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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
The peculiar Swedish Christmas tradition that's become the target of arsonists. You're listening to the Global News Podcast. Two major Japanese carmakers, Honda and Nissan, have been holding talks, including on a possible merger on how to better compete against fast-growing electric vehicle manufacturers, particularly Chinese ones and Tesla.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
If Nissan and Honda did merge, they could create the world's third biggest auto group by vehicle sales after Toyota and Volkswagen. The talks come at a time of concern about what Donald Trump's return as US president would mean for the global car industry. Our business reporter, Suranjana Tiwari, told us more about what's being discussed.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
And this would also help Nissan and Honda, if they were to merge, to make investments that would allow them to compete against electric car makers.
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Surinjana Tiwari. Now another story involving one of the world's most recognisable car brands. The BBC has seen evidence that the multinational corporation which owns Jaguar Land Rover arranged for a whistleblower to be sacked for publishing concerns about the safety of electric cars it helped to design.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
Confidential emails between executives at companies owned by Tata Group reveal they retaliated against the engineer involved. He'd posted on the social media site Reddit that lives were being put at risk. Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Group have declined to comment. Here's our financial investigations correspondent, Andy Verity.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
General Igor Kirillov died alongside his assistant when a bomb went off outside his apartment on Tuesday. He was in charge of the force protecting Russia's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. and had been accused of using chemical weapons in Russia's war in Ukraine. Svetlana Petrenko is a spokeswoman for the investigative committee which looks into major crimes in Russia.
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Andy Verity. In Poland, a former deputy justice minister seems to have disappeared. Why? Well, state prosecutors accuse Marcin Romanowski of misusing millions of state funds. Last week, a warrant for his arrest was issued in the country, but the search has now widened, as I heard from our correspondent Adam Easton in Warsaw.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
And he's reported not to have used his phones for a while.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
Adam Easton. Finally, a peculiar Swedish Christmas tradition. Every winter, the town of Gävle erects a giant straw goat to celebrate the holidays. But it's become a favourite target for arsonists and now artificial intelligence. Stephanie Zachrisson takes up the story.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
And that report was by Stephanie Zachrisson. 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 topics covered, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Craig Kingham, the producer was Chantal Hartle, the editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janette Jalil.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
BBC Monitoring's Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko told us more about the arrest of the Uzbek suspect.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
Ukraine, of course, would argue, if it was to argue, would say that it's defending itself in response to the Russian invasion. And it is interesting that this killing came just a day after Ukraine's Secret Service charged the general in absentia.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 Hours GMT on Wednesday the 18th of December, these are our main stories. Russia has detained an Uzbek man accused of assassinating a senior general in Moscow on behalf of Ukraine. The United Nations expresses concerns about the expected large-scale return of refugees to Syria.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
Vitaly Shevchenko, the sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria earlier this month led to scenes of rejoicing in Damascus and other cities and the return of homesick Syrians longing for an end to 13 years of civil war.
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It also prompted a number of European countries to suspend asylum claims from Syrians, even as great uncertainty remains about how the Islamist rebels who overthrew Mr Assad will govern the country. Now, a senior United Nations official on a visit to Damascus has warned that Syria is not stable enough for the large-scale return of refugees.
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Amy Pope, who's head of the UN's International Organization for Migration, said, told the BBC that without humanitarian assistance, sending people back would further destabilise Syria.
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Our correspondent in Damascus, Lina Sinjab, says in a nation shattered by years of war, economic crisis and last year's devastating earthquake, the scale of the challenge is immense.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
Lina Sinjab. And following the rapid developments in Syria, the BBC World Service has launched a news and information service for people in Syria and neighbouring countries. It will be broadcast mainly in Arabic, but there will also be some programmes in English. The service is on FM on 93 MHz and on medium wave on 730 and 639 kHz.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
Last month, Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones from Australia, both 19, travelled to Southeast Asia to celebrate their graduation. What should have been the trip of a lifetime for the best friends ended in tragedy. They were among six tourists who died after drinking alcohol thought to have been laced with methanol at a hostel in Laos.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
Holly's father, Sean Bowles, wants to make other travellers aware of the risks of methanol poisoning. He's been speaking to my colleague, Emma Barnett.
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Man detained after Russian general's assassination
Two of Japan's biggest car makers, Nissan and Honda, are considering merger talks because of increased competition from Chinese electric vehicle makers. Also in this podcast, Polish prosecutors seek a Europe-wide arrest warrant for a former deputy justice minister accused of misusing state funds.
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Sean Bowles, the father of teenager Holly Bowles, who died from suspected alcohol poisoning in Laos. It's a town known as the polar bear capital of the world, Churchill in northern Canada. Climate change is a danger to both the bears and the people living there. Melting sea ice is forcing the dwindling and often hungry bear population to spend more time on shore, closer to humans.
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Our science correspondent Victoria Gill went to Churchill with a team of polar bear researchers.
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how melting sea ice has drawn polar bears closer to people. A day after a senior Russian general was assassinated in the heart of Moscow, Russia's security service, the FSB, says it has detained a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan over the killing, saying he acted under instructions from Ukraine.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Golnoosh Golshani reporting. And you can watch the full film, Songs from Inside, by BBC 100 Women on the World Service YouTube channel. You can follow BBC 100 Women on Facebook and Instagram. Still to come in this podcast, how preservation teams from the Czech Republic are helping to restore valuable Ukrainian art collections that have been damaged in the war.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
You're listening to the Global News Podcast. A new report by the European Central Bank and the EU's insurance regulator calls for a big shake-up in Europe's climate insurance system. The idea is to make sure that more people are covered since right now only about a quarter of climate-related losses in Europe are insured.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Leanna Byrne asked Linda Russova from the bank's financial stability team and one of the authors of the report how it would work.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
People shouted thanks and encouragement to her. After the verdicts and the sentencing, Giselle thanked her supporters, saying she never regretted making the trial public.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Linda Russova of the European Central Bank. The UN-sanctioned mission in Haiti was meant to be a multi-nation effort led by the Kenyan police, with a contingent of 2,500 officers from a number of countries. Six months later, only 400 Kenyan police officers have been deployed, as well as a handful of others, and the mission remains seriously underfunded.
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Our reporter Nawal Al-Meghafi spent time embedded with the Kenyan forces before they headed into gang territory. A warning that this report contains distressing details.
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Nawal al-Meghafi in Haiti. Well, armed conflict has an effect on pretty much every facet of life, including a nation's cultural heritage. In Ukraine, hundreds of libraries, museums and churches have been ransacked by Russian soldiers and many others destroyed by Russian bombs.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Mobile preservation units from the Czech Republic fitted with top-of-the-range technology are being sent to Kiev to help restore valuable collections that have been damaged. Our Prague correspondent Rob Cameron has more.
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We heard more from our correspondent Andrew Harding who was at the court in Avignon.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Rob Cameron reporting. Some toothy toadstools, a black-souled zebra plant and a ghost palm are among the species being added to the annual list of plants and fungi which are new to science. They're being shown at the Royal Botanical Gardens here in London where scientists have helped to describe dozens of new plants and fungi. Professor Bill Baker is the senior research leader.
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He spoke to Nick Robinson.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Professor Bill Baker. 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 mixed by Chris Lovelock. The producer was Oliver Berlau. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Jeanette Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
President Macron reassures the people of the French territory of Mayotte that they will get all the help they need as they struggle to recover from a devastating cyclone. Israeli fighter jets carry out airstrikes in Yemen against facilities used by Iranian-backed Houthi forces. Also in this podcast, what are toothy toadstools or ghost palms? Find out later.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 Hours GMT on Thursday the 19th of December, these are our main stories. At a mass rape trial that has horrified France, Giselle Pellicot's ex-husband and 50 other men are found guilty and given jail terms.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Andrew Harding speaking there to Sarah Montague. Days after a devastating cyclone hit the French territory of Mayotte, the French president Emmanuel Macron has arrived on the Indian Ocean archipelago. Mayotte's prefect has warned that the death toll could rise to the thousands. Mr Macron met staff at Mayotte's main hospital and said the situation there was an exceptional natural disaster.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
This woman is telling Mr Macron this is the same devastation everywhere. I hear you, replies Mr Macron. Everyone here is mobilised and wants to do the utmost. Ruhaina Kamadine is a young woman living in the east of Mayotte. She travelled to the capital, Mamoudzou, to send this message on Wednesday evening.
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Our correspondent Mayani Jones sent this report from Mayotte.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
It's the rape trial that shocked the world. And today in France, verdicts were handed down to the 51 men accused of raping or sexually assaulting one woman, Giselle Perico, who for almost a decade was drugged by her now ex-husband Dominique so that he and dozens of other men he recruited online could use her unconscious body to fulfill their depraved sexual fantasies.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
The strikes came less than two hours after a rocket fired from Yemen triggered warning sirens across central Israel. It was successfully intercepted. The Israeli military spokesman, Daniel Hagari, said the targets were facilities used by Houthi forces for their military operations.
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Our Middle East correspondent Yolanda Nell is in Jerusalem and told us more.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
And this time yesterday, we were talking about cautious optimism about the prospects of a ceasefire finally being agreed in Gaza. Where are we at with that? Any update on that?
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Yolande Nell in Jerusalem. The BBC has gained rare access to the often 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.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
From multiple reliable sources, BBC 100 Women has built a detailed picture of life inside the prison walls, revealing the stories of women who continue to protest for their rights despite the risks. Golnush Golshani reports, and a warning, some listeners may find this report distressing.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Dominique Pellicot was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The other men were given sentences ranging from 3 to 15 years. The case has also made 72-year-old Gisèle Pellicot a feminist icon. She made the brave decision to waive her right to be anonymous, saying the shame should be on her rapists, not her. As she made her way to the court in Avignon in southern France today...