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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach

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Well, this is a mother of two, Mary Jane Veloso, who was a domestic helper. She spent some time abroad in Dubai, came back to the Philippines in 2010 and was promised a job in Malaysia. Travelled to Malaysia, the job didn't materialise, but the person who had recruited her said, could you take a suitcase to Indonesia? She did do that.

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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach

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Unwittingly, she says inside the suitcase was 2.6 kilograms of heroin. She was caught at the airport, put on trial and sentenced to death. And she's been on death row now for nearly 15 years. And there have been some quite close calls in 2015, for example. She was scheduled to be executed by firing squad with eight others. The Philippine government made a last desperate attempt to save her life.

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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach

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She wasn't executed, but that last-minute reprieve came so late that in the Philippines they didn't even know until afterwards when they found out there'd been eight people executed, not nine, that their appeal had been successful. So there's been a real... desperately long campaign to have this woman freed because many in the Philippines thought she'd been duped.

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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach

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She is going to get quite a reception. There's a lot of sympathy for her in this case, particularly a trial itself. It was conducted in Indonesian, translated into English. Two languages that she knew nothing of, really. She didn't really speak English. Her language is Tagalog, a Philippine language. It wasn't until a few days after her sentence she actually realised she'd been sentenced to death.

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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach

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A priest had to tell her she hadn't understood the sentence when it was delivered in court. Also because of her situation... Lots of Philippine women go abroad as domestic workers. They work hard. Not always are they treated well. They leave their families back home. So that generated a lot of sympathy as well.

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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach

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So there's been an awful lot of sympathy with this case and there'll be an awful lot of people at the airport glad to see her back.

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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza

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For several weeks, there have been petitions in the Philippines calling for the impeachment of Ms Duterte, the daughter of the controversial former President Rodrigo Duterte. On Wednesday, the lower house of Congress decided to look at the issue.

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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza

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The Vice President has been accused of misusing public funds. She also made the extraordinary claim that she'd arranged for a hitman to kill the President, Ferdinand Marcos, if she herself was killed. Some see the impeachment as part of the ongoing feud between Mr Marcos and the Vice President. The pair were allies at the last election, but have since had a very public falling out.

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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza

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having been filed by more than one-third of the membership of the House... In the end, legislators endorsed the motion to impeach and applauded the decision. The Philippine Senate will now decide Ms Duterte's fate at a date yet to be fixed. The outcome is uncertain.

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Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets

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It seems extraordinary that for five years there have been no direct flights between the world's two most populous nations, with a combined population of nearly three billion. There used to be around 500 a month. They stopped in 2020 when Covid led to grounded planes everywhere.

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Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets

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A deadly clash between Chinese and Indian soldiers on their border that same year complicated diplomatic ties, and flights didn't restart. Favlas had to go through a third country. Warmer ties means direct air links will now resume.

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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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Tens of thousands of people have come together as we heard there, protesters from both sides of the divide. That's people who want to see the suspended president not only arrested, but they want to see him prosecuted and completely removed from office.

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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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There are also his supporters who want to see the impeachment, which was voted for by the National Assembly, still got to be approved, but they want to see that impeachment rescinded. So both sides are of the divide out protesting throughout Seoul, central areas mainly, but also around the presidential compound.

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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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And that's complicated matters about trying to arrest the president or this former president because investigators want to speak to him. They want to arrest him. They haven't been able to do that yet. And these protesters out on the streets are making that even more complicated.

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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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Yeah, it's all quite complicated. And it does appear to be that scenario. They've had impeached presidents before, but never before has a sitting president faced this kind of situation where he is essentially wanted by the authorities who want to arrest him. That hasn't arisen before.

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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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We have people around President Yoon who essentially were given the job as presidential security service, given the job of protecting him. That's what they are doing. Everyone's doing their job, but it's not clear how this legal situation is going to be resolved.

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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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Well, obviously, the absence of any clear leadership in any country is going to be a problem, and particularly in South Korea, which faces a number of important threats. North Korea, for one thing, and in fact, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, is on his way to Seoul He's going to be holding talks on Monday to discuss a number of issues. North Korea will be among them.

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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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So clearly, Antony Blinken will want to go to Seoul and he wants to have a conversation with somebody who's in charge, who can affect and make decisions and understand what the latest thinking of the South Korean government is. It doesn't appear from the outside that person exists. But having said that, South Korea is not a one-party state. I'd imagine the country is still getting on with the

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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia

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basic levels of government, but at the higher levels, it seems function is broken down.

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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack

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Like many things, the soil was contaminated following the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear facility in 2011. Much of it is topsoil collected in order to decontaminate vast areas surrounding the plant. Japan plans to use the least radioactive soil in civil engineering projects such as road embankments. More heavily contaminated soil will be disposed of.

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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack

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The International Atomic Energy Agency has approved the proposal, but as with the discharge of water from the plant, some people will not be happy.

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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Well, Hong Kong has decided to send a range of officials to Thailand to meet Thai immigration, judicial officials, police officers, in order to try and track down about two dozen or so cases in which Hong Kong residents

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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have simply disappeared when going to Thailand, and it's suspected that they've been taken by criminal gangs up to the borderlands with Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, and they're employed somehow there in online scams, telephone scams, which have really proliferated over recent years. Now, this is about Hong Kong, but...

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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All over China particularly and other countries have reported that a lot of their citizens are disappearing through Thailand to these unknown border areas where they're getting lured to these areas in order to take part in these scams. So it's more than Hong Kong. Why is it such a big problem now? Well, it's been a big problem for some time and for several years, really.

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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Lots of countries have been warning about it, but now it's a particular problem because essentially of the disintegration of law and order in Myanmar, where there's essentially a civil war going on, the government there occupies, the BBC did a survey a few months ago, found out that the government there only occupies about a quarter of the land.

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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The rest is controlled by ethnic groups, pro-democracy groups. This lawlessness has allowed mainly Chinese gangs to move in and set up these scam centres, not just scam centres, but also... Drug centres as well. So the production of drugs has increased in Myanmar over recent years since the lawlessness began. The UN worked out last year that Myanmar was now the biggest supplier of opium.

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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So all kinds of criminal activity, including scam centres, is taking place in these border areas.

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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Been a warning for the UN about this. Been a warning from lots of embassies. Just yesterday, the Chinese embassy in Bangkok issued a warning, essentially saying to people, if you get offered a job and it seems too good to be true, the pay is high, it doesn't require a lot of qualifications, then just ignore it. It's probably too good to be true. It probably doesn't exist.

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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And indeed, there was an interesting case which came to light just last week of a Chinese actor who'd... thought he was going to Thailand in order to take part in some kind of film. He got to Thailand, ended up being whisked away in a car to Myanmar, head shaved, movements restricted, involved in this online scam operations.

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers

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Eventually there was an outcry about his disappearance and he was found and he's returned home. But that's just the kind of thing which is going on. Mickey Bristow.

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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US

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The U.S. State Department said Mr. Blinken would look at ways to strengthen America's relationship with its two East Asian allies, South Korea and Japan. He said that while in Seoul, he'd meet senior government officials without saying who. It's not clear who Mr. Blinken should meet. The president, Yoon Suk-yool, and his replacement were both impeached.

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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US

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The finance minister is now supposed to be in charge. It's unlikely that any South Korean leader has the time to focus on anything other than the country's internal problems. On Sunday there were more developments. Mass protests, both for and against the President, continued on the streets of Seoul.

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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US

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Many waited to see if investigators looking into Mr Yoon's declaration of martial law would again attempt to arrest him. They tried once on Friday, but the President's bodyguards prevented them getting to Mr Yoon. They said they'd also stop any further attempts to detain him, raising the uneasy prospect of clashes between South Korea's different security agencies.

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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen

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Beijing banned lobsters four years ago, along with other Australian products, including coal and wine. That followed a diplomatic dispute between the two nations, partly over Canberra's call for an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid. China has gradually lifted the sanctions following an improvement in relations. The restriction on lobsters is the last to be removed.

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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen

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It comes just a month before the Lunar New Year holiday, when lobsters are in great demand in China.

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US sends diplomats to Syria

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Our Asia-Pacific regional editor, Mickey Bristow, told us more. He was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing overnight, a regular five-and-a-half-hour flight. But shortly after takeoff, the plane veered, instead of going northeast, it veered westwards over the Malay Peninsula, and then contact was lost with it.

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US sends diplomats to Syria

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Initially, the search focused around the area where it had been lost, but then it became clear that the plane had actually continued to fly thousands of kilometres off the route which it was intended to fly and had ended up in the Indian Ocean where investigators believe it had crashed. Initially, there was a search there, firstly by the governments of Malaysia, China, and Australia.

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US sends diplomats to Syria

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That was over a vast area, 120,000 kilometers. That ended. There was then a second search by the company Ocean Infinity. That didn't find anything. And so that stopped. And the investigation appeared to have died down. And as you suggested, they're a great aviation mystery because so many people on board, so little knowledge about what could have happened to the plane.

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US sends diplomats to Syria

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Why was it over the Indian Ocean? Why did it get there? So those questions remained. That's perhaps why the investigation has been reopened.

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US sends diplomats to Syria

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I think since the last search there's been a lot of work done on actually trying to take the information we do know about the plane to try and pinpoint more accurately where indeed investigators think that it crashed. And if you listen there to the transport minister from Malaysia, he suggested that this new area was 15,000 square kilometres.

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US sends diplomats to Syria

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It sounds a big area, but it's far smaller than the initial search area. So I think they feel now they've pinpointed, the area where the plane crashed. Also, there's, as you can imagine, real pressure from the families to try and find out what went on. So the Malaysian government knows that and now it's got this fresh information.

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US sends diplomats to Syria

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I think it's keen to try and look once again to try and find this plane.