Luke Jones
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Global News Podcast
Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
According to the South African authorities, all those working on the research base went through checks and assessments before being deployed at the start of February. But they have admitted it isn't uncommon for individuals to have an initial adjustment period after arriving at the remote base.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
The authorities say they learned that four weeks into the mission, one man physically assaulted a colleague. They're also investigating allegations of sexual harassment. Officials say they're in touch with the team daily and that a mediation process is ongoing. The man involved has written a letter of apology to the victim and is also willing to apologise to the rest of the team.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Dr Dion George is the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
The Sané 4th Research Base usually houses staff for 13 months during the Antarctic winter. It's located more than 2,500 miles from mainland South Africa and harsh weather conditions mean scientists can be cut off from the rest of the world for much of the year.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Did we get any greater clarity today about at what point Ukraine might be involved in these future talks and how that might work?
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Olga, eine der anderen Dinge, die sich heute in der Frage gestellt hat, war die Möglichkeit, Putin und Zelenskyy zu sprechen. Ich glaube, ich bin recht, wenn ich sage, dass Putins Sprechleiter das in seiner Antwort auf die Gespräche gemacht hat. Wie wahrscheinlich ist das irgendwann?
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Was ist mit der ökonomischen Seite der Dinge? Es gab viel Diskussion darüber, nicht wahr? Der Chef des russischen Direktinvestitionsfonds war da, nicht involviert in den Gesprächen, aber er war definitiv sehr nah dran.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
And I mean, just finally with you, what is next for Zelensky on this front? Does he need to corral his European strategic partners a bit more? Where does he go next?
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
Now, this is the first time that we're getting an indication of the level of interest in South Africa to Mr. Trump's offer to resettle South African farmers to the U.S. Now, for some context, on the 7th of February, President Trump issued an executive order accusing the South African government of discriminating against farmers. white Afrikaner farmers.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
These are descendants of Dutch and French settlers here in South Africa. This is something that President Cyril Ramaphosa has repeatedly denied. Nonetheless, a month later, President Trump extended his invitation to any South African farmer who felt discriminated against and also offered them citizenship. Following this, the South African Chamber of Commerce in the U.S.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
says it launched a platform on its website inviting people who were interested in resettling to fill in a few basic details. We don't know the professions of these people, so we don't know if they qualify for resettlement, if they're farmers. And this is just an expression of interest. These are not people who've applied for resettlement yet, but they say they're interested in this.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
And according to Sikusa, around 67,000 people filled in this form and have expressed an interest in resettling to the United States. Most of them were aged between 25 and 45, and the majority of them had dependents that would be coming to the U.S.,
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
When President Zelensky was talking about defending his country and Donald Trump says that he's gambling with World War III, is Donald Trump right?
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Just on the idea of the US withdrawing its military support for Ukraine, are NATO countries in a position to fill in that gap?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
What is the, and I say this as somebody who hasn't had a 60kg guinea pig in my garden, what is the problem with capybaras? I mean, are they just wandering around or are they making a nuisance of themselves?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Have a listen to this, Lucia. We've been reaching out to people on WhatsApp in Buenos Aires to get their views. And this person in particular sent us back their voice note.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Thanks to Marcelo for that. Lucia, has there been much criticism of this plan?
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The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
It came to me, really, from what I needed very soon after Arshan died. I just had this desire to dance. I had this need to be on a dance floor. I've always loved music, house music. I'm a regular to Ibiza. So I just had a desire to dance. And me and Leah... did that together. So we would go out, we would dance, and I would feel lighter. I would feel better and more human, more alive.
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The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
We open with an opening ceremony, so we welcome everyone into the space. And we actually give people a physical permission slip. And on this permission slip, it says you can be heartbroken and hopeful, joyful and sad. All is welcome on our dance floor. And we talk about this duality, this sense of feeling happy.
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The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
feeling heavy with grief, but also the benefits of dancing and what that can do to us. And we can have... Grief and joy. We invite people to not feel guilty around it because there's a lot of guilt around grief and shame and lots and lots of difficult emotions. So we take that and we leave that on the dad's floor. We tell people to leave it on the dad's floor. And they do.
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The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
And it's just such a wonderful... That tends to really hit people the most, that permission for joy and... And yeah, somebody said to me the other day, it's an event that I went to that I didn't know I needed because it fills, it helps us deal with all the heaviness.
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The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
And it's so difficult to maybe put into words, as Leah said, but having that opportunity to be in a place that's joyful as well, to be in a place where there's music, you can speak to people that totally get it, that know how you feel. especially because when you are grieving, sometimes the answer to how are you today isn't pretty, but we haven't got the capacity sometimes to deal with that.
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The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
So you button up and you say, yeah, fine. But when you come to the grief disco, you're invited to just say, yeah, this is how I feel.
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The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
There's a lot of guilt around grief and shame and lots and lots of difficult emotions. So we take that and we leave that on the dance floor. We tell people to leave it on the dance floor. MUSIC PLAYS
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Trump hosts UK's Keir Starmer at the White House
And also, there are plenty of concerns that a government like the Taliban government in Afghanistan, what they might do with those 90,000 CCTV cameras, because there are lots of people whose dissent and criticism they'll want to crush.
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Trump hosts UK's Keir Starmer at the White House
And it's not necessarily the case that this is going to rely on a policeman sitting in this room with all those TV screens you described, spotting you on one of the cameras. There is an element of facial recognition, is there not?
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Trump hosts UK's Keir Starmer at the White House
And to add insult to injury, it's not just that civilians will be having to live under this, but some of them have even been asked to pay for it when the cameras are installed on their streets. Is that right?
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Trump hosts UK's Keir Starmer at the White House
Can we make some noise for the birthday girl on her 105th birthday? Happy birthday, Hilda!
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US sends diplomats to Syria
Do you trust them to follow through with those promises?
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US sends diplomats to Syria
There have been some reports of some minorities already leaving the country. Is that happening?