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Michaela Rong. Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has said he'll decide in the next 10 days whether to hold parliamentary elections or form a new government following the resignation of the Prime Minister on Tuesday. Miloš Vucevic stood down after months of anti-government protests.
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They were sparked by the collapse of a train station roof which killed 15 people and led to allegations of widespread corruption and incompetence. Serbia's main opposition party has dismissed the resignation as an attempt to buy time. Our Balkans correspondent is Guy Delaunay.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
And what about this claim being made by the authorities that foreign powers are backing the student protesters? Is there any evidence for that?
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
It's been a chaotic and confusing start to Donald Trump's plan to pause billions, possibly even trillions of dollars in U.S. government funding. Just minutes before the government freeze on federal loans, grants and other assistance was due to go into effect on Tuesday evening Washington time, it was blocked by a federal judge who's now delayed it until next week.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Now to a new development that may help those suffering from Parkinson's disease. A man fitted with a pioneering computer-controlled brain implant here in the UK says it works so well that he's sometimes able to forget he has the condition. Kevin Hill started getting symptoms in his 40s.
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He was shaking so badly that his wife wouldn't allow him into the kitchen because of fears he might hurt himself. Now at the age of 65, after years of sleepless nights and uncontrollable shaking, he can once again do many of the things he used to, including going for a drink with friends.
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Surgeons in Newcastle in northern England hope the implant that's worked so well for Kevin will help many others. Our health correspondent Sharon Barber went to meet him.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
We'll tell you why the Mona Lisa is getting its own room in the Louvre.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Democrats had said the freeze was illegal. Before the judge's decision, the senior Democrat and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer had this to say.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
NATO's Secretary General has said the alliance needs to strengthen its defences in the Arctic. Mark Rutte was speaking after a meeting with Denmark's Prime Minister where they discussed Donald Trump's threats to take over Greenland despite it being under Danish sovereignty. Here's our Europe regional editor, Paul Moss.
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Paul Moss, after a turbulent year, the US planemaker Boeing has reported annual losses of nearly $12 billion. It's the company's worst performance since the pandemic. Boeing is grappling with a number of issues, including concerns about safety after a series of accidents and a strike by its factory workers in the US.
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Its chief executive says the firm is making progress in restoring stability to production lines. Andrew Peach heard more from Judson Rowlands of Lehm News and Analysis.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Judson Rowlings of Leeham News and Analysis. For the first time since the fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a Russian diplomatic delegation has been in Damascus for talks. The Kremlin was a key ally of Mr. Assad's and is trying to retain its military presence in Syria, as Lina Sinjab reports.
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Lina Zinjab. It's probably the world's most famous painting, and now in recognition of the huge crowds it draws, the Mona Lisa is to be moved to what's been described as its own special space within the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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It's all part of a plan to renovate the world's most visited museum, announced by the French president Emmanuel Macron as he stood in front of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece. Mr Macron also said a new entrance would be designed through an international competition to reduce the huge crowds of people beneath the famous glass pyramid.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
With more, here's Hugh Schofield in Paris.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
The White House had said the freeze was intended to bring spending into line with President Trump's anti-woke executive orders. The White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, who at 27 is the youngest person ever to hold that post, said during her debut media briefing that the freeze would not affect payments to individuals for crucial things like pensions, health care and food assistance.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Hugh Schofield. The panel of scientists behind the symbolic doomsday clock that shows how close humanity is to a global catastrophe has announced that it's ticked one second closer to our destruction.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
They say concerns about the risk of nuclear war, rapid climate change, the rise of disinformation and President Trump's radical policies have led them to set the time to one minute and 29 seconds to midnight. Richard Howes reports.
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Richard Howes. Now, if you're a shift worker, like many of us 24-hour news journalists, you may worry that you're not getting enough sleep. And even if you're not a shift worker, it's sometimes hard to turn off the screens, go to bed early and get that solid eight hours of rest that we're all told is essential to health.
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But one sleep scientist, Marjan Vandelaar, says it might not matter as much as we think. He's the author of a new book, How to Sleep Like a Caveman.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
So there you go. If you like watching some TV or looking at your phone just before you go to bed. That was sleep scientist Marge and Vandala. 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 one, 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.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll. The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
I asked our correspondent in Washington, Caroline Hawley, if she could clarify the confusion.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
And adding to the confusion and alarm is the report that the online portal for Medicaid, which is the public health insurance program for the poor, has suffered an outage.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
He was talking about how it affects Americans.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Caroline Hawley. Well, this comes as the Israeli prime minister's office says that Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to a meeting at the White House in Washington with President Trump next week. Mr. Trump has repeatedly taken the credit for the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal, which came into effect the day before he took office.
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And in recent days, he's floated the idea of Egypt and Jordan taking in most of the population of Gaza to the outrage of Arab countries and Palestinians. Wira Davis in Jerusalem says the announcement of the visit is a big coup for Mr Netanyahu.
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Wira Davis. Well, this comes as the head of the UN's Agency for Palestinian Refugees has condemned what he describes as Israel's relentless assault against it. Philippe Lazzarini was speaking at a UN Security Council meeting called to discuss Israel's ban on UNRWA working in Israel and East Jerusalem from Thursday.
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Mr. Lazzarini said the move would cripple the organization's ability to work in the occupied territories and jeopardize prospects for peace.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Jonathan Crix is the head of communications for the UN's children's charity UNICEF in the region and is currently in Rafah in southern Gaza. Rebecca Kesby asked him if they've been able to get the aid they need to into the territory.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Jeanette Jalil, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 29th of January, these are our main stories. A U.S. judge temporarily blocks a sweeping White House order to pause federal grants, loans and other financial assistance that could have put trillions of dollars on hold.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
That was Jonathan Crix of UNICEF. Let's turn now to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where in a country scarred by decades of conflict, Rwandan-backed rebels who say they've captured the airport in the key eastern regional hub of Goma are continuing to battle Congolese government forces on the streets of the city.
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Days of intense fighting involving mortars and gunfire have left many bodies lying on the ground and hospitals overwhelmed. The UN says there have been reports of rapes carried out by fighters. On the other side of this vast country in the capital Kinshasa, a string of embassies has been attacked, including those of Rwanda, the United States, France and Uganda.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Congo has accused its tiny neighbour of trying to steal its mineral wealth. Rwanda denies the claim, saying it's fighting an armed group formed in the wake of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Both countries are being urged to restart peace talks that broke down last year. Alona Sienko is a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Well, as the rebels advance in Goma, our reporter in Kinshasa, Emery Makumeno, told us what he'd been able to find out.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
And Emery, in Kinshasa, where you are, there have been a number of attacks on Western embassies and African embassies allied to Rwanda. Tell us about those.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Rwandan-backed rebels are getting closer to taking complete control of Goma in eastern Congo. The head of the UN's Palestinian Refugee Agency has accused Israel of carrying out a relentless assault against it ahead of Thursday's ban. Also in this podcast, we hear how a pioneering computer-controlled brain implant has transformed the life of a man with Parkinson's disease.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Emery Makumeno. Well, Michaela Rong has written extensively about Congo and Rwanda. She says many in Congo blame the international community because of its close relationship with Rwanda.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Sie hören auf dem Global News Podcast. Park Soon-Young ist Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a government-appointed fact-finding panel that wrote the report.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow, has been following the story.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
We begin with what looks like a significant development in Sudan's civil war, which has caused what the UN calls the world's biggest humanitarian crisis. Sudan's army says it's retaken control of the airport in the capital Khartoum from the rival paramilitary force, the RSF. This follows the army's recapture of the presidential palace last week as it tries to push the RSF out of Khartoum.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Und erzähl uns über das.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
And what response has there been to this report?
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Mickey Bristow, after seven nights of protests across Turkey over the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival, Ekrem İmamoğlu, the main opposition party in Turkey, the CHP, has called for a mass rally on Saturday to demand early elections.
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Amid Fears that the President could try to use the protests to discredit the opposition after he called them violent and evil, the CHP says it's ending its nightly demonstrations as it looks at how it can best forward its campaign to challenge Mr. Erdogans' decades-long grip on power. Our correspondent Mark Lowen has been out on the streets of Istanbul to meet some of those demonstrating.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Since the conflict began nearly two years ago, tens of thousands of people have been killed and 12 million have been displaced. I asked our Africa regional editor Will Ross if this claim about the recapture of the airport was credible.
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Das Bericht von Mark Lowen. Viele Kanadier reisen unabhängig über die Grenze mit den USA für Arbeit und Reisen. Aber das war nicht die jetzt sehr publiziert veröffentlichte Erfahrung der kanadischen Schauspielerin Jasmine Mooney. Sie fand sich für fast zwei Wochen in einer Zelle geschlossen, ohne eine Erklärung. Es begann mit einem einfachen Fehler über ihre ursprüngliche Visa-Applikation.
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Sie sagt, dass sie, während sie letztendlich verabschiedet wurde, dank der Medienpressur, viele andere getötet hat, die in ähnlichen Umständen verabschiedet wurden. Sie hat über ihr Urteil in den Händen von Bordagenten zu Julianne Warwicka gesprochen.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Now, if you're a keen traveler and you've been wanting to try out the non-stop flight from Sydney to London that's been promised for years, you're going to have to wait a bit longer. The Australian airline says a launch date for the service, dubbed Project Sunrise, has been delayed again. It's planned Sydney to London or New York flights won't take off until 2027.
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When it does get off the ground, passengers will be airborne for a straight 19 hours. But will they want to spend so much time trapped in a flying metal tube? Here's our business reporter, Nick Marsh.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Nick Marsh, before we go, we have to apologise for a mistake made in the previous podcast. It was in the story about World Athletics approving the introduction of a one-time swab test to check whether competitors are eligible to take part in women-only events. In the piece by Jane Dougal, she said the boxer Lin Yuting was from China. She is in fact Taiwanese.
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So apologies for that mistake and thank you to those of you who got in touch to point it out. Your feedback is always welcome. 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 point out any other mistakes, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
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This edition was mixed by Mark Pickett. The producer was Carla Conti. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Jeanette Joliot. Until next time. Goodbye.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
How significant is this? Because the RSF still controls considerable territory in western Sudan.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Will Ross. Multiple wildfires continue to ravage South Korea's southeast region, fueled by strong winds and dry weather. At least 24 people have been killed as we record this podcast, with officials reporting that most of the victims were in their 60s and 70s and unable to flee their homes in time. Entire neighborhoods have been devastated, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
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Among the buildings destroyed was an ancient temple. Jiang Wu is a monk at the major Buddhist landmark.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Elsewhere, efforts are being made to relocate valuable historical artifacts and move them to safety. Meanwhile, thousands of firefighters backed up by the military are continuing to battle the flames, which began last week. A pilot was killed when his firefighting helicopter crashed in the mountains.
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Speaking at a news briefing in the capital Seoul, the acting president, Han Deok-soo, gave this update.
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And have you been speaking to people who've been caught up in these fires and what have they been saying?
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Rachel Lee in Seoul. A doctor from Gaza, whom Israel has described as a terrorist, has had his detention extended by another six months without charge or trial, according to his lawyers. Dr. Husam Abu Safir was taken by the Israeli military during its raid and closure of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in December.
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He was last seen walking through the ruins of his hospital to give himself up to Israeli troops. Israel says he's a member of Hamas. Dr. Abu Safir's lawyers say they have not been able to get access to any evidence, as Israel has a, quote, secret file, which they're not allowed to see. Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Emen Ada, told us more about the doctor's incarceration.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 26th of March, these are our main stories. Sudan's army says it's recaptured the airport in the capital Khartoum from the RSF paramilitary force it's been battling for two years.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
While much of the world's attention has been focused on Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank has been increasing. On Monday the Oscar-winning Palestinian film director Hamdan Balal was attacked at his home in the West Bank by Jewish settlers. His injuries were bad enough for an ambulance to be called.
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But then, according to the director's friends, the Israeli Defense Force arrived, took the director away from the ambulance and arrested him. The IDF says its soldiers were attacked by rock-throwing Palestinians. The details of what happened exactly remain unclear. But since then, a witness to the aftermath has spoken to the BBC.
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Raviv Rose is Jewish and works for the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, which aims to build reconciliation between Jews and Palestinians. Upon hearing of the incident, Raviv Rose and fellow activists drove to Mr. Bilal's home, where they too were attacked by Jewish settlers.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Wildfires raging in South Korea have killed at least 24 people as firefighters battle to contain the flames. A major South Korean inquiry has found that for decades governments failed to protect children sent abroad for international adoption. Also in this podcast a new launch date has been announced by an Australian airline for the world's longest non-stop flight.
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Hamdan Balal was later released. Our correspondent Dan Johnson has been to his village of Susia in the West Bank.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
We hear from the Canadian actress who tried to renew her visa only to find herself detained in the US for days on end.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
We have spoken to Ukrainian officials in the presidential office here and on the condition of anonymity. They did confirm that terms have been agreed. And judging from the media reports, we can say that the deal includes not just critical minerals and rare earth metals, but also it covers oil and gas. And Ukrainian media also is talking about ports and other related infrastructure.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
The agreement would establish a fund into which Ukraine would contribute 50% of revenues that will come from developing mineral resources and infrastructure. And importantly, there is this reference that this fund would invest, reinvest the capital in projects in Ukraine. And this is certainly a positive signal for Ukrainian officials.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
And they're saying that overall, the conditions that this deal is offering is much better than what they had previously. And the fund that will be established as part of this deal will not be completely controlled by the U.S. as it was before. And now it's not clear the size of the U.S. stake in this fund, but I think this will be established later during the talks.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
The most important thing is that the figure of $500 billion is dropped. And previously, the U.S. wanted Ukraine to contribute this amount of money because they saw that this is how much the United States provided Ukraine in terms of military and economic aid. And Donald Trump kept saying that he wants this money back.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
And Ukraine resists saying that they received all aid in the form of grant, and therefore they have no financial obligations to return anything.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
It was a highly anticipated phone call.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Now new evidence suggests that the genetic origins of modern humans are far more complex than previously thought.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
You're listening to the Global News Podcast. Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has frequently lashed out at judges who are trying to constrain his sweeping claims of presidential authority.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Now, in a rare public rebuke, the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, John Roberts, has issued a statement in response to Mr. Trump's call for the impeachment of a federal judge who tried to stop deportation flights. Mr Roberts said that impeachment wasn't an appropriate response to disagreements concerning a judicial decision.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Our North America correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue, reports from Washington.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
In the course of a lengthy conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president agreed to halt strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure for 30 days, but stopped short of agreeing to the unconditional 30-day ceasefire that the US had been calling for.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Gary O'Donoghue. In an earlier podcast, we told you that a team of scientists trapped in a remote Antarctic research station had appealed for help after a colleague assaulted one of them and made death threats. Now the South African government has launched an investigation into events at the South African-run station.
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The accused man is said to be cooperative and to have apologised to his alleged victim. Mayeni Jones reports from Johannesburg.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Myannie Jones. Scientists here in the UK say they found evidence that the genetic origins of modern humans are far more complex than previously thought. Researchers at the University of Cambridge say we're descended from at least two ancient populations that became separated one and a half million years ago. They developed separately, then eventually reconnected several millennia later.
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Previously, it was thought that we originated from one genetic lineage. Rebecca Gatsby spoke to the co-author of the research, Dr. Elwyn Scully, fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. So does this research change our ideas about evolution?
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Ukraine's leader, Vladimir Zelensky, said his country had always supported a truce on attacking energy infrastructure, but that Russia wasn't ready to end the war.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Dr. Alwyn Scully. An Italian newspaper says it's become the first in the world to offer a daily edition produced by artificial intelligence. Four pages of entirely AI-generated content are included in Il Foglio's latest broadsheet and on its website. Jacob Evans has more details.
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And that was the very real Jacob Evans. 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 Caroline Driscoll. The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Until next time, goodbye.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
I asked our State Department correspondent Tom Bateman for his assessment of the call.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
And this was a moment when many people thought that it was an opportunity for Donald Trump to prove that he can deliver on his claim that he can end the war in Ukraine soon. But it seems that Russia is stalling rather than making the concessions that are needed for an agreement.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Tom Bateman. Well, as the Russian threat looms over Europe, German lawmakers... Abgegebene Stimmkarten 720.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
have in a historic vote approved a massive increase in defence spending, financed by the borrowing of hundreds of billions of dollars. A seismic shift for a debt-shy country still scarred by the horrors of its Nazi past.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Jannat Jalil and in the early hours of Wednesday the 19th of March, these are our main stories. In a much anticipated phone call with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin has rejected an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine but agreed to halt Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
And it's a shift that could reshape not just Germany's but Europe's defence at a time when Donald Trump has made it clear that for the first time since the Second World War, other Western nations can no longer rely on the US defence shield. The vote was called by Germany's Chancellor-in-Waiting, Friedrich Metz.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, watched the vote in the Bundestag in Berlin.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
This is a really radical departure for Germany to spend so much on its military. It's a move that could revive Europe's largest economy, but some say it's also a move fraught with risks, given Germany's Nazi past.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
So, Frank, what does this mean for Ukraine?
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Amid international outrage over Israeli strikes on Gaza that have reportedly killed more than 400 people, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says this is just the beginning. Two NASA astronauts who've been stranded in space for nine months have landed safely back on Earth.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Frank Gardner in Germany. There has been international outrage at Israel's decision to renew its extensive strikes on Gaza, breaking the fragile ceasefire with Hamas that had been in place since January. More than 400 people were killed, many of them women and children. in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to Gaza's health ministry, making it one of the deadliest days in the war.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
This comes as ceasefire talks had stalled and as Israel has been blocking aid from entering the Strip for the past two weeks. Egypt accused Israel of deliberately making Gaza uninhabitable to force out Palestinians. A UN humanitarian official said once again the people of Gaza were living in abject fear. 17-year-old Sanabel described the scene in Gaza City.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the renewed airstrikes on Gaza were just the beginning. In a televised address, he said Israel had resumed combat with full force, accusing Hamas of rejecting the proposals Israel had brought to cease fight talks. His words are spoken by an interpreter.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Israel's large-scale assaults on Gaza come amid mounting domestic pressure on Mr Netanyahu as he tries to fire the head of the Shin Bet internal security service with mass protests planned over his governance. These Israelis at a protest camp in Tel Aviv demanding the return of the hostages expressed their fears.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
I asked our correspondent in Jerusalem, Eme Nada, what the latest was on the casualties caused by the Israeli airstrikes.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Also in this podcast, an Italian newspaper says it's become the first in the world to offer a daily edition produced by artificial intelligence.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
And why has Israel decided to carry out such large-scale strikes now when there are still hostages being held in Gaza?
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Emma Nader. Astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore left Earth last June for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to test Boeing's Darliner's capsule. But their spacecraft suffered a technical fault once it had docked with the International Space Station and they ended up staying nine months.
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Now, though, they're back, having splashed down off the coast of Florida in an apparently smooth and spectacular landing. Our science editor, Rebecca Murrell, has this report.
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Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
Scientists say the world's glaciers are melting faster than ever recorded as global temperatures continue to rise. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers say that since the turn of the century, the frozen rivers have lost more than 6,500 billion tonnes, or 5% of their ice. The new findings have alarming implications for rising sea levels and the global availability of fresh drinking water.
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Our environment correspondent, Matt McGrath, takes us to one glacier that's lost more than three kilometres of its mass.
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Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
In his latest jaw-dropping attack on Ukraine's president, Mr Trump lashed out at Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him a dictator without elections, who had done a terrible job as leader. Here's what he posted on social media. His words have been voiced by one of our colleagues.
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Matt McGrath. Now, depending on how you read it, New Zealand's latest tourism tagline can be a well-meaning plea for people to visit or sound like a threat to kick Kiwis out. Everyone must go is a slogan that's been printed across posters of people in the country's majestic landscapes.
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But what was meant as a catchy call to action aimed at mainly Australian tourists has been ridiculed for sounding like a clearance sale slogan and for being tone deaf amid widespread public service job cuts and record numbers of New Zealanders moving overseas. Susie Ferguson is a presenter at Radio New Zealand.
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Susie Ferguson from Radio New Zealand. Now we bring you another story about Ukraine, but this one is about fascinating scientific research trialled among amputee patients in the country. It's a new treatment that could help with severe pain management and reduce reliance on strong painkillers like opioids, which can be addictive or have other serious side effects.
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It's called hydrodissection, and the U.S. Army veteran behind the study, Dr. Stephen Cohen, calls it a potential game changer. He's professor of pain medicine at Northwestern University, and he explained to Rebecca Kesby how this technique works.
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Dr Stephen Cohen speaking to Rebecca Kesby. Now, you may be surprised by our next story. I was. Once upon a time, men prided themselves on being the strong, silent type, not soft and romantic. But now a new study claims that men are more romantic than women, even if few of them will ever admit to watching rom-coms or reading romance novels.
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So what lies behind this discovery of a more tender side to men? Imogen Rogers investigates.
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Iris Waring, ending that report by Imogen Rogers. 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 Masood Ibrahim Kale and the producer was Stephanie Zachrisson. The editor is Karen Martin.
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This social media post came after Mr Zelensky responded to earlier claims made by Mr Trump, not least that Ukraine started the war and that he only has the support of 4% of Ukraine's population. Mr Zelensky said the US president was simply repeating false claims by Russia.
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The Ukrainian leader said they belied the reality that he is supported by a majority of his country's population who want a just peace.
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European political leaders weighed in to support Mr Zelensky. The British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, called him to say that it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during wartime, just as the UK had done during the Second World War. The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said that it was wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelensky his democratic legitimacy.
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A French government spokesperson said France didn't understand the logic of Mr Trump's comments. I asked our Russia editor at BBC Monitoring, Vitaly Shevchenko, what he made of this increasingly alarming war of words between the US and Ukrainian presidents.
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And the tone of these exchanges seems to be getting increasingly personal on Donald Trump's side. Mr. Zelensky is trying to refute him with facts, but it's getting increasingly difficult for the Ukrainian leader.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 20th of February, these are our main stories. As the bitter war of words between Ukraine and the United States intensifies, Donald Trump describes Vladimir Zelensky as a dictator. European leaders express support for Ukraine's embattled president.
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Vitaly Shevchenko, President Zelensky also rejected suggestions that Ukraine should repay U.S. military aid by granting access to his country's largely untapped reserves of rare earth minerals and other natural resources. Our diplomatic correspondent James Landell assesses where this growing row could lead.
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James Landell. Well, another president who has stunned the world recently is South Korea's leader, who out of the blue nearly three months ago declared martial law in a country long viewed as a vibrant and prosperous democracy.
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Yoon Sung-yeol justified his power grab by claiming, without any proof, that pro-North Korea communist forces had infiltrated South Korea and were trying to take control of it. The coup attempt failed, but since then, support for the embattled president appears to be growing, as conspiracy theories take hold, with thousands of people taking to the streets each week to demand his release.
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Microsoft unveils a chip powered by a new state of matter, which it says shows a quantum computing revolution is only years away.
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That report by Gene McKenzie. But Microsoft has just unveiled a new chip called MyOrana 1, which it says could bring us quantum computers much faster within years. Technology journalist Amit Katwala explains the highly complex science behind quantum computing.
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Why a campaign to get people to visit New Zealand is being ridiculed by Kiwis. In just a week, the US under Donald Trump has gone from being Ukraine's biggest ally to becoming embroiled in a bitter war of words, even as Trump officials have held peace talks with Russia that excluded Ukraine and Europe.
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Technology journalist Amit Katwala. still to come on the Global News Podcast.
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Why a new study is claiming that men are in fact more romantic than women.
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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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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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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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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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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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And he's reported not to have used his phones for a while.
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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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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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BBC Monitoring's Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko told us more about the arrest of the Uzbek suspect.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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That report by David Kan in South Korea.
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We start this podcast in the Dominican Republic, where throughout the day the number of people killed by the sudden collapse of a nightclub roof has been steadily rising. As we record this podcast, at least 66 people are confirmed to have died and more than 150 have been injured. It's thought that many more may be buried alive by the huge mounds of rubble.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. The restricted teen accounts, which have been on Instagram since last September, will now be available on Facebook and Messenger in the UK, the US, Australia and Canada. Our North America technology correspondent, Lily Jamali, told me more.
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Lily Jamali. Prinz Harry, der jüngste Sohn des britischen Königs Charles, der sich in Kalifornien über die letzten paar Jahre ein neues Leben gemacht hat, hat am Dienstag in einem britischen Gericht eine unheimliche öffentliche Appearance in den USA gemacht.
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Er kämpft gegen die Entscheidung der Regierung, seine Sicherheit während seiner Besuche in Britannien zu reduzieren, im Hinblick auf seinen dramatischen Splitt aus der britischen Königsfamilie und seinen folgenden Weg mit seiner Frau Meghan in Nordamerika im Jahr 2020. Prinz Harry sagt, seine Gefühle über die Sicherheit sind der Grund, warum er nicht mehr in die UK zurückkehrt.
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Rescueworkers are continuing to search for survivors at the music venue in the capital, Santo Domingo. The president, Luis Abinader, said they weren't giving up hope.
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Aber die Regierung sagt, er bekommt immer noch Schutz, obwohl er nicht ein arbeitender König ist. Sprechend von außen der Royal Court of Justice in London, hat unser Reporter Charlotte Gallagher uns erzählt, warum der Prinz diesen Fall beantragt hat.
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And this comes as Prince Harry is embroiled in yet another case, ... über die Charity Sentebale, die er für seine alte Mutter, Prinzessin Diana, gegründet hat.
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Und Prinz Harrys Vater, King Charles, ist aktuell auf einer Staatsbesuch in Italien. Wissen wir, ob der Prinz noch andere Mitglieder der Royal Family besuchen wird, während seines Reises nach Britannien?
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Charlotte Gallagher. They've been extinct for more than 10,000 years. But now it's being claimed that dire wolves have been brought back into existence. The species, made famous by the TV series Game of Thrones, were much bigger than their closest living relative, the grey wolf.
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Scientists in the United States at the Texas-based company Colossal Biosciences say they have used gene editing to create three healthy pups. But as Theo White explains... Experten sagen, dass diese Wesen nicht ganz so groß sind, wie sie geplant sind.
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Theo White. A blockbuster exhibition of the work of the British artist David Hockney opens today in the French capital Paris. The 87 year old has long been renowned for his vivid use of color, joyful celebrations of springtime and iconic images of Californian swimming pools.
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The artist, who still smokes despite his health problems, told the BBC's culture editor, Katie Razzell, that when he was first approached two years ago to do the show, he hadn't expected he would still be alive to see and enjoy the opening of his largest ever exhibition. April in Paris
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I heard more from our America's editor, Leonardo Russia, about what could have caused this disaster.
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That was the artist David Hockney talking about his new exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. 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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Martin Baker. The producer was Lynn McSheffery.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time. Goodbye.
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Leonardo Rocha. As we record this podcast, the US President Donald Trump is poised to further escalate his trade war with China in a move that will reverberate around a world still stunned by the past few days of steep stock market falls. The White House says the US is imposing another 50% tariff on Chinese imports from today to punish Beijing for imposing its own reciprocal tariffs on US goods.
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This means that Chinese products entering the US will face duties of more than 100%. The White House Press Secretary, Caroline Leavitt, said this could all change if China decided to reach out to Mr. Trump.
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But while the White House says around 70 countries have contacted it, wanting to negotiate deals before tariffs on them also come into effect, so far the world's second biggest economy has remained defiant, with China vowing to fight to the end in its trade war with the United States. Our Washington correspondent Anthony Zirka reports on the likely fallout.
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Anthony Zirka. So what's it like for stockbrokers on the trading floor who are having to grapple with these head-spinning financial twists and turns? Mark Lowen has been speaking to three of them. Jack Stickley, a stockbroker at Morgan's Financial in Brisbane in Australia. Luca Della Rocca, head of trading at Intermonte in Milan in Italy.
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And to Steve Burns, a stockbroker in the US state of Florida. First, Jack Stickley.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 9th of April, these are our main stories. Rescuers are searching for survivors after a roof collapse at a music venue in the Dominican Republic kills scores of people.
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Das war die Sicht von Softbrokern auf den aktuellen Markt-Turmoil. Es ist schon lange bekannt, dass Moskau Tausende Nordkorea-Soldaten benutzt hat, um die ukrainischen Kräfte, die in der russischen Region von Kursk besiegt wurden, auszulösen. Und in der Ukraine selbst, mit Attack-Drohnen aus Iran.
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Aber jetzt hat der ukrainische Präsident, Wladimir Zelensky, die dramatische Begründung gemacht, dass zwei chinesische Soldaten, die mit russischen Truppen kämpfen, in der österreichischen Donetsk-Region gefangen wurden. Er hat gesagt, sie hatten chinesische Dokumente und Bankkarten, und er hat eine Antwort aus Beijing gefordert.
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In einem sozialen Medienpost, das ein Video von einem der Männer, der Mandarin spricht, enthüllte Mr. Zelensky, den Vereinigten Staaten zu intervenieren.
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I asked our correspondent in Kiev, James Waterhouse, about the significance of this announcement and if it was the first time Ukraine had accused China of supplying troops to Russia.
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And just remind us what Beijing's position is on the war in Ukraine.
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The Trump administration escalates its trade war with China with tariffs of more than 100% coming into effect today. The UN Secretary General accuses Israel of violating the Geneva Conventions in Gaza by blocking aid supplies. Also in this podcast we talked to the renowned British artist David Hockney about his biggest ever exhibition.
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James Waterhouse in Kiev. Let me be clear.
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Now to the country with the world's lowest birth rate, South Korea. With declining fertility rates, businesses there are facing a serious shortage of workers. So the government is now looking at increasing immigration, a move that's not exactly popular with some South Koreans. David Kan visited the country to find out more.
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A 2,000-year-old scroll that was too frail to open after being burnt in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been digitally unwrapped. Police in Sweden are continuing to investigate what's been described as the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history. Ten people were killed and six others were wounded by a gunman at an adult education centre in the city of Örebro on Tuesday.
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This student, Marwa, described how she tried to help the victims.
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Police say the attacker is also dead and that he acted alone as they try to establish his motive. Our correspondent Nick Beek is at the site of the shooting in Ouroboru.
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And do we have any idea why he might have targeted this particular school, a school for adults? Do we have any information about the victims?
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And a huge sense of shock in Sweden at this killing, which has been described as the deadliest mass shooting in Sweden's history.
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Nick Beek in Sweden. What's thought to be the first United States military deportation flight to India has landed in Punjab, carrying about 100 Indians who'd entered the US illegally or overstayed visas. President Trump has made the mass deportation of undocumented foreign nationals a key policy pledge. Samira Hussain reports from Amritsar.
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Mr Trump's plan to occupy Gaza seems to amount to an abandonment of decades of US policy to find a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr Netanyahu praised it as an idea worth paying attention to, calling Mr Trump the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House. But these Palestinians in Gaza said they would resist any attempt to remove them.
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Samira Hussain, historic buildings in the Iraqi city of Mosul, including churches and mosques, are being reopened after years of reconstruction in the aftermath of the devastation wrought by the so-called Islamic State. The fierce battle to defeat and drive the group from the city ended in 2017. The project began a year later in Mosul. It has been organised and funded by UNESCO.
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Our Middle East regional editor, Sebastian Usher, reports.
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That report by Sebastian Usher. A study suggests that banning the use of mobile phones in schools does not lead to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental health. Instead, researchers in Britain found that it was the amount of time spent on smartphones and social media that had an impact. Bramwyn Jeffries reports.
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X-ray scans and artificial intelligence have been used to reveal the contents of an ancient, badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum. The document was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, meaning it would have been destroyed by any attempt to physically unroll it. Our science editor, Rebecca Murrell, has more.
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Now, if you find it hard to go to sleep, this next item may help. And the secret is, no, not listening to this podcast, I hope, but wearing socks in bed. A video on TikTok from a doctor in America saying people who wear socks in bed fall asleep faster has been viewed more than three million times. Dr. Lindsay Browning is a sleep psychologist.
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All good tips there, Dr. Lindsay Browning, sleep psychologist. 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. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Mark Pickett.
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The producer was Tracy Gordon. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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I got more on the Palestinian and Israeli reaction from our Middle East correspondent, Yolanda Nell.
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Lawmakers in the Philippines vote to impeach the Vice President, Sarah Duterte, following complaints about alleged corruption and an assassination threat.
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This statement from Donald Trump comes as negotiations are beginning for the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire. Are people not worried about the impact that his words could have on their hopes of securing the release of the hostages?
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And evidently, this is yet more bad news for Palestinians who have suffered so much.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 5th of February, these are our main stories. Donald Trump's declaration that the US will take over Gaza sparks widespread condemnation. We'll have reaction from around the world.
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Yolande Nell in Jerusalem. So what's the reaction been in the U.S. itself to Donald Trump's plan? Dennis Ross is former U.S. ambassador to Israel.
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With more reaction, here's CBS correspondent Naomi Ruckam.
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Naomi Ruckerman, it's not just in the US. Turkey has called Mr Trump's Gaza plan unacceptable. Brazil's President Lula said it made no sense. France and Germany said expelling Gazans would be contrary to international law. The UN's Chief of Human Rights, Volker Turk, said any deportation of people from occupied territory was strictly prohibited.
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We look back on the life of the billionaire spiritual leader, the Aga Khan, who has died at the age of 88. There's been widespread condemnation of Donald Trump's plan for the US to take over Gaza and move out the Palestinians living there so that he can, in his words, turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East.
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And the British Foreign Secretary, David Lamy, said there had to be a two-state solution.
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Saudi Arabia has led the condemnation in the Arab world amid fears the plans could further destabilise the Middle East. Mr Trump has criticised previous US presidents for sending troops into Afghanistan and Iraq. But since being re-elected, he has talked about the United States taking over Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal and now Gaza.
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Here's the BBC's chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette.
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But it seems that Mr. Trump thinks he can force Palestinians. Jordan and Egypt, which have already expressed their opposition to such a move, to do this. And it's not only stunning what he said, but it's also shocking that he's so vague in talking about something that could potentially uproot so many lives.
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Lise Doucette, turning now to other news. Lawmakers in the Philippines have voted to impeach the vice president. Sara Duterte has been accused of misusing millions of dollars in public funds and of threatening President Ferdinand Marcos with assassination. Vicky Bristow reports.
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Mr Trump made the announcement at a joint news conference with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. saying he thought Jordan and Egypt would take in the more than two million Palestinians who currently live in Gaza. This despite their previous statements refuting the idea when he first floated it last month.
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Mickey Bristow, the billionaire spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, the Aga Khan, has died in Portugal. He was 88. For more than 60 years, he was the hereditary imam of the 15 million strong branch of Shia Islam. His followers saw him as a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. He was known for his love of horse racing, his dazzling wealth and his development work around the world.
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At the White House news conference, Mr Trump put forward his vision for how Gaza, much of which lies in ruins, should be rebuilt.
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So it seems that these protests, which have been going on for months now, have had some effect, that the government is bowing to pressure. And there have been a number of arrests, haven't there? But clearly the students feel that this is not enough. And is there frustration shared by the wider population?
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Giovanna Georgievski in Belgrade. Still to come, we'll tell you why Coca-Cola has recalled some of its canned and bottled drinks from a number of European countries.
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We'll tell you why the changing of the name of a British submarine has caused an outcry. We begin in the world of big tech and artificial intelligence, where the emergence of what's said to be a low-cost AI Chinese chatbot has caused shockwaves. Shares in Western tech giants fell sharply in value on Monday, with the AI chipmaker Nvidia one of the hardest hit.
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Eighty years after they were freed from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, some of the few remaining survivors returned there on Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The 50 survivors, some of them wearing blue and white striped scarves reminiscent of the uniforms they were once forced to wear, braved freezing temperatures to attend the commemorations in southern Poland.
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More than 6 million Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazis, along with more than 3 million Soviet prisoners of war, nearly 2 million non-Jewish Poles, hundreds of thousands of Roma, Serbs, disabled people and many thousands of others, including members of the LGBT community. Jessica Parker sent this report from Auschwitz, which contains distressing details.
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That report from Auschwitz by Jessica Parker. India says it's agreed with China to resume direct flights between the two countries. They stopped during the pandemic and never restarted after their troops clashed on a disputed part of their border. Here's our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow.
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Half a trillion dollars was wiped off its value after a Chinese startup, DeepSeek, stunned its American competitors with the success of its AI app, reportedly made at a fraction of the cost of rivals like ChatGPT. Despite only being launched this month, it's become the top-rated free application on Apple's App Store in the United States.
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Mickey Bristow. Coca-Cola has recalled some of its canned and bottled drinks in a number of European countries after high levels of chlorate were found. The recall was issued in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. It concerns the brands Coke, Sprite, Fanta and some of the company's other beverages. The use of chlorate as a pesticide is no longer allowed in the
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as a by-product of chlorine disinfectants used in water treatment and food processing. Andrew Peach spoke to Eddie Hammerman, brand expert and managing director of the TEN Group, and asked him how a crisis like this could impact such a big brand.
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Brand expert Eddie Hammerman. The British Navy has announced it's changing the name of one of its new nuclear submarines from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles. There were reported concerns that the original name might offend France, a key NATO ally but also a historic rival. Agincourt was a famous English military victory over the French 600 years ago.
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This is despite the US restricting the sale to China of the advanced chip technology that powers AI. Stephanie Hare is a technology author and explains why this matters to all of us.
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The British Navy said the change had been discussed for more than a year and was approved by King Charles. Here's our defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale.
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Jonathan Beale. 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 Caroline Driscoll. The producer is Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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Well, our AI correspondent Mark Cieslak told us more about this new app.
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But can we trust this claim from DeepSeek? And if so, is it surprising given that the Biden administration introduced export control to try to stop advanced technology being sold to Chinese companies?
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But the big question is, what does this all mean for American companies that thought they were leading in the AI race?
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Mark Cieslak. Heavy artillery and gunfire were heard throughout the day on Monday in parts of Goma, the biggest city in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Rebels from the Rwandan-backed M23 group say they're now in control of Goma, which is a vital trading and transport hub and home to up to two million people.
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But the Congolese army says it still has control of key sites, including the airport. Thousands of inmates are reported to have escaped from the main prison in Goma, and there is panic among residents who are trapped in their homes.
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There have been anti-Rwandan protests in another eastern city, Bukavu, and the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. With international pressure mounting to end the fighting, Kenya has announced that the Congolese and Rwandan presidents have agreed to attend a summit in the next couple of days. The Kenyan president, William Buto, gave this update at a news conference.
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Our reporter in Kinshasa, Emery Makumeno, told me more about what he's been hearing about the situation in Goma on the ground.
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And are we just talking about rebels or are Rwandan government troops involved, as has been alleged by Congo in the past?
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Emery Makumeno in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hamas says more than 300,000 displaced Palestinians have returned to the devastated northern part of Gaza since Monday morning. Streams of people, many of them families, clutching all their belongings, have been making the journey from the south on foot.
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The Israeli government made their return conditional on the release of a civilian hostage, Abel Yehud. Hamas say she's due to be freed this week. Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson in Jerusalem heard from some of the Palestinians who've returned to northern Gaza.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 28th of January, these are our main stories. U.S. tech shares have fallen sharply on Wall Street in response to Chinese advances in AI, threatening the dominance of big American firms.
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Lucy Williamson reporting. Well, our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams has been assessing the long road back to the reconstruction and governance of Gaza.
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Paul Adams. Well, so far since the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, seven women have been freed this month. Up until Monday, it wasn't clear how many of the remaining hostages due to be released in this first phase were still alive. But Israel says it's now received confirmation from Hamas. As another one of our correspondents in Jerusalem, Nick Beek, explains.
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The United Nations says there's no doubt Rwandan troops are supporting M23 rebels who are seizing the Congolese city of Goma. Holocaust survivors have marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
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Nick Beek, next to Serbia. As we record this podcast, thousands of students are spending the night on the streets of the capital, Belgrade, as part of their latest protest over the deadly collapse of a train station roof in November. On Monday, the students blockaded one of the main traffic junctions in the city, saying they intended to stay there for 24 hours.
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The Ruth collapse in the city of Novi Sad two months ago killed 15 people, and the protesters blame rampant government corruption, which they say led to poor construction. President Alexander Vucic has accused protest leaders of being funded by foreign powers to destabilise his government.
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Jovana Georgievski from the BBC's Serbian service was at the scene of the blockade and she told me what the protesters were demanding from the government.
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Vast crowds of protesters have taken to the streets of Turkey's cities for the sixth night running to demonstrate against the jailing of Istanbul's mayor in the biggest challenge to President Erdogan's rule for more than a decade. Many fear the arrest of the mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, which happened just days before he was due to be nominated as a presidential candidate in
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is designed to stop him challenging Mr Erdogan's long-time grip on power. Since the demonstrations began nearly a week ago, well over a thousand people have been arrested. This woman told the BBC the protests were about a lot more than the jailed mayor.
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But given that President Erdogan shows no sign of backing down, even calling the protesters evil, where do they go from here? Hilken Boran is from the BBC Turkish service in Istanbul.
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And Mr. Erdogan has faced protests before. What can the opposition do to try to make him give ground and to allow a freer democracy in Turkey?
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And how much of a challenge is this for Mr. Erdogan, given the scale of the protests?
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The army denies it carried out the attack, but civilian deaths have intensified in recent months as the military retakes territory from the rival paramilitary force, the RSF. Our Africa region editor, Will Ross, told us more about the attack.
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Hilken Boran. A controversial Japanese religious sect has been ordered to disband as a religious corporation by a court in Japan. The Unification Church has been accused of pushing its followers, known as Moonies, into giving huge donations, in many cases causing them severe financial hardship.
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It came under intense scrutiny after the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated three years ago, as his killer, who held a grievance against the church, blamed Mr Abe for promoting it. Our Tokyo correspondent, Shaima Khalil, told me more about the court ruling.
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And the church has been the focus of much controversy since the assassination of Shinzo Abe.
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Shaima Khalil. Medical trials are underway which could make it possible, according to scientists, to switch off rheumatoid arthritis, a condition which affects an estimated 18 million people worldwide.
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Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when your immune system, which usually fights infection, instead attacks the cells that line your joints by mistake, making them stiff, swollen and in some cases extremely painful. What these trials are setting out to prove is that it's possible to train some white blood cells the key players in your immune system to stop other cells attacking healthy tissue.
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One of the participants in the trial, Carol Robson, told us about the impact it's had on her already.
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And the professor she refers to is John Isaacs, Professor of Clinical Rheumatology at Newcastle University in England, who's leading the research. Julian Warwicker asked him how close we are to switching off the condition.
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John Isaacs, Professor of Clinical Rheumatology at Newcastle University. One of the biggest and most important Iron Age hordes ever found in the UK has been revealed, potentially altering our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago. The collection of around 800 objects includes parts of chariots, wagons and ceremonial spears.
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It was discovered by a metal detectorist near a village in Yorkshire in northern England four years ago. Tom Moore is Professor of Iron Age Archaeology at Durham University, who's been leading the excavation of the site.
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Another expert, Professor Alice Roberts, who presents television programmes on archaeology, says the discovery will teach us much more about what life was like in England at a time when it was being invaded by Romans.
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Professor Alice Roberts. Now, if you're partial to bacon sandwiches or pork chops, the following story may not be for you. Two pigs adopted by a French woman who features them in numerous online videos have won the hearts of many. Alice Adderley reports.
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That report by Alice Adly. 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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Chris Hansen. The producer was Vanessa Heaney. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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And what adds to the credibility is that it's only the army that has warplanes.
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And it's nearly two years now since the civil war began. What can we expect? Because it doesn't seem that there's any sign of resolution in sight. And in fact, the fighting has intensified.
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Well, Ross, it's been a rather anticlimactic ending to the past three days of talks on halting the fighting in Ukraine, which have been taking place in Saudi Arabia. After lengthy discussions between American and Russian negotiators yesterday, a joint statement had been expected. Instead, the Kremlin said details of the talks would not be made public.
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This comes after Russia rejected the 30-day ceasefire plan backed by the US and Ukraine. And talks between the Americans and Ukrainians today have already wrapped up after the two sides also met on Sunday. Vitaly Shevchenko has been monitoring the talks. I asked him what he made of their outcome.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 25th of March, these are our main stories. The Sudanese military is accused of carrying out a horrific massacre. It denies it killed hundreds of people in an airstrike on a market.
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Vitaly Shevchenko, we have another Q&A with our colleagues from Ukrainecast coming up soon, and we'd like your questions to put to the team. Our email address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. And if possible, please record your question as a voice note. Thank you.
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A BBC investigation has found that Britain is shipping millions of used tyres to India each year, where they're being cooked in makeshift furnaces, causing potentially serious risk to health. Instead of being recycled, the BBC's File on 4 Investigates programme has discovered that about 17 million waste tyres are being sold on the black market. Paul Kenyon reports.
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A court in Japan orders a controversial religious sect whose followers are known as Moonies be stripped of legal recognition. The How millions of tyres meant to be recycled are ending up in furnaces in India instead, causing health and environmental problems. Also in this podcast, we hear about the rare sea turtle that's been left stranded by one of Donald Trump's executive orders.
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That report by Paul Kenyon. Since he's been back at the White House, President Donald Trump has signed dozens of executive orders. One of them is having an unexpected impact on an endangered sea turtle called Rossi. Rossi is a rare Kemp's Ridley sea turtle who washed up on the coast of Wales more than a year ago and since then has been nursed back to health by a local zoo in Anglesey.
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Kemp's ridley turtles are critically endangered, with only about 7,000 females thought to exist. Rossi is now stranded because Donald Trump has paused funding for international marine turtle conservation. From Wales, George Hurd reports.
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That report by George Heard. And you can see a photo of Rossi if you go to the BBC website and look at the BBC Wales pages.
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We start with what's been called one of the worst single attacks in Sudan's two-year-long civil war. A war monitor says hundreds of people have been massacred by the army in a market in the western Darfur region of Sudan. The emergency lawyers group said army planes carried out an airstrike and another group reported mass casualties from a bombing on Monday.
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We hear about a pioneering medical trial that could switch off rheumatoid arthritis.
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Our Eastern Europe correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, who's in Warsaw, told us more about the attacks, starting with the one in Lithuania.
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His first stop was Paris to meet President Emmanuel Macron, followed by London for talks with King Charles and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. At a news conference after the meeting, Mr Carney said he had achieved a great deal during his meetings.
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Sarah Rainsford speaking to Sarah Montague.
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We hear how protests are escalating in North Macedonia as people demand justice and an end to corruption after a nightclub fire that killed 59 people.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. When the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown last December by Islamist rebels, there was a small flicker of hope that perhaps this would mark an end to a decade of war and destruction that has seen hundreds of thousands killed, millions forced to flee Syria and large swathes of the country reduced to ruins.
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But those faint hopes were shaken this month after an outbreak of fighting in which hundreds of civilians, mostly from the same Alawite minority as the Assad family, were killed by security forces.
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With Syria's new Islamist rulers pledging to bring the perpetrators to justice, they have, for the first time, been taking part in an annual conference to gather aid pledges that Syrians desperately need. The European Union is hosting the conference in Brussels.
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Announcing an aid package of $2.7 billion, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said Syrians needed help more than ever.
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But despite the dire situation in Syria, with 16 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, the funding fell short of last year's pledges after the US, which has been the biggest single donor, cut foreign aid. In all, more than $6 billion were pledged. I asked BBC Arabic's Reda El-Mawi, who was at the aid conference, whether it was enough to help start rebuilding Syria in a meaningful way.
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And for the first time, a member of the Syrian government is attending this aid conference, the new foreign minister, Assad al-Shabani. What has he been saying?
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But European nations, while they want to help Syria, they also want to see its rulers do more to ensure a peaceful political transition, especially after the violence that we saw this month.
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Rwanda and Belgium have announced tit-for-tat expulsions of each other's diplomats as relations between the two countries worsen over the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. UN experts say that Rwanda is backing rebels in Congo that have seized large swathes of territory, a charge Kigali denies. Anne Soy reports.
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Our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette, was at Mr Carney's news conference, and I asked her if the Canadian prime minister had achieved a great deal, as he claims, with his meetings.
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And so, thousands of people have taken part in protests in North Macedonia demanding justice and action against corruption after a nightclub fire killed 59 people in the town of Kocheni at the weekend, many of them teenagers. The venue was allowed to operate despite not having a licence, and one of its two exit doors was locked when the fire broke out.
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Our Balkans correspondent Guy Delaney reports from Kotchani.
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Guy Delaney in North Macedonia. Taiwan has rejected Chinese accusations that four of its officials have carried out cyber attacks against China.
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The Chinese Ministry of State Security released pictures of the four Taiwanese men saying they'd been hired by a cyber warfare agency, the Information Communications and Electronic Force Command or ISEFCOM, to carry out such attacks against the Chinese mainland. The agency has responded by calling the accusations an ungrounded fabrication aimed at intimidating the Taiwanese public.
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Our China analyst Kerry Allen told us more.
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And has Beijing produced any evidence to back up its claims? It doesn't appear they have, no. So this all comes at a time of rising tensions between Taiwan and China and growing worries about Chinese influence operations against democratic Taiwan. And it's expelled a Chinese influencer for saying that China should invade the island.
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It sounds like something out of a movie. An isolated South African research team in the Antarctic has appealed for help after one member was accused of physical assault and making death threats. The group of scientists has called for immediate action to be taken. Our climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, who has been to the Antarctic himself, reports.
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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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll. The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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And this all comes as he's expected to call a general election with Canadians really alarmed by Donald Trump's rhetoric.
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And it's been weeks now since we've heard Donald Trump talking about Canada becoming the 51st state, referring to Justin Trudeau as Governor Trudeau. It still seems very hard to believe that the U.S.
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The US has told EU officials that it's withdrawing from an international group investigating Russian leaders for crimes associated with the invasion of Ukraine. It's part of a foreign policy shift by the Trump administration as it pushes for a Ukrainian peace deal. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will hold a phone conversation on Tuesday.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 18th of March, these are our main stories. The new Canadian Prime Minister has said he wants to reduce security reliance on the United States. The wave of trade tariffs initiated by Donald Trump has prompted the OECD to downgrade its global economic growth forecast.
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Mr Trump has said the two men will talk about dividing up land and power plants. Moscow has been accused of dragging its feet in the peace discussions after a US ceasefire deal was backed by Ukraine last week. Our correspondent in Kiev, James Landau, reports.
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James Landell. So what can we expect from this now much anticipated telephone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Rebecca Kesby spoke to Scott Lucas, Professor of US and International Politics at the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin.
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Rwanda has expelled all Belgian diplomats in a dramatic worsening of relations linked to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Scott Lucas from the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin. A new global economic forecast has predicted that the trade war unleashed by Donald Trump will hit growth and raise inflation around the world. The OECD's chief economist, Alvaro Pereira, told the BBC the organisation was cutting growth forecasts for almost all major economies. Michelle Flurry reports.
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In yet another example of how the Trump administration is escalating its controversial immigration policies, a medical professor was deported to Lebanon this weekend despite having a valid work visa. The Brown University professor, Rasha Alawir, a kidney transplant specialist, had flown back to the US after a trip to Lebanon. But she was deported despite a judge's order blocking the move.
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The Department of Homeland Security says this was because she had attended the funeral of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Her deportation came as the U.S. also deported more than 250 mainly Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, despite a judge also ordering a halt to those flights. Our North America correspondent Nomia Iqbal has the latest.
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An isolated team of scientists in Antarctica appeals for help after one member is accused of physical assault. Tradition has it that a new Prime Minister of Canada goes to the United States for their first visit abroad. But with tensions fraught between the two neighbours, in particular over Donald Trump's trade tariffs, Mark Carney chose to come to Europe instead.
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Do we have any indications why she's been deported given that she has this visa and her skills are in short supply apparently in the US?
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Nomia Iqbal. A Lithuanian chief prosecutor has said Russia's military intelligence service was behind an arson attack on an IKEA furniture store in Vilnius last year and on shops in Poland. The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says Lithuania's revelations about arson attacks on businesses in Warsaw had confirmed his government's suspicions. Arrests have been made in both countries.
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A new US-China trade war is looming, even as the threat of a North American one has receded, for now. China has announced retaliatory tariffs on the United States in response to Donald Trump's tariffs of 10% on all Chinese goods which came into effect today.
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China has long been accused of persecuting its Uyghur population. The mostly Muslim Uyghurs come from the western region of Xinjiang. Human rights groups believe China previously detained more than one million of them against their will in so-called re-education camps, sentenced hundreds of thousands of them to prison terms and destroyed mosques and other parts of their culture.
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Beijing has also been accused of mass sterilisations. China denies all this. But now rights campaigners say it has allowed a modest thaw in travel restrictions on some Muslim Uyghurs. Our Asia-Pacific editor is Mickey Bristow.
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So why is China allowing even this limited travel?
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He had planned to impose hefty tariffs on Canada and Mexico as well, but they were given a last-minute reprieve after pledging to bolster border security. So that left China on its own, although Mr Trump has also said he's planning to impose tariffs on the European Union as well at some point. This is how the announcement of China's response was delivered on state television.
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Since his return to office, President Trump has been intent on speeding up the deportation of millions of migrants who have no legal status in the US. Now, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, on a visit to El Salvador, says it has offered to house prisoners held in American jails, including those with US citizenship.
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Under the agreement, El Salvador will also accept migrants of any nationality who have been deported from the United States. Romain Gressier is the editor of the Salvadorian publication El Faro English. He told Lebo Di Seco that there are many concerns about this resettlement agreement.
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Roman Gressier from the Salvadorian publication El Faro English. Nearly three quarters of a million women across Britain are being recruited for one of the world's biggest trials of artificial intelligence to detect breast cancer. Researchers want to learn whether AI can be used to speed up diagnosis of cases as well as freeing up radiologists.
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Similar studies have been done elsewhere in Europe, but using fewer AI models to compare success rates. Fiona Gilbert, a professor of radiology at Cambridge University, is leading this latest trial in the UK.
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Fiona Gilbert, a professor of radiology at Cambridge University. Since its first release 25 years ago, The Sims continues to be one of the world's best-selling video game series. Players design not only houses, but also the people inside them, everything from their jobs to their relationships. The franchise has sold nearly 200 million copies and has been translated into 22 different languages.
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It gained such popularity in France that the country once released a postal stamp as a tribute to the game. Laura Kress has been finding out more about its appeal.
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China's tariffs are due to take effect from next Monday. Our Beijing correspondent Laura Bicker told us what form they could take.
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Yes, because a lot of people are speculating, given these last minute reprieves for Mexico and Canada, that the same might happen for China.
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And assuming this all happens, what would the impact be for the rest of the world?
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Laura Bicker. So after the sharp falls in stock markets on Monday as the world braced for what looked like a global trade war, what's the picture today now that it's just China that's been hit for tariffs for the time being? Our business reporter is Mariko Oi.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Gillian at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 4th of February. These are our main stories. China hits back against President Trump's tariffs by saying it will impose its own import taxes on American products. Police in Sweden say five people have been shot at a school.
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And so there is relief about Mexico and Canada, but the tariffs have only been delayed for a month. So there's still a great deal of uncertainty. Are we in for a volatile period in the stock market?
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Mariko Oi. At least five people have been shot at a school in central Sweden. As we record this podcast, police say the extent of their injuries is unclear and they're still on site dealing with the situation. Loud bangs were heard at the Risbergska school in the city of Orebro with witnesses saying they believed an automatic weapon was being discharged.
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BBC reporter Oksana Kundirenko, who studied in Orebro, told us what Swedish media are reporting.
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Oksana Kundirenko. Last week rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo were threatening to march on the capital Kinshasa after seizing large swathes of territory in the east of the country including the key regional hub of Goma. Now as we record this podcast they're due to start a ceasefire today which they say they've called for humanitarian reasons.
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The alliance of rebels includes the M23 group, which is backed by Rwanda. This comes as the United Nations has called for the airport in Goma to be reopened immediately so the humanitarian emergency there can be addressed. The UN says at least 900 people have been killed in the recent fighting around Goma and thousands more wounded.
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The UN calls for the airport in the rebel-held city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo to be reopened immediately to address the humanitarian emergency there. Also in this podcast, as krill are threatened by global warming.
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They desperately need help, as Stefan Dujarric, a spokesman for the UN Secretary General, explained.
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The rebels declared a ceasefire yesterday, days after saying that they were going to seize the capital. What's brought about this change of heart? And have we actually seen this ceasefire begin today?
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Will Ross. They may be tiny, just a few centimetres long, but krill are one of the most important and abundant animal species on Earth. And Antarctic marine life, including whales and seals, are very partial to them. But Rod Downey of the conservation group WWF says krill also serve another essential purpose.
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But there are concerns that the warming of the oceans caused by climate change could be their kryptonite. So scientists have launched an ambitious mission to monitor the tiny sea creatures from space. Our science correspondent Victoria Gill explains how it works.
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We'll tell you why scientists are monitoring the tiny sea creatures from space.
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That report by Yoland Nell. Samples scooped up by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid hurtling through space are revealing more about the origins of life on our planet. The asteroid, named Bennu, is as wide as nearly eight football pitches. It was found to contain the building blocks of DNA in what scientists have described as an exciting outcome.
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Also in this podcast, scientists say samples collected from an asteroid have given them new clues as to how life began here on planet Earth.
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Their findings were published in the journal Nature. Professor Sarah Russell is one of the authors.
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Our science editor, Rebecca Murrell, told me more about the sample from Bennu and how it was collected.
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And they're very excited by their findings.
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President Trump's controversial choice to be the new U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., faced hostile questioning from Senate Democrats at his confirmation hearing. One Democrat on the panel, Rob Wyden, accused him of embracing, quote, conspiracy theories, quacks and charlatans because of his past strident anti-vaccine statements.
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We hear about new research on how to patch up failing hearts by using stem cells.
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The frontrunner to be Germany's next leader has been accused of breaking the country's long-standing political consensus against cooperating with the far right. Friedrich Merz narrowly pushed through a motion in parliament calling for tougher border rules with votes from the Alternative für Deutschland party. Political rivals said he'd smashed a taboo in the heat of the moment.
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The AFD said the so-called firewall was an anti-democratic cartel agreement. Here's our Berlin correspondent, Jessica Parker.
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Jessica Parker. There was a time when you could fly from New York to London at twice the speed of sound on the elegant and iconic Concorde passenger jet. Now, more than 20 years after Concorde's last flight, could a new era of supersonic flights be about to take off? A test plane broke the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert in California this week.
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Now, the company that made it, Boom Supersonic, wants to bring back commercial passenger jets in the next few years. Guy Gratton is an associate professor of aviation at Cranfield University in southern England. He's been telling James Menendez what he makes of the XB-1 jet.
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Another, Michael Bennett, asked him a series of questions about his views.
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Guy Gratton from Cranfield University. New technology could mean that failing hearts are patched up and kept pumping using small pieces of heart muscle developed from stem cells. Scientists in Germany are hopeful that their research could give patients with advanced heart failure more of a chance based on promising tests in monkeys and early results from a small trial on humans.
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Our health and science correspondent, Philippa Roxby, told us more.
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And these stem cells, do they have to come from the patient with a heart problem or can they just be... a supply of stem cells that the scientists can tap into?
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It's still early days in the trial for humans, but already it looks quite promising.
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We're talking years.
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Philippa Roxby. Mongolia has announced the resumption of spring horse racing seven years after it was banned because of concerns about the use of child jockeys. At least 30 children have been killed over the past two decades in what the UN has called one of the worst forms of child labour. Electra Naismith reports.
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And let Renee Smith. Hundreds of millions of people across Asia and the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year, bidding farewell to the Year of the Dragon and ushering in the Year of the Snake. These people visited the Lama Temple in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
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And to everyone who's celebrating, Happy New Year. 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, 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 Tom Bartlett. The producer was Liam McSheffery.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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Mr Kennedy, whose raspy voice is the result of a medical condition, was interrupted by protesters as he tried to convince senators that he was not against vaccines despite his past statements.
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Ahead of the hearing, his cousin, Caroline Kennedy, who's the daughter of the assassinated President John F. Kennedy, made a rare intervention, urging senators to reject him as unfit to serve in such an important role. Our correspondent in Washington, Nomia Iqbal, is following the hearing.
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He'll face another one tomorrow. And there were protesters who also heckled him because this post is very, very important. It's a matter of life and death. And given the past views he's expressed, a lot of people are very worried about what he could do if he is confirmed as health secretary.
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Nomia Iqbal, the man who's been chosen to be Britain's next ambassador to the United States has rode back on his previous criticism of Donald Trump. Peter Mandelson, a veteran politician who served under the British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, had called Mr Trump a danger to the world and little short of a white nationalist.
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But now speaking to Fox News, Peter Mandelson said he had fresh respect for the recently re-elected US president and that he was confident Mr Trump would not block his appointment.
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Our British Affairs correspondent Rob Watson told us more about Peter Mandelson.
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And you say he's very charming. It's crucial for the UK to have an ambassador who can win over the US president. But given his past criticism of Mr Trump, why was he chosen for this pivotal role?
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And he's chosen one of Mr Trump's favourite TV channels to make these new statements, to go back on what he said in the past, to ensure that he does get this key posting.
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Mr Madison, just the latest person, politician, to carry out such an abrupt U-turn when it comes to Donald Trump.
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Rob Watson. Next to the Democratic Republic of Congo, there are reports that Rwandan-backed rebels are seizing more territory in the east of the country after capturing most of the key city of Goma. Witnesses say the M23 rebels have advanced south towards the city of Bukavu, despite growing international calls for them to withdraw.
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The Congolese army, supported by local militia, UN peacekeepers and foreign mercenaries, lost control of Goma on Tuesday. At least 500,000 people are estimated to have fled their homes in eastern DRC this month as a result of the rebel offensive. James Menendez spoke to the deputy head of the UN stabilization mission in the DRC, Vivian van der Peer, who's in Goma.
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He asked her if she could confirm that the M23 rebel group is now in charge there.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 30th of January, these are our main stories. U.S. senators have been questioning President Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at a heated confirmation hearing.
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Vivian van der Peer, the deputy head of MONUSCO, the UN stabilization mission in the DRC. Israel says it's received a list from Hamas of eight hostages due to be freed from Gaza on Thursday. Five of the eight are Thai nationals who were not part of the original ceasefire agreement. More than 100 Palestinian prisoners, some of them children, will be released from Israeli jails in return.
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Wira Davis reports from Jerusalem.
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Wima Davis. Also on Thursday, as we record this podcast, Israel is set to outlaw the main UN agency for Palestinian refugees, despite warnings that this could undermine critical aid deliveries in Gaza. Israeli officials have not spelt out how the new legislation will be enforced there and in the occupied West Bank.
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The UN Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, supports some six million Palestinians across the Middle East. Already, Israel has ordered it to close its schools and clinics, serving tens of thousands of people in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Here's our Middle East correspondent, Yolande Nell.
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Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are reported to be continuing their advance after capturing most of the key city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Israel says it's received a list from Hamas of eight hostages due to be freed from Gaza on Thursday.
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Françoise Zimure, ending that report by Hugh Schofield.
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Scientists discover that wild fish can tell humans apart. Welcome back to the Global News Podcast. As the civil war continues to rage in Yemen more than a decade after it erupted, tens of millions of people remain utterly reliant on aid there. And yet the UN has paused operations this month in parts of the country after a wave of arrests of aid workers by Houthi fighters.
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This comes on top of cuts in aid funding. Our Cairo correspondent Sally Nabil has been investigating.
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Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, told Mr Zelensky to get over his reluctance to sign the deal, which he thought could be worth as much as half a trillion dollars to the US.
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And Yemen has been a big beneficiary of USAID. That's the world's biggest donor agency, which has now been frozen by the Trump administration. What impact has that had on the many people that were dependent on the aid it gave? Huge.
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And Sally, meanwhile, no end in sight to the war.
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Sari Nabil. Millions of people in developing countries make a living from waste picking, salvaging materials that can be reused or sold for recycling. Scrap metal in particular is valuable because it can be recycled repeatedly. But this means it's also become a target for thieves.
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And that's caused great distress to some people who've discovered that the metal crosses they placed on the graves of their loved ones have disappeared. Alfred Lastek went to one cemetery to find out more.
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Alfred Lastek reporting from Tanzania. Now, fish have a reputation for poor memories, but are they being unfairly maligned? Scientists have found that fish may be more intelligent than we think. While carrying out research, they accidentally discovered that wild fish could tell two divers apart. The co-author of the study, Katinka Sola, spoke to Evan Davis.
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Meanwhile, a U.S. envoy, retired General Keith Kellogg, has been holding talks with Mr. Zelensky in Kiev. He said he'd come to listen. But a planned joint news conference on Thursday afternoon was cancelled at the last minute, the Ukrainians say, at the request of the American side.
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Katinka Sola. Elite cycling is a brutal, unforgiving sport that demands those involved give it everything they have. So it's not often riders race for almost 200 kilometres, only to be told that they've wasted their time. But that's exactly what happened in Portugal during the first stage of the Tour of the Algarve, which ended in chaotic scenes. Our sports reporter, Jo Currie, takes up the story.
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However, afterwards, the Ukrainian president described his meeting with the US envoy as productive and called for stronger ties with Washington. In just over a week, President Trump has dramatically upended US foreign policy. Speaking to Vladimir Putin on the phone, allowing high-level face-to-face talks between Russia and the US that excluded Ukraine and Europe,
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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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Rohan Madison, the producer was Chantal Hartle, the editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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and suggesting that it was Ukraine that started the war. Our international editor, Jeremy Bowen, is in Kiev, and he told me U.S.-Ukrainian relations have plummeted to a new low.
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President Zelensky clearly feels he's got nothing to gain by biting his tongue. What do Ukrainians make of the Trump administration lashing out at their president in this way and the way that Vladimir Zelensky is responding to that?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Friday the 21st of February, these are our main stories. The White House National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, tells Ukraine to tone down its criticism of the US and sign a minerals deal being pushed by President Trump. A planned news conference between President Zelensky and a visiting U.S.
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Meanwhile, the Kremlin is saying that it would be unacceptable for NATO countries to deploy peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, but many would say, how can you have a peace deal without them?
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Jeremy Bowen in Ukraine. The Mexican army says it has arrested a key player in the Sinaloa drugs cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful criminal groups. Jose Angel Canobio is accused of organizing the smuggling of fentanyl into the U.S., an issue Donald Trump has addressed by threatening to impose hefty tariffs on Mexico if it doesn't stop the drugs coming across the border.
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For more on the arrest, I spoke to our Mexico correspondent, Will Grant.
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So this comes just hours after the US added the Sinaloa cartel to its list of foreign terror organisations, along with several other Latin American crime groups. This is all part of the efforts to combat fentanyl. So a big blow for this particular cartel.
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So she'll be hoping that those threatened tariffs won't be imposed. But at the same time, she's also saying that she'll press ahead with legal action against US gun manufacturers because she says a large proportion of the weapons used by criminal groups in Mexico actually come from north of the border from the US.
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envoy is abruptly cancelled as a rift between the two countries deepens. The Mexican army arrests a senior leader of the notorious Sinaloa drugs cartel. Also in this podcast, Amazon takes over creative control of the James Bond franchise after agreeing a deal with the Broccoli family.
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Will Grant in Mexico. The authorities in Azerbaijan have ordered the suspension of the BBC's Azeri service, a source of impartial news and information in the country since 1994. It comes a week after the country's oldest independent news agency, Tehran, was also shut down. Rehan Dimitri has the details.
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Rehan Dimitri, now to one of the most recognisable theme tunes in the history of cinema. MUSIC The much-loved James Bond films have graced our screens for more than six decades. But Bond fans may have been shaken and possibly even stirred by the news that the Broccoli family, which has tightly guarded creative control of the franchise, is handing it over to the streaming giant Amazon.
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This comes four years after Daniel Craig last played the role of the world-famous spy. James Bond superfan Mark O'Connell says the success of the franchise is largely down to the Broccoli dynasty.
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I asked our arts correspondent, Vincent Dowd, if this development had come as a surprise.
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So what does this mean now for the Bond films?
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And now the big question on many people's lips will be, who will be the next James Bond and when will we see the next film?
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Vincent Doubt. Three months ago, the award-winning French-Algerian writer, Boualem Sonsal, was detained in Algeria after arriving there to visit his family. The 75-year-old novelist is being held for breaching state security, but details of the charges against him are not known.
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We look at what this means for the future of the world's most famous fictional spy and how a wrong turn saw a cycling race descend into chaos.
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Sonsal, a major figure in Francophone modern literature, has long been a critic of government repression and Islamic fundamentalism. His French lawyer has still not been granted a visa to see him. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
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A day after Donald Trump called the Ukrainian leader a dictator for daring to say that the US president lived in a Russian disinformation space, an aide to Mr Trump has said that Vladimir Zelensky needs to tone down his criticism of the US and sign a deal for mineral rights to pay for American support in Ukraine's war against Russia.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Peter Goffen. Still to come, we hear about the AI tool being developed by governments to predict who will become a murderer, which campaigners are calling chilling and dystopian.
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A dazzling display of Cartier's finest creations is being exhibited here in London. In a dramatic change of policy, Donald Trump has paused higher tariffs on goods entering the United States from other countries, with one notable exception, China. Stock markets surged almost immediately when he announced the move, after days of big falls and jitters on the bond markets.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. The main opposition party in Tanzania says its leader, Tundu Lisu, has been arrested by police after attending a rally in the south of the country. Rights campaigners have accused the government of President Samia Suluhu Hassan of targeting opponents ahead of October's elections. Our Africa regional editor Will Ross reports.
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Will Ross, the Zimbabwean government says it's made an initial payment of just over three million dollars to white farmers who were forced from their land a quarter of a century ago by the then president Robert Mugabe as part of his often chaotic redistribution program to try to address colonial era iniquities. Shingai Nyoka reports from Harare.
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But what about the likelihood that someone will go on to commit a violent crime? Well, it may sound like something out of a movie, but the UK government is developing an algorithm which analyses the data of thousands of convicted British criminals in an effort to pinpoint which individuals are more likely to commit murder.
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The project was uncovered by the civil liberties group State Watch, who have called the scheme chilling and dystopian. Griff Ferris is one of the researchers who investigated it.
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Mr Trump denied he was backtracking on pronouncements he'd made just a few days ago, saying you have to be flexible. Und er hat die Eintracht-Tarife, die er bereits auf China vorgelegt hat, um 125 Prozent erhöht, um Beijing zu verurteilen, dass es sich um ihre Verletzungen mit ihren eigenen Import-Taxen auf US-Güter verletzt hat.
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Ella Bicknell. For nearly two centuries, Cartier has epitomized glamour and untold wealth. Its elegant and sophisticated creations have bejeweled the heads, necks and arms of film stars, style icons and royals, including the late Queen Elizabeth.
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Und jetzt ist eine große Kollektion von Tiaras, Knöpfen und anderen gemischten Kunstwerken in einer literally bezahlbaren Ausstellung im Victoria & Albert Museum in London, die am Sonntag beginnt. Sarah Montagu hat mit der Kreatorin Helen Molesworth eine kleine Vorstellung gemacht.
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Mr. Trump hat insistiert, dass seine Strategie, Amerika reicher zu machen, funktioniert.
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Das war Kurator Helen Molesworth über die kommende Cartier-Exhibition hier in London. Let's return now to our main story. The US President Donald Trump pausing most of his higher tariffs for 90 days on most countries, but not for China. Instead, his administration is increasing the import duties on Chinese goods entering the US to 125%.
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Speaking at the White House, the US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant gave this explanation for the tariff hike against Beijing.
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This latest move by Mr. Trump follows days of financial turmoil in the markets and worrying wobbles in traditional safe havens such as the bond markets or gold, as our business editor Simon Jack reports.
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcasts at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Massoud Ibrahim Kale. The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time. Goodbye.
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But Democrats accuse the US President of behaving in a reckless manner and say he's backtracked because he's feeling the heat from Americans worried about the tariffs. The senior Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, said his party would continue to put pressure on Mr Trump.
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For now there is relief for many investors, governments and businesses. But how long will that last? Our Washington correspondent is Anthony Zirka.
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Yes, but even though there is a temporary reprieve for the markets, this is very worrying for businesses who are trying to plan ahead and for other countries that are trying to do deals with Donald Trump.
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Not surprisingly, Democrats have attacked him, called him amateur, talked about market manipulation. But even Republicans are getting very worried about this. We've had divisions among Donald Trump's top advisors, Elon Musk and his trade advisor, Peter Navarro. Is there anything that they can do to try to stabilize what's going on with the US trade policy?
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
And what next when it comes to the trade standoff with China?
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Anthony Zirka. In the previous round of tit-for-tat tariffs between the world's two biggest economies, China ignored suggestions from the White House that it was open to doing a deal and instead upped its tariffs on US goods to 84%, much to the Trump administration's frustration. So how will China respond to these latest US tariffs of 125%? Here's our Beijing correspondent Stephen McDonnell.
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Thursday, the 10th of April, these are our main stories. Donald Trump pauses higher tariffs on most countries, causing stock markets to soar, but hikes import taxes on Chinese goods to 125%. Musik Musik Musik Musik Musik
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Stephen McDonnell in Beijing. However, the Christian Democrats have formed a coalition with the Social Democrats who came third, even as for the first time the AfD has topped an opinion poll. Here's our Europe regional editor, Paul Moss.
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Paul Moss, as we record this podcast, rescue workers in the Dominican Republic say they believe there are at least 20 bodies remaining under the collapsed roof of a nightclub. The remains of 124 people have been recovered so far, two days after the accident at the Jet Set Club in the capital Santo Domingo. People are desperately waiting for news of their loved ones. Cesar is one of them.
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Our correspondent Will Grant has been watching the rescue efforts and gave us this update.
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Will Grant in the Dominican Republic. A British adventurer who made headlines after she claimed to be the first woman to travel alone across Canada's largest island is facing a backlash from indigenous groups who accuse her of displaying privilege and ignorance and a dangerous colonial attitude. They've pointed out that Inuit women have been making the same journey for generations.
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Camilla Hempelmann-Adams, the daughter of a renowned adventurer, has apologised for the distress she's caused. Peter Goffin reports.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
At a secret location, Ukrainian engineers work on the development of new long-range drones. They drill, glue and assemble parts of a model called RayBird. This drone can cover a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers and stay in the air for up to 28 hours. So it can easily reach cities like Moscow. Raybird is effectively a spy aircraft.
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Roman Kniazhenko, the head of Skyton, the company that develops these drones.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
Raybird identifiziert Ziele und richtet Feuer. Einer der Ziele sind Russlands Öl-Refinerien und Fuel-Depots. Es wird bestätigt, dass dieses Jahr allein Kiew mehr als 30 Angriffe auf Russlands Öl-Infrastruktur mit langfristigen Drohnen und möglicherweise Missilen durchgeführt hat. Als Resultat hat Russlands Öl-Refinerie-Kapazität um 10 Prozent gestiegen. Aber jetzt müssen diese Angriffe enden.
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Sowohl Moskau als auch Kiew haben sich ermittelt, die Energie-Infrastruktur der anderen zu stoppen, unter einem US-Broker-Deal. Wenn es hält, wird der Zinswahl ein bisschen Erleichterung für die Ukraine bringen. Russia has been relentlessly targeting its power plants and gas infrastructure across the country, leaving thousands of people without electricity and heating.
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But Ukrainian drone makers fear that the ceasefire agreement would fail. Alexey, the test pilot.
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The Raybird is now prepared for a test flight. The aircraft, which looks like a mini-plane with wings, is placed on a launch pad, stretched like an arrow on a crossbow and then shot into the air. The engineers believe that they need to continue their work and the development of new weapons. They say that the ceasefire will hold only if Ukraine remains strong.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Still to come on the Global News Podcast, we report on the operation to clear the devastation left by the Los Angeles fires and how not everyone is happy about beaches being used to sort the debris.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. As we record this podcast, the Vatican says Pope Francis' health has worsened in the past day. The 88-year-old pontiff has spent the last eight nights in a Rome hospital, where he's being treated for pneumonia, and his condition was thought to have stabilized.
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In its latest update, the Vatican says that although he is alert, he remains in a critical condition. Sarah Rainsford reports from the Vatican.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
As six hostages released by Hamas have been tearfully reunited with their families, Israel has delayed the release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners who were supposed to be freed in exchange under the terms of the Gaza ceasefire deal. There has been no official explanation for the delay. However, Israeli security officials have been meeting late into this evening.
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Sarah Rainsford. The Democratic Republic of Congo has welcomed a UN Security Council resolution calling on Rwandas military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group and to immediately withdraw all its own troops from Congo. Die M23 hat zwei der größten Städte im oberen Kongo gefangen, die Angst vor einer breiteren regionalen Kriege haben.
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Rwanda verurteilt Angelegenheiten, die von Kongo und den Vereinigten Nationen gemacht wurden, dass sie die M23-Rebeln mit Arme und Truppen unterstützt, obwohl die Beweise auf das Gegenteil sind. Temesgen de Bersai berichtet.
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In France, one person has been killed and three police officers have been wounded in a knife attack in the eastern city of Mulhouse during a demonstration about Congo. The attacker is reported to have shouted Allah is great as he attacked the officers. A 37-year-old Algerian man, who was on a terror watch list, has been arrested. President Emmanuel Macron was quick to condemn the attack.
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The head of the anti-immigrant National Rally Party, Jordan Bardella, said the man should have been deported before he had the chance to carry out the attack. Our Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, is following developments.
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Hamas hat Israel auf eine blöde Verletzung des Gaza-Zuscheidungsverfahrens verurteilt und sagt, dass einige der Gefangenen verabschiedet wurden. Als Nacht fiel in der Westbankstadt von Ramallah, warten Familien weiter, als wir diesen Podcast aufnehmen, insbesondere die Relativen von zwei der Gefangenen.
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The fires generated a staggering amount of debris, an estimated 4.5 million tons. And some of that is controversially being sorted out along the coast. Rega Morris reports from Los Angeles.
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Und viele hier arbeiten hart, um wieder zu bauen und hoffentlich die Touristen zurück auf die Osten zu willkommen. The Dubai-based company's founder reassured users that their funds were safe, as it could cover the loss. The hackers stole from Bybit's Ethereum coin digital wallet. Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency by value after Bitcoin. Its value fell after the theft.
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Professor of Finance John Sedanov at Villanova University in Pennsylvania explained how the theft happened.
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Vorher am Sonntag wurden fünf der Hostages in den Städten freigelassen, die weekly events wurden, während der sechste in Privat veröffentlicht wurde. Drei der Hostages wurden am Novo-Musikfestival verabschiedet während des 7. Oktober-Attacks. Die Städte in Tel Aviv begrüßten sie zurück. One hostage, Avera Mengistu, had been held captive by Hamas for more than 10 years.
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We're talking about what could be the biggest crypto theft in history. How was so much money able to be stolen from what should be a very secure place?
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But a very sophisticated theft for a country that's supposedly very isolated from the rest of the world. Do we know where the money is now?
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Professor of Finance John Sedanov. Now to a different kind of money problem. Just imagine you've got a winning lottery ticket that puts you in line for about half a million dollars, but you can't claim the money. That's what's happened to two men in France who bought a winning ticket, but here's the catch, they bought it with a stolen credit card, so they're not allowed to claim the prize.
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Now the owner of the credit card, who also can't claim the prize, says he didn't buy the ticket, says he wants to team up with the two men so that they can split the money between them.
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This edition was produced by Alice Adly and it was mixed by Chris Hansen. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Jeanette Julliel. Until next time. Goodbye.
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A family member, Gili Eliasem, described their joy.
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Well, since then, Hamas has published a new video showing two Israeli hostages, not yet scheduled for release, who'd been brought to a release point to witness Saturday's liberation of the other hostages. The video, taken inside a vehicle, captures them pleading on camera to be taken home.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Well, earlier I asked our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sebastian Usher, what we knew about why the Palestinian prisoner releases had been delayed.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
So tell us about the release of the six hostages and what condition the six men were in.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Sebastian Usher in Jerusalem. Präsident Trump hat gesagt, er denkt, er ist nahe zu einem Deal, um den Krieg in der Ukraine zu beenden. Es war einer seiner Kampagnen-Pflege, dass er in 24 Stunden die Wahl beenden kann. Sprechend an der CPAC-Konferenz in Washington, hat er gesagt, er wollte die Billionen Dollar zurücknehmen, die die USA der Ukraine gegeben haben.
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Russia has been subject to strict sanctions since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago. Now Donald Trump's decision to deal directly with Vladimir Putin has given the Russian leader valuable diplomatic kudos. On Tuesday, US and Russian officials held their first high-level face-to-face talks since Russia's full-scale invasion. Ukraine was not invited.
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Boris Bondarov is a former Russian foreign ministry official who worked at the Russian mission to the UN office in Geneva from 2019, but resigned in 2022 in protest over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What does he make of the latest changes to US-Russia relations since Trump came to power?
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Sunday, the 23rd of February, these are our main stories. There's been an unexplained delay to the release of hundreds of Palestinians from Israeli jails, hours after Hamas freed six hostages from Gaza.
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Das war russischer ehemaliger Diplomat Boris Bondarow zu Owen Bennett-Jones. But many are watching closely to see how well the far-right alternative for Germany does. It has many extremists among its ranks, but polls suggest it could double its votes to come second. The CDU has ruled out forming a coalition with the AfD. These people in Berlin shared their thoughts and fears about the elections.
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The Vatican says the Pope's health has deteriorated after more than a week in hospital with pneumonia. One person has been killed in a knife attack on police officers in France that President Macron has called an act of Islamist terror.
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Our Berlin correspondent Damien McGuinness says people are acutely aware of how important these elections are.
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Und alle werden schauen, wie gut der fahre rechte AfD tut. Es wurde von Elon Musk und dem US-Vizepräsidenten J.D. Vance gebacken. Und die Partei selbst scheint sehr sicher, nach Jahren von einem Pariah zu behandeln.
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Also in this podcast, a Frenchman whose stolen credit card was used to buy a winning lottery scratch card, which has now been frozen, makes this appeal to the thieves.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Und er hat sich verurteilt, dass er die Feuerwalle selbst unterbindet.
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US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
You're listening to the Global News Podcast. It's being described as the biggest mass demonstration in Serbia since a fatal railway station roof collapse last November sparked an anti-corruption movement. On Saturday...
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Tens of thousands of people marched through the capital, Belgrade, in the latest protest at government corruption, which they blame for the Ruth collapse that killed 15 people at a station in Novi Sad that had only recently been renovated. These protesters say they want to see real change from the authorities.
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I spoke to our Balkans correspondent, Guy Delaney, who was at the protest in Belgrade.
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The United States has launched large-scale strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. President Donald Trump said he'd ordered what he called a decisive and powerful wave of airstrikes against the Iranian-backed group to stop its constant attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, which began after the Israeli military went into Gaza in response to the Hamas October 7th attacks.
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And given that there's no sign of these protests abating, how is President Vucic responding?
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The BBC has heard evidence of atrocities committed by retreating fighters in a battle for control of Sudan's capital Khartoum. The city has been held by the paramilitary rapid support forces since the civil war erupted in Sudan nearly two years ago. But the Sudanese army has now retaken control of much of Khartoum. and believes it's on track to seize the rest.
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Both sides have been accused of war crimes, which they each deny. Barbara Pletasha reports from Khartoum, where the army has shown her areas it recently recaptured. And just to warn you, you may find parts of her report distressing.
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The US strikes are reported to have targeted air defence and radar systems and missile and drone sites. Images shared online show plumes of black smoke in the area over the airport complex in the capital Sana'a, which includes a sprawling military facility. As we record this podcast, the Houthi-run health ministry says at least nine civilians have been killed.
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That report by Barbara Plett Usher in the Sudanese capital cartoon. Tornadoes which have been tearing across central and southern parts of the United States since late on Friday have killed at least 18 people. Most of the deaths were in Missouri. The state's emergency management service reported trees and power lines down as well as damage to residential and commercial buildings.
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These Missouri residents described the destruction wreaked by the storm.
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Firaz Maqsad is managing director of the Middle East and North Africa section at the Eurasia Group. He told my colleague... and Jana Gadgil how this could play out.
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And there's more severe weather forecast to come. Our North America correspondent Merlin Thomas gave us this update.
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Merlin Thomas. President Trump has signed yet another executive order to cut the funding of federal agencies, including the Global News Organization, Voice of America or VOA, Radio Free Asia and others, media outlets which aim to increase US soft power by broadcasting truthful, balanced journalism.
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Mr Trump also ordered other agencies, including those responsible for preventing homelessness or funding museums and libraries, to scale back operations to the minimum required by the law. Michael Sobolik is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington. Lise Doucette asked him what he made of Mr Trump's latest executive order.
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Michael Sobolec from the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. Now, could there be humans on Mars as early as 2029? Elon Musk thinks so. The SpaceX founder has announced his Starship rocket will embark on an unmanned mission to the Red Planet at the end of next year. But spacecraft engineers aren't so sure. Sian Cleaver works on NASA's Artemis program to return humans to the moon.
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She says Mars is still a long way off for anyone, even the world's richest man.
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But Mr Musk is confident his mission will overcome that problem. Charlotte Simpson has more details.
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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 we've covered, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Daniel Fox. The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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Middle East expert Firaz Maqsad. And staying in the region, a British-based charity that provides aid in Gaza has rejected accusations by Israel that eight people who were killed during airstrikes in Beit Lahir on Saturday were terrorists. The Al-Khair Foundation said that those who died were volunteers and others who were setting up tents for displaced Palestinians.
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It said some of those killed were journalists documenting the charity's work for promotional purposes. Israel maintains it targeted terrorists operating drones that threatened its troops. Emer Nada reports from Jerusalem.
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Emma Nader reporting. President Trump has confirmed that one of the Islamic State group's most senior leaders has been killed in Iraq. Mr Trump said US-led coalition forces had relentlessly hunted him down in partnership with Iraqi intelligence. With more details, here's our Middle East regional editor, Mike Thompson.
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Mike Thompson. At the latest summit to try to secure peace in Ukraine, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the leaders of the 26 countries who took part in the online meeting on Saturday have agreed to move to what he called an operational phase in planning for a multinational force to guarantee a potential ceasefire in Ukraine.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 16th of March, these are our main stories. Donald Trump has ordered what he calls decisive and powerful military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. An aid charity in Gaza says Israeli airstrikes there have killed eight people who were on a relief mission.
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Mr Starmer said the next stage would be a meeting of military chiefs within days.
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But with Russia yet to agree to the plan for a 30-day ceasefire that Ukrainian and US officials hammered out last week at talks in Saudi Arabia, Finland's President Alexander Stubb said it was still too early to talk about deploying peacekeeping troops. The Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky, again reiterated his belief that Russia is purposely delaying signing up to a ceasefire deal.
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He denied reports that Ukraine's forces are surrounded in the Russian region of Kursk, a claim that has been promoted by the US President, Donald Trump.
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I asked our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams for his assessment of this latest summit held in London.
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And we're also waiting to see how Russia responds to the ceasefire. So far, it's attached lots of conditions. And the president of Finland has said, given this, it's too soon to talk about peacekeeping forces in Ukraine. Does he have a point?
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Israel maintains it targeted terrorists. Huge crowds in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, have taken part in one of the biggest rallies so far against government corruption. Also in this podcast, Elon Musk says he intends to send a rocket to Mars by the end of next year. But can it be done that soon?
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Paul Adams. Japan's hot spring resorts are famous around the world for their relaxing effects and health benefits. But the record number of tourists who have flooded into Japan in recent years, partly to experience the hot springs or onsen, which are heated naturally underground, has now led to a number of the resorts facing water shortages, with reports some have even shut down.
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Our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow, told us more.
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And given that there's no sign of the tourism boom abating, what can the authorities do to tackle this problem?
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And this is just one symptom of how over-tourism is really having a massive impact on Japan.
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We hear how tornadoes tearing across central and southern parts of the United States have caused death and destruction.
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The Global Story: Antibiotics - A casualty of war?
So, of course, in such conditions, it's much more difficult to keep the facility sterile and to maintain all the procedures to prevent infections from spreading. The hospital in Kyiv, where Private Bezverkny is being treated now, they say that more than 80% of patients they admit have multiresistant infections or pathogens that can cause them.
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And this is exactly what happened to Private Bezverkny. He nearly died. He had sepsis five times and doctors operated on him more than 100 times. The problem is that hospitals usually treat these multi-resistant infections with special antibiotics from what they call a reserved list.
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But the more often they prescribe them, the quicker those bacteria will adapt to those new special antibiotics and become resistant to those drugs as well. And as a result, doctors face a dilemma. And I spoke to deputy chief physician at the hospital in Theophania, who explained me the challenges they face when they treat patients with such resistance.
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Private Bezverkny, after spending several months at ICU unit, was finally transferred to a separate ward. And doctors said that this should be a normal practice, that all patients who have such infections, they must be isolated. But because the hospitals are so overcrowded, they simply have no space to do that.
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And they keep all these patients together and then they contaminate each other as a result of that.
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The Global Story: Antibiotics - A casualty of war?
I recently went to a hospital in Kiev that treats casualties from the front line, and I met a soldier there, Private Alexander Bezverkny, who had really serious injuries. His legs were amputated, shrapnel ripped through his buttocks and abdomen, and as a result, doctors had to remove part of his intestines. But also, doctors discovered that Private Bezverkny had a resistance to antibiotics.
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The thing is that most casualties go through several stages of evacuation. That means they get treated at several different clinics. When they arrive at the hospital, they get some sort of antibiotics. And then the treatment procedure gets disrupted. Then they get transferred to another facility where there might be other bacteria around in those hospitals that can cause
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infect those patients, and then they get these multi-resistant infections that cannot be treated with commonly used antibiotics. All medical facilities across the country must deal with the biggest influx of patients that they have had since World War II. And many hospitals, as a result, they are overcrowded and understaffed at the same time.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
That report by Reagan Morris. Still to come, we hear why many highly qualified Chinese graduates are struggling to find work.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
You're listening to the Global News Podcast. Even as there's been a renewed push yet again to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza war and secure the release of Israeli hostages, there's been a surge in Israeli attacks and the number of Palestinians killed. Israel doesn't allow foreign journalists independent access to Gaza so we have to rely on figures from the Hamas-run health authorities there.
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On Saturday, they said a total of 136 people had been killed over the past 48 hours, among them a family of 11, most of them children. Emma Nader is following developments from Jerusalem.
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Jimmy Carter's eldest grandson was the first to address the congregation.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Emma Nader. It's a country blessed with virtually every type of mineral, but for the Democratic Republic of Congo, its huge natural wealth has been a curse over the centuries. Having shaken itself free of the shackles of colonialism, Congo is still trying to fight off outsiders. Among them, a Rwandan-backed rebel group, the M23,
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which having taken vast swathes of mineral-rich territory in the past four years, has now taken two towns in North Kivu province in just two days, with the Congolese army and its allied militia apparently unable to stop them. Our Africa regional editor, Will Ross, told me more.
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And tell us about Rwanda's involvement with this group.
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Will Ross. The once high-octane Chinese economy is currently struggling. As a result, many highly qualified graduates haven't been able to get the jobs they thought they would and are instead having to work as cleaners, couriers or waiters, often to the disappointment of their parents. Our China correspondent Stephen McDonnell went to meet some of these overqualified workers.
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That report by our China correspondent Stephen McDonald. In these days of laptops, tablets and smartphones, typewriters might seem like long-outdated technology. But one form of typewriter is still very much in use here in the UK. Despite advances in technology, the Perkins Braille typewriters are still a vital communication tool for blind users.
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Pastor Tony Loudon remembered cherished times with the former president.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Alan Thorpe is Britain's last certified fixer of them. He took some of the machines to a special conference to mark World Braille Day in Britain on Saturday and to mark the 200th anniversary of the Frenchman Louis Braille inventing embossed type. One of his machines dates back to the 1880s. Jane Hill asked Alan, who is blind to himself, to describe the Perkins Braille typewriter.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Alan Thorpe, who for now is Britain's last certified fixer of the Perkins Braille typewriter. 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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Tom Bartlett. The producer was Liam McSheffery.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janette Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Then the former president's son, Chip Carter, paid tribute to his father and also his late mother, Rosalyn.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Earlier, the cortege carrying the former president's coffin, accompanied by his children, his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren, passed by the small farm in the town of Plains where he grew up. Our correspondent, Carl Nasman, has been covering events throughout the day from Atlanta.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
And tell us what we're expecting to see over the course of the next few days.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
And briefly, in this polarized age, he has been a unifying figure.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janat Jalil, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 5th of January, these are our main stories. The six-day state funeral of the former US President Jimmy Carter has begun in his home state of Georgia. Coalition talks between Austria's two biggest centrist parties have collapsed. The Chancellor has said he'll resign.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Carl Nasman in the U.S. state of Georgia. Talks between Austria's two main centrist parties on forming a coalition government collapsed on Saturday, prompting the conservative chancellor, Karl Nehammer, to announce that he would step down.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
A third party, NEOS, had walked away from the talks a day earlier on Friday. The negotiations had been complicated by the decision of these parties to exclude a far-right party, the FPO, that won the largest share of the vote in elections last year. Here's our Vienna correspondent, Bethany Bell.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Bethany Bell. And Austria is not the only European country struggling to form a stable government as the far right is on the rise again. Germany is holding its own snap elections next month and it seems that Elon Musk wants to get involved.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
The world's richest man is due to host a conversation with the leader of the far-right German party, the AfD, which polls suggest could come second in the elections. Mr Musk has also attacked Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Here's our Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Jessica Parker, let's turn now to political turmoil, not in Europe, but in Asia. The freezing cold weather in South Korea's capital, Seoul, is not taking the heat out of the political crisis there. A month after its president, Young Sung-yool, stunned this young democracy by trying to impose martial law.
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A day after investigators were forced to abandon an attempt to arrest the impeached president after being blocked by hundreds of his security personnel, protesters turned out in force again on Saturday. The demonstrations, which went late into the night, were both for and against the suspended president.
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This comes as the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, is on his way to South Korea. Our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow, told me more about the latest demonstrations there.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Rwandan-backed rebels have made rapid advances in the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, capturing two towns in two days. Also in this podcast, if you thought typewriters were obsolete... They weigh between five and a half and six kilos.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
And South Korea is supposed to be a democracy. And yet somehow the president seems to be able to resist this attempt by the investigating authorities to arrest him.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
And meanwhile, you've got a country that's reeling from a devastating plane crash. A lot of people are very concerned about the short-lived attempt last month by the suspended president to impose martial law. Is the absence of clear leadership being felt?
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Mickey Bristow. The world's oldest person has died in Japan at the age of 116. Tomiko Ituka died in a nursing home near Osaka, the city where she was born. Grant Ferrett reports.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
It's just a couple of weeks or so before Donald Trump is due to be sworn in as US president. His campaign promise to deport millions of immigrants has many people living in fear and trying to get their paperwork in order. Nowhere more so than in California, which has the largest immigrant population in the US. But the Democratic governor there says he will protect them.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Reagan Morris reports from Los Angeles.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
We tell you about one type that's still very much in use. We begin in the US state of Georgia, where America has begun bidding a long farewell to the former president, Jimmy Carter. The band of the 282nd Army played America the Beautiful in Atlanta as the coffin was carried into the Carter Presidential Center for a service and prayers.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 22nd of February, these are our main stories. A day after Hamas returned the wrong body to Israel, it now says it has handed over the body of a mother who was kidnapped with her two young sons.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
That report by Yaha Masahudu. A man who repeatedly stabbed the renowned British Indian author Salman Rushdie at a literary gathering three years ago has been found guilty of attempted murder. The attack in New York state left Mr. Rushdie with severe injuries, including the loss of vision in one eye and a paralyzed hand.
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The author has faced countless death threats and was forced into hiding for years after Iran's religious leader issued a fatwa against him over a novel. Mr. Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Mata, now faces a potential sentence of more than 30 years. Our reporter, Nomia Iqbal, told us more.
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Namia Iqbal, a few months ago, a film about Donald Trump's early years as an aspiring real estate mogul, The Apprentice, was struggling to get distribution in the US after Mr Trump's lawyers threatened legal action. But now it's two stars who play Mr Trump and his friend, the New York lawyer Roy Cohn, have both been nominated for Oscars. The director is Ali Abassi.
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He was born in Iran, but is now based in Denmark. And he spoke to Vincent Dowd.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
Ahmed Youssef was a senior advisor to the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who is now in a camp for displaced people in Khan Yunis. Mr Youssef said Hamas had made a mix-up and did not want to jeopardise the fragile ceasefire deal.
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Vincent Dowd reporting. Now, President Trump has only been back in the White House for just over a month, but the flurry of jaw-dropping announcements and major news alerts he's unleashed since then can sometimes seem overwhelming.
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The journalist Oliver Berkman suggests keeping nature and family and friends at the centre of our lives and to switch off news notifications in order to tackle the news at our own pace. Or you could listen to our Happy Pod, which is produced every Saturday by the Global News podcast team.
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Oliver Berkman and fellow journalist Libby Purvis spoke to Paddy O'Connell, who began by asking for their thoughts on the current news agenda.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
With more on this latest development, here's our correspondent in Jerusalem, Mark Lowen.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
Journalists Libby Purves and Oliver Berkman speaking to Paddy O'Connell. 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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was produced by Alice Adly. It was mixed by Masood Ibrahim Kaur. The editor is Karen Martin.
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I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
Donald Trump accuses France's President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer of doing nothing to end the war in Ukraine. The tech giant Apple is to remove access to its top data protection tool for British users.
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Mark Lowen. Well, Donald Trump sparked global outrage when he proposed that the U.S. would, quote, take over Gaza and relocate its population to neighboring Egypt and Jordan so that the strip could be redeveloped into what he called the Riviera of the Middle East.
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Now, Arab leaders have been meeting in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, to try to agree an alternative plan to counter Mr Trump's proposal, which many say would amount to ethnic cleansing. Our Cairo correspondent, Sally Nabil, is following the meeting.
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Because it's going to cost huge amounts of money, billions and billions, given the huge destruction of the past 16 months. And the countries that would be funding it, the Gulf countries, will be concerned that they could be rebuilding Gaza only for it to be destroyed again at some point in the future.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
Sally Nabil. Having called the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, a dictator for resisting Russia's invasion, Donald Trump has now vented his ire against Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron. Both leaders are due to make separate visits to the White House next week.
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Speaking to Vox News, Mr Trump accused both the British and French leaders of, quote, doing nothing to try to end the war. From Washington, here's our North America correspondent, John Sudworth.
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Tips on how to de-stress from the news. We start in Israel, where a day after Hamas returned the wrong body to a grieving family and nation, the Palestinian militant group says the body of hostage Shiri Bibas, a mother who was kidnapped with her two young sons, has now been handed over. The Israeli military says it's checking this.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
Well, at the same time, senior figures in President Trump's administration have been further ratcheting up pressure on President Zelensky to agree a deal to allow the US to gain access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals, which are estimated to be worth trillions of dollars. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, accused the Ukrainian leader of backtracking on a previous commitment.
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The White House National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has told a right-wing conference in Washington he expects an agreement to be reached in the very short term, in his words. In Kiev, the deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office has said Russia is winning the war of words. He's been speaking to our international editor, Jeremy Bowen.
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Jeremy Bowen there in Ukraine. A dispute between Apple and the British government over data access has resulted in the tech giant announcing that it will stop all UK customers from using its top level of security. Ministers had been demanding to be allowed to see some encrypted files stored by Apple users on its cloud service.
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The bodies of the boys, four-year-old Ariel and baby Kafir, were handed over on Thursday, but a body said to be their mother's was later confirmed to be that of another woman. Israel said the children had been murdered, contrary to Hamas's claims that they died during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
But rather than allow that, Apple has taken this unprecedented step in the UK. To explain, here's the BBC's technology editor Zoe Klyman.
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Zoe Kleinman.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
We speak to the director of The Apprentice, a film about Donald Trump's early career, which has been nominated for two Oscars. You're listening to the Global News Podcast. For more than a decade, West Africa has been in the grip of an opioid crisis. Thousands of lives have been ruined by powerful and illegal pills packaged as medicines and sold on the streets.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
The boy's aunt, Ofri Bibas-Levi, said the family didn't want revenge, just the return of every hostage, dead or living, as soon as possible.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
But no one has ever exposed the pharmaceutical executives behind this deadly trade. BBC Eye has been investigating the companies which are making and shipping these pills and the men profiting from addiction. Yaha Masahudu reports.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. South Korea has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, but now for the first time in nearly a decade, it's seen a rise in the number of births. But as Steve Jackson reports, its population is still in steady decline.
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Steve Jackson, and did you know that babies born in 2025 will be the first to belong to Generation Beta? But what does that actually mean? Andrew Peach heard more from Sinead Butler, a trends reporter at the Indy 100 news site.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
where the Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives managed to snatch the narrowest of victories from the jaws of defeat. There was confusion on Friday, as it seemed that Mike Johnson, who's been backed by US President-elect Donald Trump, had lost the vote to remain in his role, with a handful of Republicans in the lower chamber voting against him or abstaining.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
That was Sinead Butler from the Indy 100 news site talking to Andrew Peach. Passport holders from any African country can now travel to Ghana without needing a visa. The move is part of a wider shift towards freedom of movement across the continent. Ghana joins Rwanda, the Seychelles, the Gambia and Benin in offering visa-free entry for African travellers.
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Our Africa regional editor, Will Ross, reports.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
You may recall back in 2018 the story of a killer whale who swam more than 1,600 kilometres, pushing the body of her dead newborn calf. Well, the same whale, known as Tarlequa, has had a healthy calf since then, but she's now been spotted again with another dead baby, which she is again carrying. in the Puget Sound, off the coast of the US state of Washington and British Columbia in Canada.
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Anise Ramili is editor-in-chief of the Whale Scientist blog. Julian Marshall asked her how common Tarlequah's behaviour is among killer whales.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
But then after huddled discussions, nearly all of them changed their minds, giving Mr Johnson 218 votes, the lowest possible number for him to be re-elected to his post. After the vote, he took to the House floor.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
Anise Ramili, editor-in-chief of the Whale Scientists blog. Now, when you've had too much of the news, there's nothing like a bit of entertainment to lift the spirits. So what releases can we look forward to in 2025? The senior awards editor of Variety magazine, Clayton Davis, spoke to James Kumarasamy.
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Variety's Senior Awards Editor, Clayton Davis. 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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Tom Bartlett. The producer is Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janette Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called on both Republicans and Democrats to come together and promised that his party would work to find common ground with Republicans.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
Our correspondent in the Capitol building, Rowan Bridge, told me more about the vote.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
And do we know how those dissenting Republicans were persuaded to change their minds?
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
And what does this tell us about how Donald Trump's second term will be like? Because we're already seeing, even before he comes back to the White House, how divided the Republicans are.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
Rowan Bridge. In an extraordinary move from a US president who's just weeks away from leaving office, Joe Biden has blocked the takeover of America's third biggest steelmaker, US Steel, by a Japanese company, Nippon Steel. The White House spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, said Mr Biden wanted to protect the US from foreign competitors who use unfair trade practices.
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The deal would have been worth nearly $15 billion. Mr Biden's intervention follows fierce opposition from the United Steelworkers Union. Both companies have responded by saying it's truly shocking that the US government would treat a major ally like Japan in this way. Our North America business correspondent, Michelle Fleury, told me more about why President Biden had blocked the deal.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Jannat Jalil, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 4th of January, these are our main stories. In a nail-biting vote, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, who's been backed by Donald Trump, narrowly holds onto his job.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
supply chains. And is this the end of the matter? Because both Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel have responded angrily with, it seems suspicious, some threat of legal action.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
Michelle Flurry. Hamas says indirect ceasefire talks with Israel have resumed in the Qatari capital, Doha. The long-running stop-start negotiations had recently ground to a halt, with both sides blaming each other. Here's our Middle East regional editor, Mike Thompson.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
President Joe Biden blocks the takeover of America's third biggest steelmaker by a Japanese company. Hamas says that indirect negotiations with Israel have resumed in Qatar for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages.
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Mike Thompson. Syria has tightened restrictions on its border with Lebanon for the first time since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad last month. Both countries have been keen to express their desire for a new relationship after decades in which Damascus has dominated its smaller neighbour. Sebastian Usher reports from Beirut.
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Sebastian Usher. The tech giant Apple has agreed to pay a $95 million settlement to users who accuse its digital assistant Siri of listening in on their private conversations. The BBC's Isabella Bull decided to ask Siri itself about the allegations.
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Isabella Bull there talking to a rather evasive Siri. Well, BBC technology reporter Imran Rahman-Jones told me more about the case.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
And now after this five-year legal case, there's been this settlement. Tell us about it and its significance.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
The tech giant Apple agrees to pay a settlement of $95 million after users accused its virtual assistant Siri of spying on them. We begin in Washington at the U.S. Capitol.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
And it seems like a huge amount of money to you and me. But for Apple, it's just a drop in the ocean. What's the significance of this for Apple, given that it's made user privacy a big part of its brand? Is the case itself more damaging than the actual financial settlement?
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
BBC technology reporter Imran Raman Jones.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
The story of the killer whale who made headlines around the world when she was filmed carrying the dead body of her calf.
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Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Nick Beek, says Mr Trump's remarks seem to be upending decades of US foreign policy.
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Thousands flee as rebels close in on key DR Congo city
We begin in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the government has accused Rwanda of declaring war by sending its forces to support rebels advancing on the eastern city of Goma, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Gunfire has been heard in the city centre as the Rwandan-backed rebels close in, despite attempts by the Congolese government forces to fight them off.
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Yes, Jordan's already reacted very strongly after that conversation with King Abdullah. I imagine other Arab countries will come out very strongly too. And for Palestinians, this raises yet another nightmare scenario after 15 months of war.
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So given all that, we know that in Israel, the reaction from the far right to Mr Trump's comments has been very positive. But what's the wider reaction among Israelis to what he's had to say?
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And that's adding to the anxieties of the tens of thousands of Palestinians who are still being blocked by Israel from returning to northern Gaza.
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Thousands flee as rebels close in on key DR Congo city
And a quick reminder that if there's anything you want to know about Donald Trump's first week back in the White House, then do get in touch as we're recording a Q&A special this week. If you'd like to ask about his actions on immigration, tariffs, pardons, climate change, cryptocurrencies or anything else, then email us. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
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And it would be great if you could record your question as a voice note. Thanks.
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On this international Holocaust Memorial Day, a Czech-Canadian singer remembers her grandmother who was imprisoned by the Nazis during the Second World War.
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Large numbers of Rwandan troops are reported to be pouring across the border to help the M23 rebels, who in recent weeks have made significant territorial gains, displacing hundreds of thousands of people, including these residents.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. Let's turn now to Belarus and an exit poll on state media suggests that the authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has won the presidential election with 87% of the vote. The outcome was never in doubt in what the exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya described as a farce.
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Mr Lukashenko, who's been in power for more than 30 years, dismissed speculation that he might hand over power to one of his three sons, although he said a new generation should emerge to lead Belarus by the year 2030. The BBC's Steve Rosenberg, who's in the capital Minsk, told Owen Bennett-Jones more about the election.
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Steve Rosenberg in Belarus. Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day. It's the date on which the Soviet army entered the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland 80 years ago. During their time in power, the Nazis also confined Jews in many countries to heavily controlled ghettos. One such ghetto was in Turezynstadt, also known as Terezin, in what had been Czechoslovakia.
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Lenka Lichtenberg, a Czech-Canadian singer whose grandmother was imprisoned, was able to bring the poems she wrote to be performed openly in the place they'd been written in secret eight decades ago.
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Lenka Lichtenberg, a Czech-Canadian singer, ending that report by Michael Rossi. America's foreign intelligence agency, the CIA, has adjusted its official stance on the origins of COVID-19, saying it now believes the virus was more likely to have leaked from a Chinese laboratory.
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The new assessment is not the result of any new intelligence and comes just days after Donald Trump's appointee, John Ratcliffe, was confirmed as the CIA's new director. Tom Bailey reports.
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Western nations and the head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, have called on Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and halt its support for M23 fighters. The calls were made at a special UN Security Council session. Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba-Wagner spoke afterwards.
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Tom Bailey reporting. Now, picture the scene. It's 1998. A teenager has just discovered text messaging after being given his first mobile phone for his 18th birthday. So he makes up a few random numbers and sends off the message, hello. Well, that one-word message resulted in Donovan Shears from Coventry in central England meeting his future wife, Kirsty, from Cleethorpes.
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Now, after more than 20 years of love and laughter, they're planning to renew their vows on Valentine's Day. They've been speaking to Richard Williams.
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Donovan and Kirsty Shears talking about the random text message that led to love and marriage many years ago. And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll. The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Jeanette Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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Our Africa regional editor Will Ross gave us this update.
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Tell us about these rebels, why they will be trying to seize Goma and what Rwandans had to say about this.
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Thousands flee as rebels close in on key DR Congo city
But there have been accusations that Rwanda is partly backing these rebels because of Congo's mineral wealth. And we've heard not just from the head of the UN, but the US, France and Britain at this UN Security Council meeting, putting pressure on Rwanda to do more to stop this attack.
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Will Ross. President Donald Trump has threatened Colombia with harsh retaliatory measures after its leader, Gustavo Petro, turned back two military planes carrying deported migrants. Mr Trump said he would impose hefty tariffs as well as a travel ban on Colombian officials. Mr Petro had objected to migrants being sent back on U.S.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Monday, the 27th of January, these are our main stories. The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of declaring war by sending troops across the border to support a rebel advance on the city of Goma.
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military planes instead of civilian ones, saying they were not criminals and should be returned with dignity. He has now said he'll send the presidential plane to the U.S. to repatriate the migrants. Brazil has also complained about the treatment of its citizens on US deportation flights after some arrived in handcuffs in Manaus.
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Our America's regional editor, Leonardo Rocha, told me more about what the Colombian leader had to say.
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But Mr Trump is not responding well to this. He seems to be in a bit of a collision course with Colombia. He's been making threats against it.
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Leonardo Rocha. While the US president has been threatening countries that won't take back migrants, his vice president, J.D. Vance, has been talking about how he hopes measures back home will have a chilling effect on undocumented workers.
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Speaking to CBS News, he defended the Trump administration's decision to raid schools and churches as part of its drive to expel millions of illegal immigrants.
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Our correspondent in Washington, David Willis, told me more about what Mr Vance had to say.
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President Trump says he'll impose emergency tariffs and sanctions on Colombia after it turned back two migrant deportation flights. Lebanon says Israeli troops have killed 22 people as thousands of villagers tried to return to their homes in the south. Also in this podcast, the text sent to a made-up mobile number that resulted in marriage.
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So what's the reaction been to this?
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David Willis. Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon have been accused of killing at least 22 people who were trying to return home. Lebanon's health ministry also reported that more than 120 others were wounded when Israeli forces opened fire at multiple locations. Beirut says Israeli forces have violated Sunday's ceasefire deadline for withdrawing from southern Lebanon.
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Israel says its forces are staying on because its ceasefire deal with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah hasn't been fully implemented.
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Hugo Beshega in Lebanon. Staying in the Middle East, a suggestion by Donald Trump that Egypt and Jordan should take in most of the population of Gaza has been roundly rejected by both countries and by Palestinian leaders.
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Mr Trump said that it was time to, in his words, clean out Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble by Israeli forces in the 15-month war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. Last week, Mr Trump praised Gaza's potential as a real estate project given its beautiful seaside location and climate. These Gazans expressed their outrage at his proposal.
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In Israel, far-right politicians have praised Mr Trump's comments. Ohad Tal chairs a religious Zionist party in the Israeli parliament.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. It's the latest twist in the months of political turmoil that have rocked South Korea since its president, Yoon Sung-yeol, briefly declared martial law last December. This led to him being impeached, as was the man who became acting president, the Prime Minister Han Duk-soo.
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Now, Mr Han's impeachment has been dismissed by a constitutional court, which has reinstated him as South Korea's acting president. Mr Han unsurprisingly welcomed the ruling.
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The court found no proof that Mr Han had played an active role in approving the short-lived martial law declared by President Yoon. There's now speculation that Mr Yoon's impeachment could also be overturned soon. Our Asia-Pacific editor is Mickey Bristow.
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But at the same time, we've still got the president being impeached, who briefly declared martial law at the end of last year. Will the verdict in the case of Mr. Han have any bearing on Mr. Yun's case?
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Despite being charged with corruption, he has now officially been nominated as a presidential candidate by the opposition CHP party. Mr. Imamoglu says the charges against him are politically motivated. A ban on protests failed to deter Turks from taking to the streets in large numbers for a fifth night running to voice their fears for the future of their democracy.
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Nikki Bristow, the once popular American DNA testing firm 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy protection and announced the resignation of its CEO and co-founder, Ann Widzicki. The company says it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.
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This comes six months after the firm settled a lawsuit alleging it failed to protect the privacy of nearly 7 million customers whose personal information was exposed in a 2023 data breach. Our North America technology correspondent, Lily Jamali, told us more.
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Lalit Jamali, now to India. Where the comedian singing this parody song is being investigated for possible defamation for joking about an Indian state leader who is an ally of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. It's just the latest case in India that raises questions about freedom of speech.
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Police in the western city of Mumbai opened an investigation against Kunal Kamra over his comedy skit following a complaint filed by a politician from the state leader's party after supporters were angered by the use of the word traitor. The venue where the comedian performed was reportedly ransacked. Our correspondent in Delhi, Arunade Mukherjee, told us more.
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Among them, this woman in Istanbul.
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And has there been any response from the comedian?
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I mean, there have been reports that the comedy venue has been ransacked. And this all comes at a time of growing concern in India about freedom of speech and intimidation of the media.
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Aruna Day, Mukherjee. In recent years, elite-level sport has started doing more to help professional Muslim athletes who observe the holy month of Ramadan. The Premier League is a good example, introducing pauses in play that allow players to break their fast if the sun sets during a game. But it's not easy to play football without eating or drinking during daylight hours.
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Our reporter Ian Williams has been speaking to one Premier League star about his faith.
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Since the protests began on Wednesday, the Turkish government says more than 1,100 people have been arrested, including at least 10 journalists detained today in dawn raids. We got this update from Hilkim Boran of the BBC Turkish service, who's in Istanbul.
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That report by Ian Williams. 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, of course, globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Nick Randall, the producer of Chantal Hartle. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil.
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Until next time, goodbye.
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And despite the arrest of Mr. Imamoglu and the fact that he's been charged with corruption, the opposition party that he heads went ahead with its vote to choose him as its presidential candidate with a huge turnout in the primary.
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And there are big questions about whether President Erdogan can contain these protests, especially given the fact that he has had run-ins in the past with the Turkish military.
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Hylken Boran in Istanbul. As we record this podcast, talks between US and Russian officials are underway in Saudi Arabia to try to agree a plan to stop the fighting in Ukraine. It comes a day after the Americans met with the Ukrainian side for discussions that were later described by Ukraine's defence minister as productive and focused.
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While Ukraine says it's ready for a full truce, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has made it clear that he will seek a wide range of concessions first. The U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News before the talks that he was optimistic that the Russian leader was interested in ending the conflict.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Julia and 14 Hours GMT on Monday the 24th of March. These are our main stories. More demonstrators and journalists are arrested in Turkey as the authorities say they've detained well over a thousand people in the past five days of protests.
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But this optimism is not shared by Russia itself. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were still many outstanding issues to be resolved.
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Our security correspondent Frank Gardner is covering the talks in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
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Frank Gardner in Riyadh. Before we move on, we have another Q&A with our BBC colleagues from Ukrainecast coming up soon. And we'd like your questions to put to the team. Our email address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. That's globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. And if you can, please record your question as a voice note.
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To Gaza now, where there have been intensified Israeli airstrikes on targets across the territory. The Hamas-run health authority in Gaza says more than 60 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the number who have died since Israel broke the ceasefire last week to more than 700.
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Among those killed was a Hamas leader who died in a strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south. Israel does not allow foreign journalists to report independently from Gaza, so Emei Nader filed this report from Jerusalem.
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Amenada. Shortly before we recorded this podcast, one of France's most famous film stars, Gérard Depardieu, arrived at a court in Paris to face sexual assault charges. The 76-year-old is accused of groping two women on a film set four years ago. In the past, around 20 women have accused him of sexual assault or abuse. This is the first case to come to trial.
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Talks between US and Russian negotiators are underway in Saudi Arabia as Donald Trump pushes for a swift end to the war in Ukraine. Israel intensifies its bombardment of Gaza. Palestinian health officials say at least 60 people have been killed in the renewed assault. Also in this podcast, why this comic song has caused a stir about freedom of speech in India.
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Gérard Depardieu denies all the allegations. Our Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, spoke to us from outside the court.
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Newscofield in Paris. In Nigeria, more than three quarters of people use skin lightening creams, commonly known as bleaching creams. It's the country with the highest use in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. In 2023, Nigeria's food and drug regulator, NAFDAQ, declared a state of emergency over these products. But it's not just adults.
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There's a worrying trend of parents using the creams on their children, even on babies. Medina Mashano has been to Kano State, one of several major hubs for skin bleaching in the country, from where she sent this report.
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We start in Turkey, where in less than a week, the man seen as the strongest challenger to President Erdogan's decades-long dominance of Turkish politics, Ekrem İmamoğlu, has been arrested, interrogated, jailed and stripped of his position as mayor of Istanbul, sparking some of the biggest protests Turkey has seen in more than a decade.
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That report from Nigeria by Medina Mashainu.
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How one Premier League footballer copes while fasting during Ramadan.
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Now authorities in one Chinese city are offering couples a huge financial reward to have more babies. But will it work?
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. The number of people killed by tornadoes that have been tearing through southern and central parts of the United States since Friday has now risen to at least 36. The storms have caused mass car pileups, flattened homes, fueled wildfires, and left hundreds of thousands of people without power.
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Jericho McCoy in Mississippi described her family's terror as a tornado hit their home.
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A state of emergency has been declared in a number of states, including Arkansas, Georgia and Oklahoma, where more than 100 wildfires are raging. I heard more from our US correspondent, Merlin Thomas.
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A special team has been set up to look into the cause of the fire in the early hours of Sunday morning, which broke out after a popular band used fireworks during a performance. The flames spread quickly as the ceiling was made of highly flammable material. Our Balkans correspondent, Guy Delaney, sent this report from Cotcheny.
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And we've also seen dozens and dozens of wildfires just weeks after the Los Angeles fires.
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Merlin Thomas. Staying in the US and protests have erupted at Tesla facilities across the country as anger grows against its CEO, Elon Musk, for his federal cost-cutting role in the US government. Mr. Musk is running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, commonly known as DOGE, which has slashed thousands of government jobs.
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That sparked a backlash with many consumers in the US and abroad boycotting Tesla. Reagan Morris attended a protest in Burbank, California, and sent this report.
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Reagan Morris reporting. A decade ago, China scrapped its one-child policy that had for decades meted out severe punishments, including forced abortions to parents who had more than one baby. But despite China lifting the limit to two, then three children amid concerns about how rapidly its population is ageing, this has failed to lead to a sustained rise in births.
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Now a city in northern China has decided to offer couples who already have two children a big financial reward to have another one. Mickey Bristow is our Asia-Pacific editor.
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Mickey Bristow. Now to a new US soap opera which is being described as a slap in the face for Donald Trump. The daytime soap is called Beyond the Gates and it's about the glamorous lives of a wealthy black American community. It started airing at a time when the Trump administration is trying to end all diversity, equity and inclusion efforts known as DEI.
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The show is set in a fictional upmarket part of the state of Maryland, inspired by the very real exclusive Maryland enclave inside Prince George's County. Brandon Drennan went to visit it.
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Prince George's County resident, Hope Wiseman, ending that report by Brandon Drennan. 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 Nick Randall. The producer was Liam McSheffery.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Jenna Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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Kai Delaney reporting. The Houthis in Yemen say more than 50 people were killed in US airstrikes on Saturday. Washington says some key Houthi figures were among the dead, but the group hasn't confirmed this. The US military says it shot down drones launched by the Iranian-backed group in response to the strikes.
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Donald Trump has said he'll hold Iran responsible for the attacks the Houthis are carrying out on commercial shipping. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi's political bureau, told the BBC that the US president's actions are likely to further increase tensions in the region.
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Raja Al Mutwakil is a human rights activist based in the Yemeni capital Sana'a. She told the BBC that people there are now living in fear.
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Our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams says Saturday's attacks went beyond previous American, British and Israeli raids.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Monday the 17th of March, these are our main stories. Prosecutors in North Macedonia are investigating whether a fire in a nightclub that killed nearly 60 people could be linked to bribery and corruption. The United States says its airstrikes on Saturday killed several Houthi leaders in Yemen.
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Paul Adams. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he'll sack the head of the internal security agency, Shin Bet. Mr Netanyahu said that in the middle of a war, he needed to have confidence in the leader of Shin Bet, but instead he had what he called an ongoing distrust of Ronan Barr.
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A move to terminate the Shin Bet chief's position will be brought before the Israeli government later this week. Paul Henley spoke to the legal affairs correspondent for the Times of Israel, Jeremy Sharon. He began by asking him what lies behind the Israeli prime minister's desire to fire the head of the country's domestic security agency.
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The legal affairs correspondent for the Times of Israel, Jeremy Sharon. The U.S. has deported more than 250 mainly Venezuelan alleged gang members to El Salvador by invoking a rarely used, centuries-old wartime law. The deportations took place despite a federal judge's order to halt the flights. The U.S.
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Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said he wanted to express his gratitude to El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, for playing a pivotal role in ridding the U.S. of violent criminals and that El Salvador would hold the prisoners in, quote, very good jails at a fair price.
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I asked our America's editor, Leonardo Rocha, why the Trump administration had gone ahead with the deportations despite the judge's ruling.
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The Trump administration deports more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador despite an order by a U.S. judge banning such a move. Also in this podcast, how a glamorous new soap opera seeks to overturn stereotypes about Black Americans.
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And why have these mostly Venezuelan migrants been sent to El Salvador?
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Leonardo Rocha. The prospect of coming back home to planet Earth is now a little bit closer for two astronauts who've been stranded on the International Space Station for nine months. A SpaceX capsule carrying a new crew has docked at the ISS, paving the way for Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams to finally return home.
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They were only supposed to be on the station for eight days, but technical issues with the experimental spacecraft they arrived on meant they couldn't leave until this week. Our science editor Rebecca Murrell reports.
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Rebecca Morrell. Well, for more on what it's like to spend a long time on the International Space Station, Paul Henley spoke to Colonel Katie Coleman, a retired NASA astronaut. She's a veteran of two space shuttle missions, and she flew back from the station in 2011 after spending 159 days there. Paul asked her about her time on board the ISS.
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North Macedonia's interior minister says prosecutors are investigating whether corruption and bribery are linked to a fire in a nightclub that killed 59 people. Panche Toskovski said the venue in the eastern town of Kochani did not have a legal license to operate.
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That was Colonel Katie Coleman, a retired NASA astronaut.
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Still to come, tributes have been paid to the former Greek Prime Minister, Kostas Simitis, who has died at the age of 88.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. India is the world's largest democracy, but under the leadership of Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government, it's also become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders says that on average three or four journalists are killed in connection with their work every year in India.
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On Friday, the body of a journalist who'd been reporting on alleged corruption in public construction projects was found in a septic tank. 32-year-old Mukesh Chandrakar went missing on New Year's Day. Our South Asia regional editor, Ambrasanit Rajan, told me more about him.
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with driving conditions described in some places as dangerous or impossible. Weather alerts have been issued across 30 states, with a state of emergency being declared in Kentucky, Virginia, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri. The weather has been dominating national and local TV and radio news. Here's what CBS, the BBC's partner station, was broadcasting.
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Ambarasan Etirajan. In a dramatic collapse of their relationship, the American billionaire Elon Musk has said the leader of a British populist party, Nigel Farage, that is challenging the established parties, doesn't have what it takes to be leader and should be replaced.
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The two men had met at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort last year to discuss Mr. Musk making a multi-million dollar donation to Mr. Farage's Reform Party. But after Mr Musk championed a jailed far-right activist, he was angered by Mr Farage's refusal to do the same.
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At the same time, a British minister has sharply criticised the world's richest man for his comments over child rape scandals in the UK. Where Streeting, the health secretary, was speaking after Mr Musk said the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was, quote, complicit in the rape of Britain and said another minister, Jess Phillips, was a wicked witch who should be locked up.
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Mr Streeting was asked for his response by the BBC.
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This is just the latest salvo Elon Musk has fired against centrist European politicians as he endorses far-right parties, including the AFD in Germany. José Manuel Borruso spent 10 years as president of the European Commission. Before that, he was Portuguese prime minister. Johnny Diamond asked him about Mr Musk's increasingly frequent interventions into European politics.
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The former president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. Well, one European leader who does enjoy good relations with Elon Musk and Donald Trump is the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Maloney. She made a surprise visit to Florida over the weekend to meet Mr Trump.
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The trip to his Mar-a-Lago resort is being seen as an attempt to strengthen ties with the president-elect before his inauguration later this month. Here's our Europe region editor, Sasha Schlichter.
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Sasha Slikta. Tributes have been paid to the former Greek Prime Minister, Kostas Samitis, who has died at the age of 88. Mr Samitis guided Greece into the Eurozone as well as overseeing Athens' hosting of the Olympic Games in 2004. Jacob Evans looks back on his life.
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Jacob Evans. For Colombia, a new year brings an old problem. Cocaine. Decades of bloodshed led to President Gustavo Petro being elected with a new strategy of making peace with the cartels and tackling poverty. But the drug is being produced in greater quantities than ever, and doubts are rising about whether his plan will work. Alfie Habershon reports.
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Alfie Habersham reporting. In 2023, the Grammy Award-winning producer Ian Brennan went to the Maximum Security Mississippi State Penitentiary and recorded a group of prisoners singing at a Sunday morning chapel service. The record received international recognition for bringing previously unheard voices to the outside world.
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Ian Brennan has been back to the prison and recorded a follow-up album, another Mississippi Sunday morning. He's been telling Martin Bernard why he went back.
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And do we know how long this is likely to last?
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That was the music producer Ian Brennan talking about a prison choir to Martin Bernard. 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, 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.
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This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll, the producer was Liam McSheffery, the editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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And what's being done to help people cope with these extreme weather conditions?
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Rowan Bridge. If you travel by car in a big city, there's a good chance you'll spend much of your time completely stationary or at best just crawling along. It's an annoying waste of time and more importantly, bad for the quality of the air everyone has to breathe. Singapore was the first city to do something about it.
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50 years ago, it introduced a congestion charge to cut down on traffic jams and pollution. London followed suit in 2003, and many other cities from Mexico City to Stockholm now have similar schemes. Until now, America has been the only big Western nation to hold out, but Manhattan in New York has just brought in charges. The scheme has its supporters, but for others it's extremely contentious.
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Jeff Colton is New York City reporter for the Politico website.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janette Jalil, and in the early hours of Monday, the 6th of January, these are our main stories. A fierce storm is causing disruption to large swathes of the United States. The Kremlin says its troops are battling a renewed offensive by Ukrainian forces in the Russian region of Kursk.
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Jeff Colton, New York City reporter for the Politico website. Five months after a lightning offensive by Ukraine into Russia's Kursk region that stunned the Kremlin, Ukrainian troops have launched what seems to be a new effort to seize territory from the same region. In recent weeks, Russia has been clawing back territory, partly with the help of thousands of troops from North Korea.
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and its military has tried to play down this new offensive. But pro-Kremlin bloggers say that could be a mistake, with one posting footage of what he said was a column of Ukrainian armoured vehicles driving through the snow. In his nightly address on Saturday evening, President Zelensky said Ukrainian troops had inflicted significant losses on North Korean and Russian forces.
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This new offensive by Ukraine comes at a critical moment in the war, with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised a quick end to the conflict, preparing to take office. Our correspondent in Kiev, Will Vernon, told us what was known about this latest Ukrainian offensive.
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Yes, because both sides are trying to boost their position ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House. Why is Kursk so important to Ukraine?
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The president of Austria has said he'll meet the far-right leader of the Freedom Party after coalition talks between more moderate politicians collapsed. Also in this podcast.
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Will Vernon in Kiev. The president of Austria has said he will meet the far-right leader of the Freedom Party after coalition talks between more moderate politicians collapsed. Alexander Van der Bellen says he'll meet the party's leader, Herbert Kickle, on Monday. He said a new path had opened up because the governing conservatives had softened their opposition to talks with Mr Kickle.
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The president promised to ensure that the cornerstones of Austrian democracy were respected. Bethany Bell reports from Vienna.
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Bethany Bell, in what's likely to be his last trip as America's top diplomat, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has arrived in South Korea as it remains in the grip of a political crisis. Investigators have been trying to arrest the president after he shocked South Koreans by briefly imposing martial law last month.
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But even though he's been impeached and suspended, his bodyguards are refusing to hand him over and mass protests are continuing. Here's our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow.
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How prisoners in an American high security jail are trying to find redemption through singing. As we record this podcast, much of the US is on high alert as a huge winter storm that could bring the heaviest snowfall and coldest temperatures in over a decade is affecting tens of millions of people. Thousands of flights have been delayed or cancelled.
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Mickey Bristow, despite the recent optimistic noises about finally securing a ceasefire in Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry there now says that Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 200 people since Thursday. This comes as Israel's defence minister has warned that the ceasefire it agreed with Lebanon is at risk if Hezbollah fighters don't pull back from areas near the border.
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Israel Katz accused the Lebanese army of not meeting the commitments it agreed to in the ceasefire. Jonah Fisher reports from Jerusalem.
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I only Wells. Now, how far would you go to try to retrieve something valuable that went missing? One man from Wales has spent a decade attempting to recover Bitcoin he says could now be worth as much as a billion dollars. James House says the hard drive containing the Bitcoin was accidentally thrown away by his then girlfriend. Now, perhaps unsurprisingly, his ex-girlfriend.
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He's taken his local council to court to force it to let him search the landfill site where it's believed to be buried. But a judge has halted his case, telling him he has no realistic prospect of ever succeeding. Stephanie Prentice reports.
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Stephanie Prentice. Still to come on the Global News Podcast.
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The Nigerian football star who wants to get more Africans playing golf.
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Not only that, the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus says 2024 was also the first calendar year to exceed the key global warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. The director of Copernicus, Carlo Buontempo, said the cause for the increase was the greenhouse gases we continue to pump into the atmosphere.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. Even before Israel's war with Hezbollah, Lebanon was already in a dire economic situation and faced years of political deadlock. But there is hope that the election of a new Lebanese president will bring some much-needed stability.
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The new president, the former army chief Joseph Aoun, has promised to remove all arms from non-state actors, an indication that he wants to further reduce the influence of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement. The former Lebanese Interior Minister Ziad Baroud knows President Aoun well. He told James Copnell what the new leader hopes to achieve.
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Former Lebanese Interior Minister Siad Baroud. The future of the hugely popular social media platform TikTok could be decided by the US Supreme Court soon. It's due to be banned in nine days under a federal law brought in under President Joe Biden, just a day before his successor Donald Trump is due to return to the White House.
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The US Justice Department argues that the current Chinese owners could use the app to spy on and politically manipulate Americans. But it rejects that claim. And in a last-ditch effort to stop the ban going ahead, representatives from TikTok are making their case today to the Supreme Court judges. And they have an ally in Mr Trump who has credited the platform with helping him to get re-elected.
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Our North America technology correspondent, Lily Jamali, is attending the hearing in Washington.
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Lily Jamali. Earlier in the podcast, we heard about one man's search for his missing Bitcoin wallet, thought to be worth a huge sum of money. But here's another panic-inducing scenario that might be more familiar, when your phone goes missing.
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A British consumer rights group deliberately left mobile phones behind on planes after flying on them to test whether airlines are any good at returning lost property. And And as Paul Moss reports, the answer seems to be a resounding no.
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Hena Handel is National Coordinator of Climate Live USA and a four-time delegate of the UN's Climate Change Conference.
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Hormoz. Now, what sport do you think of when you think of Africa? I'm guessing you would say football, but could golf one day be the word that springs to mind? The former footballer Peter Odomwingi made his name scoring goals in the English Premier League and was part of the Nigerian squad that won silver at the 2008 Olympics. But now his passion is golf.
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He's qualified as a PGA professional and he wants to make golf as popular as football in Africa. BBC Sport Africa's Ian Williams went to play a few holes with him.
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That report by Ian Williams. 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, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Charlotta Hadroy-Tojimska. The producer was Chantal Hartle. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Janet Jalil. Until next time, goodbye.
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I got more details from our climate editor, Justin Rowlatt.
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So even though we haven't yet technically breached that threshold that was agreed in Paris, the fact that the last 10 years have been the warmest ever, that ocean temperatures are now at record highs. This all seems to indicate that we're really on a very destructive path and it doesn't seem the world is doing enough to combat climate change.
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And this comes just 10 days before Donald Trump is due to become US president again, amid fears that he could pull the US out of the Paris climate accord again.
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Justin Rowlatt. Well, as we record this podcast, those wildfires in Los Angeles are known to have killed at least 10 people and to have destroyed thousands of homes, even as firefighters are still battling to bring the fires under control, amid reports that the strong winds that had briefly died down are gathering strength again.
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The National Guard has been deployed in parts of the city amid reports of looting. A man has been detained on suspicion of deliberately starting one of the fires. John Sudworth sent this report from one of the worst hit areas, Altadena.
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I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 Hours GMT on Friday the 10th of January, these are our main stories. 2024 is deemed to be the world's hottest year on record by scientists, with temperatures rising above an internationally recognised climate target for the first time. This comes as firefighters continue to battle wildfires in Los Angeles, where at least 10 deaths have been confirmed.
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John Sudworth reporting from Altadena. Well, the initial estimate for the total damage from the California wildfires has nearly tripled in just 24 hours. In its latest projection, the American weather news service AccuWeather says losses could amount to as much as $150 billion. In his report, John mentioned that insurance is likely to be a big issue for many who've lost their homes.
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Garrett Gray from the property insurance solutions company CoreLogic says the fires have come at the worst possible time.
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro prepares to be sworn in for a third term despite a global outcry over alleged vote rigging in last year's elections.
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Property insurance expert, Garrett Gray. To Venezuela now, where as we record this podcast, Nicolas Maduro is due to be sworn in as president for his third term after a disputed election last July. Despite the opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, being recognised as a real winner by other countries, including the US and the EU.
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There was a violent clampdown on anti-government protesters in the aftermath of the election. The opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, who'd been barred from standing in the election, was forced into hiding. She reappeared on Thursday to lead demonstrations against Mr Maduro and was briefly detained. Mr Gonzalez, who's been living in exile, is currently visiting the Dominican Republic.
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In a speech at the presidential palace there, he called for recognition of his election victory.
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Manolo de los Santos is a supporter of President Maduro's who's travelled from the US to Venezuela for the inauguration.
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A South America correspondent, Ione Wells, says Mr Maduro will be doing all he can to ensure the protesters don't disrupt his third inauguration.
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And Maria Corina Machado, who's a real opposition figure, but she was barred from standing. And that's why Edmundo Gonzalez took her place. She's been in hiding for much of the time since those elections because of fears for her safety. But she did come out of hiding to join these protests.
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A man who lost Bitcoin worth as much as a billion dollars also loses his legal case to search the dump where it's thought to be buried. For the past few days, the world has witnessed apocalyptic images of fires sweeping through Los Angeles. Now, even as the fires continue to rage, it's been confirmed that last year was the hottest on record.