Celia Hatton
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
So does this really give us a firm indication that at one point there was life on Mars?
Global News Podcast
Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Können Sie uns erinnern, ob es jemals bestätigt wurde, dass es auf Mars Leben gab? Warum wäre das so eine erstaunliche Erfindung oder eine Schlussfolgerung für uns?
Global News Podcast
Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
What's it like to be one of the people who's watching all of these things be discovered?
Global News Podcast
Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Quite a celebration. Did you know that this was happening?
Global News Podcast
Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Do you know when you will get to see him?
Global News Podcast
Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
The Biden administration said it had tried to include your brother in the last prisoner swap between the US and Russia. And you had said at the time that you felt you'd been stabbed in the back when he wasn't included in that deal. Why do you think it's happened now under the Trump administration?
Global News Podcast
Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
We know that the U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said the exchange served as a show of good faith between the U.S. and Russia and a sign they're moving in the right direction now. to end the war in Ukraine. How do you feel about your brother's release being tied to a wider issue like the end of the conflict there?
Global News Podcast
Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
China is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, but it's also far ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to renewable energy, building twice as many solar and wind projects as the rest of the world combined. In new plans published at the start of China's annual parliamentary session, Beijing said it would develop new energy bases across its huge stretches of desert.
Global News Podcast
Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
New offshore wind farms and a controversial hydropower dam project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet are also in the works. Beijing says it will continue to rely on coal power, though it will trial low-carbon technology at its power plants.
Global News Podcast
Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
Analysts say despite all that effort, China will still fall short of its own target to cut the amount of energy it uses as its economy grows, with Beijing blaming that failure on rapid energy consumption as it tries to ramp up its weak economy and the pressures posed by extreme weather.
Global News Podcast
Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
We've seen some in the Red Sea linked to the Houthis in Yemen. And so this is becoming an increasing concern for many countries around the world.
Global News Podcast
Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
All of these incidents follow a similar pattern. So it's a cargo ship in this instance that has kind of strange behavior. It goes far off course from what you would expect. It then waits in waters near undersea cables. This particular ship, which was registered to Togo, had all Chinese crew on board. They ignored calls by the Taiwanese Coast Guard and wondering what they were doing.
Global News Podcast
Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
The cable was then damaged and the Crew and the ship were then detained while the authorities tried to determine whether this was a marine accident, which is possible, or whether it's actually sabotage. Now, the reason the authorities think it could be related to sabotage is that, of course, this is the fifth time just since the start of the year.
Global News Podcast
Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
And we've been seeing these incidents increasing over the past few years, since 2023.
Global News Podcast
Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
That's right. We have to remember that Beijing believes that Taiwan is part of its territory, even though Taiwan is... Die Sendung wurde vom NDR live untertitelt. It's all designed to exhaust Taiwanese resources, to quote-unquote practice for warfare around Taiwan, a possible blockade of Taiwan, we believe. And also just to increase pressure on Taiwan and make it clear what China is capable of.
Global News Podcast
Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
Now, the Taiwanese authorities have not actually said what this incident, they're investigating this particular incident. And they've been reticent since the start of the year to really blame Beijing directly. I think they're trying to keep waters calm, so to speak. But, you know, underwater sea cables have been linked around the world to acts by Russia and or China in the Baltic Sea.
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
It's a city that's in a special economic zone of North Korea. Even North Koreans themselves have to get special permission in order to travel to this city. North Korea famously was the first country in the pandemic to completely seal itself off from the outside world right at the start of 2020. So it's carried that process through. It's really been closed off for such a long period of time.
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
that any time they kind of ease their restrictions, they allow more people in, that's when we really need to start paying attention. And to allow tourists in on top of that, it really shows that North Korea is changing a little bit in the way it's thinking and the way that it wants to make money. So what does it tell us about North Korea? I mean, why now?
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
I think that North Korea, in some ways, is in a good place. It's feeling pretty good about things. North Korea has forged quite close ties with Russia, as we've been chronicling over the past few months. They're making a lot of money off of Russian ammunition, supplying weapons to Russia, supplying troops to Russia. So in some ways, the economy is stabilizing a bit.
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
But that doesn't mean that North Korea doesn't need other sources of income, that they don't need to diversify. 45% of North Koreans are undernourished by outside estimates. So the economy is still suffering a lot.
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
And that's why I think the North Koreans are looking for smart ways to try to bring in foreign currency, bring in outside money, so they don't have all their eggs in the Russian ammunitions basket. And what kind of tourists do they want to visit? Can anyone go? No. No, not anyone. Especially importantly, people from South Korea and the U.S.
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
even require special permission from their own governments if they wanted to travel to North Korea. So it's closed off to a lot of people. I think primarily we're going to see Russians and Chinese tourists, people who can hop over the border to visit Lhasa because it is just right up in the north of North Korea itself, very close to the Chinese and Russian borders.
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
Yeah. And I mean, look, Luzon itself is a tiny little city. It's got 200,000 people living there. It's primarily an industrial port hub. It's got shipbuilding. It's got some mines. It's got an oil refinery. So there's not a lot to do. I don't think this is going to be a huge stop on the travel itinerary of many people. But
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
You know, it's a novel thing, especially if you're in China, you're in Russia, and it's kind of a new place to go.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
The authorities first became suspicious about this mother, a 34-year-old woman living in Queensland in Australia, back in October, because she'd brought her seriously ill baby girl into hospital. The child is about one. And they couldn't understand the child's symptoms. The child was severely ill.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
But when they ran some extensive tests, they realized that the child had ingested medications that really she had no... They couldn't understand why she'd taken these pharmaceutical drugs. And they alerted the police that something seemed off.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
The police spent several months tracking this woman, who is a social media influencer, who had been documenting what she said was her child's terminal illness on social media and raising money. She'd raised about $40,000 for her child's care, or so she said.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
But as police watched what she was doing, they say that she had been going to great lengths to obtain unauthorized medications and to cover up her tracks from doing so. And they said their work with the doctors seemed to correspond that she had been drugging the baby, police said, poisoning her, and then filming the child in deep distress and pain, And basically trying to profit off of that.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
That's right. She was a quite well-known social media influencer in Australia. And now the crowdfunding site that had supported her is repaying all the people who donated money. They say if this woman is convicted of the things she's been accused of, torture, administering poison, making child exploitation material and fraud, she will have to repay all the money to the crowdfunding site.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
Well, American researchers, they call it fictitious disorder imposed on another, FDIA. They say it happens around one in a million childhood cases. And they say it's usually the women who carry out this. It's 90% women who carry this out. It's usually people who've had a really traumatic childhood themselves, and they're just engaging in attention-seeking behavior.
Global News Podcast
Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
So it doesn't have any parts that can kind of rub against each other and cause wear and tear. And that's why doctors are so excited about it.
Global News Podcast
Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
Yeah, this is a man who had severe heart failure and was waiting a heart transplant that just wasn't coming. And he couldn't even stand or walk by the time that he opted to get this titanium heart. He existed in hospital for a few months with it and then he was discharged from hospital. And that's crucial. He's the first patient to ever exist outside of hospital without this heart.
Global News Podcast
Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
He lived for a month outside of hospital until a human heart transplant became available and He's now successfully had a human heart transplant. Five others in the United States have also existed with this titanium heart, but they had to live in hospital until they then too went on to have human heart transplants.
Global News Podcast
Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
But doctors say this titanium heart is working so well that it might one day replace the need for human heart transplants. And that could change lives for thousands of people.
Global News Podcast
Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
That's right. I mean, just in the United States alone, there's more than 4,000 people on the heart transplant donor list. And some people will never be able to get that heart donation. And so the idea of being able to get this titanium heart that could go in your body and you could have it for the rest of your life, it would never have to be replaced. That really is a medical first.
Global News Podcast
Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
And that's why doctors are saying this could be a total game changer.
Global News Podcast
Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
It's been described as a complete game changer. It's the holy grail of modern medicine, really. A long-term artificial replacement for a failing human heart. Now, the heart itself, this titanium heart, it looks like a shiny silver pump. You can hold it in your hand. It's about twice as heavy as a human heart. But patients who've received them say that they can't feel them once they're in.
Global News Podcast
Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
The heart has to be charged by wires protruding from the chest. It has to be charged every four hours. But its developer says eventually that can be wireless. And it works by whooshing blood around the body into the lungs. And it's remarkable because it works. It has one single moving part, a levitated rotor that floats in place by magnets.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
The South Korean Air Force has said that they were carrying out a live fire exercise near the North Korean border. This is ahead of a huge round of joint exercises that are starting next Monday with the United States. Two fighter jets were going to be going up in the air and they were practicing live fire.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
They said the pilot of one of the jets put in the wrong coordinates for where they were planning to dropped some bombs and he ended up dropping them on the village of Pochon. Now, what they don't understand is why the pilot of the second jet also dropped bombs on the same village when it wasn't clear that he had inputted the wrong coordinates.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
So they're investigating what went wrong first with the first jet, why the wrong coordinates were put in, but also why the second jet then followed the mistake of the first pilot. That's the question for now. You know, if you look at the photos from the scene, you can see a lot of residents were really shaken up by this. They reported that their houses were shaken.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
We have 15 injuries, two quite serious. One elderly man reported that he had been driving at the time of the incident. He was then hit by shrapnel. And he says that when he was driving and then when he woke up, he realized that he was in hospital. So he was really knocked out by the force of the shrapnel. A lot of other injuries being reported at this hour.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
So a lot of very frightened residents in this very small village. It was a joint drill with the US forces. Is it continuing? The joint drill is going to go ahead. Now, I should say that this drill that went wrong today was just to involve South Koreans. So yeah, it does come at a quite worrying time when Many in South Korea are questioning what's going on in North Korea. That's quite strong.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
And also, you know, they're questioning how whether Donald Trump is going to continue relations. So a lot of tensions right now between South Korea, the United States and also North Korea.
Global News Podcast
UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
And were your findings affected at all by the day of the week or the month of the year? Or was it really just focused on the time of day? Is it always mornings that are better?
Global News Podcast
UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
That certainly makes sense that, you know, you're just naturally happier when it's sunnier. Can you tell me more about the people who took part in this study? Did you find any variations in age? Were retired people just as likely to feel happier in the mornings, for instance?
Global News Podcast
UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
What practical implications can we take away from this survey?
Global News Podcast
UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
Any surprises for you in the results of this study?
Global News Podcast
Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
First, just to look at Odilan and his role in this. He's been in prison for the past 25 years. How does a man jailed for such a long time still hold so much influence over the organization that he created?
Global News Podcast
Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
To turn back to Turkey again, you said that the ball's now in Turkey's court. How might President Erdogan respond to all of this, to the announcement of a ceasefire? What considerations does he have?
Global News Podcast
Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Do you think that things could go south? What potential roadblocks could come up to stop this process, the potential end of a battle that has killed 40,000 people and displaced millions in southeastern Turkey? It's going to be very tricky.
Global News Podcast
Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Just to round up, what about Kurdish groups, for example, in neighboring Syria? How do they fit into all of this?
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The woman helping thousands of premature babies
Hadi Nazari was an enthusiastic hiker. On a Christmas Day break from his studies as a medical student, he set off with two friends in the Australian outback for what he thought would be a five-day trek. Instead, he spent an additional 13 days alone in the wilderness after he got separated from his group on the last day of his planned journey.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The woman helping thousands of premature babies
Josh Broadfoot, a police spokesperson, said the 23-year-old had to scrounge for food, including, luckily, some items left behind by other bushwalkers.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The woman helping thousands of premature babies
While Hadi was walking and trying to find help, a massive search operation involving more than 400 people was searching for him. But in the end, it was a group of fellow young hikers who stumbled upon him by accident.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The woman helping thousands of premature babies
That's Josh Dart, speaking to local media, Region Riverina. He said his cousin, who'd been trekking with him that day, had seen Hadi's photo in the park office that morning, but they never thought they'd be the ones to find him.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The woman helping thousands of premature babies
After being winched into a waiting helicopter and travelling to a police outpost, Hadi was quickly joined by his friends. They'd also been looking for him, flying in from different corners of Australia to try to find him. A testament, they say, to what a good guy he is. Police said it was incredible to see Hadi so healthy.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The woman helping thousands of premature babies
Hadi told the hikers who found him that he just kept telling himself, I have to find a way out of this. His family said the news of his survival was the best day of their lives.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Getting engaged in the ashes of our home
So we have to go back to December 2023, when a man whose name is Mr. Li, he was driving through a city in China's central Hunan province. And he suddenly crashed into a young woman who was riding an e-bike. Und Sie können Fotos sehen, die er von der Szene genommen hat. Sie ist auf seiner Rückseite, liegend auf der Straße, und sie spricht auf einem Mobiltelefon.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Getting engaged in the ashes of our home
Und sie sieht aus, als wäre sie in großem Schmerz. Aber was er von diesem Ereignis sagt, ist, dass es ihn sofort beeindruckt hat, wie ruhig sie war und wie sie ihn nicht verurteilt hat. Sie war nicht an ihm schreiend. In Wahrheit hat sie ihm nicht überrascht, Even though it was clear she was in pain, she went to the hospital right after and it was discovered that she'd broken her collarbone.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Getting engaged in the ashes of our home
And she was actually in hospital for quite a few weeks after that recovering.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Getting engaged in the ashes of our home
The man says that he committed to paying for the woman's medical care. But beyond that, he actually started visiting the hospital, not just once, but every single day for weeks he would visit and he would bring her breakfast. And the couple started spending a lot of time together.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Getting engaged in the ashes of our home
And actually after 10 days or so, the woman said to have professed her interest in this man, telling him that she liked him in a romantic way. But he has told Chinese media that he felt a little uncomfortable because he was actually 13 years older than her. She was around 23. He was around 36. So he just wasn't too sure. But And this wouldn't be the happy pod without a happy ending.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Getting engaged in the ashes of our home
So what happened next? Well, basically the two became inseparable. And they admitted that they just really enjoyed their time together long after her broken bones had healed. And so the woman then found out that she was pregnant last fall and they just got married last month. And they say that they're really, really happy together.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Getting engaged in the ashes of our home
And the man admits that he was actually in debt when they first met, when he crashed his car into her. Und ihre Eltern haben ihm eine Dauerung von rund 26.000 Dollar gefordert, als sie verheiratet wurden. Aber er hat sie verheiratet, weil er sie nur heiraten wollte. Aber sie haben gefordert, um ihn zu helfen, sein Geschäft zu bauen.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Getting engaged in the ashes of our home
Yeah, lots of comments on Chinese social media talking about how this is a collision that sparked love. Some people joking that this man will pay eternally for this car accident that he got involved in. Some people even joking the fact that if you're single, you should go out if you want to find love. Leave your house, even if it means getting into a car accident.
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
You then ask the public whether we're the weakest connection.
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
Cambodia's Prime Minister, Hunma Knight, has appealed to Donald Trump and the Trump administration, saying to them, look, we have decided to lift our own tariffs that we had on U.S. goods. Cambodia was charging 35% import taxes on all U.S. goods entering the country. They've changed that to just 5%.
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
Und sie hoffen, dass die Amerikaner sich darauf aufmerksam machen und dann ihre eigenen Tarife öffnen, die sie auf Cambodian-Gut eingeführt haben, die in die Vereinigten Staaten eingeführt wurden. Es ist ein bisschen ein Wettbewerb, weil es definitiv einen Handelsunfall gibt. Letztes Jahr sahen wir 10 Billionen Dollar in Exporten aus Cambodien, die in die Vereinigten Staaten gehen.
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
Aber nur 264 Millionen Dollar wert von amerikanischen Gütern wurden in Cambodien importiert.
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
It's really unclear. I mean, it's tricky when it comes to Cambodia, because they don't really have a lot of cards to play besides either appealing to Donald Trump's morals, because Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia. It was hit with the second highest tariffs globally, 49%. Plus the double whammy of losing a lot of US assistance because of the cuts to USAID.
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
So it's really in a bad position. It can't do what some other richer countries can do, which is impose reciprocal tariffs, because it just doesn't import that much from the United States. So this is really the only card that it can play by reducing its own tariffs. It's going to hope that it can get some attention and hopefully convince Donald Trump that
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
Genau. Wenn du in den USA eine Schuhstelle oder eine Kleidungsstelle besuchst, dann wirst du bemerken, dass viele Sachen in Kambodschi oder Kambodschis Nachbarn hergestellt werden. Vietnam, Laos zum Beispiel. Das ist, weil viele dieser Länder niedrige Werte haben. Und viele chinesische Verkäufer und Verkäuferinnen haben versucht, einige ihrer Verkaufslinien
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
zu diesen Low-Wage-Könnern, weil sie mit Tarifen getarget worden sind. Also Unternehmen wie Nike, Adidas, viele ihrer Produkte werden in Kambodscha hergestellt, weil kambodschische Frauen spezifisch in diesen riesigen Fabriken arbeiten. Sie verdienen etwa 200 Dollar pro Monat. Sie arbeiten sehr, sehr lange Stunden, aber es sind primär kambodsche Frauen, die den Preis zahlen werden.
Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
It's believed that Donald Trump is not just trying to target China with high tariffs. He's also trying to go after Chinese manufacturing lines that have diverted to these Southeast Asian countries.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
These noodles, I've got to say, they do look delicious. They're kind of these hand-pulled noodles made in the canteen, and they're served with pork. They're a little bit spicy. They're topped with peanuts. It's a bit of a local delicacy, but it just shows that Chinese food lovers will go to great lengths to find good food.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
So word began to spread that this little tiny cafeteria inside a funeral home complex was serving fantastic noodles. And people started pretending that they were attending funerals, pretending to be mourning the dead in order to go and try the noodles. And it was said that at one point, the lineups outside the canteen were about two hours long.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
Some waited for two hours in order to pay about a dollar for a bowl of these fantastic noodles.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
Well, they have said they've had to make a concession that they are willing for members of the public to come and try the noodles. In fact, the chef says he will give 50 free bowls of noodles away a day as long as those people, the noodle lovers, don't get in the way of the actual mourners, people actually attending the So they've had to make some concessions.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
But I think they're seeing it as a huge compliment that people all over China are going to this one tiny location because the noodles are so good.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
That's right. I mean, Chinese people love really good food. So when word begins to spread and social media has just amplified this, word begins to spread that one particular thing is really, really good. People almost enjoy the challenge of being able to track it down. and to line up for huge amounts of time and to really kind of put in the time in order to score this.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
And I think the added challenge of having to pretend to be mourning and to pretend to be attending a funeral was just what some people just couldn't even ignore.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
The latest way that they're doing this is to discourage extravagant weddings and also high prices paid for bridal dowry is what's called the bride price. That price can reach up to 20 or even 30 thousand dollars, which is a huge amount. for some poorer families.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
And so the government thinks that if they cut down on those two things, that maybe the number of people who engage in marriage will increase.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
They are. But I think a lot of people who are even thinking about the idea of marriage, it's how much marriage in general costs. So an apartment, raising children. Many younger people in China look at rising unemployment rates or really the lack of economic prospects inside China at the moment. And they just don't really feel like they want to make a legal commitment to another person.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
We know even more women going into secondary education and higher education in China than men. They look at the idea of marriage and it has a lot of traditional gender roles still attached to it. This expectation that women will do most of the housework or that they might step away from their career. once they decide to go through with a marriage.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
And so some of the bigger reasons why young people aren't getting married aren't really being addressed by the Chinese authorities.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
In short order, they want more babies. They don't support children being born out of wedlock. The Chinese population is shrinking. It's aging rapidly. And they need more children, bluntly, because they need people to be able to pay taxes in 30 years to support this rapidly aging population. You know, marriage rates dropped 20% last year from the year before. Marriage rates are at a 40-year low.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
And that's really worrying for the Chinese authorities. There is a concern by the ruling Communist Party that young people in general just aren't buying into the traditional ideas of success that so many generations before them have embraced.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
And I think that goes along with it, these concerns that maybe young people in China simply don't look around and think that they might be more prosperous than their parents. They might be the first generation to really have that concern in a very long time.
Global News Podcast
'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
And so I think the Chinese authorities are worried that maybe their legitimacy might be called into question if they can't deliver, if they can't give an optimistic future for young people in China today.
Global News Podcast
Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
The Bali Nine were arrested in 2005 and were soon found guilty of attempting to smuggle eight kilograms of heroin from Indonesia's famous holiday island. The case attracted huge media attention to Indonesia's strict drug laws. The accused ringleaders were executed by firing squad in spite of Australia's pleas for clemency.
Global News Podcast
Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
One other man died of cancer in prison and the only woman had her sentence commuted several years ago. The remaining five men were serving life sentences. Australia thanked Indonesia for allowing them to return home on humanitarian grounds.
Global News Podcast
South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
Well, we're seeing quite dramatic scenes outside the president's residential compound where thousands of people, those in favour of the arrest going through and those against, those who are supporting the impeached president, are basically camped outside the residence in freezing temperatures, holding signs that say things like, we will fight and No impeachment.
Global News Podcast
South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
That's a reference to the fact that the Constitutional Court is deciding whether to uphold the impeachment that the parliament had passed just a few days ago. But really, this is a power struggle that's going on between Mr. Yoon and the security service that is sworn to protect him. Some are saying it's almost functioning like Mr. Yoon's private army at the moment.
Global News Podcast
South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
And on the other side, the Corruption Investigation Office, which is actually headed by somebody who was appointed by Mr. Yoon in rosier days, who are trying to execute this arrest warrant. But those caught in between say, well, maybe the Corruption Investigation Office actually doesn't have the power to even work. request this arrest warrant.
Global News Podcast
South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
Apparently, they don't have, according to some, the ability to investigate charges of insurrection. And that's what Mr. Yoon has been accused of. And so that's where we are. It's an unprecedented moment, Oliver, because we've never seen in South Korea a president has never faced an arrest warrant before. And so the execution of it is really getting messy, while different groups of the police are
Global News Podcast
South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
The corruption investigators, Mr. Yoon, and his security service all try to figure out who actually has the upper hand here.
Global News Podcast
South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
Well, this is really remarkable. I mean, we heard that North Korea on the other side of the border is carrying out another missile test. So it's kind of taking advantage of this situation, this political crisis that's unfolding in South Korea. We have to remember that South Korea has an incredibly advanced economy.
Global News Podcast
South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
It's home to some of the world's most successful corporations, car companies, tech companies. But on the other hand, it's undergoing a a really serious political crisis where the survival of democracy in South Korea is really under pressure under this really highly polarized society.
Global News Podcast
South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
So many countries around the world are sort of questioning the future of South Korea and questioning future business and political ties with South Korea and wondering where it's going to go.
Global News Podcast
Moscow says West "fragmenting" over Ukraine
The dealer, Kwok Tiu, was deep in debt when he convinced one of his clients to allow him to take a Qing Dynasty vase to Hong Kong for valuation. Once there, Mr. Kwok admits he secretly sold the vase for cash for half its estimated value and used the money to pay off his own debts. He then returned the client a forged copy of the vase.
Global News Podcast
Moscow says West "fragmenting" over Ukraine
In court, the once-respected dealer also admitted to damaging an expensive piece of Chinese calligraphy from the same client. He'd tried to clean the calligraphy himself after watching a tutorial on YouTube, but ended up smudging the inkwork.
Global News Podcast
Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
A lot of schools, for example, ban boys in particular from wearing coats over their school uniforms. Girls are allowed to wear coats. But girls have a whole list of things that they have to follow. Their underwear has to be a certain color. Their socks have to be a certain color. Their pencil cases can only be a certain shape. They have to be a box shape.
Global News Podcast
Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Girls have to wear their hair over their ears. And in many schools, anyone who genetically just kind of has light colored hair has to dye their hair to make it even more black. Students are often banned from bicycling to school. The lists go on and on and on. And that's why many feel that Japanese high schools are quite oppressive places and they're just misery inducing, really.
Global News Podcast
Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
No, there's a whole different list of rules for primary school students. I spent quite a lot of time when I was a reporter in Japan looking at primary schools and they have their own lists of rules. So, for example, students have to help clean their own classrooms in Japan when you're in primary school. But also at lunchtime, primary school students have to eat their lunches in a certain order.
Global News Podcast
Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
So they have to eat everything on their tray that's in box A and then move on to box B. And that's been a subject of discussion in itself. Some people think that it encourages eating disorders because students aren't allowed to decide in what order they're going to eat their lunches.
Global News Podcast
Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
There's been an ongoing discussion in Japan, particularly over the last few years, that centers around rising levels of youth depression and correspondingly rising levels of youth anxiety. suicide. So we've seen actually in the past year, 2024, suicide rates in Japan have actually gone down. But youth suicide is at a record high.
Global News Podcast
Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Japanese society does have a focus on being polite, to be considerate of others and to kind of really think about the wider, greater good. And so following the rules is also kind of this idea sort of carried into the workplace. But I think in the past few years in particular...
Global News Podcast
Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Many parents are beginning to question whether the school and teachers and headmasters at schools are actually more important, whether they should have a bigger say in their child's lives than they do. And so there's this kind of push and pull between schools and parents. And I think parents are starting to slowly gain a bit of the upper hand.
Global News Podcast
European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
I think that Tokyo is becoming increasingly worried by the rising tensions across the Taiwan Strait. It can see for itself, as all of us can see, really, that China is putting increasing pressure on Taiwan, that open talk of a possible invasion of Taiwan is really on the table now. I said itself, it's preparing its own military drills with the idea that China could invade in 2027.
Global News Podcast
European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
So that date is being bandied around by the US and now Taiwan. And so I think Japan is very well aware of this, that it wants to protect itself. It has some islands that are quite close to Taiwan, the Sakishima Islands. The closest one of those particular islands is called Yonaguni. It's only 100 kilometers away from Taiwan itself. And so Japan's just thinking ahead.
Global News Podcast
European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
So tell us about Japanese plants. Well, the Japanese have been planning this on paper in table exercises for quite some time. For a few years now, they've been releasing images of meetings where they have a map on a table in front of them and they're moving little wooden boats and planes around. But now they want to go one step further and actually rehearse these evacuations.
Global News Podcast
European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
So they want to play out what would go into taking 120,000 people off of the Sakishima Islands and and getting them onto Japan's bigger mainland and what that would take. They estimate it would take them about six days of evacuating about 20,000 people a day using military vessels, Coast Guard vessels, and also private ferries in conjunction with planes.
Global News Podcast
European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
they would all be taken to ports and airports on Japan's main Kyushu island, and then they'd be dispersed around the country from there. Now, in typical Japanese style, they've really thought ahead about this, and they want to make sure that they evacuate people in groups.
Global News Podcast
European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
So you're always with a group of people that you know, and you'll all be transported to your ultimate destination where you're going to stay for a while with people you know, and that's to minimize distress.
Global News Podcast
European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
I don't think so. And that's why they're trying to play it out so carefully in terms of what kinds of transportation they use, who they would evacuate first, how they would go about it. And that's why we're going to be seeing these live drills starting next year. You know, I think the hope for everyone is that they wouldn't have to use this. But Japan is a country that is hit by earthquakes.
Global News Podcast
European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
It's a country that's had to deal with nuclear disasters. This is a country that really thinks ahead now. And so that's why I think they're really going that extra step in terms of actually going through these live exercises instead of just planning this out on paper.
Global News Podcast
Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
Taiwan's leader, William Lai, pointed out that there were 64 people prosecuted for spying on behalf of China last year. That's up three times from in 2021. So we've seen this huge rise in the number of cases that the courts are dealing with. But these are really sensitive cases because they handle classified information. They're dealing with possible military secrets.
Global News Podcast
Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
So William Lai would like to bring a military court system back into place. Now, this has led to some concerns inside Taiwan because the military court system was disbanded almost a decade ago or more than a decade ago in 2013. After a young soldier who'd been conscripted into Taiwan's military.
Global News Podcast
Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
He was caught carrying a mobile phone onto a base and he was punished by the military court in order to do really strenuous exercises in the hot sun. He died of heat stroke and that led to the military court being disbanded because there were concerns that it just wasn't transparent enough. It was sort of ruling laws unto its own.
Global News Podcast
Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
So this is a new thing to go back and reinstate this military court. But William Lye says they really have no choice. They need to deal with the rising threat of espionage. Well, give us the background to this and China's ramping up pressure on Taiwan. Well, it's all known as gray zone tactics. It's this idea that China isn't actually declaring war on Taiwan.
Global News Podcast
Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
It's not actually going to go out and invade tomorrow, but it's just chipping away at Taiwan's military and economic diplomatic reserves bit by bit. So when it comes to the in the air and in the Taiwan Strait. Actually, all around Taiwan, it is practicing encircling it.
Global News Podcast
Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
And so it's getting people used to the idea that China's military is close by, but it's also forcing Taiwan's military to spend a lot of its time and energy trying to counter these constant live fire exercises that are taking place just outside its shores. And has there been any reaction to this announcement by the Taiwanese president from people in Taiwan itself?
Global News Podcast
Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
People are a little worried about the reintroduction of the military court. But I think there is a real recognition inside Taiwan that something needs to be done. I should say that William Lai announced a whole slew of measures today. The military court idea is just part of a broader plan. But they also say that they're going to start reviewing visitor and residency applications to Taiwan online.
Global News Podcast
Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
by Chinese people. So this is part of a wider recognition that something needs to be done.
Global News Podcast
As stock markets tumble again, Trump calls for a cut to interest rates
It's dangerous work uncovering landmines and unexploded weaponry in Cambodia. Two clearance experts were killed earlier this year. And that's why many in the northern Cambodian province of Priya Vihir are celebrating the accomplishments of a certain rodent. Ronan is a giant African pouched rat, and he's a world record holder after successfully sniffing out 109 landmines over the past three years.
Global News Podcast
As stock markets tumble again, Trump calls for a cut to interest rates
Van Kang, a Cambodian working with the landmine action charity Apopo, cuddles a giant rat as he explains why they're so helpful.
Global News Podcast
As stock markets tumble again, Trump calls for a cut to interest rates
Each rat weighs just over a kilogram, so as Van Keng says, they don't trigger the hidden explosives, which often lie buried just underneath the ground. After the mines are sniffed out by the rats, nearby human experts can then remove them safely. Cambodia is still littered with mines after three decades of civil war that ended in the late 90s.
Global News Podcast
As stock markets tumble again, Trump calls for a cut to interest rates
As for Ronan the rat, it took a year for him to learn how to find explosives and his trainers believe he has another two years of work ahead before a happy rat retirement.
Global News Podcast
South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
Beijing has really uncovered a full menu of restrictions and tariffs designed to really try to hit back at the U.S. economy. So they have 34 percent tariffs coming into place on most American goods. On top of that, they've launched some anti-dumping investigations at the World Trade Organization's They've also decided to put 11 U.S. companies on an unreliable entities list.
Global News Podcast
South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
That means all Chinese business people are restricted from any interaction with those American companies. And then last, they've put in some controls on rare earths that China really has a monopoly on some of these rare earths. So seven rare earths will no longer be allowed to be sold to the United States.
Global News Podcast
South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
They include things like samarium and terbium, which sound very strange, but they're actually really important to the development of some technologies in the United States. And so that actually might be one of the things that hurts the U.S. the most. And what about the effect inside China? It could be really terrible. and crucially, things like soybeans, wheat and corn to China.
Global News Podcast
South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
Now, these are things that China has bought from the US in years past in an effort to kind of to shore up its trade deficit with the United States. And so it imports quite a lot from the United States. And so it's really going to affect Chinese markets to suddenly see these things jump up in price. But on the other hand, China has also been trying to pivot away from the U.S.
Global News Podcast
South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
since the first Trump administration, since these trade wars really started to boil over. And so it's not going to hurt it as much as you might think. In fact, China's really been trying to establish new trade routes and to pivot to other markets. And so it's going to continue those efforts.
Global News Podcast
South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
It's not looking good. I mean, the U.S.-China Business Council came out a few days ago to say that it looks at this point that the trade restrictions are so terrible that some Chinese goods could be hit with 90 percent tariffs if they're exported to the U.S. So, you know, these are two economies that that used to be completely intertwined.
Global News Podcast
South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
The two biggest economies in the world really drove world trade. There were a lot of American companies that rely on Chinese manufacturing. Similarly, many Chinese companies rely on the power of the American consumer to sell their goods. And so if that's grinding to a halt, if we're seeing Beijing hitting back at Washington almost as hard as Washington's head out first—
Global News Podcast
South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
This is really terrible for global trade, and it really isn't looking good for the Chinese economy itself, which has already been suffering. They've already been facing serious restrictions in their efforts to get Chinese shoppers to buy more. And so this is just another bad mark for the Chinese economy.