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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
A report from our correspondent in Tokyo, Shaima Halil. Carol services are a time to come together and commemorate the year gone by, but for Ukrainians, Christmas can be a bitter reminder of what and who they've lost. London's St Pancras station has been hosting a charity service, Carols of Hope.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Our reporter Olga Marchevska was there, and she spoke to the British actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
And that was my colleague Olga Malchevska at St Pancras Station in London. Now, they tend to know their way from one end of a city to another, but could taxi drivers' geographical knowledge be providing them with a very different benefit?
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Scientists have discovered that cabbies are less likely than average to develop Alzheimer's disease, a piece of good fortune which may be down to their distinctive cognitive powers. So how did researchers work this out? Chris Smith from Cambridge University explains.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Our Middle East regional editor Sebastian Usher is in Beirut and told me more about Turkey's involvement.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Dr Chris Smith from Cambridge University. A runner from Uganda has finished an epic journey of more than 13,000 kilometres on foot to draw attention to racism. Deokato ran or walked from Cape Town in South Africa back to London where he lives, sparring a few sections where he had to cross seas or avoid the war in Sudan.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
He told the BBC he wanted to profile the history of human migration out of Africa and that he experienced racism when his journey reached Europe. Danny Eberhard reports.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Danny Eberhard reporting. And that's all from us for now. There'll be a new edition of Global News to download later. If you'd like to comment on this edition, drop us an email, globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk or on X, we are at globalnewspod. This edition was mixed by Abbey Wiltshire. The producer was Richard Hamilton. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Andrew Peach. Thank you for listening.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
And until next time, goodbye.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Our Middle East regional editor, Sebastian Usher. Officials in Gaza say a wave of Israeli attacks has killed at least 28 people, including children and 13 members of one family. A school sheltering displaced families and a hospital were among the sites struck. Israel said Hamas had been using the school as a command centre.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Pope Francis has again condemned attacks on Gaza, describing Israel's actions as cruelty towards children. Our correspondent, Emir Nader, reports from Jerusalem.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Monday the 23rd of December, these are our main stories. Syria's new leader says he wants all weapons and armed factions to come under state control. Germany promises a thorough investigation into the Magdeburg attack.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
On the 7th of October last year, George Anton, an aid worker in Gaza City, moved into the compound of the Holy Family Church, Gaza's only Catholic outpost with more than 500 parishioners. George, his wife and three children have been taking shelter there while the ground invasion of the Israeli army and the ensuing conflict continued around them.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
George has been talking to my colleague Emily Buchanan and told her what his children are thinking about the prospect of a second Christmas in the church compound.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
The German government has pledged to conduct a full investigation into whether the security services missed warnings about Talib Abdel-Mosin. He's the man charged with ploughing a car into the Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing five people and injuring more than 200 others. The family of a boy who died have said he'll always live in their hearts.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
From Magdeburg, here's our correspondent, Bethany Bell.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Here in Britain, the Anglican Church is again under pressure because of its handling of historical sexual abuse cases. There are further revelations that a priest, David Tudor, who's at the centre of one such case, was twice reappointed by Stephen Cottrell, now the Archbishop of York.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Stephen Cottrell become the church's most senior figure and head of its worldwide congregation of 85 million people when Justin Welby steps down as Archbishop of Canterbury next month following criticism of his handling of a different case of abuse. Here's our religion editor Ali Magbul.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
We'll be right back. Today, the new de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharra, addressed those concerns in a news conference with the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan. He said that armed factions would begin to be dissolved and incorporated into the Syrian army. And he announced plans to bring all weapons in the country under state control, including those held by the mainly Kurdish SDF.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Ali Makbul reporting. And still to come on this podcast... Happy Christmas.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
A carol service giving a message of hope for Ukraine.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was once the world's longest-serving death row inmate. Convicted of four murders in Japan in 1968, he spent 46 years awaiting execution in prison, mostly in solitary confinement. But his sister Hideko never gave up on him. She campaigned for his retrial, believing the evidence used against him in court was fabricated.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
In 2014, as Iwau's mental state was severely deteriorating, he was released into Hideko's care and a rare retrial was granted. In September this year, finally Iwau was acquitted. The court ruled he'd been framed for a crime he didn't commit. Our Tokyo correspondent Shaima Khalil sat down with Hideko to talk about her brother's ordeal.