Janat Jalil
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US sends diplomats to Syria
You're listening to the Global News Podcast. In the end, the Swiss government forced a takeover by the country's other big bank, UBS. Our Geneva correspondent, Imogen Folks, told us more about the collapse and the inquiry into it.
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US sends diplomats to Syria
at fault and that switzerland's financial regulator though it tried was simply not strong enough to avert this crisis but this seems to be something that happens over and over again we had the big global financial crisis in 2007 and 2008 when the banks were heavily criticized for risky behavior and greed and now it seems the same thing has happened again i mean how damaging could this potentially have been if the government hadn't intervened and forced this takeover
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US sends diplomats to Syria
We begin in Syria. The Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's dictator this month are designated a terrorist group by the United States. But that hasn't stopped President Biden sending top US diplomats to Damascus to hold talks with Syria's new rulers. The first such visit in more than a decade.
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Imogen Folks in Geneva. Russia's meat grinder tactics in its war in Ukraine are estimated to have lost it tens of thousands of soldiers. To try to boost its numbers and to end an embarrassing Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region, the Kremlin has since October brought in troops from the most isolated country in the world, North Korea.
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and it seems that they too are dying in large numbers. At least 100 North Korean soldiers have been killed and another 1,000 wounded fighting Ukrainian troops, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service.
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Our Seoul correspondent Jean McKenzie has spoken to three North Korean army defectors to get their insight into the soldiers forced to fight in Russia and what conditions are like for them.
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This comes as the leader of the Islamist rebels, Abu Muhammad al-Jilani, who now uses his birth name Ahmed al-Shara, has urged Western countries to lift their sanctions on Syria. Turkey, which backs the Syrian rebels, has also called for the lifting of the sanctions. And its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says his country will help Syria draft a new constitution.
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That report by Jean McKenzie. British scientists and engineers have successfully created the world's first battery made from diamonds grown in a laboratory. These, they believe, could each be a source of power for thousands of years and in extreme environments, such as deep under the ocean's surface or even outer space.
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Yannick Verbelen from the University of Bristol helped to develop the battery. And in case you think it's all sparkly, he says its remarkable potential is belied by its very ordinary appearance.
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Our Middle East regional editor, Mike Thompson, says the Americans are expected to ask the HTS leaders for commitments on inclusivity and protection for Syria's many ethnic and religious groups.
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Dr Yannick Verbellen. A new television game show in the US is causing a stir, partly because of its likeness to the fictional South Korean game show depicted in the Netflix series Squid Game, and partly because of the prize on offer, $5 million in cash.
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As you heard there, it's called Beast Games. And the man you're hearing is one of YouTube's biggest stars, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as Mr. Beast. This is Mr. Beast's mainstream TV debut with a show now streaming on Amazon Prime. It involves physical and mental tests, but also a certain amount of social conflict. Contestants, for example, are offered bribes to betray their teammates.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, it's been described as brutal and humiliating. And the company behind it is already facing a variety of lawsuits, as a Hollywood entertainment reporter, KJ Matthews, explained to Paul Moss.
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Entertainment reporter KJ Matthews. 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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was produced by Harry Bly. It was mixed by Nora Houle. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janette Jalil.
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I suppose a clue to what he will do, whether his actions will match his words, would be to see his record in Idlib, where HTS have governed since 2016.
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Our international editor, Jeremy Byrne, spoke to the leader of HTS, Ahmed Alshara. He was keen to point out that under his rule in Idlib, 60% of university graduates were women. So that's a positive sign.
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Mike Thompson, well, as he was referring to there, many in Syria are nervous about whether the country's new rulers will deliver on their promises of inclusivity and protection for Syria's diverse array of ethnic and religious groups and its women. One person who has raised these concerns directly with HTS is Amash Nalbandian, head of the Christian Armenian Diocese of Damascus.
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Syrian Bishop Amash Nalbandian. A BBC investigation has revealed that the Burmese military now only has full control of less than a quarter of the territory in Myanmar, nearly four years after seizing power in a coup. A patchwork of resistance groups and ethnic armies now have full control over more than 40% of the country, and the rest is mostly contested.
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For over a year, BBC Eye has been following one of the rebel units and has found that spies in the military are helping them. Rebecca Henschke reports.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janat Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 20th of December, these are our main stories. In the first such visit in more than a decade, US diplomats are in Syria for talks with its new Islamist rulers. Malaysia authorises a fresh attempt to find the wreckage of MH370, the plane that mysteriously disappeared 10 years ago.
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A spy for the rebels, ending that report by Rebecca Henschke. The Burmese military did not respond to our request for an interview. Ten years ago, this announcement by Malaysia Airlines made headlines around the world.
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It was the start of one of the great mysteries in aviation, the disappearance of flight MH370 in March 2014. The plane, with more than 230 people on board, was on its way from Malaysia to China when it simply vanished from radar screens.
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While some debris from the aircraft did eventually wash up on islands in the Indian Ocean, the plane itself has never been found and the search was abandoned in 2018. But now the Malaysian authorities have authorised a fresh attempt to find out what happened. The transport minister, Anthony Loke, confirmed that a private company would carry out the search.
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Well, I was going to ask you that because given that there's been such vast extensive searches in the past that have gone on for years, why are they trying again to find this wreckage in this vast expanse of water? I think a couple of reasons.
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Still to come in the podcast, diamonds, a girl's best friend.
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These ones may not sparkle, but they could revolutionise battery technology.
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US sends diplomats to Syria
A BBC investigation reveals that nearly four years after Myanmar's military sparked a civil war with a coup, it now controls less than a quarter of the country. Also in this podcast, a new game show with a $5 million prize.