Katie Watson
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
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Global News Podcast
Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
There were moments as he struggled with health problems that David Hockney didn't think he'd live to see his new show. But Britain's best-loved artist tells me he still paints every day and remains defiant about his smoking habit.
Global News Podcast
Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
How many people are you expecting?
Global News Podcast
Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
I mean, I'm very, very pleased with it. This is about 70 years work in here. I'm looking at the very first picture in the show. It's a portrait from 1955 of David Hockney's father, who is sitting in a bare room. He's wearing a dark frock coat. And it's very somber coloring. And you can see just over his shoulder the edge of a picture frame.
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
One of the first times, perhaps the first time, where Hockney was playing with this idea of a picture in a picture. In amongst the show's celebration of Yorkshire landscapes, Hockneys many joyful representations of spring in Normandy, the vast LA vistas and those swimming pools, are around 60 portraits, mainly of family and friends.
Global News Podcast
Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
Wie war es für euch alle, auf Mass zu kommen, die ganze Familie mit ihm?
Global News Podcast
Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
Downstairs, there's these beautiful paintings. The one you did early on at the Royal College of Art, we two boys together clinging, at a time when being gay was illegal. And then you moved to L.A. There's this incredible sense of liberation. Did it feel like you were at the vanguard of something new?
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
It's peak summer here in Australia and beaches up and down the country are packed. Shelter from Australia's harsh sun is a must, especially with a recent heatwave. But how people do it is causing some controversy. Cabanas or portable sun tents have become all the rage here in Australia. A parasol doesn't cut it anymore. But the large shades have taken on a secondary role.
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
that of bagsying precious space on the sand. The growing trend of erecting the cabana and then coming and going throughout the day is a practice that not everyone is happy with. On Channel 9's Today show, presenters even asked the Prime Minister what he thought of it.
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
In the US, some local authorities have restricted the use of cabanas to stop what's known as beach spreading. So far, nothing like that's been introduced here. But for as long as the summer lasts, this debate will continue.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
Even once you've been gone for a few, I would say for three weeks or so, you're going to definitely have some, you know, some changes to your body in terms of... you know, maybe some bone and muscle loss. But what we've learned up on the space station is unfortunately that exercise is here to stay in that we've learned that by exercising up there a lot, we actually maintain our bone mass.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
And when we get home, it's kind of, it's kind of strange where we're in, I was in the best shape of my whole entire life. And so when you get home, you're very strong, but your head is kind of not connected to the Because up there we fly from place to place. And it's really delightful.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
It's like being in Peter Pan, in the land of Peter Pan, where the touch of a finger can send you 50 feet until you run into something. It just takes no force at all to move. In fact, I have kind of long hair. I can take a single hair from my head, stretch it between two hands, and push off the edge of, say, a table. And if I push gently, I will push myself across the whole entire space station.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
I flew with the Russians, and so I came down on the Soyuz, and then we fly halfway across the world to get home in a regular airplane. And I'll say that I couldn't walk a straight line at first. And people are always on either side of you making sure you don't fall down. And so the first time we get off the plane to refuel, I'm still kind of like walking kind of like back and forth, weaving.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
And then the second time it's less. And then by the time we stopped in Maine on the way back to Houston and had pizza while they were refueling, I could definitely walk on my own. No one was afraid I was going to fall down.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
It struck at 12.47 local time, so just around lunchtime at about 30 kilometres from the capital, Port Vila, and a depth of up to 57 kilometres. So as we heard just there, yeah, I think a lot of people were shocked by the intensity of the quake and the mean depth. a series of smaller aftershocks in the hours after the initial quake.
Global News Podcast
Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
But very quickly, people were jumping on social media and posting images of one flattened building where you could see authorities were looking to see whether there were any people trapped. And there was also the U.S. Embassy building that showed pictures of broken windows. And that same building, the U.K. High Commission building,
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
the French embassy, the New Zealand High Commission, they're all in the same building. So the US have said that their people are safe and sound. So if New Zealand, that we're able to evacuate safely during the earthquake, but still it is a massive operation and the communications are still very difficult on the ground. It's a small island nation, very much in the middle of the Pacific.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
So you can imagine the logistics of trying to get help.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
Absolutely. I mean, it's in an area of seismic activity. It's a part of the world that's not unused to natural disasters. Last year, there was a series of cyclones that affected the island. There have been earthquakes in recent years. But the extent that, you know, the size of this earthquake and obviously the distance between
Global News Podcast
Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
The intensity at which it hit took everybody by surprise and is obviously making people nervous with the aftershocks that we have been seeing and registered on the islands. But it's about 80 islands, an archipelago of just over 80 islands, very low-lying islands, and that's why there was concern initially about a potential tsunami threat.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
It is a part of the world that is very used to natural disasters, but it's also part of the world that's very vulnerable to them in terms of you know, getting support, getting help. And Australia, which is one of the closest large nations, has said that it stands by, ready to assist Vanuatu and no doubt will be one of the first on the ground when they can get there.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
The former Facebook executive, who worked for the company between 2011 and 2017, makes the claims in a new book. She's also filed a whistleblower complaint with the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging Meta misled investors.
Global News Podcast
Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
In the book, she says, in return for gaining access to the Chinese market's hundreds of millions of potential users, Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, considered agreeing to hiding posts that were going viral in China... until they could be checked by the Chinese authorities.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
Facebook's parent company Meta says Ms Wim Williams had her employment terminated for poor performance. It is no secret we were once interested in operating services in China, it adds. We ultimately opted not to go through with the ideas we'd explored.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
Ms Wim Williams said she was let go after she had complained about inappropriate comments by one of her bosses, Joel Kaplan, who is now Meta's chief global affairs officer. Allegations Meta says are false.
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The Happy Pod: Football while fasting -- Egypt's Ramadan pastime
I mean, I'm sold. I'm learning so much from you right now. So we've talked about the math side of it. I think the other thing that a lot of people really engage with when watching darts and enjoying the darts is, of course, the atmosphere, isn't it? And that's something that I think any venue or any competition wants to bring that.
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The Happy Pod: Football while fasting -- Egypt's Ramadan pastime
And I'm sure you saw a couple of months ago, there was an African qualifier in Kenya where Vuvuzelas were brought out and the crowds were brilliant. So in terms of that being translatable to African audiences, that feels like a no-brainer.
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The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance
So a truly life-changing moment, actually. I think even some of your family members were slightly worried that you were going to meet this guy that you didn't know. And there is those kind of, I suppose, stigmas and barriers that need to be broken down.
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The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance
And for someone like Brian Lewis, have you seen complete, meaningful change now for his life?
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The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
I can hear the passion in your voice when you talk and you talk like someone who has done this their entire life. But I wonder if you could take us back to the moment where your career is going really well. You're in the NFL. For a lot of people, you are living the dream. Where was that moment where you saw, actually for me, I'm not sure I am living the dream.
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The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed
You say that you don't want to forget where you come from, but actually you didn't come from a farm, did you? So where did the farm come into this?
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
I would have spent another £159 if I could have.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
Actually, I cannot call it a rescue in that, you know, we try to stick to the facts. And they've had this crew, Sonny and Butch. There's a ship that came up in September with two empty seats just for them. That SpaceX 9 spaceship has been attached to the space station this whole time. So they could have left at any time and especially in an emergency. So it's not a rescue.
Global News Podcast
Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
It's a regularly scheduled part of the operations. But that's actually the magical part. which is that dedication to mission. The fact that, you know, knowing what you're doing up there is so important. It's so fulfilling. It even does overcome the fact that your family is taking up a lot of your slack for you and you miss each other greatly.
Global News Podcast
Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
I can barely speak when you ask me that in that, you know, it might depend on the person. I have not yet met an astronaut who was bored up there because every day is different. I mean, even if you, we actually barely have time to look out the window, but when you do look out the window, you'd think in a way, I mean, I think I went around the earth more than 4,000 times yesterday.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
And it's different every time you're seeing someplace that's interesting to you or maybe it's home to you, but you're seeing it in a different light, in a different season. And it just never, you know, that vantage point and you're always kind of looking with other people's eyes as well.
Global News Podcast
Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
It's the size of two 747s inside. So there's about 10 modules. They're all connected kind of in a line, but some are up and some are down or sideways. But each of them is the size of a subway car without the seats in it.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
Well, those things that you talked about, definitely we are seeing some of that. I would say in terms of muscle wasting, that does happen. We lose bone about 10 times faster than someone who has osteoporosis. But here's kind of the good and the bad news is that due to the experiments we're doing up there, because it happens so fast, we're easily studied. And it turns out exercise is here to stay.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
and that it really works to maintain bone health. So that's working out, although each of us has a physical every year the rest of our lives if we are willing to go to NASA to have it.
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Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
My name is Katie Baker. I am currently a senior staff writer at The Ringer and was previously a staff writer at The Ringer's predecessor, which was called Grantland.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
It's 5am, the sun's not up yet, and we're on a speedboat with two government rangers. Today's mission, checking some of the 24 crocodile traps in Darwin Harbour. This is a place where people come fishing, even swimming, and so the idea is to remove saltwater crocodiles that have come too close to the city.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
There is one? Yeah. So the trap's about, what, five metres long, and they're hard mesh with two tubes along the side of them to keep them floating. And at one end, there's bait, which is feral pig. The other end, with a string attached, is a trap door. So when they go for the bait, that door closes. Here we go. It's not an easy job.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
They secure the croc with a noose around its jaws, leading it out of the trap and then winching it out of the water. They take the mouth tightly shut and the legs. Once on board, they lie there on the floor next to our feet. Whoa, that's a big tail. Goodness me. One of the crocodiles just like flipped its tail and they're pretty strong and my seat happens to be right next to their heads.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
These saltwater crocodiles, or salties as they're known here, will be culled because otherwise there's a high chance they'll return to the harbour. Kelly Ewan is one of the rangers working in the croc management team.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
This is all part of the Northern Territory's crocodile management plan for the more than 100,000 crocs that live in the wild here. And they've recently raised the number they're allowed to cull each year to control the population. It's a turnaround from the 1970s, which saw the population dwindle to just 3,000. Now, salties aren't even threatened anymore.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
Graham Webb is one of Australia's most renowned croc experts.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
The government also goes into schools with its education programme, Be Crock-Wise. It's been such a success that other countries are now looking to borrow it.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
Natasha Hoffman is a ranger running the Bee Crocwise program.