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Having that many people in one place at the same time has inherent dangers and has often led to tragedies. And it's happened again. At least 30 people have died in a crush when some tried to jump over police barricades to reach a point on the river. Pictures from the scene show blankets, shoes and backpacks strewn on the ground. This woman saw what happened.
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Dua Tariq. International researchers have found that human-driven climate change contributed to the devastating wildfires recently in Los Angeles. The World Weather Attribution Network said the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were about 35% more likely due to global warming driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.
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The fires in Los Angeles, which erupted three weeks ago, killed at least 28 people and destroyed more than 10,000 homes. Dr. Frederica Otto, a co-leader of World Weather Attribution and a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, spoke to Emma Barnett about the study.
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Dr. Friederike Otto. The start of the biggest deportation in American history. In typically extravagant language, that's Donald Trump's take on raids of undocumented workers that have started in the US. Authorities say they focus so far on those who present a threat to public security, that is people with criminal convictions.
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But all undocumented migrants are at risk of deportation under the policy. Some have already been picked up. Mexicans are the biggest immigrant group in America. There are about five million of them living in the U.S. without the right paperwork. Mexico is getting ready for the expected influx of returnees, as our correspondent Will Grant reports.
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Samira Hussain is our correspondent at the Kumbela.
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American technology stocks are recovering, but they've had a torrid time this week. The volatility has been caused by the Chinese company DeepSeek's launch of a new, cheaper AI model. The last US administration tried to keep America ahead in the AI race by banning the world's leading chip makers from selling the most powerful technology to China.
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Now Donald Trump says the emergence of DeepSeek is a real wake-up call. So where does this leave the competition to be the world's AI superpower? Nina Schick was an advisor to President Biden. She spoke to Leila Nathu.
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Donald Trump's first days back in office have shaken up diplomacy, the financial world and mapmakers. That's because following an executive order from the president, Google says it will now rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its maps in the United States. It will remain as the Gulf of Mexico in Mexico and both names will be used elsewhere.
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But is it really in President Trump's power to insist on a name change? Mary Spence is one of the UK's foremost mapmakers and a former president of the British Cartographic Society.
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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 on. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, 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 Callum McLean and the producer was Stephanie Tillotson. The editor is Karen Martin.
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The opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, has blamed the deaths on what he called official mismanagement. What measures are in place to try to reduce the dangers?
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I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
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Samira, do you get a sense that people are angry with the authorities or do they just accept that these kind of tragedies do happen when so many people are gathered in one place?
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Samira Hussain at the Kumbh Mela Festival in India. International pressure is mounting to find a peaceful solution to the escalation of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Rwandan-backed rebel group is now tightening its control over the city of Goma, where many people have been killed and hospitals are said to have been overwhelmed.
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But now the Democratic Republic of Congo's president, Felix Chisakedi, says he will not be attending a crisis meeting with his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, which was organised by Kenya to stop the fighting. Anne Soy is our senior Africa correspondent.
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And without him being there or a senior representative, what good can these talks do?
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That's extraordinary, really. I had no idea about that. They're that ambitious.
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I'm Nick Miles, and at 14 Hours GMT on Wednesday 29th January, these are our main stories. There has been a deadly crush at the world's largest religious festival, the Kumbh Mela in northern India. State media in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that President Felix Tshisekedi will not attend a crisis meeting with his Rwandan counterpart.
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That was Anne Soy. In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has claimed yet another political triumph, awarded 87% of the vote in a presidential election. But it was an election in name only, with all genuine opposition either in prison or forced to flee abroad after mass protests in 2020 ended in police brutality and mass detentions.
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Opposition figures now in exile warn that Lukashenko is a danger far beyond the borders of Belarus because he's such a close ally of Vladimir Putin. But the activist mood these days is more depressed than defiant, as our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports from Warsaw.
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Scientists have concluded that climate change was a major factor in the devastating LA world fires.
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Sarah Rainsford with that report. More and more people are turning to grief apps to cope with the loss of family and friends. The apps focus on helping people's mental health, but critics say they could be putting vulnerable people at risk. The technology journalist Lindsay Lee Wallace has researched the issue for the BBC. She's been telling me more about the apps and how they work.
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You mentioned AI there, and I think that's one of the concerns that people are raising, that if you use AI, which I know these apps say they don't, but to respond to other people's posts, that might increase the sense of isolation and non-human contact that people are craving for.
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As you said, that people are vulnerable, they're sharing very personal information. One imagines that the safeguards are there in place. Are they in terms of keeping this information where it should be?
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A nation braces itself for the expected influx of people deported under Donald Trump's crackdown on undocumented migrants. It is the world's largest festival. The Kumbh Mela gathering in India brings together more than 100 million people to bathe at what's considered to be a sacred point on the River Ganges.
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At least 30 dead in India festival crush
US tech expert Lindsay Lee Wallace, and you can read much more about Lindsay's investigation online at BBC Future. Still to come in this podcast, we find out how the US president is causing cartographic confusion in the Americas.
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At least 30 dead in India festival crush
Let's turn now to the war in Sudan where several parts of the country have been driven into famine by the fighting between the paramilitary forces and the Sudanese army. The conflict broke out in April 2023 and now seems to be intensifying.
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Throughout the war, neighbourhood groups known as the Emergency Response Rooms, or ERRs, have been keeping their fellow Sudanese alive, staffing food kitchens and providing health services. Dua Tariq is part of the ERRs in Eastern Khartoum. She spoke to James Kopnal about a food aid convoy which is on its way to her area.
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Es werden Leute sein, die die Vorschläge genießen würden. Es werden auch Leute sein, die nichts Besseres denken können, als 19, 20 Stunden auf einem Flugzeug zu sparen. Aber Qantas sagt, dass es für das eine Anforderung gibt. Und es ist tatsächlich eine Route, die schon Jahre und Jahre in der Schaffung ist. Die ersten Testfliege haben 2019 begonnen.
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Qantas musste beweisen, dass die Piloten, Crew, Passagiere so eine lange Reise physisch und psychologisch auslösen können. Es war eigentlich dieses Jahr veröffentlicht, aber es gab Verluste mit den Flugzeugen. Regulierer wollten Modifikationen für den Fuel Tank. So the new launch is going to be in 2027, the CEO of Qantas has confirmed.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
At the moment, the world's longest non-stop flight is a Singapore Airlines flight from here in Singapore to New York. That's about 18 hours or so. Perth to London is also another very long haul flight that Qantas offers. And they are very popular. Qantas says that the data shows that people don't mind putting up with the extra cost or the discomfort if it's a direct flight.
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So it will be interesting to see how many people Ich hoffe, wir sehen uns in ein paar Jahren wieder.
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Trump announces multi-billion dollar AI programme
The money will come from three big tech companies – In advance of the announcement, our correspondent in Washington, Ione Wells, told us more about the programme.
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Azma, Khaled and Dalia talking to Andrew Peach. And Israel rejects that claim about genocide in Gaza. Since Colombia signed a peace deal with the rebel group FARC in 2016, Medellin, its second largest city, has become a popular tourist destination. In 2022, almost 1.5 million people visited the city. It's become particularly popular with a group of young men known as the Passport Bros.
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They're mostly from the United States looking for a better lifestyle, and that includes starting relationships with local women. Phoebe Hobson from BBC Trending has been looking at how the influx of new visitors is also causing concern about a possible rise in the sexual exploitation of underage girls.
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Phoebe Hobson reporting. And you can hear her full documentary wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Kite flying seems a harmless enough pastime, but tough competition has turned it into a dangerous sport in parts of Pakistan. This is because some competitors coat their strings with metal or glass, and that can lead to injuries or even deaths.
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That's why the authorities in the Punjab province of Pakistan have now passed a bill imposing harsh sentences on those building and selling kites. I got more from our South Asia regional editor, Ambra Sanettarajan.
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Famously, after the Taliban was kicked out in 2001, people... were allowed to fly kites again, weren't they?
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Ambrose Aneta Rajan. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it is midwinter, when for some people their mood is at its lowest. Well, if this describes your current state of mind, you may want to take a look at one of the big-selling self-help books at the moment. The Let Them Theory is really a manifesto about how to not let things outside your control consume you.
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The author is Mel Robbins, who has 7.5 million followers on Instagram. She told us more about her theory.
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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. And soon we'll be answering your questions about the second Trump presidency. Maybe you want to know more about executive orders and pardons, or for us to explain Trump's plans for immigration. How will his threat of additional tariffs play out?
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And why would a Trump administration leave the World Health Organization? Please send us your questions or voice notes immediately. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll and the producer was Alison Davis. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
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Yeah, they need these big data centres, the chips, the electricity, the water resources. And the United States has set great store by wanting to stay ahead of the game, if you like, in terms of AI and not let countries like China catch up. So this is hugely important, isn't it?
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Ione Wells. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has declared a day of national mourning following a fire at a hotel in a ski resort, which killed at least 76 people. He said those responsible would be held to account. Four people have been arrested. Nikki Schiller has this report.
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The British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has been speaking about a new threat to the UK. It relates to the murders of three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class last year. More from the BBC's political reporter, Rob Watson.
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Trump announces multi-billion dollar AI programme
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Wednesday 22nd January, these are our main stories. President Trump has announced a multi-billion dollar investment programme for artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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Rob Watson talking to Andrew Peach. The Formula One motor racing team Haas has appointed the first female race engineer in the 75-year history of the sport. Laura Muller will work closely with the team's new driver, Esteban Ocon. Glitzia Sala reports.
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There are few skills quite as elegant and impressive as playing the piano. But there are no shortcuts. Hundreds of hours spent racing your fingers across the keys can still lead to frustration. But a new robotic glove may now be able to help those who just can't quite get the hang of it. Our reporter Alfie Habershon is one of them.
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The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said those responsible for a fire at a ski resort hotel, which killed at least 76 people, will be held to account. The Formula One motor racing team, Haas, has appointed the first female race engineer in the 75-year history of the sport.
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Garzans returning home after the ceasefire and counting the costs of the war.
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The Israeli-occupied West Bank has long seen battles between Palestinian Authority security services and Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters. Now Israeli security forces have launched an operation to, as they put it, eradicate terrorism there. Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson has been in the West Bank.
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She begins her report looking at another of the areas of conflict there, the growing number of Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian communities.
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A lesson in letting go. Donald Trump has made plenty of headlines with his executive orders in the first 24 hours in the White House, from pulling out of climate change agreements to pardoning the January the 6th rioters. Here's another eye-catching one. Shortly before we recorded this podcast, he announced a $500 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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Lucy Williamson. Meanwhile, in Gaza, the ceasefire is holding despite fears of a breakdown. It's allowing many of the displaced to return to their homes or what's left of them after more than 14 months of war. We brought together three of those people. Khaled Shawa is a Palestinian surgeon who's been in Gaza since October 2023. He is in Gaza City.
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Asma Mustafa is an English teacher who spent the war moving from refugee camp to refugee camp with her students. She's in Nuzerat, in the centre of the Strip. And 22-year-old Dalia Taha in Khan Yunis, who had been waiting anxiously for a ceasefire to get medical help for her sick grandfather. But for him, the ceasefire came too late. Dalia first.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Wednesday the 12th of February, these are our main stories. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza ceasefire deal will end if Hamas does not free hostages by Saturday. Mr Netanyahu added that intense fighting would also resume.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
The 63-year-old, who once worked as a diplomat at the US embassy in Moscow, was serving a sentence for being caught in possession of what was said to be a small amount of cannabis. In a moment, we'll hear from Mark's sister. But first, Steve Rosenberg, the BBC's Russia editor in Moscow.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Steve Rosenberg. Speaking from the state of Montana, Mark Fogel's sister, Anne Fogel, gave her reaction to my colleague Celia Hatton.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
So is Benjamin Netanyahu really demanding the release of all hostages on Saturday, like President Trump? A question for our correspondent in Jerusalem, Wira Davis.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Anne Fogel. How to make money out of artificial intelligence occupies the thoughts of many a tech mogul. How to control it keeps many politicians up at night. Well, now 60 countries, including China, have signed an international agreement to develop what they call inclusive, ethical and sustainable artificial intelligence. It came at the end of the AI Action Summit in Paris.
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But two of the biggest players in the sector, the UK and America, refused to sign up to the deal. The US Vice President, J.D. Vance, had this warning to those gathered in Paris.
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Later on, though, the French President Emmanuel Macron explained why regulation of the AI sector was necessary.
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Dr Stephanie Hare is a broadcaster and writer who specialises in the tech sector. And she was at the conference. So what did she make of the two-day event and has it changed much?
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It is being called the most significant blow to the Italian mafia in more than 40 years. Police say that more than 130 members of the group were arrested in and around the Sicilian city of Palermo, known colloquially as the Cosa Nostra. The group terrorised large parts of Italy in the 1980s and 90s. Since then, it's been overtaken as Europe's most powerful mob by the Calabrian Undrangheta.
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Our reporter Carla Conti is from Sicily and told me more about this latest strike against the islands group.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
You grew up in Palermo, in that part of Sicily. Perhaps people will have mixed feelings about what's happened now. On the one hand, fewer members of the mafia on the streets. On the other, evidence that the mafia is still very strong.
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Carla Conti. 150 years ago, a chimney sweep aged just 11 died at work in a building in Cambridgeshire in the southeastern part of England. But George Brewster's tragic tale would help change child labour laws here in Britain. On Tuesday, his short life was finally honoured with a commemorative blue plaque at the building, a former asylum. Joe Black takes up the story.
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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 on. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service using the hashtag at globalnewspod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll and the producer was Alison Davis.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
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And meanwhile, Hamas have been saying that they want Qatari and Egyptian mediators to intervene to get the ceasefire deal back on track, in their words. By the sounds of things, it's going to be extremely difficult at this stage for mediators to make any difference.
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King Abdullah of Jordan has told President Trump that his country would take thousands of sick children from Gaza. In other news, the author Salman Rushdie has testified at the trial in New York State of a man accused of attempting to murder him. Also in this podcast.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
And at the moment, Hamas is saying that Israel has been blocking humanitarian aid. And that's the reason they're giving for maybe not releasing the next three hostages. Is there any room for movement there?
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Well, just how do people on the ground in Gaza view the prospect of the ceasefire unravelling and a return to war? Barzad told the BBC of his family's reaction to the latest news.
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We heard there from people in Gaza, Dalia, Fahed and Barzad. Let's hear now from a relative of one of the hostages being held in Gaza. Sharon Livshitz's parents were taken by Hamas on October 7th, 2023. Her mother, Yocheved, was released, but her father, Oded, is still being held.
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Sharon Livchitz. Well, the future of Gaza and the Palestinians living there was discussed at the White House when Donald Trump met Jordan's King Abdullah on Tuesday. On Monday, the US president said he might withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt if they didn't take in large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza. Here's Donald Trump on Tuesday.
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Washington says it secured the release of a US school teacher who had been held in Russia for four years. We speak to his sister. Israel and Hamas are midway through the first stage of a fragile ceasefire. So far, 16 Israeli hostages have been released in exchange for more than 500 Palestinian prisoners. Another exchange is due to take place on Saturday. But all that has been thrown into question.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Well, King Abdullah had already rejected the idea of taking in Gazans, saying his country is at boiling point as it already hosts millions of refugees. King Abdullah did, however, announce that Jordan would take in 2,000 sick children from Gaza for treatment. Our State Department correspondent Tom Bateman was at the White House.
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He did, though, King Abdullah, saying that there will be a united response to the US president's plan, united maybe in the tense of we reject it.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Tom Bateman. Let's move on to some other news now. And the novelist Salman Rushdie has been testifying in the trial of the man accused of attempting to murder him in 2022. A frenzied stabbing attack at a lecture in New York left Mr Rushdie blind in one eye. The author has been subject of a fatwa issued by the then Iranian Supreme Leader since publishing the Satanic Verses back in 1988.
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Our correspondent, Neda Torfik, is at the court in New York State.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Hamas said they may delay the release because of what they said were Israeli violations of the agreement. The U.S. President Donald Trump says that if all hostages aren't returned by noon on Saturday, then, in his words, all hell will break loose. Meanwhile, after meeting his security cabinet, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said this.
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A billionaire couple have won a court case here in the UK. A judge ruled they'd get most of the fortune that they paid for a London mansion returned to them. Why? Because the place was infested with moths, millions of them, that got into their food, ruined their clothes and even landed on their kids' toothbrushes whilst they were brushing. Stephanie Zachrisson reports.
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Honouring England's last climbing boy, the Victorian child, who died after he became stuck up a chimney, triggering national outrage and a change in child labour laws. The White House has announced that an American man, a teacher, Mark Fogel, who'd been held in Russia since 2021 on drugs charges, has now been freed.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
Getting more aid into Gaza was a key component of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. But on Sunday Israel said it was stopping aid crossings, calling on Hamas to agree to extend the first phase of the ceasefire. Aid agencies are now warning the blocking of relief is having a significant impact.
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The World Food Programme told the BBC it had enough stock to provide assistance to Gazans for less than two weeks. It warned if crossings into Gaza remain closed, it may have to further reduce rations. Christian Aid, which operates in the Strip, said market prices had increased by as much as a quarter, with some goods like meat, fish and imported vegetables starting to disappear altogether.
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Christian Aid also said the lack of relief risked what they called an even greater humanitarian catastrophe if aid deliveries don't resume soon.
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A sea of Romanian flags in central Bucharest. Last Saturday, tens of thousands of Romanians marched through their capital in support of Kalin Georgescu, a 62-year-old agricultural engineer who says he wants to put Romania first. I asked Dragos, a Romanian living in Canada, what he's protesting against.
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Viele in der Gruppe verurteilen die Krieg in der Ukraine nicht an Russland, sondern an dem, was sie als globale Elite sehen. Sie verurteilen das aktuelle rumänische Regierung, dass sie ein Puppet dieser Elite ist, während ihre Kritiker ihren Helden, Kalin Georgescu, als ein Puppet der Russen verurteilen.
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So you want Mr. Georgescu to win the election?
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Lavinia is marching with her husband, Sherban, and their three-year-old daughter, watching it all wide-eyed from her push chair, astonished by the commotion all around her.
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I can see who you are for, but who or what are you against?
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Back in December, Romania came under US pressure from the outgoing Biden administration, as well as its NATO allies in Europe, to prevent Kalin Georgescu's victory. Now the Trump administration is pressuring Romania to let him run. Their response was dramatic. In a series of raids across the country, police discovered gold bullion, cash and an arsenal of weapons.
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They belonged to Horatio Potra, a former soldier in the French Foreign Legion, who backs Kalin Georgescu in the May election.
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Das sind ziemlich ernsthafte Angelegenheiten, die gegen die konstitutionelle Ordnung konspieren. Die Mitgliedschaft einer neofaschistischen Organisation, Antisemitismus. Du glaubst das nicht?
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Georgescu hat mit Potra fotografiert, der auch Militärs in Afrika rannte. Und Potra hat kein Geheimnis von seinem Unterstützung für Georgescu gemacht, obwohl es nicht klar ist, was die Verwaltungen in der Gerichtssitzung beweisen werden können. Aber die Anzeichen gegen ihn können ausgesprochen werden, um ihn aus dem Stand in der Mai-Elektion zu disqualifizieren.
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If you look at the photographs, the videos online of Great Blaski, it does look glorious. Beautiful rocks, the wildlife as well. But Camille, it's going to be quite tough at times, isn't it?
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James, do you lose the thing that everyone's obsessed with these days, the mobile phone, or despite the lack of electricity supply, can you still do that?
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Now, you're caretakers for the people who come and stay in the cottages on the island. So you've got some company some of the time. Do you get a sense, James, of how often you're going to be on your own? And what's the advice you've been given by people who've done the job before?
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And art, Camille, that's part of what attracts you, isn't it? It is the time to look at this great beauty and to paint it.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
The weather is a bit lively off the southwest coast of Ireland at times. It's not always gorgeous sunshine and lying on the beach, is it?
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
So you're stacked up, are you, with the kit you need, James?
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
We've just arrived at the school complex. It's a big site with lots of different schools. What happened yesterday was that one particular centre that was for adult learning was the epicentre of this attack. And this morning, I'm just looking, there are still lots of police here. Flowers and candles have been left and a few of them are alight at the moment. Lots and lots of press as well.
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There is this vacuum of information at the moment because we haven't really learnt a huge amount in the past 12 hours. The police are saying that they haven't named the attacker yet. They do say that he is among the 11 people dead. The police are also saying that they believe he acted alone, didn't seem to be part of a gang. Detectives say they don't believe this was an act of terror.
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Swedish media reporting that this was a 35-year-old man, the perpetrator, who's described as a local recluse and someone who legally had a gun. But worth stressing, this is unconfirmed for now.
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No, we don't. So no information about their backgrounds, who they were, whether this was a targeted or random in terms of the classroom and locations within the complex that the gunman chose. This is a centre which, like others here in Sweden... are for people who haven't finished their secondary school education, so people typically 20 years old and above.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
Within that, you do see a lot of people who arrive in Sweden who learn the language and further their studies, but there's no suggestion at the moment, no evidence, that this was a central part of the gunman's thinking. But clearly, along with lots of other things, it's something that detectives will be looking at, and there are reports that they searched the gunman's house yesterday.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
That's right. The prime minister, Ulf Kristersen, said it was an act of brutal and lethal violence, saying that it was difficult to take in the magnitude of what had happened. And I think for Swedes this morning, it's something which clearly has shocked so many people. The flags are at half-mast. But it is something that is very, very rare, this sort of school shooting. The number's dead.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
It's unprecedented. It does, though, come within the context of growing violence, it would seem, within the country. Because just last week, the Prime Minister admitted the government had basically lost control over a spiralling wave of violence... Worth pointing out, this is specifically linked to gang violence, and we've seen a lot of bombings last month.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
Actually, it averaged about one a month, different rival gangs targeting each other with bombs and other sort of attacks.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Myanmar's military hunter has said that this Chinese convoy of aid workers failed to stop in a zone of conflict and therefore they sent out some warning shots. But it does just go to show how incredible this situation is, that war, that armed conflict is ongoing while people are suffering in the midst of this humanitarian disaster.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
They have, yes, but it's a unilateral ceasefire. The military hunter has rejected it. They were talking in state media this morning and they said that because these rebel groups... der weniger als 24 Stunden nach dem Erkrankungsschuss getroffen wurde.
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Die Menschen von Myanmar müssen mit diesem absoluten Verrückten eines Erkrankungsstoffs umgehen, während sie immer noch in einer Konfliktzone leben müssen.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
That's right, Jackie. They say that this is the worst situation that they've seen so far. They've already been to the capital, Naypyidaw. After that they went all the way up to Mandalay, very near the epicentre. Bridges had collapsed, roads were unusable. They said that it's essentially a picture of utter destruction there. They've already smelt everywhere.
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in verschiedenen Teilen von Myanmar, aber auch in Sagaing. Und sie haben gesagt, dass es in vielen dieser Plätze keine Rettungsarbeit gibt.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Inle Lake was once Myanmar's aquatic tourist paradise. A world of bamboo homes perching above the surface. Fishermen holding oars with their legs to glide their boats through the serene waters. It's now a floating disaster zone. Crumpled houses, submerged restaurants, fallen pagodas.
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Eine österreichische Charite hat uns ein Video geschickt, nachdem sie 14 Stunden von der größten Stadt Yangon nach dem Meer gefahren ist. Rund 100 Menschen sind hier gestorben, viele aus dem Verlust. Wie diese Frau, die sich jetzt in einem nahen Monasterium befindet, erklärt.
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Jochen Meissner from the charity, called Sona, spoke to us after spending the day giving out aid in what is a devastated landscape.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Er sagt, sie seien die erste internationale Organisation, um das Gebiet zu erreichen. Andere lokalen Charitäten sind gekommen und die Militärin hat geholfen. Das ist ein starker Kontrast von dem, wobei ihre Flugzeuge weiter Bomben an rebelhaften Bereichen gehalten haben, insbesondere nahe dem Epizentrum des Quakes. Jochen sagt, die Leute auf dem Meer bekommen jetzt Hilfe.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
The picturesque refuge of Inle Lake once drew hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors every year, at least before the military coup in 2021. Civil war stole their livelihoods. The earthquake stole their lives. Misery upon misery for the Burmese people.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Now, exactly what form the tariffs will take at the moment, we don't know. President Trump will reveal more on Wednesday afternoon, Washington time. Tim Frank spoke to Ernie Tedeschi, director of economics at the Budget Lab at Yale University and a former chief economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers under the Biden administration.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
So, a lot of uncertainty regarding the forthcoming tariffs?
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Around 150,000 are estimated to have been killed and millions of people have become refugees. In the last few days, Sudan's military recaptured the capital city, Khartoum, for the first time since early in the war. Many of those who stayed have been celebrating the end of RSF occupation, but the core of the city is in ruins.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Ernie Tedeschi, Director of Economics at the Budget Lab at Yale University. The Trump administration has admitted making a mistake after deporting an immigrant with protected status. It has described the deportation as an administrative error. Quilmar Armando Obrego Garcia was among more than 200 suspected gang members who were deported to El Salvador in March.
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Our Central America correspondent Will Grant has more.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
how the war in Ukraine has boosted defence technology in Finland.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Russia has conscripted another 160,000 men for military service, the highest figure since 2011 for its annual call-up. The move forms part of Vladimir Putin's plan to expand the country's armed forces to a total of almost 2.4 million, as our Europe regional editor Paul Moss reports.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
A BBC team is one of the first media organisations to enter the city since it changed hands. Our Africa correspondent Barbara Pleidasha and her team travelled with Sudan's army to the city.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Finland has said it will pull out of an international agreement on landmines, meaning it could begin stockpiling the weapons and deploying them along its border with Russia. More than 160 countries are signed up to the Ottawa Treaty, which bans landmines. But Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said his country was looking to bolster its defence.
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Last month, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania also said they would withdraw from the landmine convention because of the increased Russian threat. Meanwhile, Finland has experienced a boom in defence technology companies since the start of the war in Ukraine.
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And amid the current geopolitical tensions between President Trump's administration and the European Union, there's a renewed focus on the role of the tech sector in helping Finland improve its defence capabilities. Maddy Savage reports from Helsinki.
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Maddy Savage in Finland. Baseball equipment is beautifully simple. A white leather ball and a wooden bat. It's been played in roughly its current form since the 1880s. But with the 2025 season now underway, Major League Baseball could be on the brink of a drastic change. A handful of players have had great success with the new shape bat.
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It is believed to be the first significant evolution in bat design for more than 100 years. Peter Goffin has been looking into the science behind what's being called the torpedo bat.
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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 on. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll. The producer was Liam McSheffrey.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Mars. Until next time, goodbye.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Barbara is still in the city. I managed to contact her and asked her how much of a turning point the taking of Khartoum is for the conflict.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 2nd of April, these are our main stories. The BBC has become one of the first international news organisations to reach the Sudanese capital Khartoum since the army recaptured it and has found overwhelming destruction.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
And Barbara, we heard in your piece concerns from one woman about what kind of a nation emerges from the civil war when it ends. What's your assessment of that?
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Barbara Pledasche in Khartoum. A month after Israel imposed a total blockade on goods and electricity in Gaza, food supplies have been running dangerously low. Now the UN's World Food Programme says it's having to shut down all of its bakeries in Gaza because of a shortage of flour and diesel. I asked our Middle East regional editor Mike Thompson how significant is this?
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Now, Mike, in another development, there's news from another branch of the UN, UNICEF, the Children's Fund, about the impact the collapse of the ceasefire has had on children particularly.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
A major rebel alliance in Myanmar has declared a month-long ceasefire to allow earthquake relief efforts to take place. Russia has embarked on its biggest military call-up in more than a decade.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Our Middle East regional editor, Mike Thompson. Next to Myanmar. Three key armed rebel groups in the country have announced a unilateral ceasefire for a month following last week's earthquake. Known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance, they said they wanted to facilitate the most effective relief effort.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Myanmar's military government has continued to attack militant groups, even while coordinating the response to last Friday's earthquake. Correspondents from the BBC's Burmese service have continued to speak to people inside Myanmar. Their colleague So Win Tan pulled together this compilation of their reports.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
That report by Sir Wyn Tan of the BBC's Burmese service. Our correspondent Rebecca Henschke, who covered the region for many years, tell me more about the rescue effort.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
And this may be because the military is stretched elsewhere and is continuing to attack rebels.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
A number of rebel groups have said that we're going to observe a ceasefire. What pressure will that put on the authorities to do likewise?
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
A redesign of the baseball bat and it's already having a huge impact. For two years now, since April 2023, Sudan has been in the midst of a devastating civil war. The fighting is between the country's army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces or RSF. Their fight has caused a huge humanitarian crisis.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
In places like Mandalay, a very large city, over a million people living there, these are the kind of places that need vast amounts of military aid. Quite frankly, is it there?
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Now, what could be, in the words of one major US news website, the most aggressive overhaul of the global economic system in decades? The US President Donald Trump has been signalling for a while that he wants Wednesday, April 2nd, to be what he calls Liberation Day. It is then that President Trump is expected to announce sweeping tariffs affecting trillions of dollars of US imports.
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This is how the White House Press Secretary, Caroline Leavitt, previewed things.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
So it's been a long time coming, but now it's come. And it's a big one. It's a global ban, isn't it? How does Brazil have such a wide jurisdiction in this?
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
So as far as we know, is there any recourse for Adele or her record label now? Can they appeal?
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Lise Doucette, the number of people being executed around the world by their governments is at its highest level in 10 years. That's according to a new report by Amnesty International. It lists China as carrying out the most executions, as our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports.
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Decades of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan could be coming to an end as the finishing touches are being put to a peace deal. But the fate of ethnic Armenian prisoners currently on trial in Baku is not part of the deal. The neighbouring nations have fought two full-scale wars over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan regained full control of two years ago.
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The former leaders of the separatist region are now being tried in Baku's military court, accused of war crimes. Among them is billionaire philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan, who founded one of Armenia's most prestigious educational institutions. His trial is scheduled to restart on Tuesday. Reyhan Dimitri travelled to Armenia to meet those affected by the detentions.
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As a reminder, last week he announced a 34% levy on goods from China entering the United States. Stephen McDonnell in Beijing told me more.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, all countries that rely heavily on food aid from abroad. Now the United States seems to be saying it will stop providing its portion of assistance. That at least is according to the UN's World Food Programme, which says the move could amount to a death sentence for millions of people.
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Imogen Folks, who's in Geneva, where the WFP is based, told me more about the background.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
And you say critical situations in those countries. What could be the potential impact on places like Afghanistan, Somalia?
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
Now to a life-giving technology. A woman in the UK has given birth to a baby girl two years after she'd had a womb transplant. The extraordinary thing is that this was all made possible because Grace Davidson's sister, Amy, was the donor. Grace's baby has been called Amy too in recognition of her aunt. Our medical editor Fergus Walsh reports.
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You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag globalnewspod. This edition was mixed by Daniela Varela-Hernandez and the producer was Stephanie Prentice. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
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And how popular amongst ordinary Chinese people are these pretty robust actions from Beijing?
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
Stephen McDonnell. While that's all going on, a war of words is also taking place. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Lin Jian, has accused the US Vice President, J.D. Vance, of being ignorant and impolite in reference to an interview Mr. Vance gave on Fox News last week in which he referred to Chinese people as peasants. Here's the moment on Fox and Friends.
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Well, there's been a strong online reaction to those comments in China. Kerry Allen is our China media analyst.
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BBC Verify, our misinformation and fact-checking unit, has been investigating some of the claims about unfair trade practices made by President Donald Trump on Monday. Verify's Jake Horton spoke to Geeta Gurumurthy.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and at 13.30 GMT on Tuesday, the 8th of April, these are our main stories. China vows to play rough with the US on tariffs, and we fact-check some of President Trump's claims on trade. Iran has confirmed it will hold talks about its nuclear programme with US officials, but what could that mean?
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That was Jake Horton. The BBC has gained rare insight into the lives of more than three million Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territory. We've spoken to Maria, not her real name, about her work as an activist and member of a women's resistance group. For her safety, Maria's words have been revoiced by one of our colleagues.
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Vitaly Shevchenko is the Russia editor at BBC Monitoring. He told us how risky it is for people like Maria to oppose occupying Russian forces.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
And the BBC gets rare access into the lives of the more than three million Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territories.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
And they are fighting an uphill battle, aren't they, against this Russification because schools are under Russian control. The ruble is used in these areas. You need a Russian passport to open a bank account. All of these things are meaning that it's being moved further and further away from Kiev's orbit.
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Vitaly Shevchenko. Many listeners will probably think they have an idea of the final hours of the Titanic, but new analysis has revealed fresh insight into the doomed passenger ship's final hours. An exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 and what was happening when it did. Our science editor Rebecca Murrell has more.
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The first baby in the UK born from a womb transplant. Baby Amy arrives.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
President Trump says the US is having direct talks with Iran, adding that they will have a very big meeting on Saturday. He was speaking in the Oval Office after a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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But Iranian state media say only indirect talks with the US will be held in Oman on Saturday, led by Iran's foreign minister and President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff. Last month, Mr Trump threatened to bomb Iran and let it agreed not to develop nuclear weapons. Iran claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
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We will fight until the end. A definitive message from the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Tuesday as Washington and Beijing inch closer to what many fear will be an all-out trade war. President Trump has said he'll slap on an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports if it doesn't cancel its own retaliatory taxes on US goods.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
Dr Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford University in the US, explains the talks from Tehran's perspective.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
So what else do we know about these negotiations? Here's our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
That's fascinating. You're saying that that echo of the 20s with now, hope in the face of what for many is despair, is why it still has an appeal today.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
Jane Crowther, when you first read it, what was it?
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
It pays rereading, in other words, in your view.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
Now, you've done something quite bold. You've said, let's make Gatsby a woman.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
It's out this month. Have Gatsby fans yet had a chance to say, how dare you fiddle with the original?
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
And Professor Churchwell, there are people who say, well, that is a weakness of the original, that it isn't good at portraying women.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
And Jane, do you share that view?
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
We're on day five now after the earthquake struck on Friday. The chances of finding survivors becomes less and less likely. That doesn't mean that people will stop trying. It doesn't mean that international rescue teams aren't going in. But obviously as more time goes by, the likelihood of these people being found alive diminishes significantly.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
Well, I'm actually looking at that vast mound of rubble that was supposed to be a government office building which was under construction when it came down in a matter of seconds on Friday. There's actually still plenty of work going on here. There's diggers, huge cranes wherever you look.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
They're shifting these enormous slabs of concrete and trying to take away all the twisted metal that still remains of this mound of debris. It's still about four or five stories high. There's lots happening here, but it's become a generally accepted fact now that this operation is less about search and rescue of survivors and more about search and recovery of bodies.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
And Bangkok's governor was actually here just a couple of hours ago And he was talking about the removal of bodies. He was saying that, you know, scanners weren't picking up any more signs of life. They were just detecting bodies. So an investigation has been launched. Companies who were involved in the construction of this building have been placed under investigation.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
We saw some steel samples being taken away from the construction site for analysis. And the Thai government wants answers by the end of the week. But that's kind of the focus where I am now in Bangkok, Jackie.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
As our Ireland correspondent Chris Page now reports, the story of the Irish crime gang has been reported in television documentaries.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
He wanted to remain anonymous because of fear of the military authorities. He says that some villages around the city are even worse affected than the city itself. The rescue worker described pulling out more than 100 dead bodies in one small village alone. One of our producers has voiced his words.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
That report by our Ireland correspondent, Chris Page. Still to come, the two NASA astronauts, Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, have spoken publicly for the first time since returning to Earth nearly two weeks ago. This is Sonny.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Global stock markets tumbled on Monday and we haven't even got to the day of reckoning yet. That day is Wednesday when President Trump says he will announce a raft of new tariffs. He's calling it Liberation Day. Investors worry that plans to tax imports will hit the global economy. President Trump says tariffs will protect American jobs. Our economics editor Faisal Islam has more.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
The BBC's economics editor, Faisal Islam. In recent days, Donald Trump has said he's not joking about wanting to serve a third term as US president. The US Constitution says that no person shall be elected more than twice, but some of his advisers have suggested there could be ways around that.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Asked in an interview with NBC television about the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, Mr Trump said there are methods which you could do it. James Menendez spoke to Brian Kalt, a professor of law at Michigan State University in the United States. So what are those methods?
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Brian Colt, a professor of law at Michigan State University. Television drama is often a reflection of growing and worrying social issues. Take Netflix's new drama, Adolescence, which has tapped into concerns about online misogyny. It has broken records to become its most watched limited series in its first few weeks, with more than 90 million views worldwide.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
The story looks at the aftermath of the murder of a teenage girl by one of the boys at her school in northern England. It had a particular impact in the UK and now the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has endorsed it being made freely available in schools across Britain as an educational resource.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Mr Starmer met the programme's creators on Monday at his official residence, 10 Downing Street in London.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
It is relatively rare to see senior politicians reacting to a television drama like this. I asked our political correspondent, Rob Watson, why has this had such an impact?
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
huge societal issue it really is compelling i watched it in one sitting pretty much with my adolescent son um i mean the uk's online safety act comes into effect what later this year making what tech companies legally responsible for keeping children and others safe online but how hard is this problem reflected in that drama possible to manage or even to quantify well if you take quantifying first nick i mean it's massive i'll just quote three surveys quickly there was one
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Rob Watson. Sonny Williams and Birch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who left Earth on an eight-day mission last June and who ended up having to spend nine unplanned months on the International Space Station, gave their first news conference on Monday after splashing back down off the coast of Florida almost two weeks ago.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Sonny was asked what her message was for all those people who were waiting so eagerly for her return.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
She was also asked how she felt about the huge amount of attention she and Butch had received.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
And Butch, who was sitting alongside her, was asked who he blamed for the failure of the original return mission.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
The NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore. Until next time, goodbye.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Meanwhile, the military rulers in Myanmar have declared a week of national mourning as the death toll from the earthquake rises. The judges said on Monday that around 2,000 people are confirmed dead, but the number of those killed is difficult to verify and is predicted to be much higher.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
As aid workers struggle to reach many areas, the military has continued to launch ground attacks against rebel groups in the region worst affected by the quake, Saigang. The UN Assistant Secretary General, Kani Wignaraja, said a ceasefire is needed for relief efforts to go ahead.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
For more on the extent of the devastation, our correspondent Anna Foster sent this report from the Thai-Myanmar border.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Tuesday 1st April, these are our main stories. The situation in the Burmese city of Mandalay is said to be dire, four days after a devastating earthquake. Hopes of finding people alive under the rubble are fading.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
As we heard from Hannah, the BBC's Burmese service in Myanmar is providing us with a picture of the destruction. Several of our journalists travelled from the capital, Nipadur, to Mandalay. And working with our colleague So Win Tan in London helped compile this report.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
That report from the BBC's Burmese service. The UN's head of humanitarian affairs, Tom Fletcher, has demanded answers and justice following the killing by Israeli forces of 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers in southern Gaza. The bodies, which were discovered on Sunday, were found buried in shallow graves next to their vehicles, which Mr Fletcher said were all marked.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Here's our Middle East regional editor, Mike Thompson.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
The US State Department has said it expects all parties on the ground in Gaza to comply with international humanitarian law, but declined to confirm whether it was carrying out its own assessment into the deaths. Here's our State Department correspondent, Tom Bateman.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
The US has called on all sides in Gaza to respect international humanitarian law after Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers, but it blamed Hamas for everything that's happened in the territory. France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen, the strongest candidate in the polls for the elections in 2027, has strongly attacked her conviction for embezzlement.
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The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has condemned as a political decision her conviction for embezzlement. A five-year ban on her running for public office means she won't be allowed to take part in the presidential election in two years' time. She said, I'm not going to let myself be eliminated like this. I'm going to pursue whatever legal avenues I can.
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Ms Le Pen says she's innocent and backed by millions of people in France and will appeal. She's been sentenced to four years in prison, half of it suspended, for diverting European parliamentary allowances for her own party's use. The BBC's Europe editor, Katia Adler, reports now on the day's events from the French capital, Paris.
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Katya Adler in Paris. Criticism of the judge's ruling is not only coming from the far right. Aides to France's Prime Minister, François Bayrou, reportedly say he's troubled by its wording. There's also been international criticism. The US administration says it is particularly concerning. Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, posted on X, Je suis Marine.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
The BBC has seen a leaked draft of the last American proposals for a deal with Ukraine over access to its mineral deposits, which would hand significant control to the United States. Donald Trump has warned that President Zelensky will face big problems if he tries to withdraw from the agreement, which remains unsigned. From Kiev, here's our Ukraine correspondent, James Waterhouse.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
How a TV drama looking at online misogyny is causing political debate in the UK and beyond. We begin in Myanmar. A religious leader in Mandalay says the humanitarian situation in the country's second city following Friday's earthquake is dire. People camped out in the streets for a fourth night. One rescue worker in Mandalay has been in touch with the BBC.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
James Waterhouse in Ukraine. Law enforcement authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have given new insights into the activities of an Irish crime gang that's risen from being a bunch of small-time dealers in Dublin to becoming one of the biggest such organised crime groups in the world. The Kinnahan cartel's leaders are the subject of a $5 million bounty in the US.
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Japan is fourth, South Korea is fifth. Also, wir sprechen über große Spieler, große Handelspartner mit den Vereinigten Staaten. Und unvergesslich war die Reaktion eine von Enttäuschung. Ich meine, die koreanische Regierung hat eine emergency meeting gehalten. Das Ministerium der Verwaltung hat sich mit Repräsentanten der Fahrerindustrie getroffen.
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Sie sagen, es wird signifikante Herausforderungen für die koreanische Fahrerindustrie geben, diese Tarife. Ich denke, das ist etwas von einem Unterstatement, um ehrlich zu sein. Sie vorbereiten sich für ihre eigenen Vorgaben. which will be available in mid-April. They say shares, of course, in big Japanese car makers such as Honda and Toyota are unsurprisingly down.
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Hyundai shares were also down today. It really is a huge blow for the Asian car industry and particularly, like I say, South Korea and Japan.
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Yeah, I mean, I think Donald Trump doesn't really care too much about relationships, even with allies or what were allies. I think from his point of view, he just wants to try and secure what he sees as the best deal for the United States. But Japan's Prime Minister has made the point today that his country is the number one foreign investor. in the United States.
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And this is hardly a way to treat a country that invests more than any other country in the world. He is still holding out for some kind of exemption in the future. But he did say, though, that if no exemption could be found, then countermeasures of their own were also on the table.
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In der kurzen Zeit wahrscheinlich nicht. Er wurde in der Oval Office direkt gefragt, als er diese Tarife eröffnet hat. Und er hat gesagt, nein. Also warten wir alle, bis sie nächste Woche introduziert werden. Wir wissen natürlich, dass Donald Trump Tarife als Negotiationspläne benutzen möchte. Ich denke, wenn es um die Produktion von Autos geht, Nick Marsh in Singapore.
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He's spoken to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and a short time later to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. In his nightly address, President Zelensky said the talks had been positive.
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More than 250 people who worked in scam centres in Myanmar have crossed the border into Thailand. They'll be repatriated to their home countries. Our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow, reports.
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Mickey Bristow. Thousands of teachers in Georgia have donated money to a colleague who was fined for taking part in protests. More than 7,000 tutors responded to a social media appeal, as Rehan Dimitri in Tbilisi explains.
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After eight months stuck at the International Space Station, a return mission has been planned to get two astronauts back down to Earth in mid-March. Mark Lowen spoke to science and space journalist Richard Hollingham, who told us more about these astronauts stuck in space.
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The science and space journalist Richard Hollingham. Archaeologists have discovered parts of London's first Roman basilica buried underneath an office block in the city's centre. The 2,000-year-old public building was once the location of major political, economic and administrative decisions. It's been described as one of London's most important pieces of Roman history.
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Our science editor Rebecca Murrell was given exclusive access to the find.
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President Trump said he'd had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with the Russian president during which they'd agreed to work closely to end the conflict. He said both of them believed strongly that the killing must stop. A short time later in the Oval Office of the White House, President Trump had this to say.
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That report by Rebecca Murrell. 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 in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll.
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The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
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Our North America editor, Sarah Smith, has this assessment of President Trump's telephone conversation with President Putin.
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So what's been the reaction in Moscow? Steve Rosenberg is the BBC's Russia editor.
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Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. The news of Donald Trump's conversation with Vladimir Putin came after the US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, spoke in Brussels to a group of more than 50 nations who've been supporting Ukraine during the conflict. He said that there would be no return to Ukraine's original 2014 borders.
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In other words, Kiev should forget about reasserting its control over Crimea and other areas occupied by Russia or Russian-backed forces.
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Our correspondent in Kiev is James Waterhouse. He gave his reaction to the developments regarding Ukraine.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Thursday the 13th of February, these are our main stories. There's been a flurry of initiatives from the United States on the war in Ukraine, with Donald Trump holding separate phone calls with Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky.
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James Waterhouse in Ukraine. For more on the comments by President Trump and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, I spoke to our defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale, who was at the meeting in Brussels, where Mr Hegseth made the address.
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The new US Defence Secretary has ruled out Ukrainian membership of NATO. Egypt and Qatar say they're stepping up diplomatic efforts to save the ceasefire deal in Gaza. Hundreds of people who'd been working in scam centres in Myanmar have crossed into Thailand after attempts to shut down the operations.
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And Jonathan, there was a clear indication that European nations will be expected to police any ceasefire deal in Ukraine, if and when it comes, and provide much of the aid. Is there the ability and the will amongst European leaders to do that?
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Now to other news. Egypt and Qatar are said to be intensifying mediation efforts to try to save the troubled Gaza ceasefire agreement. President Trump has warned that unless all the remaining hostages held by Hamas are released on Saturday, the war will resume. The position of Israel's Prime Minister on the issue isn't as clear as our correspondent in Jerusalem, Wira Davis, explains.
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We're at Davis in Jerusalem. Now, catching fish in your spare time with a rod and line is normally done from the safety of a riverbank or beach. That's not how they do it in the freezing Russian winters, though. They venture out onto the ice and that can cause real problems.
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The emergency services in Russia have just had to rescue more than 100 fishermen stranded on a slab of ice drifting in the North Pacific. Rachel Wright has more details.
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Still to come in an office block in London.
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We look at the wonders below the ground.
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So why did a group of Russians floating on a shrinking block of ice not want to be rescued? Find out later. Before returning to the White House, Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine in just one day. Now there seems to be the first concrete action towards achieving that, albeit belated, goal.
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The BBC can reveal that the British Domestic Security Service, MI5, lied to three courts while defending its handling of a misogynistic neo-Nazi agent who attacked his girlfriend with a machete.
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The security service told judges it had stuck to its policy of not confirming or denying the informant's identity, when in fact it had disclosed the man's status to the BBC as it tried to stop the corporation investigating him. MI5 has apologised. Daniel DeSimone, who carried out the original investigation, has this report.
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Trump's tariffs explained
Yeah, so what the UK has is obviously the lowest tariff, that 10%, which is now the one that everyone apart from China has. But we also have this extra 25% tariff on steel, aluminium and cars. So what we're trying to do is the UK would like that 25% figure to go down, but they'd also like the minimum 10% figure to go around.
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Although the White House thinking at the moment is, no, no, no, that 10% is not moving. The negotiations are over wider trade deals. that countries would potentially be having with the United States. I mean, what Keir Starmer has been saying from the beginning of all of this is we'll be calm, we'll be cool.
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Let's not sort of, you know, tweet energetically as some European leaders did when obviously there was that bust up in the White House on the separate issue with President Zelensky. But behind the scenes, they're pretty nervous. They're nervous because it's a moment of peril for the UK, a potential trade war. But it's also a moment of peril for the world.
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And they know that you have a very unpredictable president. You mustn't offend him. And it's interesting. We saw that cabinet meeting in the White House. It's been going on for about an hour. The cameras are in there. Every cabinet minister going around that table, Mr. President, you're doing so well. Mr. President, you're transforming our country.
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I mean, cabinet ministers in the US are always pretty deferential to the president. But this is at another level. You mustn't offend Donald Trump. So we're trying to be very careful.
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Well, yes. Is China going to build up its own domestic market? And there has been that fear that we could in this country be victims of dumping. Obviously, now that we have the same tariff rate as the European Union, that is obviously going to be changing those calculations. But it's interesting that the World Trade Organization put out a pretty bleak statement yesterday when it was assumed,
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that the tariff on Chinese goods going into the United States was 125%. It's now 145%. They were talking about how that's, as you say, 3% of global change. It could have an enormous impact. And talking about the danger of the world splitting into these sort of geopolitical split giants, and that could take, they say, 7% out of world GDP. You're into that sort of territory.
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You're way beyond a recession. You're heading in depression territory. So, yes. And it's interesting. There was great happiness after there was that Donald Trump announcement yesterday. The stock markets were up. What's the story been in the last few hours? Stock markets down because people are thinking we've got the two biggest economies of the world. basically unable to trade with each other.
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And interestingly, at the end of his statement yesterday, Donald Trump was saying, I know President Xi, I think he wants to have a deal, but he doesn't know how to do it. You suspected, actually, was Donald Trump saying that he, Donald Trump, wants to have a deal, but he, Donald Trump, may not know how to get out of this.
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Meanwhile, China has been hit with 125% levies. This was what the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian had to say.
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Will Grant reporting. Russia and the United States have carried out another prisoner swap, the second since Donald Trump came into office. Steve Rosenberg is our Russia editor in Moscow.
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The influencer Andrew Tate has been accused of putting a gun in a woman's face in court documents seen by BBC News. Four women are suing the self-proclaimed misogynist, accusing him of rape or assault. One of them, who we're calling Sienna, told the BBC that when she slept with Tate, the sex was initially consensual. But things took a turn.
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As a warning, this clip contains strong language and distressing details of alleged violence and sexual assault.
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Andrew Tate denies all the women's claims, saying they are a pack of lies. Our special correspondent Lucy Manning reports.
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Keyu Jun is a global economist and author of The New China Playbook. She thinks businesses will try to ride out the storm in the hope things change, but the impact will soon be felt.
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A simple saliva test could turn the tide on prostate cancer. That's according to scientists in the UK. Each year, more than a million people around the world are diagnosed with the aggressive form of cancer. More than a third of them die. Professor Rosalind Eales from the Institute of Cancer Research led the study.
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James Gallagher is the BBC's health and science correspondent.
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James Gallagher, we're speaking to James Kumarasamy. The American actor George Clooney has been a famous TV and film performer for many years, and now he's also enjoying success on the stage. His Broadway debut, Good Night and Good Luck, is a stage adaptation of a critically acclaimed film of the same name that was written by, directed and featured George Clooney in 2005.
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It's a historical drama set in the early 1950s during the McCarthy era. and is being seen as a cautionary tale about what could happen to press freedom in President Trump's America. Tom Brook went to see the play in New York.
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I spoke to our China media analyst, Kerry Allen, about reaction in China from top down.
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And Kerry, what about what you've been hearing from ordinary Chinese people? How supportive are they? And if they're not supportive, would we hear from them anyway?
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So Carrie, those people certainly needed no rousing up at all. But we have been hearing from some Chinese officials, some historical references that would do just that.
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So strong stuff there. So what next?
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That was Kerry Allen. Well, despite the looming trade war and the threat of recession, it seems Donald Trump can still count on a significant amount of support domestically, particularly in the so-called red states. Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild has made it her life's work to understand the nature of American politics and the reason for Mr Trump's appeal.
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She's the author of Stolen Pride, Lost Shame and the Rise of the Right. For that book, she's been spending time in rural Kentucky, an area she describes as the whitest and second poorest congressional district in the US. She's been telling the BBC more about what she found.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and at 13.30 GMT on Thursday 10th April, these are our main stories. China says it won't back down in the face of a new 125% tariff imposed by President Trump. Sudan has taken its case accusing the UAE of complicity in genocide to the UN's top court.
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Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild was speaking to the BBC's Justin Webb. It has been two years since Sudan was plunged into a civil war between the National Army and a powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF. Since then, tens of thousands of people have been killed, with reports of atrocities on both sides.
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Now the International Court of Justice in The Hague is hearing accusations that the United Arab Emirates has been complicit in a genocide allegedly perpetrated by the RSF. The UAE strongly rejects the allegations. Our correspondent in The Hague, Anna Holligan, was at the court.
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And what is the allegation against the United Arab Emirates?
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And a quick saliva test could be the secret weapon in the battle with prostate cancer. also in this podcast.
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And what has the UAE said in response?
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And briefly, how could this case unfold for the UAE?
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Anna Holligan in The Hague. A groundbreaking study has generated the most powerful and detailed map of a mammal's brain to date. Using a mouse, scientists say they've made Google Maps for the brain and the images they've captured are striking. A series of 3D blueprints showing over three kilometres of neural wiring.
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close to 100,000 nerve cells, and about 500 million synapses have been compared to a galaxy, with different parts lighting up at different times. The research involved showing the mouse video clips, including the film The Matrix. Forrest Coleman is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington. He co-authored the study and spoke to Jackie Leonard.
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Why researchers have been showing movies to a mouse and how the results showed them a new cerebral galaxy. Donald Trump's 90-day pause on most of his higher tariffs has benefited every single nation apart from China. The US president has said that the 90 days will be used to strike deals and claims around 75 countries have asked the White House for talks.
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Dr. Forrest Coleman, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. still to come in this podcast.
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Why George Clooney's Broadway debut is being seen as even more resonant in Donald Trump's America.
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Rescue workers in the Dominican Republic are still searching for survivors after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the capital, Santo Domingo. At the time of recording this, 218 people are now confirmed to have died at the Jet Set Club during a concert by a popular Dominican singer. Our Central America correspondent, Will Grant, reports from Santo Domingo.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
These aren't just words. He is really hoping that what happens today is that some of these pledges manifest to hard commitments and things that make a difference on the battlefield. Of course, this is an emergency summit, so whether or not we get some big agreement at the end of it, I think, is unlikely.
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But it is symbolic, and we saw the hands on the shoulder there, the fact that they were standing shoulder to shoulder, President Zelensky and the people who really are figureheads. In Europe, that sends a message. It sends a message to Vladimir Putin. And of course, in these extraordinary times, it sends a message to President Trump in the White House, too.
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Another thing to bear in mind is that the decisions that are taken here in this format at this summit, they're always unanimous. So all 27 leaders have to agree. And the problem comes in the form of Victor Orban. He's the Hungarian leader. He's close to Putin. He's more sympathetic to Moscow than probably any other member of the European Union.
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He's said that he can't put his name to any sort of words on Ukraine, which may or may not say we'll be with Ukraine for as long as it takes, because Mr Orban's argument is that the facts have changed. You've got the White House talking to the Kremlin directly, President Trump... wanting to talk more with President Putin. And so Mr. Orban is saying, well, look, Europe should follow suit.
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It should be picking up the phone, talking to President Putin, trying to bring about peace. So I think that could be one stumbling block. But it's worth pointing out that in the past, they have actually got round this when they've made decisions when Mr. Orban has left the room. So there has been some quite careful choreography that's worked out and they've been able to make a decision.
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That report by the BBC's Yogiti Limai from the city of Mandalay in Myanmar.
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The public exhibition about the work of Britain's security service, MI5, opens shortly in London. More secrets revealed later.
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Now to Gaza, and a medic in the territory who survived an Israeli attack on a Red Crescent convoy in which 15 emergency workers were killed has challenged the Israeli military's justification for opening fire. He told BBC News that the ambulances were clearly marked when they were attacked near Rafah just over a week ago.
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Israeli soldiers had said that the lights were off and claimed that the vehicles were acting suspiciously. Our correspondent Dan Johnson reports from Jerusalem.
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President Trump said American taxpayers had been what he called pillaged by foreigners for more than 50 years, but he said it was not going to happen anymore.
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That report by Dan Johnson in Jerusalem. In a separate development, Syrian state media say Israel has carried out airstrikes on the country's scientific research building in Damascus and Hama Airport, 200 kilometres to the north of the capital. Israel, which rarely comments on such raids, has mounted numerous strikes on Syria over recent years.
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It first bombed the research centre shortly after the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad in December, claiming it was used to develop guided missiles and chemical weapons. German police say they've shut down one of the world's biggest platforms distributing images of child sex abuse. KidFlix carried over 90,000 still images and thousands of hours of video footage.
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A spokesman described the operation as possibly the biggest blow ever against this kind of child sexual abuse. Anna Holligan reports from the European Police Agency's headquarters in The Hague. A warning, this report is distressing.
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Now, it's almost a contradiction in terms. A public exhibition about the work of Britain's security service, also known as MI5. By its nature, the UK's counterintelligence agency works in the shadows.
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But there are files and objects that can now be put on display to tell the story, or perhaps part of the story, of MI5 from its foundation in the early years of the 20th century up until the modern era. It's a joint exhibition with Britain's National Archives in West London. Mark Dunton, its creator, told James Menendez more.
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That was the curator, Mark Dunton. Astronomers have used a space telescope to observe an asteroid codenamed 2024 YR4, which earlier this year seemed to be at a small risk of hitting Earth in December 2032. Earth is now safe, but astronomers are cheering on a possible collision with the moon. 2024 YR4 has been labelled a so-called city killer asteroid, not a planet destroyer.
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The statistician David Spiegelhalter had originally speculated on the chances of the astronomical object hitting planet Earth.
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Well, researchers have now updated those probabilities. Evan Davis heard more from Dr Andrew Rivkin, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the US state of Maryland.
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Mr Trump then outlined what he called the tariff imbalances which the US currently faces in the global market.
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Evan Davis speaking to Dr. Andrew Rivkin from Johns Hopkins University. And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later on. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Bot.
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Against this background, he then outlined his approach to US global tariffs and foreign-made vehicles.
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The measures also include a broad baseline tariff of 10% on all imported goods, with much higher rates for what he called the most serious offenders. Let's get reaction to the news from the White House from around the world. I first spoke to Peter Bowes, our Washington correspondent. So it seems that these tariffs, according to Donald Trump anyway, are all about righting previous wrongs.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Thursday 3rd April, these are our main stories. President Trump has announced sweeping tariffs on imports to the United States, starting at a baseline of 10% and rising steeply for countries with the highest trade deficits with the US.
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There will clearly be domestic implications of all this. He said factories will come roaring back. But in the short term, prices of many goods that ordinary Americans buy are likely to go up. But basically, this is a high risk strategy, isn't it?
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Peter Bowes in Washington. Well, the European Union faces 20% tariffs. Katja Adler is our Europe editor. I asked her how the EU will react.
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And there are a few unifying moments like this in the EU's history. To what extent does it really consolidate the EU as a bloc?
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A BBC reporter in Mandalay, close to the epicentre of last week's earthquake in Myanmar, says no rescue work is being carried out on many of the collapsed buildings and hospitals don't have the staff or resources to cope. Also in this podcast.
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Katya Adler in Brussels. Imports from China will face a 34% tax. What's been the reaction there? The BBC's China correspondent Stephen McDonnell is in Beijing.
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Stephen McDonnell in China. Well, governments, as we've been hearing around the world, have been absorbing the contents of Mr Trump's speech and calculating the likely impact on their economies. Before the announcement, some leaders spoke of retaliating against any US-imposed tariffs, while others advocated a more pragmatic approach and warned against stoking a trade war.
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Australia, which, like the UK, is facing 10% tariffs. said the US decision was totally unwarranted and would change the perception of the relationship between the two countries. The Australian Prime Minister, Antony Albanese, announced special measures to protect the country's economy.
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the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Well, as we record this podcast, the financial markets have begun to assess the possible impacts of these US tariffs on the White House lawn. President Trump showed a chart illustrating various countries around the world and associated tariffs. Sumi Somaskanda spoke to the BBC's economics editor, Faisal Islam, who's in London.
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He first spoke of the financial reaction there and then the global effect.
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But is the asteroid, codenamed 2024 YR4, hurtling towards a collision with the moon? President Trump has announced sweeping new tariffs on goods entering the US from around the world. He said the date would be remembered as Liberation Day when prosperity returned to America. Mr Trump spoke to an invited audience in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.
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The BBC's economics editor, Faisal Islam. Now, two other news. Myanmar's military government has announced a ceasefire for three weeks to concentrate on recovering from last week's devastating earthquake. The move appears to be a U-turn.
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The head of the military authorities, Min Aung Hlaing, indicated only on Tuesday that he'd continue ordering attacks on rebels, some of whom had already announced their own ceasefires. The announcement was made on state television.
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Despite Myanmar's government saying it will not let foreign journalists into the country to report on the aftermath of the quake, The BBC's Yogita Limai and her team managed to travel to the city of Mandalay, where hundreds of buildings have collapsed.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
They are still taking in the horror, the death all around. Uleitain Monastery in Mandalay has become a burial site. One of the monks shows a photo of where 180 students were sitting their exams when the earthquake hit. It's feared dozens of them died. Many young Burmese men and women joined Buddhist monasteries to bring good fortune.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Nearby, Tsang Nguye says she just wants to hear her brother's voice again. Power is down in many places. The military hunter already restricted the internet, so working out the scale of this disaster is difficult. But we made contact with 30-year-old market seller May and her mum, who are both in Mandalay.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Their line then dropped, so we asked May to send a video.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Many of the 1.5 million living here are sleeping out in the open, fearful of what more may come. A sign of life. Remarkable stories keep emerging. This man discovered in the capital Naypyidaw by local and Singaporean rescuers. After 40 hours trapped, freedom. But freedom is relative in military-ruled Myanmar.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Although international aid is arriving, it's feared the generals will keep it all for only the areas under their control.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
Die Ruinen von Mandalay. Das Sky-Villa-Kondominium war ein Wohnzimmer und ein Gebäude. Ein 12-Storey-Bild, reduziert zu 6-Storeys in Sekunden. Und mehr als 90 Menschen sind noch nicht hier. Ye Ong sagt, er hatte große Erleichterung, als er gesagt wurde, dass seine Frau in der Ruhe war. Aber sie zu retten, ist Zeit, sagt er. Ich verliere die Hoffnung, die ich hatte.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
Some have been using their bare hands. And more than 24 hours after the quake, rescuers are freeing some survivors, young and old. But these minor miracles are few and far between and have punctuated an otherwise grim day of recovering bodies amid the destruction.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
Myanmar State TV has been showing damage to the presidential palace in the capital Naypyidaw. But the military junta of Min Aung Hlaing, which seized power four years ago, continues to restrict internet access, meaning it's hard to get a clear sense of the scale of the devastation. Russia and China, countries that have propped up the regime, have been sending specialist support.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
In a highly unusual move for the insular Burmese military, it says it will accept aid from everyone. But there are fears it will only direct help to areas under its control. Back at the Sky Villa condominium, 30-year-old Pule Kain pulled out of the rubble, alive. Nick Beek.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Saturday was a day of national mourning in India. The sound there of guards carrying the coffin of the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh through the streets of Delhi as crowds watched on. He died at the age of 92. He was considered to be the man behind India's 21st century economic rise.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
many politicians were present to share words of mourning, including the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. But despite his special status in Indian society, Mr Singh was commemorated in a typical way, cremated outside along with others who had recently died, with their families also watching on. Our correspondent Arunade Mukherjee was there.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
He told us more about the Indian tradition of cremation.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
A new law has come into force in the European Union, requiring most electronic devices sold to have the same type of charging port.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Lebanon has expelled dozens of former Syrian military figures who'd fled across the border as the new authorities in Damascus pursue supporters of the deposed president, Bashar al-Assad. An influential Sufi religious leader has been kidnapped in northern Mali.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Over the last few years, Mali has experienced two military coups, Islamist rebellions and a failed French military intervention. Now security officials there have confirmed that an influential religious leader has been kidnapped in the north of the country. I heard more about him from our Africa regional editor, Will Ross.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
And why are the Sufis in particular being targeted by jihadist groups, if this indeed is the case?
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
I mentioned the fact that the French peacekeepers moved out a couple of years ago. How is the Malian authorities in the military able to protect people, particularly the Sufis, in such vast areas?
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
A spree of mass killings in China this year has sparked real soul-searching about what's going on that people feel compelled to commit such horrific crimes.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Well, the faltering economy, which has led to many losing their jobs and homes, has been blamed, as has the Chinese state tightening its grip on all aspects of people's lives, while not providing a way for them to air their grievances or to get support or counselling.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
The communist authorities have promised to address the problem, but as our China correspondent Stephen McDonnell reports, it's not clear they can.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has apologised to Azerbaijan's president for the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane, describing it as what he called a tragic incident in Russian airspace. It's been widely claimed that Russia accidentally shot the plane down as it tried to land in Grozny on Wednesday.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Stephen McDonald in Beijing. Next to the world of technology, discovering that you've left home without a mobile phone charger can be a source of great frustration, especially as there's no guarantee your colleagues or friends will have the particular one that your phone needs. But in Europe, it seems a new law is changing this. Alfie Habershon reports.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
But Mr Putin did not accept direct Russian responsibility, according to Kremlin reports of the conversation. Mr Putin added that there needed to be an objective and transparent investigation. From Moscow, our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Alfie Habershon. More than 1,000 critically endangered snails, each the size of a pea, have been released onto a remote Portuguese island. It's the end of a long journey that began when a small number were discovered by conservationists who took them away to be bred in captivity in zoos in France and the UK. Our science correspondent Victoria Gill has more.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
The Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has quit a world tournament in New York after the game's governing body said he could not carry on playing wearing jeans. He was given the opportunity to change into smarter trousers, but refused, using offensive language. Paul Moss reports.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
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 in it, 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 Pat Sissons. The producer was Liam Sheffrey. The editor is Karen Martin.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Steve Rosenberg in Russia. So is the mention of active Russian air defence systems in the area at the time as close as one can get to actually saying we did it, albeit by mistake? Where does the statement lie between an expression of sorrow and an admission of guilt? I heard more from Andrei Vladov of BBC Monitoring.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
And Andrei, do you expect this to be the final statement, for now anyway, until the investigation is concluded?
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Andrei Vladov from BBC Monitoring. A Ukrainian official has told the BBC they hope a New Year prisoner exchange with Russia will happen any day, although arrangements can fall through at the last minute.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Petro Yatsenko from Ukraine's headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war said negotiations with Moscow have become more difficult in recent months since Russian forces began making significant advances on the front lines. Thousands of relatives of Ukrainian prisoners are now spending Christmas without their loved ones. From Kiev, our correspondent Will Vernon reports.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Lebanon has expelled around 70 people, including officers and soldiers believed to have escaped there from neighbouring Syria. The new authorities in Damascus have been conducting an operation against what they describe as remnants of the Assad regime.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Local media reported that the soldiers of various ranks were found in a truck in the northern coastal city of Jbeil and had been sent back to Syria. Many senior Syrian officials and people close to the former ruling family of Bashar al-Assad are alleged to have escaped to Lebanon after Mr. Assad was toppled early this month.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
This latest handover by Lebanon of the soldiers belonging to the former Assad regime seems to have been captured on video, posted on social media, although not so far verified by the BBC. Ben James spoke to our Middle East regional editor, Sebastian Asher, who's in the Syrian capital, Damascus, about what the videos appear to show.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Sebastian Usher in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Apologies for the quality of the telephone connection there. Next to northern Gaza, the UN agency, the World Health Organisation, has criticised an Israeli raid on the last remaining hospital in the area, warning that the lack of medical facilities was close to a death sentence for patients.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
A senior Palestinian official said staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital had been threatened and the premises had been cleared. Israel described the site as a Hamas terrorist stronghold. Our correspondent Emir Nader reports from Jerusalem.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Sunday 29th December, these are our main stories. President Putin has issued a rare apology after the Azerbaijan Airlines crash on Wednesday, but stopped short of confirming that Russian missiles brought down the plane.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
After 15 months in captivity, three Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas in Gaza. The three women crossed the border into Israel. And as we record this podcast, they're due to be taken by helicopter to a hospital in Tel Aviv. Their release is part of a deal between Hamas and the Israeli government, which includes a six-week ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
Our correspondent in Tel Aviv, Anna Foster, was in a square with hundreds of Israelis as they watched the handover of the hostages in Gaza to the International Red Cross.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
Jonah Fisher in Tel Aviv. Well the impact of today's releases is not just on those women freed and their families but on those with loved ones still in captivity. Adam Manit's cousin Zahid Adan was taken hostage on the 7th of October after his oldest daughter Mayan was shot and killed through a room door. Here's Zahid reacting to the news of the safe arrival of the three female hostages.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles with a special edition of the podcast as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect. We will hear from our correspondents in Tel Aviv, where, as we record this podcast, three Israeli women just released by Hamas after 15 months in captivity are due to be taken to hospital for medical checks.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
Meanwhile, Palestinian families are preparing for the return of dozens of prisoners who are being held in Israeli jails. It's another key plank of the deal negotiated between Israel and Hamas. Our correspondent John Donison is in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
John Donison in Ramallah. Well, one of the Palestinian prisoners being released is 68-year-old Nael Barghouti. He's been held the longest by Israel for more than a decade. He was arrested for the second time on the charge of acting against Israel in 2014.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
While Nael is set to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire, he's also one of the people who won't be allowed to return to the West Bank. Here's his wife, Iman.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
Iman Barghouti. Well, alongside the prisoner hostage releases, a ceasefire has also come into effect. Many Palestinians who've been displaced from their homes in Gaza are now attempting to return. Dr. Mohamed Abou Mougassib from the humanitarian charity Médecins Sans Frontières in Gaza has been describing what's in store for those Palestinians after 15 months of Israeli bombardment.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
Family members of those still held tell us about their reaction.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
Dr Mohamed Abou Mougassib from the humanitarian charity Médecins Sans Frontières in Gaza. On his last day in office, President Biden in the United States has welcomed the ceasefire deal coming into force and the start of that hostage release process in return for the freeing of Palestinian prisoners.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
Well, the relief that this ceasefire has brought to people in Israel and Gaza is palpable. Many have taken to the streets to celebrate as hostages are freed from Hamas, while Palestinians eagerly await the release of 90 prisoners from Israeli jails. But it's only day one of a phased process with many potential pitfalls.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
We're in Ramallah in the West Bank, where we get reaction to the imminent release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. And we hear what the ceasefire means for the people of Gaza as long-awaited aid trucks enter the streets. There have been many false starts in the efforts to bring an end to the conflict in Gaza. But now the latest diplomatic efforts have come to fruition.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
Our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette, explained the importance of this moment.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
And that's all from this special edition of the Global News Podcast. For now, there will be a new edition of the programme later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, 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 Chris Murphy.
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Gaza special: Three freed hostages back in Israel
The producers were Sophie Smith and Emma Joseph. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Sarah Rainsford in Ukraine. A court in India has delivered a guilty verdict in the case of a man accused of the rape and murder of a female trainee doctor at a hospital in Kolkata. The victim's body was found inside the hospital last August. It triggered nationwide outrage and prolonged protests across the country.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
The man convicted, Sanjay Roy, who was a volunteer with the Kolkata police, will be sentenced on Monday. The BBC's Salman Ravi was in court.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Salman Ravi in India. On Monday, Peter Greste, an Australian journalist imprisoned in Egypt for his reporting for Al Jazeera English during the Arab Spring in 2011, will join a hunger strike. His motivation? To bring attention to the condition of Allah Abdel Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual national currently locked up in Egypt.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Subsequent phases will include more hostage and prisoner exchanges and eventually the long-term reconstruction of Gaza. In a speech, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that the agreed ceasefire was temporary and Israel, with the backing of the United States, reserved the right to resume the war against Hamas.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
A spokesperson for the British Foreign Office said, our priority remains securing consular access to Mr El-Fattah and his release. We continue to raise his case at the highest levels of the Egyptian government. Amal Rajan spoke to Peter Greste, now a human rights free press advocate. He first asked him, why is Alaa Abdul-Fattah in prison?
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
The chief minister of Tamil Nadu state in India has offered $1 million to anyone who can decode the mysterious symbols of Indus script. The civilisation that created it, also known as the Harappan, flourished about 5,500 years ago but disappeared quite suddenly. If deciphered, the Indus script might help to reveal why.
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Nisha Yadav, a researcher at the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, is herself trying to crack the code using computer power. She told Sean Lay just how little is known about this ancient form of communication.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Nisha Yadav. We return to our main story. And as we record this podcast, the imminent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The war in Gaza has proved costly for both sides. Our Middle East regional editor, Mike Thompson, has been looking at the loss of lives and destruction caused since the October the 7th attacks.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
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 in it, 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 Daniela Varela. The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Jonah, one issue which is very imminent is the list of hostages from Hamas. Israel still says it hasn't received them.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Jonah Fisher in Jerusalem. So what were the thoughts of the people in Gaza and Israel as the Sunday deadline approached? From Jerusalem, John Donison sent this report.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 19th of January, these are our main stories. Just hours before an imminent ceasefire in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel reserves the right to return to war if further negotiations collapse.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
That report by John Donison. Now to some other news. Officials in Nigeria say at least 70 people have been killed and more than 25 others were injured after a fuel tanker exploded in Niger state. The vehicle is reported to have crashed and overturned. Our West Africa correspondent Nkechi Ogbonna reports.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Iran is notorious for its tight grip on security. There are numerous different police units and paramilitary groups. So with that level of social control, how did a gunman manage to get inside the Supreme Court building in Tehran and kill two senior Iranian judges? Sirvash Adelan from the BBC Persian service told me what happened.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Are attacks on judges, particularly those involved in anti-opposition persecutions, fairly common in Iran?
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
And one imagines, if it's possible now, that the authorities in Tehran will want to step up security in key areas, particularly court buildings.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Nigerian officials say at least 70 people have been killed after a fuel tanker crashed and exploded northwest of Abuja. Thousands of people have protested in Washington against the incoming President Donald Trump. He's begun a series of celebrations ahead of his second inauguration on Monday. Also in this podcast.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Sirvash Adelan from BBC Persian. As we record this podcast, Donald Trump is due to arrive in Washington for the build-up to his US presidential inauguration on Monday. On Saturday, there was a scheduled fireworks display and a reception for Republican donors, with more events planned on Sunday. But not everyone is happy, of course.
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A coalition of protest groups took to the streets on Saturday, as our correspondent Caroline Hawley reports from the US Capitol.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Caroline Hawley in Washington. Scottish scientists are searching more than nine kilometres under the sea in some of the deepest ocean trenches for what's being called dark oxygen. Discovered last year between Hawaii and Mexico, this mysterious oxygen appears to be produced on the seabed without sunlight. Here's our science correspondent, Victoria Gill.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
So what else do we know about dark oxygen? We begin in the Middle East. And as we record this podcast, it is just hours before the imminent start of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. It begins with a six week pause in the fighting and a prisoner hostage exchange, the first of which is due to take place on Sunday. Under the deal, humanitarian aid will also be allowed into Gaza.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Now a chief minister in India has offered $1 million to anyone who can decode the mysterious symbols of the Indus script.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Three people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. President Zelensky said civilian structures, including a metro station, were damaged. Russia says it was targeting a missile factory in retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on its territory. Our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford is in Kiev.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
Well, this is La Fontaine Jazz Club. It's the oldest in town. It's often described as the best jazz club on this side of the Atlantic. It's a little corner of America here in Copenhagen. And we've come to this place at a time where, once again, President Trump is saying he wants a not-so-little chunk of Denmark in the form of Greenland, the biggest island in the world.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
Music student Lucas is here with friends Molly and first Clara.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
This is the changing of the guard outside the Royal Palace in the heart of Copenhagen. At a time, of course, when there's been a big change in Washington, D.C., President Trump now fundamentally changing some of the relationships with America's closest allies, countries that have stood shoulder to shoulder with America for decades. And, of course, Denmark is in that group.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
Hans-Tino Hansen runs Risk Intelligence. They give advice on threats around the world. President Trump claims U.S. control of Greenland is an absolute necessity for international security.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
Still, Denmark has said it will spend an extra $2 billion on defence, including in the Arctic. And Hans believes security there can be bolstered without an American takeover, but with deals that restore the scope of US influence.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
With President Trump eyeing up Greenland's mineral wealth, we've come to meet Professor Minik Rösching, one of the world's leading geologists. Professor Roshing warns that the vastness of his homeland and the lack of infrastructure are just two elements of why Greenland may not be the cash point some Americans may hope for.
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And then there's the question of who exactly would work the mineral mines.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Danish Prime Minister for most of the noughties and then NATO Secretary General.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
Now, Esme, this potential solution uses an intriguing combination of substances, doesn't it?
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
And it effectively works as a filter. Is it 100% effective?
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
You were saying that these substances are easy to get hold of. So I imagine the idea of being able to scale this up is a real possibility.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Our Africa regional editor, Will Ross. YouTube is 20 years old. The video sharing platform was created at a time when broadcasting was confined to expensive TV studios. But not many people would have predicted the way it's turned the world of entertainment on its head. This report by Alfie Habersham.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
On the sidelines of the conference, the US Vice President J.D. Vance told reporters that Washington could impose economic sanctions on Russia if it refuses to agree what he called a good peace deal that guarantees Kyiv's long-term independence. There are economic tools of leverage, he said, and there are, of course, also military tools of leverage the US could use.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Alfie Habershon reporting. Still to come.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
We get a scientific explanation for our love of desserts.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Hamas has released the names of the three hostages that it is to release on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. They are the Argentine-Israeli Le Horn, the US-Israeli Tzagil Dekel Chen and the Russian-Israeli Alexander Sasha Tufanov. Hamas had earlier said it would postpone the handover, claiming that Israel had breached the terms of the Gaza ceasefire.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
But after mediated talks in Cairo, the Israeli threats to resume the war if the releases didn't go ahead as scheduled, Hamas agreed to abide by the deadline. One of the hostages had been held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Qaza Madira spoke to Moshalavi, the brother-in-law of the hostage Omni Muran, who's not on the list of the hostages to be released on Saturday.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
What are his thoughts on this development?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
That was Moshe Lavi. The three named hostages will be exchanged for more than 300 Palestinian prisoners. The latest government figures from South Korea indicate that the suicide epidemic among young people there continues to be widespread, and that is despite efforts by officials to address it. Suicide is the leading cause of death among Koreans between the ages of 10 and 39. Here's Jae Sung Lee.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Later, he addressed the delegates at the meeting.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Now to Argentina, where a luxury community built on a wetland in the capital, Buenos Aires, is facing an interesting problem, an ever-growing population of wild capybaras. For anyone who's never seen one, capybaras are the largest living rodents. They're a close relative of guinea pigs, but they can weigh up to 60 kilograms.
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The residents of the community have come up with a solution, vasectomies and contraceptives. Luke Jones spoke to Lucia Cholacan Herrera, a journalist in Buenos Aires who's familiar with the problem.
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Lucia Chalakian Herrera in Argentina. Now, quite a few of you may relate to this. You've had a big meal, maybe a starter and a main course. You're feeling pretty full up. But when the offer of a dessert comes, magically you feel like you've still got a space in your already bloated belly. The joke is that we have another separate stomach for desserts.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Not true, of course, but it seems there is a biological reason why we're able to carry on eating sweet things even when we've really had enough to eat. And it was uncovered by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Germany through a study of mice. Team leader Dr Henning Fensenlau has been telling James Menendez more.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
So the emphasis there was on American expectations of more military spending by Europe. Well, later in the day, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, met the US vice president at the Munich conference. Mr Zelensky said they'd had a good conversation and that it would not be their last.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Henning Fentzelau. The Bantu peoples and their languages are spread across vast areas of Western, Central and Southern Africa. On his new album, Hymns of Bantu, the South African cellist, singer and composer Abel Salauchwe pays tribute to both his Bantu roots and the Western classical music he studied. The album brings together sounds as diverse as throat singing and bark.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Abel's been speaking to the BBC's Martin Venard.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
He said they needed to prepare a plan on how to stop President Putin and finish the war with Russia and that President Trump was key to making that happen.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Martin Venard reporting. Thank you.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
The head of the European Commission is Ursula von der Leyen.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Ursula von der Leyen. Our chief international correspondent Lise Doucette is covering the conference. Sumi Sumaskanda asked her what the mood among the delegates in Munich was like.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 15th of February, these are our main stories. President Zelensky of Ukraine has met J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference after the U.S. vice president launched a wide-ranging attack on European politicians.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Lise Doucette in Munich. As President Zelensky prepared for his visit to Munich, the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine was targeted in a drone strike in the early hours of Friday morning. Russia has denied any knowledge of the attack, but Mr Zelensky said it showed President Putin was definitely not preparing for negotiations, but instead continuing to deceive the world.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
A protective shelter that covers the remains of a destroyed reactor at the nuclear power plant was damaged. The shield was built to prevent radiation from spreading after the Chernobyl reactor melted down in 1986. The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said the explosion caused a fire in the structure, which has since been extinguished.
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The radiation levels inside and outside the building were currently normal. With his assessment of how optimistic people in Kiev are feeling about an end to the war, here's our Ukraine correspondent, James Waterhouse.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
African leaders at a summit in Ethiopia have agreed to increase their health budget and taxes to compensate for a freeze on foreign aid by the United States. The latest figures from South Korea indicate that the suicide epidemic among young people is continuing despite efforts to address it. Also in this podcast. Well, if you're familiar with YouTube, you may have heard that video.
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James Waterhouse in Ukraine. Next to Ethiopia and African Union leaders meeting in Addis Ababa have agreed to increase taxes and government budgets to create alternative health care funds on the continent following the USAID funding freeze by the United States.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Many African countries rely on USAID and other donors to provide billions of dollars for programmes including those tackling malaria and HIV. Will Bain spoke to Dr Jean Kesea, Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, who's at the conference.
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Dr Jean Kesea, Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. It was an attack by one man alone. That is the conclusion. Prosecutors in Germany have drawn after an asylum seeker from Afghanistan had driven a car into a crowd in Munich on Thursday.
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The prosecutors say the man, identified as Farhad N, had no links to any terrorist groups, but that he appears to have had a religious motivation. At least 36 people have been injured in the attack. Two people, including a two-year-old girl, are in a critical condition. Our Berlin correspondent Damien McGuinness reports.
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Damien McGuinness, next to the Democratic Republic of Congo. And there's growing panic among residents of the city of Bukavu as M23 rebels close in on the city. Two nearby towns and the airport serving Bukavo who have been captured by rebel forces. The advance comes as African heads of state are due to discuss the crisis at an AU summit in Ethiopia this weekend.
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I got this update from our Africa regional editor, Will Ross.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Believe it or not, the video sharing platform is 20 years old. The future of Ukraine took centre stage at the International Security Conference in the German city of Munich on Friday. It came after several days of speculation about how President Trump's telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday might be the start of a process that will end the conflict.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Meanwhile, Will, the World Health Organization is saying that fighting has caused a number of patients with the Mpox virus to flee hospitals in the eastern part of the DRC. What do we know?
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
The movement of young professionals sweeping Ghana clean also.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
Since then, the girls and their parents have become like a single family. And Betsy and Lacey say they've helped each other get through the gruelling process. The Happy Pod's Holly Gibbs has the details.
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We go to the tree houses for people living with chronic health conditions.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
Holly Gibbs reporting. Last year saw deadly wildfires across Europe, Canada and parts of South America. And as the earth warms up, they're becoming increasingly common and harder to deal with. But in Spain, one project is using cows and horses to help keep some of the flames under control. Craig Langren went to find out how it works.
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The Hawaiian crow, which has been released back into the wild 20 years after the species went extinct there. We start in Ghana, where a group of boys have formed a clean-up crew to tackle the out-of-control mounds of rubbish that have become an eyesore and a health hazard in cities and towns across the country.
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And you can hear more on that on People Fixing the World, wherever you get your podcasts. As we enter 2025, we've been asking you, our listeners, for your happiest moments. Amber Cherian from Quincy in Chicago is one of those who got in touch. Amber told us about a very proud day just before the new year when she watched her husband, Aidan, get sworn in to their local police department.
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He becomes the only Indian American officer on that force. Pictures of his ceremony have been shared many times on social media after their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Violet refused to miss out on the action. I caught up with Amber about what happened.
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I can imagine. So your husband went up to be sworn in. Talk us through what happened then.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
Now, is she quite a feisty young girl at the best of times? Or does she just want to do what her dad does at any moment?
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So you won't cross at all. You kind of saw this happening and thought, ah, let's go with it.
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I didn't see that. But she's looking very proud. Her hand is raised up. I think it was her left hand actually raised up. She looks to be looking straight ahead. Did she repeat any of the words? I'm wondering whether or not she's technically officially been sworn in herself.
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Yeah, she's pretty feisty, isn't she? Violet, maybe we can have a little word with her now.
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Hello, Violet. I'm Nick. What do you want to do when you're grown up?
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Can I just ask you, Amber, what kind of a reaction have you had from these pictures? I mean, when I first saw them, I thought, that's so cute. And the whole story. What kind of reaction have you had from people to this?
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In the capital, Accra, waste has been clogging up drains and spilling onto the pavements, helping spread waterborne diseases like cholera and malaria. Only 10% of waste there is disposed of properly. The new group, called the Buzz Stop Boys, want to change that. They meet a few times a week, armed with brooms, shovels and dustpans to clean the streets.
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Amber and Violet, of course. Now, if you've got a story you'd like to share with us about what's made you happy, get in touch. As ever, the address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. And that's all from the Happy Pod for now. This edition was mixed by Callum McLean. The producers were Siobhan Leahy, Holly Gibbs and Rachel Bulkeley. The editor is Karen Martin.
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I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
The original team of five has now grown to nearly 50. They've been called heroes by local celebrities and a group of teenagers from the UK even flew over to help them. Heneba Kwajusafo started the Buzz Stop Boys last year. Richard Hamilton caught up with him and started by asking him if the problem wasn't the local government's responsibility to solve.
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That was Haneba Kwajusofo. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis's fantasy novel, has been beloved by children and adults for more than 70 years. Now a charity in England, influenced by the story and film adaptation, have created a retreat for people living with chronic health problems, such as congenital anemia.
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It's one of several tree houses where those with long-term conditions can escape, relax and meet others in similar situations. Our reporter Ben Morris went to find out more.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
That report was by Ben Morris. Hawaiian crows, known as alala, are intelligent, charismatic birds with a distinctive call. They're of great cultural importance to the US state, once helping to maintain native forests there. But only 110 are left on the planet. They've been extinct in the wild for more than 20 years. Until now. Five Alalas were released on Maui Island in December.
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San Diego Zoo had raised them together for months to establish strong bonds. Chelsea Java Salas is a wildlife biologist originally from Hawaii. She's been talking to Danny Cox about the Alalas.
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Chelsea Javar-Sala speaking to Danny Cox. Now, many of us may well have a childhood memory of being out and losing sight of our parents for a few agonising moments. This next story makes that sound very tame indeed. It involves an eight-year-old boy who went missing in northwestern Zimbabwe and wandered alone for five days in a national park full of wild animals.
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He's called Tinatendapudu, and don't worry, this tale does have a happy ending. Camilla Mills is from Zimbabwe and told me more.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
So this boy was clearly not a city kid. He'd grown up and was familiar with how you look after yourself in the bush.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
The kind of animals that are around there, you mentioned the crocodiles, but there are other animals on land that were quite hard to avoid, one imagines, but he went up to these copies, these stone areas above the plain to escape them.
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Now, would this have been seen as remarkable in Zimbabwe or is it just because we're seeing it from the outside?
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Camilla Mills. Coming up in this podcast.
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One of our listeners highlights from 2024. Now to a story about friendship. Seven-year-old Betsy lives little more than a kilometre away from five-year-old Lacey, who she says is her best friend. Despite attending the same school in England, the girls barely knew each other until they were tragically brought together after they were diagnosed with the same form of rare cancer.
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Now the owners of a Bulgarian ship have said their vessel may have been responsible, but that it was an accident. Here's our Europe regional editor, Paul Moss.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Many people are weighed down with huge bags containing all they've managed to salvage after more than a year of escaping from place to place. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to follow them in the coming days. Among those making the journey is the family of our Gaza correspondent, Rushdi Aboualouf. He spoke to us from Cairo.
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In recent days and weeks, President Trump has threatened tariffs on nations that don't control the flow of undocumented migrants into the United States. Now, one such trade dispute has been averted. Colombia had been refusing to allow in two military planes carrying people being repatriated from the United States.
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Washington said if it didn't let them land, it would impose 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods. Well, it now looks as though Bogota has blinked first. Luis Fajardo, Latin American specialist from BBC Monitoring in Miami.
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Luis Fajardo. Artificial intelligence has been held up as the technology that can transform the way we live. American companies like OpenAI took an early lead with its ChatGPT chatbot, but China is catching up. In fact, now, just a few weeks after it was launched, a Chinese company called DeepSeek has overtaken ChatGPT to become Apple's most popular free app in the US.
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Our senior technology reporter Chris Vallance told me more about it.
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Yeah, so if it's as good as OpenAI's chatbot GPT, what can the big US tech firms do in the short term?
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Now, let's stay with artificial intelligence, because ministers here in the UK are suggesting that tech companies can hoover up music from the internet to develop their own AI models without having to pay for copyright, in other words, for free. But for thousands of people, making art is not just a passion, it is a job, of course. Not least for Beatles legend Paul McCartney.
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He reckons it's a threat they shouldn't have to bear. He's been speaking to the BBC's Laura Koonsberg.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
More than 30 years since the end of apartheid, South Africa is still a nation coming to terms with its past and struggling with racial integration. Now a play called A Good House, which uses satire, humour and a touch of fantasy to investigate how attitudes to race in the Rainbow Nation have changed. It's just opened at a theatre in London, after which it will be performed across South Africa.
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Our arts correspondent, Vincent Dowd, met the playwright.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Vincent Dowd. And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later on. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X, of course, at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Daniela Varela. The producer was David Lewis.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Well, as we heard there, for those making the long walk back home, there is huge uncertainty over what they might find when they arrive. The UN estimates 60% of buildings in Gaza are badly damaged or totally destroyed. Our correspondent John Donison in Jerusalem gave me the latest.
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John, there was huge controversy over the weekend when Donald Trump suggested that Gazans should be going to live in neighbouring countries and there's continuing reaction to that, isn't there?
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Just a point about the ceasefire. Obviously, people going back to the north of Gaza will be extremely vulnerable if there are any breaches of the ceasefire to bombardments by Israel. Presumably both sides at the moment are pretty confident this is going to hold.
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John Donison. Auschwitz in Poland was the biggest Nazi concentration camp. Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp where more than a million, mainly Jewish people, died between 1940 and 1945. Today is also International Holocaust Memorial Day, remembering the six million Jews and countless other members of minority groups murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
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Holocaust survivors, accompanied by the Polish president Andrzej Duda, laid flowers at the camp's death wall, where SS officers executed thousands of prisoners. He said Poland must keep the memory alive.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and at 14 Hours GMT on Monday 27th January, these are our main stories. Thousands of Gazans are heading back home in the north of the Strip. Rwandan-backed rebels take over parts of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
One of the survivors who's made the journey to Auschwitz for today's commemorations is Eva Umlauf. She was one of the youngest survivors of the camp. Katja Adler spoke to her alongside her son Eric and granddaughter Nadia about how she feels going back.
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And what really happened to a snapped undersea fibre optic cable running between Sweden and Latvia? Also in this podcast.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Our correspondent Jessica Parker is at the commemorations.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
And we heard there the Polish leader saying, look, Poland is going to keep this memory alive. No feeling there that as those survivors do pass away over the years that these commemorations will diminish.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Jessica Parker. Rwandan-backed rebels have taken over much of the city of Goma in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, although some gunfire can still be heard there. There's been a prison breakout with part of the facility there set on fire. In less than a month, the rebel advance has displaced more than 400,000 civilians.
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Our Africa regional editor, Will Ross, reports on why the conflict has escalated so fast.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
The world remembers 80 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz. We start in Gaza, where the coastal road has been packed with people. As many as 100,000 Palestinians displaced during the conflict are returning to their homes as the ceasefire agreement holds. Young parents with babies in their arms, the elderly being helped along.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Back in December, a plane overshot the runway at Muang Airport in South Korea. All but two of the 180 people on board died. Now investigators say they found bird feathers and blood stains in an engine. Our correspondent Jean McKenzie has the details.
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Paul McCartney warns that up-and-coming musicians are being ripped off.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Now, what really happened to an undersea fibre optic cable between Sweden and Latvia, which appears to have snapped sometime on Sunday morning? The incident caused alarm because it's the latest in a series of severed undersea lines in the Baltic region, and often the finger is pointed at Russia.
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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 covered in it, 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 produced by Nicky Verrico. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
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Earlier, J.D. Vance was sworn in as vice president. At 40, he's the third youngest vice president in US history. The ceremony was held indoors as the US Capitol shivers in sub-zero temperatures. Nonetheless, thousands of spectators took their seats in an outdoor arena where they watched a live stream of the inauguration and President Trump's inaugural address.
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In it, he set out his goals for the next four years and called for a revolution of consciousness.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in this special edition recorded at 18 Hours GMT on Monday 20th January, Donald J. Trump has been inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States.
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He's only the second person in history to be elected to two non-consecutive terms. We have Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony and his inauguration speech with analysis from our North America correspondent. The United States has a new commander-in-chief.
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the inaugural speech of the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump. So how is the new president's speech likely to go down? Our North America correspondent, Neda Torfik, spoke to my colleague, Nuala McGovern.
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Donald Trump was sworn in a short time ago as the country's 47th president in the ornate surroundings of the Rotunda in Washington's Capitol building. At the age of 78, he overtakes his predecessor, Joe Biden, as the oldest US president to take office. It was just after midday local time that Mr Trump took the oath on the Bible.
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Starmer warns US backstop needed for Ukraine peace deal
Let's not describe in detail the treatment. Lots of people hate injections. But it involves injections, taking stuff from your own blood.
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Starmer warns US backstop needed for Ukraine peace deal
You are hopeful this is going to make a real transformation to your ability to smell.
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Starmer warns US backstop needed for Ukraine peace deal
Und Osmia-Sufferer Chrissy Kelly.
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Klaus Johannes, who's been in power for two terms, 10 years in power, he was supposed to step down in December when his mandate ran out. But because of that political turmoil, especially the annulment, the very controversial cancellation of the presidential elections to choose a successor for him, that was at the beginning of December. He said he'd stay on until the rescheduled elections in May.
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But he has seen... Since then, a wave of anger, especially on the nationalist wing of Hungarian politics, protests on the street against him, calling for him to resign. And I think what's really pushed him to resign now, just still three months before the May elections, is he felt he wasn't receiving the support he wanted from the center of Romanian politics, from the coalition government.
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So in a way, he's jumped before he could be pushed.
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Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
Basically, Kalin Georgescu, an almost unknown, radical, some people call him a nationalist, some call him a pro-Russian candidate, but he certainly didn't have the backing of any particular parties.
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Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
He came from nowhere, came first in the first round of the presidential election on the 24th of November, and looked set, most likely, to win the second round of that election, the runoff, on the 6th of December.
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Then the President, President Yohannes, and the Constitutional Court, the Central Electoral Committee, came up with documents suggesting that Mr. Georgescu's astonishing sudden rise to success in that first round came off the back of a wave of support from TikTok users.
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And there were suspicions also, never fully comprehensively proven, but certainly loudly made by the secret services that he was a pro-Russian candidate and that he'd been financed or supported in some way by Russia.
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Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
Next steps politically, the interim president will be Elie Bolojan. He's the president of the Senate, the leader of the National Liberal Party, one of the coalition parties in government. Mr. Yohannes, in his very bitter outgoing speech, said that his resignation wouldn't solve the political crisis. It would actually make it worse. But we'll, I think, have to see what actually happens.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
My point is, I want us to go back to a Germany that we had before my time, a peaceful Germany without attacks on innocent people, and I would vote for Alternative für Deutschland, the AfD. At the moment, this is the only salvation for Germany.
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I'm looking right now at the devastation that it's wrought here in Bangkok. There was a skyscraper that was being built. It was supposed to be a 30-story building. It was going to be a government building here in the Thai capital. But it totally collapsed in a matter of seconds. There were around 400 workers believed to be on the construction site.
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When the building collapsed, many people were able to sort of scrabble out. A lot of people managed to escape from the site. But it's thought that around 100 people are still buried under the rubble. And I'm just looking at it now. I'm standing on an overpass about... 50, 60 metres away from me, and it is vast. It is a vast mountain of rubble. There are sniffer dogs looking around.
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There are lots of rescue workers just desperately trying to battle through this rubble, trying to find any sign of survivors. They've been doing this for hours, by the way, Rachel, and so far, apart from the immediate aftermath of that collapse, we haven't seen any survivors come out. So people really are bracing themselves for the worst here.
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Yes, she did. And she declared the whole of Bangkok an emergency zone. And there were some pretty dramatic images, footage coming out from around the city of buildings shaking. Bangkok, of course, has got many, many high-rise buildings, lots of hotels, condominiums, skyscrapers. There was infinity pools spilling their contents off the top of rooftops.
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But the damage by and large has been superficial. There's not really been many reports of injuries outside of this one unfinished skyscraper that I'm looking at right now. And you just have to wonder about the workers who were here who just found themselves on a normal Friday afternoon at work in the wrong place at the wrong time on this unstable structure.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
Well, some are cautiously making their way back home. If they live on a higher floor, it's less likely that they want to spend the night there. The authorities have actually set up a series of temporary encamps in parks nearby. A lot of people are still there and some people might even spend the night there.
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Preston Cook, who campaigned for the bald eagle to be recognized as America's national bird.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
We look at a nation that's fast becoming a hotspot for international music tours.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
Israel will strike Houthis until the job is done. The words of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his defence forces said they'd launched strikes across Yemen. One of the places targeted was the international airport in the capital Sana'a. Inside the departure lounge, there was panic as people tried to flee the building.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
Next to Syria. The new administration in the country say they've arrested a senior military officer from the former Assad regime who's believed to have been involved in abuses at the notorious Sadnaya prison. Mohammed Kanjo Hassan was captured after clashes between forces from the new government and Assad loyalists.
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Thousands of people were tortured and executed at that prison since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. It's the first big test for the new leadership, HTS, which says it will stamp out attempts to undermine Syria's security. On Wednesday, a number of HTS were killed in attacks. Our Middle East regional editor, Sebastian Usher, has more.
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And Sebastian, there seems to be a realisation from HTS that Syria's continued security in the future relies on sending out feelers to its neighbours as well. And we've seen that over the last day or so with regards to Iraq and Lebanon, haven't we?
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
Also there was the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was about to board a flight. Israel says it was attacking sites used by the Houthi armed group that controls part of Yemen. They're backed by Iran and they've repeatedly hit Israel with drones and missiles since the first months of the Gaza war.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
Throughout the year, there have been reports of many advances and potential advances in healthcare, in the treatments of obesity, dementia and personalised vaccines for cancer. So what can we expect as the new year beckons? Johnny Diamond spoke to Kate Bingham, managing partner at SV Health Investors and the former chair of the UK government's COVID vaccine taskforce.
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So what are her thoughts on the possible advances in such areas as obesity, dementia and those personalised vaccines?
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
I asked our correspondent in Jerusalem, Shaima Khalil, how much damage the strikes on Yemen have caused.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
Kate Binger, managing partner of SV Health Investors. Now to a resolution of a row over crustaceans. China has again started allowing imports of lobsters from Australia, marking the end of a political argument that's spilled over into trade. Our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow, reports.
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Mickey Bristow, India is the world's most populous nation. There's a growing middle class with money to spend and more interest in Western pop music. So it is fast becoming a hotspot for international music tours. The BBC's Davina Gupta reports.
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That report was by Davina Gupta. And that is 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 in it, 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 Darcy O'Brie. The producer was Liam McSheffery.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just said, we will strike until the job is done. What is that job and is it achievable?
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
Shaima, it's worth mentioning, I said in the introduction that the head of the World Health Organization was at Sana'a airport when these attacks happened. It's worth mentioning the humanitarian situation in Yemen is and has been for many years horrendous, hasn't it? And it's not likely to get any better with these kind of attacks.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
The authorities in Finland have seized a ship believed to be linked to Russia because of suspicions that it severed an underwater cable in the Baltic Sea. The Estlink-2 carries electricity between Finland and Estonia, but stopped working on Wednesday.
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Finnish police who boarded the Eagle-S, a vessel they suspect is being part of a Russian so-called shadow fleet, say they found evidence that the anchor had been used to cut the cable in two. The Finnish National Police Commissioner is Ilkka Koskimäki.
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Ervin Davis heard more from The Economist's defence editor, Shashank Joshi.
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Russia and Kazakhstan are seeking to downplay speculation that Moscow was behind the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane on Wednesday, which killed 38 people. The Kremlin said it was wrong to speculate on the cause before the outcome of an investigation.
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The Speaker of the Kazakh Senate said it wasn't possible to conclude from photographic evidence that the plane had been hit by a Russian missile. A number of military experts have accused Russia of shooting down the plane, mistaking it for a Ukrainian drone. Jonathan Josephs has this report.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Mars, and in the early hours of Friday, the 27th of December, these are our main stories. Israel has launched a wave of airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, including the main international airport, where the attack narrowly missed the head of the World Health Organization.
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The death has been announced of India's former Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. He was 92. Mr Singh was the first Prime Minister in India from the Sikh faith and was praised by many for boosting economic growth there. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Singh, writing on social media that India mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders. Jill McGivery looks back at his life.
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The European Commission has threatened further sanctions against Russia following the alleged sabotage of another cable under the Baltic Sea. India's first Sikh Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has died at the age of 92. Also in this podcast, good news for the American bald eagle.
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Jill McGivering on the life of India's former Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, who's died at the age of 92. Now, name this bird. Any idea? Here's another clue.
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That is Sam the Eagle from the American television puppet show The Muppets. The American or bald eagle has been the symbol of the United States for centuries with its image across the country's coins and stamps. But it was only officially named the national bird earlier this week.
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Preston Cook spent years campaigning for this recognition and even penned a draft of the legislation that he sent to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. John Donison asked him for his reaction now that the bald eagle has been named as the national bird of the US.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 21st of February, these are our main stories. The Israeli Prime Minister has accused Hamas of a cruel and evil violation of the ceasefire in Gaza.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
And when it was severed last year, late last year, patrols were increased in the area. And now we're hearing from the EU that they're going to increase surveillance security in the area. It's going to be incredibly difficult, though, isn't it, to secure all these cables? And it's a regional problem, not just a problem for Sweden or Finland.
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Sascha Schlichter If the opinion polls in Germany two days before the general election are to be believed, the next chancellor will be the Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Metz. But little is expected to change because he'll have to form a coalition with at least one of the parties currently in government.
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That is because he's ruled out any cooperation on any matter with the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AFD. Mr Merz made his fortune as a corporate lawyer in the city of Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the heart of the prosperous German West. On Friday, he went back there to speak to voters. The BBC's Nick Robinson is also in the city.
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Well, Hamas has said that it's investigating a possible mix-up of bodies and called on Israel to return the mistakenly sent remains. On Saturday, a further hostage-prisoner exchange is due to take place, in which six Israelis will be returned by Hamas and more than 600 Palestinians will be released from Israeli jails. Our Middle East regional editor, Sebastian Usher, is in Jerusalem.
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I've come to the Schlüssel, one of the oldest beer halls in Düsseldorf. where the beers are being lined up on the bar. One thing not on the menu for most people is conversation about the election. Because politics divides people here, scares people even. In a way, it hasn't for many decades.
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Who are you going to vote for?
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Even here in a city that is a symbol of German prosperity, home to the country's fashion industry and to many European multinational headquarters, even here in Dusseldorf, voters are anxious. Anxious about what's coming next for this country. Anxious about the divisions visible everywhere. Not least in the Hitler moustaches added to election posters.
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Today, the Christian Democrats' Friedrich Merz, the man everyone expects to be Germany's next Chancellor, is coming home for an Eva Pohl rally to the city where he made a fortune, to the region he was born in and now represents. On stage at the Merz rally today, introducing the man expected to be Germany's next Chancellor, is Thomas Jatzenbeck, the CDU MP for Dusseldorf for the past 15 years.
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Does the fact that Friedrich Merz is himself a successful, a wealthy man help with that message?
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Friedrich Merz may lead the same party as Angela Merkel, but that is where the connection ends. They couldn't be more different. He, a self-confident, even brash and wealthy businessman who likes to fly around the country in his own private plane. She, a low-key scientist from the East who prides herself in doing, not talking. He blames her for many of Germany's biggest problems.
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Who wins the election here on Sunday isn't in much doubt, unless, of course, the polls are hopelessly wrong. What is in doubt is pretty much everything else. German prosperity, German unity, German security. Even here, in oh-so-comfortable Dusseldorf, the old certainties are being shaken and shaken for good.
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Nick Robinson France is starting random bag checks outside schools in order to fight against a growing problem of knife crime amongst teenagers there. The Education Minister, Elisabeth Born, said the bag searches would be carried out by police officers. Hugh Schofield reports.
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The Canadian national ice hockey team has beaten the United States in a match with unusually strong political overtones. Canada triumphed by three goals to two in the four nations face-off final in Boston. Peter Hyatt reports.
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The UK's oldest horse has celebrated her 46th birthday this week. Rona, the mixed breed pony, was once a competitive show jumper but is now enjoying her retirement in Northern Ireland. Our correspondent Chris Page has been to meet the elderly pony and her owner, Keris Brown.
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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 on. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod.
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This edition was mixed by Chris Lovelock and the producer was Stephanie Tillotson. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles. And until next time, goodbye.
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And Sweden's Coast Guard is investigating new damage to a cable under the Baltic Sea after a series of suspected Russian sabotage attacks in the area.
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So given what you've just said, Sebastian, how likely is it that this will jeopardise Saturday's exchange and the wider ceasefire deal?
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The US Secretary of State has said a possible meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin will largely depend on progress on ending the war in Ukraine. In an interview on X, Marco Rubio said there wouldn't be a meeting until the agenda was clear. Meanwhile, the US National Security Advisor has urged President Zelensky to tone down his criticism of Donald Trump.
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The BBC's James Waterhouse in Kiev gave us this update.
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We hear about the new gene therapy cure for childhood blindness. The Gaza ceasefire agreement has always been a precarious one. Now Israel has accused Hamas of violating the deal after it said its forensic testing revealed the body returned from Gaza on Thursday was not that of Shiri Bibas.
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James Waterhouse. Well, the Trump administration has stunned Europe with its decision to start talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine. Now American allies in the Asia-Pacific region are nervously waiting to see what Washington has in store for them.
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The US still underwrites the security of Japan and South Korea with tens of thousands of troops still based there and the US Navy's Pacific fleet almost constantly in the region, often conducting exercises with other navies.
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Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Haid was invited to visit one of the Navy's largest aircraft carriers as it took part in an exercise with the French and Japanese carriers.
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Three other bodies were handed over, the two Bibas children, Ariel and Kfir, and the peace activist Oded Lifshitz. Here's the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Jonathan Head with that report. Surgeons in London have become the first in the world to successfully preserve the sight of four young children born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness. Jace, who's now six years old, was diagnosed with a condition that weakened his retinas when he was a baby.
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He underwent experimental gene therapy at Moorfields Hospital in London and is now able to recognise objects a few metres away. His father, Brendan, spoke about the moment when it began to have an effect.
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James Bainbridge is an eye surgeon and he was one of the team treating Jace.
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Professor James Bainbridge speaking to Justin Webb. Still to come in this podcast...
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The UK's oldest horse celebrates her 46th birthday. Yet another undersea cable in the Baltics has been damaged. This time it took place just to the east of the Swedish island of Gotland. It's part of a cable that was severed completely last November and December. At the time, NATO considered the damage the result of Russian sabotage attacks. So has the same happened again?
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I've been speaking to our Europe regional editor, Sascha Schlichter.
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After Donald Trump's conversation with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, speaking to reporters a day later in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked if he believed his Russian counterpart wanted peace.
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That report was by Alice Cuddy.
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We find out what's causing so much damage around the world.
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Riot police in Tehran have prevented a protest demanding the release of people still under house arrest many years after they disputed an election result. The 2009 Green Movement believed the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been rigged. The organisers of Thursday's protest had submitted a formal request to hold the non-violent demonstration. Sirvash Arlan of BBC Persian reports.
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President Trump's controversial nominee for US Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has narrowly secured approval by the US Senate. Mr. Kennedy's confirmation follows hearings in which he was questioned about his record of scepticism about the safety of vaccines. He says his priorities include tackling obesity and cutting out ultra-processed foods.
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A day after the US election last November, President Trump's former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, gave his view on the likelihood of RFK Jr. being made US health secretary.
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Not so, it seems. Evan Davis spoke to Anthony Zirka, our North America correspondent, and asked him more about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's appointment.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief, Kaya Callas, has accused President Trump of appeasing Russia over Ukraine. She insisted that European states and Ukraine itself must be part of any peace talks.
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Anthony Zirka. Ruthless, vicious and notorious. Pablo Escobar, Colombia's former drug smuggling kingpin, was responsible for hundreds of murders and kidnappings in the 1980s and 90s. It is more than 30 years since he was killed in a shootout with police, but thanks to the books and TV programmes about him, he is as talked about as ever. And he's also big business.
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He's on mugs, keychains and T-shirts sold in tour shops across the country. But now the Colombian government is proposing a bill to ban Escobar merchandise and that of other convicted criminals. Our reporter Catherine Ellis, who's normally based in Medellin, where Pablo Escobar was based, told me more about the proposed law.
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And Catherine, why is this being proposed now as a law and how much political support is there for it?
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And what do people making money out of this trade make of this proposed law?
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And Catherine, how likely is it, do you think, that this law will go ahead?
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Catherine Ellis. Now, scientists have been poring over hundreds of studies about the impact of pesticides and they found to what extent they're having a serious impact on biodiversity around the world and on all sorts of species.
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James Menendez heard more from Dr Ben Woodcock of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and co-author of the new research published in the journal Nature Communications.
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US officials have already said Ukraine can't expect to get all its territory back or be allowed to join NATO. But speaking after a NATO meeting in Brussels, the US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, said this didn't amount to a concession to the Russian president.
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Ben Woodcock of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. In case you've forgotten, February the 14th is Valentine's Day. But if you're not in the mood for love, some animal sanctuaries are offering the perfect antidote. One venue is giving people the chance to name a rat after their ex and feed it to a bird of prey.
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The German defence minister did, though, call it regrettable that Washington was already making concessions, in his words, to the Kremlin. Jonathan Beale is our defence correspondent in Brussels, where he asked the head of NATO, Mark Rutter, if he agreed with that.
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Yes, certain individual European politicians, as we've heard, are more forthright than NATO over their concerns. Why is that, do you think? Is NATO in some way cowed by Donald Trump?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Friday the 14th of February, these are our main stories. The head of NATO has appealed for the West to stay united as a rift opens up between Europe and the United States on peace negotiations about Ukraine.
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Jonathan Beale. So how has Wednesday's phone call between President Trump and Vladimir Putin been received in Russia? Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.
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Steve Rosenberg. Meanwhile, in Kiev, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has insisted his country must be involved in peace talks about the future of his country. With his assessment of Ukraine's position, here's our international editor, Jeremy Bowen.
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Days ahead of German elections, the man tipped to be the country's next leader has said things must change after an asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people. Riot police in Tehran have prevented a protest demanding the release of people still under house arrest 13 years after they disputed an election result.
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Jeremy Bowen in Ukraine. Next to Germany, and police have given more details about the Afghan man arrested in Munich after he drove into a crowd injuring 28 people. They say the suspect is a failed asylum seeker who has been in Germany since 2016. Counter-terrorism police have taken over the investigation.
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The incident comes during a general election campaign in which immigration and asylum are key issues. The front-runner to become the next chancellor in nine days' time, Friedrich Merz, said things had to change so that everyone would feel safe. Earlier, the current German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, says crime will be treated very seriously.
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Jessica Parker in Germany. Israel has said Hamas must release three living hostages on Saturday or the Gaza ceasefire will be over. The demand follows an earlier announcement by Hamas that it will now meet that deadline. The group had previously said it would postpone the release, accusing Israel of breaching the terms of the ceasefire deal.
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That led President Trump to say Israel should let hell break out in Gaza if the captives aren't freed. Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from Jerusalem.
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We hear some unusual advice for Valentine's Day. How will the war in Ukraine end and at what cost to Kiev? That is the question dominating the minds of politicians and diplomats across Europe and beyond.
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Meanwhile, the families of some of the young women hostages freed from Gaza have told the BBC of their treatment during 15 months of captivity and the ways they survived. The parents of four of them have described how they were given little food, saw another hostage being beaten and were threatened by armed men as they were held in tunnels and buildings above ground.
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Alice Cuddy has been speaking to the families of the freed hostages and sent this report from Jerusalem. Some people may find the following distressing.
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Less than an hour after Washington threatened to impose additional sanctions and tariffs on Moscow because of its latest heavy bombardment of Ukraine, President Trump seemed to come out in support of Vladimir Putin. He said his Russian counterpart had done what any leader would, given its adversary had just been denied US arms and intelligence.
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Neuroscientist, die mit Überlebenden aus dem Israel-Nova-Festival gearbeitet haben, nach dem 7. Oktober-Hamas-Attack, sagen, dass es frühere Zeichen gab, dass MDMA oder Ekstase eine psychologische Schutz von Trauma bieten kann. Vorliegende Findungen aus einer großen-scale-Studie, die aus Israels Haifa-Universität herausgebracht wurde,
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suggest that the illegal drug was associated with better mental health outcomes among survivors from the festival. It's thought to be the first time scientists have been able to study a mass trauma event where large numbers of people were under the influence of mind-altering drugs. Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson has this report from Jerusalem.
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Train-Services at the Gare du Nord in Paris saw a day of disruption on Friday caused by the discovery of a large unexploded bomb from the Second World War. No Eurostar trains ran all day between Paris and London and the company said normal cross-channel services will not resume before Saturday.
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The bomb, weighing just more than 450 kilograms, was found by maintenance workers near tracks north of the station. Our Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, spent the day at the Gardenoor.
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It has been a difficult few days for commercial space exploration. A new generation of rocket made by Elon Musk's SpaceX firm exploded in the skies over North America on Thursday morning. And the company which landed one of its craft on the moon now says that the mission has ended prematurely because the machine can't generate any power. Our science reporter Georgina Ranard has more details.
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Georgina Renhardt It is International Women's Day and we're hearing from women and girls in Afghanistan about how their lives have changed over the course of more than three years of Taliban rule. Girls over 12 years old are now barred completely from education and banned from speaking in public. UN-Experts have warned that the policies amount to gender apartheid.
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Our producers have voiced over the women we've heard from. We're not using their real names either, so as to not put them in danger. Let's first hear from Lima, an 18-year-old from a rural district in Afghanistan, who loves to sing. First you hear her singing Wildflower by US-Star Billie Eilish.
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Lima there. And this is Freshta, a midwife who had her education interrupted during the Taliban's first period of rule more than 20 years ago. She gets one Friday a month off, but her free time used to look very different.
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Yogita Limoy And that is 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 in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod.
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This edition was mixed by Masoud Ibrahim Kail and the producer was Rebecca Wood. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
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Anomia, Mr. Trump sagt, es ist schwieriger, mit der Ukraine zu handeln, als mit Moskau. Das scheint für die Ukraine in den USA-Kiev-Gesprächen, die nächste Woche in Saudi-Arabien stattfinden, zu sein.
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Aber wir wissen nicht, wann das sein wird.
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On an earlier edition of this podcast, we brought you the news that civilians have been executed by Syrian security forces in an area which has seen clashes with those loyal to the former president, Bashar al-Assad. Now more details are emerging. A war monitoring group says the number killed in the coastal province of Latakia has risen to more than 160.
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The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the total includes 13 women and 5 children, all of whom were from Assad's minority Alawite community. Syria's Interior Ministry has acknowledged what it called individual violations. Mohammed lives in a village close to the provincial city of Jabla. He says he witnessed a convoy of motorbikes accompanied by vehicles in the city.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Saturday, the 8th of March, these are our main stories. President Trump has again taken aim at Ukraine, saying he's finding it more difficult to deal with Kiev on a peace agreement than Moscow. Syrian troops are reported to have executed more than 160 people in a former Assad stronghold.
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Syriens Transitional Leader Ahmed Al-Shara sagt, er wird das, was er den Asad-Regime genannt hat, verfolgen und sie zum Trial bringen. Sechs bulgarische Bürger, die in den USA leben, sind vor langen Gefängnissen für Spionage für Russland. Die Polizei sagt, dass der Fall einer der größten und am meisten komplexen Außenintelligenz-Operationen der USA ist.
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Drei der Gruppe wurden am Freitag verurteilt, während die restlichen drei ihre Einwohnung früher verurteilt haben. The trial heard the group had engaged in a series of surveillance and intelligence operations, targeting people and places of interest to Russia over a period of three years. They were arrested in February of 2023, as our correspondent Daniel DeSimone reports.
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Officials have revealed the likely cause of death in the case of the American actor Gene Hackman and his wife, who were both found dead at their home in New Mexico. Authorities revealed a timeline which suggests Betsy Hackman, the actor's long-term partner, died first and Mr. Hackman a week later. Our US correspondent Peter Bowes was following the press conference.
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Police give an update on the cause of death of Hollywood actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy. Also, did drugs help the trauma heal? It has been another confusing day in the long and tortuous path towards peace in Ukraine.
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Those details really are tragic. A carer dying and then leaving nobody to care for what was obviously an extremely vulnerable Mr. Hackman. Do we know what happens next in this case or where does it go now?
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Now, what seems to be a bit of a first in women's professional sports. Hundreds of tennis players on the WTA tour will be eligible for 12 months paid maternity leave. Everyone will receive the same amount, which hasn't been disclosed, irrespective of their ranking. And players won't have to repay the money if they later choose not to return to the sport.
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Grants will also be made available for fertility treatment. So, how important is this announcement, considering tennis players are self-employed? A question Tim Franks asked Eleanor Crooks, tennis correspondent for the Press Association.
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And you've looked at what you can do. If you've got a tubby lab to start with, you're a vet by training, aren't you? What can you, as it were, just exercise them more, restrain what's put in front of them?
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Is that what we should be doing then? Not stocking the fridge for someone who's got the gene?
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You can listen to various European leaders, Rebecca, and they each seem to have their own phrase. Five minutes to midnight, decision time, the critical moment, all underlining just what an important moment this is. But will the action follow this?
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They had President Zelensky with them today for this meeting, so if they needed to focus their minds, I'm sure he would have given a vivid account of the... Die Ordeel, die die Menschen weiterhin mit Bomben auf ukrainischen Städten und Städten verursachen, die Koreografie heute begann mit dem warmen Willkommen für Präsident Zelenskyj, aber dann kam es zum Geschäft.
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Und diese europäischen Führer aus den 27 Ländern in der Europäischen Union, sie schauten spezifisch darauf hin, Ja. Ja.
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We're not fast enough, I think, would be the simple answer to that. This is planning for the future. And if you listen to the leaders, they're saying it's a future threat from Vladimir Putin, among others. I mean, it's quite interesting if you listen to what Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Germany, Poland was saying today.
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He is someone whose country spends more than 4% of their GDP on defense spending. But if there is any sort of peace deal, a ceasefire in Ukraine, he says he can't afford to send any of his soldiers there to be peacekeepers because of the threat he describes from Russia that they may invade Poland. So I think that's an indication of the level of concern.
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Certainly the Baltic countries are talking about the threat of Russian military Ja, genau.
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Ja, aber das ist, was alle dachten, kann passieren. Viktor Orban, der hungarische Bundespräsident, ist sympathisch mit Moskau, hat viel wärmere Beziehungen mit Präsident Putin als die große Mehrheit der EU-Führer. Und er hat in der Rückkehr zu diesem Summit gesagt, dass es keine Art Kommunikation gibt,
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Any sort of statement which said that the EU would continue to fund and support militarily Ukraine for as long as it takes. And his rationale, Mr. Orban, was saying that the facts have changed and actually Europe should be following the lead of Donald Trump. Sie sollten Präsident Putin anrufen, um einen Deal zu streiten, um diesen Konflikt nicht zu perpetuieren.
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Er ist also sehr vielmehr die minority voice. Es kann also sein, dass sie, wenn sie das ohne ihn entschieden haben, das als eine gewiss Entscheidung gemacht haben. In der Vergangenheit ist er in der Raum geblieben und Entscheidungen wurden gemacht. Aber er ist sicherlich der Thorn in der Seite von vielen der wichtigen EU-Führer in der Ukraine.
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Against these findings, the condition itself is said not to be recognised in Somali culture.
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Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency says an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people east of Gaza City has killed at least 31 people, some of them children. Israel says it had targeted a Hamas command and control centre. More details from Dan Johnson in Jerusalem.
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Dan Johnson. Myanmar's military leader is attending a regional summit in Bangkok after the number of people known to have died in last week's earthquake passed 3,000. Critics say he should have stayed at home to help oversee relief efforts. Nick Beek reports.
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But speaking to reporters as he left the White House, Mr Trump expressed optimism.
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The head of the junta, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, flew to Bangkok for a regional economic summit. He's been largely ostracised from the global stage, relying on support from Russia and China, so his presence today marks a rehabilitation of sorts. But the dire domestic reality to which he'll return will shape his immediate fate.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
There's now a short-term ceasefire in Myanmar, but the Burmese people often see their fortunes as divine judgement on the deeds of their leaders. Rising anger, despair and disease would represent a new and dangerous threat to the hunter.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Myanmar's military hasn't allowed foreign journalists into the country since the earthquake, but our correspondent Yogi Talimai managed to cross the border and made her way to Mandalay, the country's second largest city. This is the second of her reports.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
We'll hear more about what the US president had to say in a moment, but let's hear from India, Vietnam, Japan and South Africa. And first, from the US.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
That report by Yogita Limbai in Mandalay. It is Autism Acceptance Week around the world. Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people communicate and interact and how a person's brain develops and functions from infancy through adulthood. It's a condition that is misunderstood.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
A new report from the UK has found that Somali children in Britain are six times more likely to be referred for autism than children from any other background. The condition itself is said not to be recognised in the Somali culture. There isn't even a name for it in the Somali language.
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So, parents of these children with the condition have not been able to get the help they need, both in the UK and in Somalia, because they fear judgement from the community. So they struggle on in silence. But things are starting to change. In 2020, a Somali autism advocate introduced a new word, mangar, meaning unique mind, to describe autism in Somali.
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And in Mogadishu, the Mustakbal Centre is helping such children find a place in society. Audrey Brown spoke to Noora Abe, the founder of Autism Independence here in the UK. How would she define autism?
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Nora Abe, the founder of Autism Independence in the UK. Even if you've never played a video game before in your life, you've probably heard of Super Mario and Donkey Kong, two of the hugely popular characters created by the Japanese gaming company Nintendo. Well, Nintendo is also a giant in the video console world. Seven years ago, it launched the Nintendo Switch.
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It has sold more than 150 million consoles since then. Now it's come up with an upgrade, the Switch 2. These gamers in New York had the chance to try it out.
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But the Nintendo Switch 2 is being launched at a rather inauspicious time with hefty American tariffs being put on Japanese imports. I asked our technology reporter Tom Gherkin whether that's taken the shine off the launch.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
And Tom, how price sensitive is the market for these games? Will many people say, look... I'll suck it up because it's a must-have item.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Do you think, though, the general trajectory of the industry is upwards? Video games market $200 billion around the world at the moment. Is it going to go up, do you think?
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
So Tom, what is special about this new Switch 2 that may mean it is a big seller despite the inauspicious timing?
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
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 in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Nick Randall. The producer was Liam McSheffery.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
By one estimate, more than $1.5 trillion was wiped off the value of shares on Wall Street at the start of Thursday's trading. Shares in tech firms were the worst hit. Apple's value dropped by more than $250 billion. The dollar also fell and there's been a slide in oil prices. Investors fear the tariffs will hit growth and drive up inflation worldwide.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Despite all this, President Trump remained buoyant. I heard more from our North America correspondent, David Willis.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Friday, the 4th of April, these are our main stories. President Trump has said his policy of putting steep tariffs on US imports is going very well, despite huge falls in stock markets. The new taxes have led the World Trade Organization to revise down its growth forecast.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
And David, in that clip we heard from Mr. Trump, he referred to what's happening as an operation that's going to work. To what extent do Americans like the idea of being operated on?
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And no sign of any kind of dissent within the Trump administration, far from it at the moment.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
David Willis in Los Angeles. The World Trade Organization has revised its forecast for global economic growth sharply downwards in the light of the new US tariffs. In contrast to its previous forecast of 3% growth for the world economy this year, the agency now expects a contraction of 1%. Jonathan Josephs reports.
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Jonathan Josephs. Well, many people around the world see Donald Trump's tariffs as the moment the post-war system of global trade was turned on its head. So are they right? Our business correspondent Mark Ashdown gave me his assessment.
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It now expects the global economy to shrink by 1% this year. The authorities in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike has killed over 30 displaced people sheltering in a school.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Now, some people, the doom and gloom mongers, are saying it could lead to a global recession. It's far too early to predict that. But at what point does a run on the stock market that we've been seeing become pretty unsustainable and really worrying?
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
The Southern African nation of Lesotho says it will send a government delegation to the United States to plead its case after Washington imposed 50% tariffs on its imports. Thousands of people in Lesotho are employed making clothes for the US market under a tax-free initiative set up more than two decades ago. Our Africa regional editor, Will Ross, reports.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Well, Ross, there's more concern in Asia as well to these tariffs. Bangladesh was number 16 on President Trump's tariff list, which was shown to the invited guests on the White House lawn. The South Asian country now has a 37% tax levied on its imports into the US.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Bangladesh's economy has grown in recent years and it's scheduled at the end of next year to graduate from the UN's Group of Least Developed Countries, or LDC, status. But it's still vulnerable, as Tim Franks has been hearing from Salim Rehan, Professor of Economics at the University of Dhaka.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
The Japanese gaming company Nintendo has revealed the Switch 2, the long-awaited successor to one of the best-selling consoles in history. Donald Trump has defended the tariffs he's announced on US imports from around the world, despite a global stock market sell-off. Wall Street suffered one of its worst days in recent years on Thursday.
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Salim Rehan, economics professor at the University of Dhaka.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and at 14 Hours GMT on Friday the 3rd of January, these are our main stories. Anti-corruption investigators in South Korea have suspended an attempt to arrest the impeached president, Yoon Suk-yong. Police in Las Vegas tried to piece together clues to explain why a cyber truck exploded outside a hotel.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
The Venezuelan government has offered a $100,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of the man who claims to have won the country's presidential election last July. Edmundo Gonzalez fled Venezuela for exile in Spain after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest on conspiracy charges. He ran against Nicolas Maduro, who is due to be sworn in for a third term next week.
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President Maduro was declared winner by a government-controlled electoral commission amid allegations of electoral fraud. Our America's regional editor, Leonardo Rocha, gave his assessment of the timing of the government's announcement.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
To Syria now, and the question of what sort of country will emerge from the dramatic uprising that saw the Assad dynasty toppled after more than half a century. That's on the mind of every Syrian, but it's also a question for Western governments. Some have taken in large numbers of Syrian refugees and are thinking about whether to lift sanctions now President Assad is gone.
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But they're worried about Syria's new Islamist leadership under the group HTS, or Hayat Tareh al-Sham, with its al-Qaeda origins. The foreign ministers of France and Germany have visited Damascus for talks with the new authorities. Our correspondent in the Syrian capital, Lina Sinjab, told the BBC's James Menendez about those discussions.
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Israel confirms it has detained a Gazan doctor, contradicting its earlier statement about his whereabouts. Also in this podcast, Venezuela's government offers a $100,000 reward for information on an exiled opposition presidential candidate and... Saltwater croc that's maybe two metre to maybe two and a half, anything bigger.
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What's being described as the first movie of the universe will be made possible this year. We'll be able to take images of the entire night sky all at the same time. And it is because of the installation of a digital camera alongside one of the world's biggest telescopes on top of a mountain range in Chile in South America.
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Professor Catherine Haymans, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, explains how it works.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
Professor Catherine Haymans, Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Three years ago, Barbados officially removed the then British monarch Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and became a republic, the first nation to do so in nearly 30 years.
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The present King Charles attended the ceremony where he acknowledged the appalling atrocity of slavery the Caribbean island had suffered during centuries of British colonial rule. But for many in Barbados, this is not enough. They want to see economic reparations as well. From Barbados, here's Will Grant.
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The efforts to manage Australia's burgeoning crocodile population. The political standoff in South Korea shows no sign of being resolved. Despite his impeachment and suspension from office after imposing martial law last month, President Yoon Suk-yeol has fervent supporters still.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
In fact, they're so impassioned that thousands of them have been surrounding Mr Yoon's house in central Seoul, trying to prevent police from arresting him as part of corruption investigations. The president's security officers refused to let police through, so once again they backed down. Jean McKenzie reports now on another day of deadlock.
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That report was by Will Grant. And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later on. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, 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 Volodymyr Muzicka and the producer was Chantal Hart.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
Jean McKenzie in Seoul. As we heard in her report, Mr Yoon's Presidential Security Service blocked his arrest, forcing the Corruption Investigation Office to give up the attempt after a five and a half hour standoff. Now the anti-corruption officers are demanding that the acting president order Mr Yoon's guards to stand down. Jonathan Head is our correspondent in the region.
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I asked him what could happen next.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
And Jonathan, we heard in Gene McKenzie's piece there, one supporter of the president saying you'll have to kill me first if you want to arrest him. Why are his supporters quite so impassioned about him?
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Jonathan Haidt. Over the past few days, much of the focus in the United States has been on the terror attack in New Orleans, in which 14 people were killed. In its latest update, the FBI said it believed the suspect, Army veteran Shamshud Din Jabbar, acted alone when he drove a truck into crowds on New Year's Day.
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There had been questions about whether the attack was connected to an incident in Las Vegas, which happened a few hours later, when a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside a Trump Hotel. The US authorities now say they haven't been able to establish any definitive link. Lily Jamali reports.
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The Israeli military has confirmed that it has detained the head of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, despite earlier saying it had not. Last week, the army said it was interrogating Dr Husam Abu Safir because it suspected him of terrorism. The Israeli military said a previous statement that it was not holding him may have been down to human error. Emir Nader reports from Jerusalem.
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Emir Nader. Australians are used to living with dangerous animals. Its forests are home to many of the world's most poisonous snakes and spiders, and more than 100,000 saltwater crocodiles roam in the rivers of the Northern Territory. While croc attacks are rare, in 2024 a young girl was killed by a crocodile. It was the first fatal attack in the territory in six years.
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And it reignited the debate over culling. So just how many is too many crocs? Our Australia correspondent Katie Watson reports from Darwin.
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That report was by Katie Watson. Still to come on the Global News Podcast.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
How Barbados is using public art to redefine its cultural identity after becoming a republic.