanted to be playing football, when they've not had anything to eat.
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Yeah, I can hear the emotion in your voice as you tell me about it. Give me your happiest memory of street football.
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Sports journalist Mohamed Kudbar. Now, a story of how a humble beep unearthed 2,000 years of human history. For many metal detectorists, the thrill of walking through a field comes from the sheer excitement of discovering treasure not seen by the human eye for many years. So, imagine the excitement when a man in Yorkshire, northern England, stumbled across an ancient burial site –
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This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Series. I'm Alex Ritson and in this edition... No, no food, no water throughout the day.
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From horse harnesses to ornate cauldrons, the artefacts date back around 2,000 years. Archaeologists who've been excavating and studying the items describe it as one of the most significant Iron Age hoards ever found. Dr Keith Emerick is the Inspector of Ancient Monuments at Durham University.
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Professor Emily Williams took part in the excavation. She's been speaking to The Happy Pod's Ella Bicknell.
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The Happy Pod: Football while fasting -- Egypt's Ramadan pastime
As the holy month of Ramadan draws to a close, street football tournaments take over streets across Egypt. We also hear how a routine sweep with a metal detector led to one of the UK's biggest archaeological discoveries.
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You may have heard the story last month about beavers in the Czech Republic who've saved taxpayers millions of dollars after building a series of dams that flooded a local meadow. These large-toothed semi-aquatic rodents achieving in days what the local authorities had failed to achieve in years because the project had got fouled up in red tape.
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We sent our Prague correspondent Rob Cameron to find out more.
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The Happy Pod: Football while fasting -- Egypt's Ramadan pastime
A family of beavers in the Czech Republic saved the government millions of dollars, building a dam exactly where authorities planned.
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Rob Cameron reporting from the Burdi Protected Nature Reserve.
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A former darts world champion in South Africa is taking aim at improving math skills...
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The idea of casting off to sea can be quite exciting, tapping into that call for freedom and adventure. In China, the story of a ten-year-old boy swept out into the ocean has captivated social media after he was rescued by local fishermen.
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His incredible ordeal is sparking comparisons to The Life of Pi, the fictional tale of a young Indian boy who survives 227 days stranded on a lifeboat in the vast Pacific Ocean. Our China media analyst Kerry Allen has the story.
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The Happy Pod: Playing the piano saved my life
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Oscar, Anderson's mum Sarah ending that report from Nkechi Ogbonna in Nigeria. Coming up in this podcast.
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Now, here's an unusual question for you. Where do you think this animal might be from? It's a dolphin, of course, but now researchers have found out that like humans, they have regional accents and can sound very different from one another depending on where they live. The scientists have also developed a way to use artificial intelligence to identify where any dolphins they record are from.
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Dr Julie Oswald from the University of St Andrews Scottish Oceans Institute spoke to my colleague Claire Macdonald.
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His tiny ginger cat helped him stay alive in snowy mountains for eight days and... ..the AI programme that can tell where a dolphin is from by its accent. We begin with a man whose hidden musical talent is helping him turn his life around and supporting others. Earlier this year, Rhys Wynne-Jones was homeless and had gone to a church with friends for something to eat.
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Dr Julie Oswald from the University of St Andrews. Here in the UK, a knitted Christmas tree has been unveiled that's nearly five metres tall and was made as part of a project to reduce loneliness. It began as an idea to bring people of all ages together for weekly meetings in Edinburgh and ended up with knitters from other countries getting involved.
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Cameron Angus Mackay has been speaking to the other people involved.
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That report from Cameron Angus Mackay. It was a story that caught the world's imagination a decade ago, the discovery of a four-year-old girl who'd survived almost two weeks in the Siberian wilderness after getting lost. At the time, she was nicknamed Mowgli after the main character in The Jungle Book, and more recently, her story has been made into a book and a film.
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He sat down at a piano to play and as everyone stopped to listen... a volunteer started filming. The video from Penzance in south-western England went viral on social media and his performance of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody has even been praised by the group's drummer Roger Taylor as dazzling.
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To mark the ten-year anniversary, Karina appeared on Russian TV to talk about her future plans – Isabella Jewell reports.
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Isabella Jewell. On the Happy Pod lately, we've been highlighting unsung local heroes around the world. Stephen Fairhead in London walks for over two hours every day picking up rubbish and cleaning up. After ten years of doing it, he's caught local attention and is now being called a hero on social media.
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Local hero, Stephen Fairhead. And that's all from The Happy Pod for now. We'd love to hear about your happiest moments of 2024 from family events to global stories or any unusual plans you're making for the new year. As ever, the address globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Rob Fanner and the producers were Paul Day and Rachel Bulkeley. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson.
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Now, Rhys has been performing concerts and raising thousands of dollars for charities helping other homeless people. Rhys has been talking to my colleague Evan Davies.
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Rhys Wynn-Jones, who's now moved into sheltered housing and is working towards finding a home of his own. At this time of year, many of us will have put up our Christmas tree or perhaps adorned our house with twinkly lights to bring some festive cheer. But one man in the United States has taken it a step further.
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He's decorated his entire street and it's all in aid of making meaningful memories for his wife, as Rebecca Wood reports.
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Rebecca Wood with that report. A man who got lost in a blizzard in the Carpathian Mountains has survived for eight days with the help of an unusual companion. Vladislav Duda, a journalist fleeing conscription in Ukraine, was found soaking wet and lying in a ravine after managing to text a friend his location.
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His travelling companions had left him behind and rescuers were surprised he'd managed to stay alive with no food, water or shelter. until he unzipped his jacket, revealing a tiny orange cat named Persic, or Peach. Stephanie Prentice spoke to Dan Benger from the Maramures Mountain Rescue Team about one of the most difficult and heartwarming rescues yet.
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This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.
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Mountain rescuer Dan Benga. Nigeria has the highest rate of neonatal jaundice in the world. It's a common condition which causes yellowing of the eyes and skin in newborns, but left untreated can lead to serious health issues like cerebral palsy and brain damage. Now, a project to improve diagnosis and access to treatment has been launched in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub. Project
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Oscar is named after a young disability activist born in Vietnam who developed cerebral palsy after his neonatal jaundice was missed. Nketchi Ogbonna went to meet some of those involved.
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The homeless man whose piano playing went viral, allowing him to raise money to help others. How love has inspired a husband in Iowa to turn his whole street into a winter wonderland. A remarkable survival story.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
So these chicks, they're relying solely on their parents to be going out and foraging and collecting food for them. So it's their parents that are mistakenly picking up plastic as food. And there's a few reasons why that is. The first, we see our adults favor pieces that are blue or white.
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So we're thinking that it's visually mimicking prey that they should be eating, whether that be fish or squid. But secondly, plastic that's been in the ocean for a really long time tends to accumulate oils and things like that. So it's getting the scent of that it could be fish or squid. So we did a blood test on these birds and we were looking at the proteins.
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And proteins can be a great hallmark for organ function and health. And one of the markers that we did see was that that stomach lining is breaking down. And that's not surprising. You know, you've got these huge chunks of plastics floating around in your stomach that are bound to be piercing or rubbing quite intensely on that stomach lining.
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So we saw a decline in a protein that's called BDNF, and this is associated with the neurons within a brain. And in human research, this has been a sign of early stages of cognitive decline within elderly people. And within birds, this protein has been found to impact the development of their song.
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Now, if anyone's seen a documentary about a seabird colony, you'll know that it's a really loud place and it's really critical that these birds can make a beautiful and complex song, but then be able to find their partner within a really noisy colony. So we think that the decline in this protein that we found in the high plastic chicks. might impact their breeding success moving forward.
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We do find microplastics within their stomach. And we have found, you know, in other samples that the liver and the kidney are impacted by microplastics. So it is definitely possible that microplastics could be at play.
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Yeah, definitely. Proteins are an excellent thing to work with. They're highly conserved across all animals and we're working with really abundant proteins and we know they're quite conserved across different species. So, you know, we actually could see these symptoms and signs in other species that do consume plastic as well as humans.
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The secret police's grip on Syria under Assad
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The new French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou, has said he faces a mountainous task ahead. He was speaking at a ceremony in Paris as he took over from his predecessor, whose government collapsed after only three months. Mr Bayrou described the situation facing France as dire and referred to the need to tackle the government's budget deficit and debt.
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Hugh Schofield reports from the French capital.
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Hugh Schofield in Paris. The management consulting firm McKinsey has agreed to a $650 million deal with the US Justice Department to settle criminal charges that it deliberately encouraged America's opioid epidemic. McKinsey, which said that it regretted its role as an advisor on boosting sales to firms, including the maker of the addictive painkiller OxyContin.
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the secret police. It's impossible to overstate its grip on Syrian society. It spied on the Syrian people and others, got Syrians to spy on each other and imprisoned, tortured and often killed anyone who fell foul of the authorities. BBC Arabic's Feras Kalani visited the secretive heart of the Assad state's security apparatus. He told me what he found.
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Michelle Fleury reports from New York.
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Michel Fleury. Rwanda is bidding to bring the drama and glamour of Grand Prix racing to Africa for the first time since 1993. The Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, put his official seal on the bid as Formula One's governing body, the FIA, held its annual General Assembly in Kigali. These African Formula One fans welcomed the move.
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Andrew Benson is the BBC's Formula One correspondent.
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Why does Rwanda want a Grand Prix, and what's in it for Formula 1?
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Not everyone in favour, though. I mean, even accusations of sports washing here.
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How important is it for Africa that Formula One comes back for the first time since the early 90s?
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Andrew Benson. Push Part Two, The Rule, is an Indian movie that has earned more than $100 million worldwide in its first week. A big success in the box office then, but the film has been mired in tragedy. Earlier this month, a crush at its premiere in the city of Hyderabad led to the death of a woman and her young son being critically injured.
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Shortly after the incident, the lead star, Alu Arjun, put an apology video up on X. I'm going to give him a score. In it, he said he was heartbroken by the tragic incident and that his heartfelt condolences went out to the grieving family. But the family filed a complaint against the actor, which led to his subsequent arrest. Our South Asia regional editor and Barasan Etirajan told me more.
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I mean, just a few days ago, what you've done would be impossible. But you have now been inside the headquarters. What did you see?
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But what is he accused of doing? I mean, OK, he's the movie star. He turned up. Things went wrong. But it doesn't. I'm just not clear on what the suggested crime is.
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Now, are you a fidget? Are you the kind of person who can't sit still, who twiddles their thumbs and plays with their hair or picks their nails or taps their fingers on a desk? Relatively harmless behaviour, you'd have thought. But did you know that it's the kind of behaviour that makes some people, if not mad, extremely angry and disgusted?
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Their reaction is known as misokinesia or misophonia and can be very debilitating. Dr Jane Gregory is a clinical psychologist at Oxford University here in the UK. She's been studying and treating both misokinesia and misophonia and suffers from both conditions herself. She told Julian Marshall how it affects her.
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Chris Kazouris and the producer was Alison Davis. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson.
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So it's an office building with files on everyone. Is it also the kind of place where suspects were taken and mistreated?
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As you say, you've been inside, you've seen just how recently these files were being updated, and yet the people who were doing that updating, the regime's officers, they've just melted away.
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Feras Kalani from BBC Arabic. Meanwhile, mass celebrations continued into the night across Syria on Friday as people across the country marked the downfall of the former president Bashar al-Assad. People in Damascus gathered at the central Umayyad mosque for prayers before the jubilant rallies called by the Islamist rebels who led the armed uprising against the Assad regime.
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Our correspondent Barbara Platt-Usher was out and about among the crowds.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Saturday the 14th of December, these are our main stories. More secrets of the Assad regime have been emerging as Syrians across the country continue to celebrate the end of half a century of authoritarian rule.
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Barbara Platt, Usher. With Syria in flux, there are fears that the Islamic State group could take advantage of the country's uncertain future with a resurgence that would also threaten neighbouring Iraq. Between 2014 and 2019, IS, also known as Daesh, imposed Sharia law on a population of 12 million people in Iraq and Syria.
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On an unannounced visit to Iraq, the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said the US would do all it could to prevent a resurgence.
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Thousands of former fighters and supporters of Islamic State are being held in camps in northern Syria, an area controlled by a Kurdish-led militia alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF. They're supported by the US but are currently under threat from Turkish-backed rebel groups. Anthony Lloyd is a journalist for The Times who's reported on those camps.
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Francois Bayrou has admitted he has a mountainous task ahead as he becomes the fourth prime minister to take office in France this year. The management consulting firm McKinsey has agreed a settlement of hundreds of millions of dollars with the US authorities over its role in the opioid crisis. Also in this podcast.
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Anthony Lloyd. Mystery continues to swirl over nearly a month of drone sightings in the United States, sparking fear among residents and furious debate about what the flying objects are and if they're drones at all.
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US authorities have been unable to provide definitive answers over the sightings, saying only that the drones are not believed to pose a danger to the public or national security and suggest that they're actually manned aircraft. Originally, sightings were in New Jersey, but flying objects have since been spotted in New York City and the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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More from our correspondent, Neda Torfik, a resident of New Jersey herself. I asked her if she had witnessed anything unusual.
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Yeah, you've personally seen them. So we know for sure something's going on. And yet the White House view seems to be that this isn't a story at all.
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Because it does seem unlikely that the US authorities don't know what's going on unless they just don't want to scare people.
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The secret police's grip on Syria under Assad
The mystery of the huge drone spotted in parts of the US but dismissed by the White House. We begin in Syria, where secrets of the Assad regime have been emerging since its overthrow last weekend. For more than half a century, the linchpin of the regime's stranglehold in the country was the General Intelligence Directorate, better known throughout the Arab world as the Muqabarat.
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How fidgeting can drive others mad and what psychologists are doing to treat their reaction.
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The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
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The man who gave up his NFL career to become a farmer.
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In 2022, Canada became the first country to allow same-sex figure skaters to compete in pairs at national level. But two former Olympic champions are attempting to spark change globally in a sport bound by strict gender rules – All throughout last month, Madison Hubble from the US and Gabriella Papadakis of France performed as an all-female duo at a figure skating gala in Switzerland.
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Their aim was to inspire other governing bodies to allow same-sex couples to compete. Chantal Hartel has been finding out how this partnership came about.
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We start with one man's remarkable journey back to doing what he loves. Tony Romaine is a musician from Inverness in Scotland. At the age of 49, he suffered a stroke which left him unable to speak or walk. Two and a half years into his recovery, Tony has resumed his music career by teaching himself how to play the guitar with one arm.
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Chantal Hartle reporting. For many, a career as a professional sports star is what dreams are made of. Jason Brown chose to play football in high school as a way to get a college scholarship, and having done just that, he made it to the NFL, becoming the best-paid player in the position.
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But despite his success at the age of 29, he walked away from the sport to become a farmer in North Carolina, where he gives away tons of food every year. Jason spoke to Katie Smith.
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He wants to use his music as a way to raise awareness for other people on a similar journey. He spoke to The Happy Pod's Holly Gibbs.
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Jason Brown speaking to Kate Smith and you can hear the full interview on Sports Hour wherever you get your BBC podcasts. If you were lucky enough to make it to 105, how would you celebrate? One woman from Derbyshire in central England put on a rave with the help of her care home. Harry Bly has the story.
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And that's all from the Happy Pod for now. We'd love to hear from you as ever. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was produced by Holly Gibbs and Harry Bly. It was mixed by Rebecca Miller. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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Tony Romain speaking to Holly Gibbs. For many of the world's greatest athletes, success isn't just measured on the field. It's also about inspiring the next generation. And in recent months, interest in women's rugby has soared, thanks in large part to one player in particular, Olympic bronze medalist
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Ilona Ma has become a prominent figure on social media, amassing more followers than anyone else in the sport. The US rugby star is now bringing her passion to the UK ahead of the Women's Rugby World Cup. Ella Bicknell reports.
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The man trying to get his music career back after a life-changing stroke...
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Ella Bicknell reporting. To southwest China now, where food lovers have been flocking to an unlikely destination. Queues of people have formed outside a small funeral home in Guizhou, some even posing as mourners just to try a popular noodle dish served in the funeral home's canteen. Asia-Pacific editor Celia Hatton told Oliver Conway more about this latest food craze.
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The young female athlete trying to inspire the next generation to follow in her footsteps. Plus, we find out why dozens of people have been queuing outside a funeral home in China.
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Fitness trends might come and go, but this latest one has raised some eyebrows. Codrobics is a form of exercise which involves copying the movement of animals by walking on all fours. It's also taken off as a social media trend in Russia. However, some senior politicians there have threatened to ban it.
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One Japanese man hopes to stop that and spread the benefits of the sport, as Edward Main reports.
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Salama Ramia. The identity has been revealed of a Chinese businessman at the centre of spying allegations in the UK who had links to King Charles's brother, Prince Andrew. Yang Tung Bao had previously been known only as H6 because of an anonymity order. On Monday, he gave up his challenge to the lifting of that order. allowing himself to be named.
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He was banned from the UK last year by a national security court. Mr Yang has denied breaking the law and said the claim that he was a spy was entirely untrue. The Rao hasn't just embarrassed a royal, but raised questions once again about Chinese state activity in Britain. In Parliament, the Interior Minister, Dan Jarvis, gave this statement about Mr Yang.
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The headlines are especially damaging for the royal family. They always like to appear together on Christmas Day when they go to church at their Sandringham estate. But after Mr Yang's name was revealed, royal sources said that Prince Andrew wouldn't spend Christmas with the king as is customary. Catherine Cracknell heard more about Mr Yang from our political correspondent, Rob Watson.
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A lot has been said in recent years about the plight of the celebrated Italian city of Venice gradually sinking underwater. But it seems Venice's flood barriers installed four years ago to protect against storm surges are also helping to preserve the lowest-lying island in the lagoon. Bacchan, a sandbank previously only above the waterline in the summer...
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has sprouted vegetation and now exists year-round. It's a favourite spot for locals. Giovanni Cecconi, an engineer who worked on Venice's storm surge barriers, is also a fan.
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Giovanni Cecconi speaking to Paul Henley. A rock-dwelling dragon and a viper with eyelash-style scales are among 234 new species of plants and animals discovered by scientists in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature. Matthew Amarola-Waller heard more from Mark Wright, Special Advisor on Conservation Science at WWF-UK.
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Mark Wright. And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was produced by Judy Frankel and mixed by Caroline Driscoll. The editor is Karen Martin.
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I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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Germany's embattled Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses a vote of confidence in Parliament, triggering the early elections he wants. France's President Macron will fly to Mayotte to oversee the relief operation after Cyclone Chido. Also in this podcast, the businessman and close confidant of Prince Andrew, who's accused of spying for China, has been named.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Tuesday 17th December, these are our main stories. We report from the Syrian port city of Latakia, where the rebels, who are now the de facto rulers, are providing law and order.
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Noor, an Alawite in the Takia, ending that report by Quentin Somerville. Syria's central bank has reportedly retained nearly 26 tonnes of gold worth more than $2 billion. The Reuters news agency quoted officials as saying the vaults had been left unscathed by looters after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. With the details, here's Lippa Capellum.
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Lipika Pelham. Germany wasn't scheduled to have its next general election until September 2025, but it's been called early next February after the Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a parliamentary confidence vote. His defeat was expected when his governing coalition collapsed last month after a row over spending in a deepening economic crisis.
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Opinion polls suggest gains for the opposition conservatives in those February elections. Jürgen Hart is an MP from the conservative Christian Democrats.
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Olaf Scholz had made it clear he wanted to lose the confidence vote, as I heard from our Berlin correspondent, Damian McGuinness.
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And hundreds of new species have been discovered in the Mekong region in Southeast Asia.
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And as you indicated, it could go very differently, couldn't it? Because the far-right AFD, Alternative for Deutschland, are polling pretty well.
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Damien McGuinness. Hundreds of adoring fans gathered at Chennai Airport in India to welcome home their teenage chess sensation who last week was crowned world champion. In doing so, the 18-year-old grandmaster, Gukesh Tomaraju, became the youngest person ever To hold the title. From Delhi, our South Asia correspondent Samira Hussain reports.
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We start in Syria where just nine days since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad the people continue to celebrate their newfound freedom. There were celebrations also in the port city of Latakia. But Bashar al-Assad and most of his military and intelligence staff were Alawites.
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Samira Hussain. Still to come, the island in the Venice Lagoon reborn by the city's new flood defences.
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President Emmanuel Macron has said he'll travel to the devastated French Indian Ocean Territory of Mayotte in the coming days after it was hit by winds of over 220 kilometres an hour at the weekend. People living in Mayotte say the French Indian Ocean Territory is unrecognisable following Cyclone Chido. Rachel Wright compiled this report.
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and following recent attacks, some members of Latakia's minority Alawite community say they're now too scared to leave their homes. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, Syria's new de facto rulers, have pledged to protect everyone. Its fighters are patrolling Latakia's streets to try to curb any violence. From there, our Middle East correspondent Quentin Somerville sent this report.
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Rachel Wright. Julian Marshall spoke to Salama Ramia, herself a native of Mayotte, who represents the territory in the French Senate in Paris.
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Mystery continues to swirl after nearly a month of unexplained drone sightings over New Jersey and other US states, alarming some residents. But now, a potential development. Two people have been arrested for flying drones near Boston's Logan Airport. I heard more from our Washington correspondent, Rowan Bridge.
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The UN envoy for Syria has called for a swift end to sanctions on his first visit to Damascus since the rebel takeover. A former Israeli prime minister says Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to expand settlements in the occupied Golan Heights are an unnecessary confrontation with post-Assad Syria. Also in this podcast...
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Yeah, because you say that their drone was in a backpack. But the other drones that we're talking about, some of them seemingly in whole fleets, some of them are described as being the size of small cars.
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Do people think the White House, the Pentagon, etc., really do know what's going on?
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Rowan Bridge. The last five Australians convicted of drug offences in Indonesia as part of what became known as the Bali Nine have returned home after nearly 20 years in jail. Celia Hatton reports.
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Celia Hatton. The BBC has gained rare access to the unheard stories of women inside Iran's notorious Evin prison, including accounts of torture and threats of execution. Thousands of women in Iran were arrested after the Women, Life, Freedom movement in 2022. From multiple reliable sources, BBC 100 Women has built a detailed picture of life inside the prison walls
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revealing the stories of women who continued to protest for their rights despite the risks. Gol Nush Golshani reports, and a warning, some listeners may find some of what follows distressing.
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Let's begin in the French overseas territory of Mayotte, just a tiny collection of dots in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique. It's home to around 300,000 people who've just endured one of the worst storms on the archipelago in nearly 100 years.
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That report by Golnoosh Golshani. It's 400 metres thick and larger than many countries. And for most of the past year, it's been stuck in a vortex in the Southern Ocean. But now the world's biggest iceberg, known prosaically as A23A, is on the move again. So what might this mean and where might it head next? To find out, I talked to Andrew Myers of the British Antarctic Survey.
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And because this isn't a climate change story, unusually for this kind of thing, why should we worry about this?
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In our earlier podcast, we quoted French media reports from soon after the cyclone made landfall on Saturday, stating that four people had been found dead. Now... As we record this podcast, authorities in Mayotte are warning that the death toll from Cyclone Chido will be in the hundreds, if not the thousands. The storm spared no one and nothing.
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And does it pose a threat to people? I mean, I guess it's so big, ships are going to know where it is.
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So what happens next? Where do you expect it to go? And assuming it does melt and go into the sea, does that in itself cause us a problem?
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Andrew Myers of the British Antarctic Survey. And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Pat Sissons and the producer was Alison Davis.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritz, and until next time, goodbye.
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Homes, boats and schools were all destroyed, even the capital's hospital. These people in the main city of Mamoudzou were queuing for food and water.
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Chido then moved on to hit northern Mozambique with videos on social media showing flooding and uprooted trees near the port city of Pemba. The UNICEF spokesperson in Mozambique, Guy Taylor, is there.
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Getting hold of anyone on Mayotte is proving almost impossible. Phone lines and the internet are down. The BBC's Richard Kigoy, who's in Nairobi, has been piecing together what's happened.
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What is the latest on the relief operation?
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And presumably we're going to have big problems going forward with just basic things like food and medicine.
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And Richard, Chido has now made landfall in Mozambique. What word are we getting about its impact there?
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Richard Kagoi. Israel has said it plans to expand its settlements on the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967. The Israeli occupation is considered illegal under international law. It's currently home to about 20,000 Israeli settlers, as well as a similar number of Syrians, mostly Druze Arabs.
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Announcing the new plans, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the aim was to double the population. Since the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli forces have already moved further into Syria beyond the UN-monitored buffer zone. The UN says that's a clear violation of Syria's sovereignty. They've also carried out hundreds of airstrikes on military targets linked to the old regime.
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Here's Mr Netanyahu speaking earlier.
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The expansion of settlements in the Golan Heights is a move which is firmly opposed by the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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Ehud Olmert speaking to James Menendez. On his first visit to Damascus since the toppling of the Assad regime, the UN envoy for Syria, Geyer Pedersen, has called for a swift end to sanctions to help the country's economy recover. Mr. Pedersen also urged justice, not revenge.
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Our correspondent Sally Nabil is in Damascus. She told me how ordinary Syrians are affected by the sanctions.
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There is talk, Sally, of lifting sanctions, but what conditions are going to have to be met for that and also for HTS to no longer be on the list of terrorist organisations?
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They're making the right noises though, aren't they? And the leader of HTS expressed that he's in no mood for further confrontation.
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Sally Nabil. For conservationists in East Africa, protecting the region's lion population remains a constant challenge. Traditional practices like lion hunting among communities such as the Maasai have historically contributed to the problem. But change is underway.
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Every two years, in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Maasai celebrate their warrior-like athleticism with their own Olympic Games.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Monday, the 16th of December, these are our main stories. Hundreds, possibly as many as a few thousand people, are feared dead in Cyclone Hit Mayotte, where survivors say they're facing drastic conditions.
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Twice the size of Greater London, the world's biggest iceberg is on the move again.
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Most of the cocaine that leaves South America is shipped from the ports of Ecuador, and that's one of the reasons the country is facing a security crisis fuelled by drugs violence. Who will tackle it will be decided in a presidential runoff vote in April.
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Sunday's first round ended in a tight finish between the incumbent centre-right president, Daniel Neboa, and a left-wing candidate, Luisa Gonzalez. Our South America correspondent, Ione Wells, is in the capital, Quito, and gave us this update.
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Mr Trump also said there would be an announcement later in the week about reciprocal tariffs on all countries that tax imports from the US. The vice president of the European Central Bank, Luis de Guindos, said the issue would only be resolved through dialogue.
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Ione Wells. Let's stay with elections. In two weeks, Germany will head to the polls once again in a vote triggered by the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition late last year. Immigration is a key issue with the far-right Alternative for Germany, the AfD, polling strongly.
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While other parties say they won't allow the AfD into a future coalition, recent elections show their support rising, especially among young people. Jessica Parker has this report. Hello.
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It was just last week that President Trump paused proposed tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico. Meanwhile, trade skirmishes between the US and China, the world's two biggest economies, are intensifying. A 10% duty is now in force on imports from China. Today, Beijing's retaliatory tariffs came into effect. I heard more from our international business correspondent, Theo Leggett.
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Jessica Parker in Berlin. New figures on marriage rates in China make worrying reading for the Chinese Communist Party, which has long tried to reverse the country's declining and ageing population. Marriages fell by a fifth last year, a new low. Divorces also saw a slight increase. To unpack this further, let's cross to our China media analyst, Kerry Allen.
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Kerry Allen, our China media analyst. Over the weekend, competitors from more than 20 countries gathered in northern Sweden for this year's Sled Dog World Championship. With the details, here's Stephanie Zachrisson.
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Stephanie Zachrisson. And that's all from us for now. But there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod.
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This edition was produced by Alice Adderley and was mixed by Annie Smith. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritz, and until next time, goodbye.
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So how is the EU going to make Swiss cheese?
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Do we have any idea which countries will be hardest hit?
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And then China has imposed its own retaliatory tariffs on the US.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
Our international business correspondent, Theo Leggett. And it wasn't just tariffs that Donald Trump turned his attention to on Air Force One when he spoke to reporters. He also doubled down on his idea that the United States would take control of Gaza. He repeated that the Palestinian population would be moved out of the territory to ensure that Hamas doesn't come back.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 10th of February, these are our main stories. There's been widespread condemnation of President Trump's proposal to slap tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Yoland Nel, told us more about Mr Trump's comments and the reaction in Israel.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
A global summit on artificial intelligence has opened in France with politicians and executives seeking to safely exploit its potential without swamping firms in red tape. There's been a record drop in the number of marriages in China, despite a government campaign.
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Yolande Nell talking to Samantha Simmons. A two-day global summit on artificial intelligence is getting underway in France, attended by leading politicians, tech bosses and academics. It comes as nations scramble to invest in its transformative potential, but amid concerns... over its impact on society and the environment.
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The summit comes weeks after a seismic industry shift as China's deep-seek unveiled a powerful low-cost AI model challenging US dominance. President Macron's special envoy for the summit, Anne Boverow, told Amal Rajan it helped to highlight France and Europe's role in the sector and to promote using AI in the public interest in a shared, sustainable way.
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Also in this podcast, ahead of elections in Germany, how people are trying to counteract the growing influence of the far right on the young.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
President Macron's special envoy for AI, Anne Bouvereau. Never in Super Bowl history has an American football team won three consecutive NFL championships. That was the dream for the Kansas City Chiefs and their star quarterback Patrick Mahomes coming into Super Bowl 59. On Sunday, those dreams were dashed after a crushing defeat by the Philadelphia Eagles. The final score, 40-22.
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The Super Bowl is one of the world's most watched sporting events and the halftime show did not disappoint. Kendrick Lamar headlined with appearances from singer SZA and even Samuel L Jackson. BBC Sports' Joel Hammer has been in New Orleans for the week for the build-up to the game. He told Chris Barrow that they were expecting a much closer game.
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From the Americas to Asia and Europe, world leaders are saying they will react to protect their business interests in the latest escalation in trade tensions. Speaking on Air Force One, President Trump said he would announce a 25% import tax on all steel and aluminium entering the US.
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Joel Hammer in New Orleans. Still to come, more than a thousand Arctic dogs have been vying for top spots in sledding championships in Sweden.
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Also in this podcast, the US Vice President J.D. Vance is to visit Greenland today, leading a high-level delegation to America's most northerly military base. And refugees fleeing the war in the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they don't want to move to a much larger camp in Burundi.
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Thousands of refugees who fled the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo are sheltering at a temporary camp in neighboring Burundi. They say there's not enough food to go around and are refusing to transfer to a much bigger camp, some 200 kilometers from the border, where they believe the conditions will be even worse. Nomsa Maseko sent this report from Burundi.
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Nomsa Maseko in Burundi. The economies of Canada and the US are closely linked with hundreds of billions of dollars in goods and services crossing the border every year. But the new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the era of deep ties is over after President Trump imposed steep tariffs on global car imports. Mr Carney said the levies violated a 60-year-old agreement.
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The relationship with the US has been dominating campaign rallies ahead of Canada's general election next month. Airline bookings between Canada and the US are already down over 70% compared with the same period last year. So what else are Canadians boycotting? Hayley Wooden is a Canadian business journalist based in Vancouver. She spoke to the BBC's Evan Davis.
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A powerful earthquake has struck parts of Southeast Asia with its epicenter close to Mandalay in Myanmar. Several buildings are reported to have collapsed and a state of emergency has been declared across large parts of the country. Strong tremors extended into Thailand and Yunnan in southwest China. The US Geological Survey said it had a magnitude of 7.7 and was just 10 kilometers deep.
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Vancouver Business Journalist Hayley Wooden. As you may have heard in our earlier edition of the Global News Podcast, a BBC correspondent who's been covering the protests in Turkey has been deported to the UK. Mark Lowen, who was the BBC's correspondent in Turkey for five years, was told that he was a threat to public order.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating following the arrest of Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on corruption allegations. And more than 1,400 people have been arrested, including several journalists. Mark Lowen told me about what happened to him.
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The military government in Myanmar has requested aid from abroad to help with the rescue operation.
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Because I've heard your reports from previous days where you've been speaking to people in the streets in Istanbul and they were telling you that they were worried about police coming and knocking on their doors in the morning just for being out on the streets protesting.
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Mark Lowen. Next, an evolutionary success story. US researchers have uncovered an unlikely mutation that happened millions of years ago that separates horses from other mammals by giving them such athletic ability. Biologist Gianni Castiglioni from Vanderbilt University in the US explained to Roland Pease what they found.
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And that's all from us for now. But there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag globalnewspod. This edition was produced by Alice Adderley and was mixed by Adrian Bargova.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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The military has asked for international help. That's rare in itself, isn't it?
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Our former Asia editor, Rebecca Henschke. In Thailand, powerful tremors have caused substantial damage in the capital Bangkok, a thousand kilometers to the south of Mandalay. Rescuers are trying to reach dozens of workers trapped in the rubble of a skyscraper, which collapsed while under construction.
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Video footage posted on social media showed the moment the building came down as workers ran for their lives. The authorities in Bangkok have declared the city a disaster area. We too, a reporter for the BBC Vietnamese service living in Bangkok, described how she fled her home after the earthquake struck.
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I heard more from Penisa Enoch of the BBC's Thai service.
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I've seen the video of its collapse, which is circulating on the internet. It looks terrifying. And as you say, a lot of people inside.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 28th of March, these are our main stories. A huge 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck central Myanmar, causing damage over a large area. The tremors reached as far as the Thai capital Bangkok, a thousand kilometres away, where a high-rise building under construction has collapsed.
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As we've heard, the picture in Myanmar is still confused. The United States Geological Survey has warned the damage is likely to be widespread and that thousands may have died. Myanmar's state media says two bridges have collapsed and buildings are damaged across five cities.
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Dr. Richard Luckett is from the British Geological Survey and he told Christian Fraser what is happening to cause this seismic event.
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Dr. Richard Luckett from the British Geological Survey. The American Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha will arrive in Greenland later for a visit that's been scaled back to avoid protesters who are furious with President Trump. He's repeated his threats to annex the self-governing Danish territory.
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He made his position very clear on Wednesday when he spoke to the journalist Vince Collianese on his podcast. Markus Valentin, ein Journalist mit Greenlands National Broadcaster KNR, wurde gefragt, warum er dachte, Mr. Trump hätte seine Erklärung gestatet.
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Instead of watching a traditional dog sled race and a visit to Greenlands capital, Nuuk, Mrs. Vance has instead been forced to limit her trip to a remote American military base. Mr. Vance is traveling with her. I asked Mariam Mashiri in Greenlands capital, Nuuk, why the island matters so much to President Trump and the United States.
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Major Alex Humphreys, I'm one of the squadron leaders here with the Royal Jigging Guards Battle Group and Estonia.
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Trump signs executive order to close Department of Education
I think NATO writ large feels exposed, feels the quite prominent and clear threat that is coming from the Russian Federation. We don't want this to come to war, but if it does come to war, we're fully integrated, fully prepared to deliver lethal effect to protect Estonia.
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It's absolutely an historic day, one that not so long ago people thought wouldn't happen for decades. They felt that the safest voice would be another man. That hasn't happened. They've gone with Kirsty Coventry in the build-up. She didn't want the fact that she was a female to be the reason why she was chosen. She wanted to be picked because she's the right person for the job.
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But she did say she would bring a different set of skills to the role, some softer skills, and that would help the movement. And in fact, all the other... Contenders, just before I spoke to you, they were saying that it's good that a former athlete is in charge of the movement. I think what was surprising is that she won in the first round.
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This was a race that was said to be very, very close, very fine margins. Nobody thought with seven candidates that one of them would get 50 plus 1% in the first round of voting. And that Kirsty Coventry did that. And so, yeah, it was not a massive surprise she has won, but a surprise she did it so quickly.
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Well, I think initially she probably has to convince the world that she's the right person. She's very young, only 41 years old, much younger than any other previous player.
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Trump signs executive order to close Department of Education
IOC president by far the youngest of the of the candidates she is the current sports minister of Zimbabwe and she has been asked about that and she says she's there because it is better to make change from within as for the IOC role this will be something that she has never experienced before in terms of a global and prestigious role like this it's one with huge challenges ahead
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She's certainly got enough support from within the IOC. It was said that Thomas Back, the outgoing president, was lobbying on her behalf. I mean, no one has actually confirmed that, and they won't. It isn't allowed. Well, there's lots of them, and they're mainly on the horizon because the IOC is in a financially stable position.
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It had a successful Games in Paris, but coming up, there are some dark clouds. The LA Games dealing with Donald Trump, who said that he's going to not allow... transgender athletes who want to compete in the female category from entering the USA. Athletes from other countries may struggle to get visas as well. So that's something she's got to look at closely.
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And then there's Russia's reintegration. If peace is made between Russia and Ukraine, that won't be welcomed by all sports and all national federations. And then climate change. A lot of athletes, hundreds of athletes, in fact, have written to the IRC demanding that the new president... puts climate change and sustainability right at the top of their list of priorities.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Hi, BBC Global podcast team. Big thanks for your excellent work. My question to you regarding the war in Ukraine is, in light of the US decision to suspend providing military aid, meaning no more attackers, I'm curious whether the UK, France and Germany can supply Ukraine with sufficient ammunition of such kind to fill in the gap. Could you provide some insight into this? Thank you very much.
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As we record this podcast, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the United States, where he'll become the first foreign leader to meet President Trump since his return to the White House. They're expected to discuss the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, which aims to establish a permanent truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
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There's been no let-up in fighting in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military have blown up several buildings. Our correspondent Joe Inwood sent this report from Jerusalem.
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His top diplomat, Marco Rubio, has been in Panama for talks with the President, Jose Raul Molino. After the talks, the US Secretary of State said that China's influence threatened the canal and that immediate changes were needed or the US would act. The president of Panama, says the canal belongs to Panama, but he proposed technical level talks to resolve the issue.
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What then is most likely to happen in this next phase of the ceasefire? The BBC's Julian Marshall sought the view of Frank Lowenstein, who was US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2014 to the start of 2017. He put it to Mr Lowenstein that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have very different agendas for the future of the peace process.
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Former US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, Frank Lowenstein. A result of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has been a rise in anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish communities across the world. Sydney's Bondi Beach, one of Australia's most popular spots, has become the scene of what police suspect is another such attack in the country.
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Officers believe that five women had eggs thrown at them and suffered verbal abuse because they were Jewish. Camilla Mills has this report.
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I got more from our State Department correspondent Tom Bateman, who is in Panama.
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Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has taken a very different path to some of the other tech billionaires. The Gates Foundation is the biggest charitable organisation in the world, fighting poverty, disease and inequality. And Mr Gates is now seeking to further cement his legacy with a trilogy of memoirs.
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The first, called Source Code, reveals that he thinks he would nowadays be diagnosed as neurodiverse. Our culture and media editor, Katie Brazel, met with him at his former family home in Seattle on the northwest coast of the US, together with his sister, Christy.
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Bill Gates. And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll. and the producer was Alison Davis. The editor is Karen Martin.
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I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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So President Bolino has made some concessions, it appears.
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Tom Bateman in Panama. On Tuesday, President Trump will impose wide-ranging tariffs on the United States' three biggest trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China. All three countries have vowed to respond with retaliatory measures. Mexican and Canadian imports will be subject to a 25% tariff. Chinese imports face duties of 10%.
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Defending his decision, Mr Trump said there may be some pain, but that it was a price worth paying. Speaking to the BBC, the former leader of Canada's Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, said that many Canadians were astonished by Mr Trump's move.
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A possible trade war could result in higher inflation in the US. Inflation and higher prices were a major issue during the US presidential campaign, but how much support is there for those tariffs across the country? A question for our correspondent in Washington, David Willis.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Monday, the 3rd of February, these are our main stories. The US Secretary of State has told Panama to reduce what he believes is Chinese influence on the canal or face the consequences, prompting outrage.
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So a difficult time ahead for exporters on both sides of the border.
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David Willis To the Democratic Republic of Congo where shops and markets in Goma have begun to reopen following last week's capture of the city by the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels. Hospitals though remain overwhelmed. 400,000 people have fled their homes since the M23 attacked and seized Goma. which is capital of North Kivu Svet in the eastern DRC and the region's largest and wealthiest city.
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Paul Njie was one of the first BBC team members to get into Goma since last week's violence. This is his report.
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President Trump has said any pain brought by the tariffs he's imposed on America's biggest trade partners will be worth it in the long run.
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Paul Njia, who was part of a team from BBC Africa who gained access to the city of Goma in the DRC. The Spanish women's football team is celebrating winning the World Cup in Australia in 2023 after they beat England in the final. But it's not what happened on the winner's podium that night that has overshadowed the victory.
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Today in Spain, the trial of the former president of the country's football federation, Luis Rubiales, is starting. He's facing charges of sexual assault on that day in 2023. Mr Rubiales sparked controversy in Spain and around the world when he kissed a member of that Spanish team on the lips after the final ended.
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This is what the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, had to say about the incident at the time.
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Our Madrid correspondent, Guy Hedgcoe, told Julian Marshall what we can expect from the trial. First, the background.
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Israel's prime minister en route to being the first foreign leader to be received by President Trump since his inauguration. One of Donald Trump's key campaign pledges was of the United States to take back control of the Panama Canal, which connects the Caribbean to the Pacific. He claimed that China has too much influence over the waterway.
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We return to the childhood home of the tech billionaire Bill Gates in the company of his sister...