Paul Moss
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
The timing of this announcement means everything. Donald Trump says the US should take over Greenland because its Arctic location is strategically important. So having America in charge there would, as he put it, protect the free world. Greenland is Danish territory.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Denmark's Prime Minister, Meta Fredriksson, spent Tuesday racing round European capitals, shoring up support for its sovereignty over the island. Now, she and NATO's Secretary General have emphasised the alliance's defence of the Arctic region, implicitly negating the need for a unilateral American takeover.
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
How did these two, A$AP Rocky and A$AP Relly, end up falling out so badly that one of them accused the other of shooting him?
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
Qatar's prime minister. What's striking about the ceasefire deal is that it's really just a more detailed version of the outline agreement drawn up in the middle of last year. As our Jerusalem correspondent Jonah Fisher explained to me.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
And we're hearing that the Israeli security cabinet is going to vote on this deal tomorrow. It's presumably still an open question, isn't it, whether the deal will pass. Many people in it were virulently opposed to any deal like this.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
And, you know, I'm thinking of people like the finance minister, Mr. Smotrich, who said instead of a deal like this, it would be better to unleash the gates of hell on Gaza. Is it going to get through? And I think...
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
Jonah Fisher, even before any formal announcement was made, thousands of Palestinians celebrated the ceasefire agreement. This was the sound on the streets of Khan Yunis. Abu Sufyan was one of those celebrating. Crowds gathered around television screens tuned in to the news.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
According to the United Nations, 90% of Gaza's population has been displaced because of Israeli bombardment. Among those who managed to escape was the BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdie Abu Alouf, who's in Istanbul. He shared his thoughts on what the deal means.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Moss, and in this special edition, recorded on Wednesday 15th January, a ceasefire deal in Gaza is announced, an agreement to end 15 months of war. It's due to start on Sunday.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
And very briefly, it's still not clear, of course, who is going to be in charge in Gaza once the Israeli leaves?
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
the BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdie Abu Alouf. And Hamas have released a statement about the deal. A Hamas official described the ceasefire as a great gain that reflects the legend that had been achieved through the steadfastness of Gaza, its people and the bravery of its resistance. Well, according to BBC Verified, 94 of the 251 hostages taken on October 7th are still in Gaza.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
60 of them are assumed to be alive still. The families of those taken have gathered once again in a part of Tel Aviv known as Hostage Square. They've been holding up placards with pictures of friends and relatives and chanting. Udi Guren, whose cousin Tal Haimi was killed on October 7th, has been campaigning for the hostages' release for the last 15 months.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
He told the BBC that the families are anxiously waiting to see their relatives again.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
US President Joe Biden confirmed the deal, which involves a full and complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the release of all the hostages held by Hamas. We'll have the latest from our correspondents in Jerusalem and Washington. It was the Prime Minister of Qatar who announced details of the deal. Qatar has been hosting and mediating talks between the two sides.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
It may have been Qatar which hosted the peace talks, but of course the US was very much in the room, sometimes literally, but always a presence in trying to nudge the two sides together. That said, the US never made any bones about being Israel's ally in this conflict, supplying it with both weapons and diplomatic support.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
Nonetheless, when welcoming the deal, Joe Biden expressed hope it would bring relief to both sides.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
Joe Biden may still be president, but before he spoke about the ceasefire agreement, Donald Trump was taking credit for the influence played by him and his team. And they did actually play an important role, as our State Department correspondent Tom Bateman explained to me.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
Tom Bateman in Washington, you've been listening to a special edition of the Global News podcast. A ceasefire deal in Gaza has been announced with an end to Israeli attacks on Palestinians and Israeli hostages released. It's due to start on January the 19th. With his thoughts on the wider implications of the deal, here's our international editor, Jeremy Bowen.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
This is what Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Yassin Al Thani had to say at a news conference in Doha.
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Gaza special: ceasefire and hostage deal agreed
And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast very soon. 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 Jack Wilfan and the producer was Alison Davis. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Paul Moss.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
We know that she was arrested on the 19th of December. She has since been freed. Wednesday morning in Tehran, and she is now back in Rome. And she looks in good condition because we have pictures of her arriving, being greeted by her boyfriend, and later by Giorgio Maloney, the prime minister, who took personal charge of her case. How was her release negotiated so quickly?
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Because it's quite a contrast with other cases of foreign nationals. Very much so. There are European prisoners who remain in detention in Iran. What is interesting about the release of Cecilia Sala is that she is a well-known journalist, a podcaster in Italy. She's 29. She works for Quora Media.
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And because the case was taken up by Giorgia Maloney so fast, this was treated with uproar by the Italian public when news emerged of her being arrested. Within days, Maloney was talking to the US administration and only just this last weekend... She flew to the United States and talked to Donald Trump about it, we think.
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So the Iranians are not confirming that at all, but the U.S. State Department has said it could be. And some State Department officials have been quoted in Italian media saying that cases are definitely linked. And the timing is clearly interesting because she was arrested in Tehran three days after the arrest of an Iranian man. at Milan's Malpensa airport.
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Now, the reason why Abedini was arrested was, this explains the American link, is that it was on a US arrest warrant. He was wanted, along with another man, in connection with allegedly smuggling information about US drones to the Iranians, electronic equipment. And that electronic drone equipment is thought to have been involved in the killing of three Americans Air Force personnel in Jordan.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
The White House has confirmed that its special envoy, Adam Bowler, has indeed had negotiations with Hamas. According to the White House spokeswoman, Carolyn Leavitt, the special envoy who's engaged in those negotiations, in her words, does have the authority to talk to Hamas. Obviously, this is a group considered to be a terrorist organization with whom the American administration deals.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
Vielen Dank. This is all about trying to secure the release of one living American hostage, a 20-year-old soldier, Idan Alexander, and four others who are believed to be dead. The negotiations do not appear to have resulted in anything so far, though one or two Israeli networks are saying that what the Americans are doing is offering to pressure Israel
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
Did Israel know about these contacts between the US and Hamas? It's not quite clear whether Israel was told after the fact or before. Israeli officials are saying that they are aware of these contacts. The Prime Minister's office released a statement. It is pretty terse, I have to say. It says simply the following.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
Israel has expressed to the United States its position regarding direct talks with Hamas. I think you can take it from the brevity statement. Die Idee, dass jemand hinter Israel zurückgehen würde, um die Erlösung von individuellen Flüchtlingen zu sichern, könnte als die Überraschung Israels overall positionieren, wenn es darum geht, vorzugehen.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
it's always been Russia's grim source of military power, that however many of its men are killed in battle, there are plenty more where they came from. Some estimates suggest nearly a quarter of a million Russian soldiers have died fighting in Ukraine. So Vladimir Putin has raised the maximum age of conscription to 30. meaning a record number of recruits will be putting on uniform this year.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Russia says the move is necessary because of the Ukrainian conflict, but also as a response to what it claims is a growing threat from the expansion of NATO.
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Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets
The Israeli government today, they gave an update. They said that of the 26 hostages due to be released in the rest of this first initial phase, 18 of them are surviving and eight of them have died. Now, that is a figure that has been in the Israeli media for a fair few weeks now. So this was the expectation. The Israeli government saying they're in contact with all of the families.
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So this is the bleak reality of the situation that people are looking at. And in the next couple of days, if this ceasefire holds, it's precarious, but it does seem to be holding for now. Three more hostages will be released on Thursday and another three at the weekend. And of course, at the same time, there will be this exchange of Palestinian prisoners currently in Israeli jail.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
Most of us drive a car and most of us at some time have to get our tyres changed. Off with the old, on with the new. And then we get the bill, which includes a small charge for our tyres to be disposed of safely and recycled. Waste tyres are supposed to be shredded, then used for things like surfacing horse arenas and children's playgrounds.
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But the BBC has discovered that around half of waste tyres in the UK are squashed into tightly bound rectangles called bales. It's more profitable to do this and then ship them abroad. Together with journalists from an organisation called Source Material, we teamed up with an industry insider who fitted trackers to end-of-life tyres to see where they ended up.
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What followed was an extraordinary journey all the way to India, where instead of going for recycling, they were diverted on a 1,000-kilometre journey into central India. where they ended up in pyrolysis plants. Pyrolysis is a process that heats tyres to high temperatures, retrieving oil and steel.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
The BBC's File on 4 Investigates programme has been told most plants in India are unlicensed and unmonitored, and it's illegal to import tyres for pyrolysis in India. The process isn't clean. It creates a dangerous cocktail of gases and chemicals.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
That's Peter Taylor from the UK's Tyre Recovery Association. We showed him footage from India of a number of pyrolysis plants just metres away from a village.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
BBC File on 4 Investigates approached one of the companies they confirmed. They were processing some imported tyres but said what they were doing wasn't dangerous or illegal. The TRA estimates that 70% of tyres exported to India from the UK and the rest of the world end up in these plants. In January, there was an explosion at a makeshift pyrolysis plant near Mumbai.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
Two children who'd been living inside the plant were killed, along with two adults. Local authorities have since closed seven neighbouring pyrolysis plants. Our team returned to the site a month later to discover some facilities still operating. Locals complained of eye problems and coughing as children played in the soot. Nearby is a mountain of tyres, many from Europe and the UK.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
Our waste sold into India's black market. Back in the UK, after a tip-off, we visited a tyre disposal company in Rochdale, which sells end-of-life Bale tyres. Its boss, Zaheer, invited us inside. It's good of you. And where do these tyres go? They go to India, don't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah? And what happens to them in India?
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
The government says it has rigorous controls in place for exporting waste tyres and punishments including unlimited fines and jail time for those flouting the rules. But environmental groups want stricter regulation of both dealers and of the waste itself.
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Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
In an an an an an an an an an an an Humanitarian agencies say that food is relatively plentiful at the moment, but that following yesterday's Israeli decision to block any more deliveries, prices have already risen dramatically. And all this in a place left devastated by 15 months of war. Rosalia Bolan is a spokesperson for UNICEF, currently in Rafah.
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Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
An agreement on how to proceed with the ceasefire seems remote. Israel says it's agreed to what it says is an American plan for all remaining hostages to be released over a 50-day period, but with no Israeli military withdrawal. Hamas will not agree unless it feels Israel's withdrawal is somehow guaranteed. Until a compromise is found, aid trucks remain stationary on the Gaza border.
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Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
David Mensah is an Israeli government spokesman.
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Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
Tomorrow Egypt will unveil its plans for Gaza's future at an Arab League summit in Cairo. But unless the dispute over the ceasefire can be resolved, Egypt's plans could soon be overtaken by events.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
What exactly he's going to do on Wednesday is hard to say simply because, as is his won't, Donald Trump has made rather different, sometimes contradictory statements at different times. As you said, he's now said he's going to be kind in imposing tariffs. At other times, he sounded very aggressive. Indeed, he said that countries are ripping off America and it's time to get his own back.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
What we can say is there's two ways he could impose tariffs. You could impose tariffs on a country. He's already done that with Canada from Wednesday. Canada will be hit with 25% tariffs on almost all of what it exports to the United States. But he may also choose to go after different sectors. We know that he wants to impose tariffs on cars, on pharmaceuticals, on semiconductors.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
This, of course, would affect different countries differently. Britain is very worried about the possibility of tariffs on cars. Taiwan, obviously worried about import tariffs on semiconductors. Really, all I can say is at the moment, every country is sitting there very worried.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
Well, you've got a choice, really. They could play hardball and retaliate with tariffs of their own, but some fear that that could lead to a full-blown trade war, which won't help anyone. Others think it's better to sort of suck up the punishment for a while and perhaps negotiate a way out of it.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
The European Union's Commission's president, Ursula von der Leyen, in some ways expressed this twin-track approach in a statement she made on Tuesday morning.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
Retaliation can come in different forms. You could hit back with tariffs of your own. Another way, though, is just to withdraw. We've already seen Japan, Korea and China saying, well, OK, we'll do more trade with each other and avoid trading with the United States. That, in a sense, is a slower but perhaps more effective form of retaliation.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
I think in terms of response, special mention should go to Vietnam. which is very worried because that has a strong trade imbalance, the Vietnamese Prime Minister has said that he will go and play golf with Donald Trump for as long as it takes to get the threat of tariffs lifted.
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Gaza's ceasefire is holding, but death and destruction continue in the occupied West Bank. We'll hear why some electromagnetic waves from space have got scientists excited. Apparently, they're like the chirping of birds. Also in this podcast... the French film in Spanish set in Mexico that's cleaned up in the Oscars nominations.
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It's huge, it's cold, and it's on the move. The world's largest and oldest iceberg has broken away from Antarctica and is approaching the remote British territory of South Georgia in the Atlantic, home to large penguin and seal colonies. It's known by the not-so-catchy name A23a, and it's twice the size of Greater London. And this iceberg weighs nearly a trillion tonnes.
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Well, A23a is being monitored by scientists, sailors and fishermen... Georgina Ranard went to meet some of them.
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Georgina Ranard. One of Japan's best-known TV hosts has announced his retirement weeks after being accused of sexual misconduct. Masahiro Nakai was once part of the boy band SMAP and went on to a successful presenting career. Our Tokyo correspondent Shaima Khalil reports.
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Shaiba Khalil. Now, what do you make of this? Not, as you might think, the sound of birds chirping, but something rather more exotic, or perhaps I should say extraterrestrial. Those were electromagnetic waves from space, waves which scientists think are affected by the Earth's magnetic field. They're called chorus waves.
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And they've now been detected at a much greater distance from Earth than previously. So why does that matter? Professor Richard Horne of the British Antarctic Survey has been leading research into so-called space weather. He first told my colleague Emma Barnett what exactly a chorus wave is.
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There's a saying often quoted in Britain that a week is a long time in politics. You do wonder if Donald Trump has taken this to heart as he continues the breakneck speed of his first few days back in the White House.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
Professor Richard Horne. It was always going to be an unusual Oscars nomination ceremony, which took place in Los Angeles on Thursday. The city still has wildfires raging nearby. Yet in some ways, this was an upbeat shortlist. Two musicals raked in the biggest number of nominations, among them Emilio Perez.
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That earned its star, Carla Sofia Gascon, the first ever nomination of a trans woman for Best Actress. Demi Moore received her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress in the substance. she plays a woman who swaps her body for a younger version, which makes this nomination particularly pointed, according to our entertainment correspondent, Charlotte Gallagher.
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He's issued a slew of executive orders, pardoned several hundred January 6th rioters and committed to pulling the US out of major international bodies like the World Health Organisation. But Mr Trump also has his eye on organisations closer to home. The latest to find itself in the presidential firing line is FEMA, the Federal Emergencies Management Agency.
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll 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 James Piper and the producer was Stephanie Prentice. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Paul Moss.
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Until next time, goodbye.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
Mr Trump was speaking on Fox News in an interview which also touched on his plans for tougher immigration control, with 1,500 troops dispatched to the US border with Mexico. But then there was a hint of something else, that Mr Trump might try to prosecute Joe Biden, as our North America editor Sarah Smith explained to the BBC's Emma Barnett.
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Sarah Smith. And staying with Washington goings-on, next week the Global News podcast is going to do a special Q&A edition to take stock after Donald Trump's first seven days as the 47th president. We'd love to hear your thoughts on what's happened so far and your predictions for the rest of this year. And if there's anything you'd like to ask our US experts, please email us.
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The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. And if possible, please do record your question as a voice note. so we can play it on the pod. Thank you. Now, arrest warrants have been issued for two leading members of the Taliban. This is after the International Criminal Court concluded that members of the Afghan government are criminally responsible for persecuting women and girls.
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The court also refers to the treatment of people who, it says, do not conform with the Taliban's expectations of gender. This persecution, the ICC says... has been committed since August 2021 when the Taliban took over. Anna Holligan is in The Hague, where the ICC is based, and gave me more details of the ICC allegations.
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So can you just take us through the legal process now? Arrest warrants are issued. Well, what actually what actually happens?
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I mean, very briefly, and it does sound like this is effectively a gesture, isn't it?
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
Anna Holligan. The Sudanese city al-Fasher is the capital of North Darfur, a region bitterly fought over in the country's ongoing civil war. It's controlled by the army, but has been besieged by rebels from the so-called rapid support forces. And the army's now begun carrying out airstrikes on areas controlled by the rebels. Amidst all this, civilian suffering continues.
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The war has forced more than 12 million people from their homes. But the fighting for al-Fasher has continued over a particularly long period. as our correspondent Kalkidan Yebeltal explained to me from neighbouring Ethiopia.
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This is a conflict being fought over a vast country. Why is there so much attention by both sides? Why are both sides so clearly determined to hold on to this one city?
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Moss, and at 1400 Hours GMT on Thursday, the 23rd of January, these are our main stories. Donald Trump wants to abolish America's emergency response organisation FEMA, and he's hinted he may seek to prosecute Joe Biden. The ICC takes on Taliban leaders over their treatment of women and girls.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has entered its fifth day and does appear to be holding. In the occupied West Bank, though, Israeli forces are continuing their operation in and around the city of Jenin, civilians once again finding themselves under fire.
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Our Middle East correspondent Yolande Nell is in Jerusalem, where reports are coming in of more casualties.
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And that was Ilan Nel.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
The people whose job is to worry as the world's oldest and largest iceberg goes on the move.
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Thursdays are not particularly known as a popular day of the week to get married. And yet this Thursday has seen hundreds of couples getting hitched in Thailand. The reason? Well, new legislation has just come into force legalising lesbian and gay marriages. That makes Thailand the first country in the region to allow this, and only the third country in Asia as a whole.
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Demand was so great in the capital Bangkok that a mass wedding was held at a shopping mall. Our correspondent Jonathan Head went along to watch this collective act of matrimony. Thank you.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
It's rare that you get such an iconic image from football that takes place off the pitch. But that must be said of the moment when Luis Rubiales held the head of his Spanish star player Jenny Hermoso, planting a kiss on her lips after her team prepared to lift the World Cup in 2023. She consented, Mr. Rubiales insisted. But that plea does not seem to have been accepted by the court.
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He's been ordered to pay a substantial fine. The BBC's Guy Hedgcoe is in Madrid, from where he's been following the case. I asked him how he thought the verdict would be greeted.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
It was a macabre display. This morning, amidst the bombed out ruins of Khan Yunus in Gaza, four black coffins were laid out on a specially constructed stage. Inside were the bodies of Israelis, ready to be returned as part of the ongoing peace deal. And behind these coffins was a large caricature of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
There were other charges faced by Luis Rubiales and others with him that they had attempted to coerce Jenny Hermosa into dropping the allegation that the kiss was forced on her. Do we know what's happened about those allegations?
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Briefly, Guy, when this happened, it was considered to have cast a sort of pall over the world of Spanish football and over that victory by the women's team. Is it still something that's haunting Spanish football or have people moved on from there?
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It's very possible that you will at some point have received a phone call, a text or an email offering you perhaps a special deal on some purchase or maybe a financial service. Either way, the approach is a scam. If you were unfortunate enough to fall for it, you might find your bank account emptied or at the very least your phone or computer hacked.
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als Dracula, mit Blut, das von seinen Fangen fliegt. Die Post hat eine Begründung gemacht, wie die Hostagen gestorben sind. Der Kriegskriminal Netanyahu und sein Nazi-Armee haben sie, so sagt es, mit Missilen aus den Zionistischen Kriegsplänen getötet. Als wir diesen Podcast recordieren, haben sich die Identitäten der Körper noch nicht bestätigt.
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What you may not realize is that many of the people carrying out these scams are working under duress, many of them in Southeast Asia, many of them from China originally. The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights has been investigating this crime. The chief of its Myanmar team, James Rodhaver, described what they discovered.
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Thursday saw hundreds of people brought out of Myanmar, where they'd been forced to work in one of the many scam centers there. They were taken across the border to Thailand, where an initial batch were immediately flown home. As our correspondent in Bangkok, Jonathan Head, told me.
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Aber es wird gedacht, dass sie 84 Jahre alt sind, Odette Lifshitz, ein Veteranenjournalist und Friedensaktivistin. but also two children from the Bibas family, kidnapped from their home near the Gaza border on October 7th along with their mother Cherie. The previous release of living hostages has prompted celebrations in Israel.
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Jonathan Head. Once upon a time the SS United States was a world record holding ocean liner, the fastest to cross the Atlantic back in 1951. But now the ship's beginning a very different kind of voyage, heading towards the Florida coast where it will be deliberately sunk.
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The idea is for it to become the world's largest artificial reef, part of a $10 million project, which aims to support marine life and attract divers and fishermen. Warren Jones is on the board of directors for the SS United States Conservancy. He spoke about these plans for the future and also about the ship's distinguished history.
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll 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 Ben Martin and the producer was Terry Egan.
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The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Paul Moss. Until next time, goodbye.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
But today's handover has predictably been a very different affair, as I was told by Natalie Blenford, a journalist who lives in Tel Aviv.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
You mentioned the what you call propaganda effort of having these four coffins on the stage in Gaza. Have I got this right that this wasn't actually shown much on Israeli television?
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In any conflict people do want the bodies of the dead returned to them. But I guess what you said about the particular rituals of the Jewish faith mean that there was particular emphasis on getting these bodies returned, seen as a crucial part of the peace process.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
He issued a statement in response to the release of the bodies. We voiced it up.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
Those words inevitably raise the question of how soon the other hostages might be returned to Israel, those both living and dead. And that in turn depends on the course of the ongoing peace deal. By now Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were supposed to be discussing the second phase of the agreement, but those discussions haven't even started. Indeed, some wonder whether they ever will.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
There are plenty of Israeli politicians who instead want to resume the bombing of Gaza, along with further ground-based attacks. And according to our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sebastian Usher, those voices may be emboldened by the scenes Israelis have just witnessed.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Moss and at 1400 GMT on Thursday, the 20th of February, these are our main stories. Hamas has released the bodies of four Israelis. We look at what this means for the ongoing peace process. What chance of improved relations between Ukraine and the US as President Zelensky prepares to meet America's special envoy.
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As we record this podcast, Ukraine's President Zelensky is due to sit down with the US Envoy Keith Kellogg. One can only wonder what the atmosphere will be, as a meeting takes place after Mr. Kelloggs boss, Donald Trump, called Mr. Zelensky a dictator.
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And while the talk is of peace, Ukrainians fear it's Vladimir Putin who will effectively decide the shape of any deal to end the war, even if Mr. Trump insists he's the one calling the shots. Of course, that leaves the question of what Russians think of Donald Trump and his promises.
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Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg travelled to the city of Tver, 160 kilometres northwest of Moscow, to ask whether Russians believe that the US President Donald Trump really will help to stop the fighting.
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How fog could be used as a source of water for parched cities. Also in this podcast, the former head of Spanish football is found guilty over kissing the player Jenny Hermoso without consent. And many of those carrying out phone and email scams are themselves working under duress. We take a look.
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People don't usually have anything good to say about fog. It limits visibility and often comes with other unpleasant weather. But scientists now think that fog could be used as a source of water. The water could be extracted from fog and provided to cities which lack enough to drink. It's been tried in Chile with an experiment to use fog water for a city on the edge of the Atacama Desert.
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Our science correspondent Victoria Gill explained how it works.
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The ocean liner destined to become an underwater reef.
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It was on November 25th last year that a boat carrying divers sank in the Red Sea. Eleven people died. Now, survivors are alleging that the subsequent investigation tried to cover up safety failings, failings they believe contributed to the disaster.
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For more than a month, our correspondent Joe Inwood has been speaking to people who were on board the vessel, investigating not just the cause of the disaster, but the way it was handled after. This is his latest report.
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But that said, there is, of course, a profound difference in what exactly they're hoping for. In Israel, it's all about securing the release of the hostages held by Hamas. But what the people of Gaza want is an end to Israel's missile, rocket and artillery attacks, which have killed more than 45,000 people, most of them civilians. So will the deal announced in Qatar deliver all that?
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Joe Inwood. The Iron Age began around 3,000 years ago, a period when, as the name suggests, iron smelting was invented. On the one hand, this represented quite a leap forward technically. On the other, iron was used to make new weapons, which allowed people to wage war and kill each other more efficiently.
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What's now been discovered, though, is that the Iron Age, in Britain at least, was a period when women seemed to have had far more power domestically than they did later. And what's remarkable is that this work was carried out by examining the DNA of Iron Age bodies. Our science reporter Georgina Runnard told me how.
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From Jerusalem, here's our correspondent, Jonah Fisher.
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OK, so the man would move to the wife's community when they got married. Maybe it's obvious, but why does that mean that the women we know had a stronger role, perhaps more power than is commonly assumed?
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I gather that when the Romans then arrived in Britain and found that women had this stronger role than perhaps they expected, they weren't very impressed.
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Georgina Ranard, let's end the podcast with a look back over the past 15 months since that fateful day in October 2023, when Hamas led an attack on Israel, which left 1,200 people dead and 250 held hostage. Israel's retaliation then killed more than 45,000 people in the Gaza Strip. Our chief international correspondent is Lise Doucette. She's reported on events throughout the Gaza conflict.
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How significant is the ceasefire deal?
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And that's all from us for now, but there'll 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 Nick Randell and the producer was Alison Davies. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Paul Moss.
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Israel says that 60 hostages are still alive and being held by Hamas. Around 30 more there are thought to be dead. Among those hoping that their family is closer to being reunited is Moshe Lavi, brother-in-law of Omri Moran, who was abducted from his home on a kibbutz. He told my colleague Tim Franks this deal gives no absolute guarantees.
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Moshe Lavi talking to Tim Franks. In Gaza, crowds gathered to celebrate as news of the agreement emerged, including in Deir el-Balak in the southern Gazan Strip. Our special correspondent Fergal Keane is in Jordan and considers how a ceasefire deal will be received by Palestinians.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Moss, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 16th of January, these are our main stories. Israel and Hamas have agreed a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza, raising hopes there could soon be an end to more than a year of war. The news was met with celebrations in Gaza and relief around the world.
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Fergal Keane. That physical well-being will be dependent on a major increase in aid. Juliet Tumar is Director of Communications at UNRWA, the main United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. As she explained to Tim Franks, the main focus now is on getting supplies in and quickly.
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In other news, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stressed the America First agenda at his confirmation hearing in Washington.
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Juliette Toomar talking to Tim Franks. Still to come, new discoveries suggest the Iron Age in Britain was a time when women held considerable power.
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How did scientists work this out? Just by looking at DNA.
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You do sometimes wonder what Senator Marco Rubio makes of his soon-to-be boss, Donald Trump. Once upon a time, they were rivals for the Republican Party presidential candidacy. And Mr Trump didn't just oppose Senator Rubio, he mocked him for his diminutive stature, calling him Little Marco. Marco Rubio, in turn, called him a con artist –
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Well, the two have presumably allowed bygones to be bygones. Marco Rubio is now Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State, and Wednesday saw him face a confirmation hearing. He told senators he would put America's interests first, but would also keep the United States strong and engaged in the world. And North America editor Sarah Smith followed the proceedings.
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Sarah Smith. To Afghanistan now, where hospitals are struggling to cope with cuts in funding. Payenda Sargan from the BBC's Pashto service visited a hospital in Kandahar and told me what he witnessed.
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After the withdrawal of foreign aid, many Afghan hospitals are struggling to cope. It might sound strange to say, but there was something strikingly similar about the crowds who gathered in Gaza and in Israel, huddled together, waving flags, faces of hope, both people who'd come together wanting to hear collectively that announcement of a peace deal or at least a ceasefire.
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Now, I gather a lot of the Afghan Health Service has in the past been funded by NGOs, and particularly the ICRC, the International Committee of the Red Cross. But they've now cut their funding, and you say that's made a big difference.
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I gather that the Taliban has limited the ability for women to work in the health service. And in fact, it's not training any new female staff like doctors and nurses at all. How much difference is that making to a service which you're suggesting was already overstretched?
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I want to ask you what it's like for you yourself going back to Afghanistan. You're a journalist, but you're also someone who was born and brought up in that country. And when you see the kind of decline you're describing...
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Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017 Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017 Under pressure to get their act together, the Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz announced that the two parties had reached a coalition agreement. And Mr. Merz had a message, he said, for President Trump.
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Of course, it's not just the US that the new German government has to convince. The far-right Alternative for Deutschland Party was excluded from coalition talks. But by chance, a survey out on Wednesday for the first time showed it to be the country's most popular. The AfD's many supporters will be furious to see the country's two established parties once again join forces in government.
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Political stability in Germany is likely to remain elusive.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
Yeah, basically, that incident came to most people as some sort of shock. Because when the reports that Goma had been taken over by the rebels last week, there was a massive jailbreak, which of course led to the escape of thousands of inmates. But then there were these reports that in the midst of those who were there, there were women.
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who were raped, allegedly, of course, by some male inmates there, and that's also attributable to the UN. Basically, people were not able to understand how this could have happened. At this time, verifying information is difficult also because of the fact that in terms of international recognition, there is no recognisable authority in Goma now.
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Even though the rebels believe that they are a legitimate institution, global organizations and countries have not recognized the M23 as the legitimate government of the areas.
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Well, it doesn't appear to be, no. Gaza is regarded as occupied territory under international law. Now, that is something that Israelis dispute. They say their occupation ended in 2005. But for various reasons, the broad sweep of opinion today is that it is still occupied. And as such, Israel does not have the right to remove or transfer civilians from areas under its control.
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And frankly, no one has that right. It is simply a violation of international law to deport civilians against their will. The Palestinians also regard Gaza as sovereign territory. So any changes to the status of that territory would obviously be the subject of Palestinian rejection. For a number of reasons, this does not seem to be a feasible proposal.
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And I don't frankly think that it is what Donald Trump is suggesting. I think what he wants is to create a set of circumstances in which Palestinian civilians decide to leave of their own accord, as probably upwards of 150,000 people already have.
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It is. I mean, the negotiations on phase two of this protracted ceasefire have yet to really begin. And it is hard to see how Mr. Trump's intervention is likely to increase the chances of success. If you are in Hamas's shoes right now, you're thinking, what exactly are we negotiating about? If the end result of all of this is that Gaza is to be simply destroyed,
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depopulated, not just Hamas losing its political and military control, but the entire population removed, then what incentive is there for Hamas to release the remaining hostages, dead or alive, that it still has? And so that is going to be a I think, on the other hand, Donald Trump has made it easier for Benjamin Netanyahu to proceed because he's given Israel a bit of a gift here.
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It's something that has caused Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline right-wing colleagues to say that they're not planning on leaving the government just yet. So it's given him a bit of political breathing room on his own side. But it's hard to see the negotiations working with this prospect looming in the distance.
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The M23 had said that they had declared that ceasefire for humanitarian reasons, but people were shocked when there were reports that they attacked Nyabibwe in South Kivu Province earlier today. And, of course, the government reacted to that saying that they were, of course, violating their own ceasefire and it showed that the announcement was merely a ploy.
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It's raising key questions about the intentions of the group. After they captured Goma, they were intending to cross over to South Kivu to capture Bukavu, which is the capital of South Kivu, just a few kilometers away from Ruzizi on the Rwandan side of the border where I'm speaking to you from. But then they said that they had no intentions to capture Bukavu or other territories.
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But today's fighting in Nyabibwe just showed that, of course, they might have just had other plans for the future. So what does it appear that they want? What are they after? Basically, they are seeking an expansionist agenda because after they conquered Goma, they believe that it's time for them to capture more territories.
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And their leader said that they have plans to even reach the capital Kinshasa. They say they are fighting to protect the rights of minority groups, the minority Tutsi which they belong to. So they say that the Congolese government has not been treating the minorities well, so they are fighting to protect their rights and also improve governance in the country.
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Now, Peter, this time yesterday, you and I were talking about all this and talking about the role of Elon Musk. Now we hear that when the House speaker spoke to Donald Trump to try to sort out all of this mess, he had Elon Musk on the line. Now, it does seem once again that Mr. Musk is having quite an influence on major issues in America.
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Well, so much for Elon Musk's power. What about Donald Trump's? Because he did not get his own way here, did he?
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To police a ceasefire along a vast front line by a group of nations who've never really done this before without American support, you get an idea of just how complex this is. The idea has really only been around for a couple of weeks and we are still seeing a gradual increase in the number of people who seem interested in the idea.
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But there is clearly still a long way to go and we won't really have any real sense of how it's beginning to take tangible shape, perhaps until military officials get their teeth into it at a meeting that's due to take place somewhere in the UK next Thursday. The Prime Minister was saying we are now moving towards an operational phase.
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I don't think it necessarily means much more than here we have the kind of political outlines. Now we're going to give it to our military bosses and chiefs. It'll be up to them to figure out, OK, well, this country is offering that many troops. This country's got aircraft that they might be willing to deploy. Let's try and put all these pieces together. As I say, it's a really complex picture.
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We're talking about around two dozen countries. not all of whom, of course, are willing to commit troops. In fact, at the moment, we only know of two, Britain and France, who are willing to do that.
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Interestingly, one thing that Keir Starmer did say was that the issue of an American backstop, that is the kind of support, frankly, without which an operation like this couldn't really get off the ground, perhaps even literally couldn't get off the ground, that that issue had not yet been resolved. European officials were in Washington yesterday.
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They are going to be going back and forth for the next several days trying to persuade Donald Trump that this is an operation that is going to need American military and logistical support for it to have a chance.
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Well, he does. I mean, I think what... probably Sir Keir Starmer would argue, is, well, we've got to be ready when the moment comes. That, I think, informs the sense of urgency we are now seeing. But the Finnish president is right. None of this can happen if there isn't a peace to police. And so that has to happen first. there's a clear anxiety that Vladimir Putin is playing for time.
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We're seeing Russian forces pushing really hard in the Kursk region of Russia. That's the area of Russian territory that was seized by Ukrainian forces in August of last year. And where the Ukrainians are clinging on in the hope that that will be a major bargaining chip when the negotiations finally begin.
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I think it's pretty clear Vladimir Putin wants to see all Ukrainian troops out, ideally before those negotiations. There's been quite a lot of debate about the extent to which Ukrainian forces are on the run in Kursk. Donald Trump got it into his head that Ukrainian forces were encircled There's no evidence at all, but they are definitely on the retreat.
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And it may not be that long before Russia is in complete control of Kursk again.
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In the Gaza Strip this morning, three more hostages were driven to freedom. There was no chaos this time, and the hostages, Sagi Dekelchen, Yair Horn and Sasha Trufanov, seemed in better shape. But once again, Hamas put on a display of military strength, designed to show to Israelis and Palestinians alike that they are still a force to be reckoned with.
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In Tel Aviv, where friends and supporters gather each week, a wave of relief. Until yesterday, this whole complex deal seemed in jeopardy. There were tears of joy in Yair Horn's hometown, Kfar Saba, but apprehension too. His younger brother, Eitan, is still a hostage. No one knows when or even if he'll be released. Ronli Nisan is a friend of the family.
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There were plenty of mixed emotions in Gaza too, as hundreds of Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails returned home. Some, like Abdul Majid Rajab, telling tales of humiliation and violence in captivity.
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So the ceasefire deal is still on, a source of relief for Israelis and Palestinians alike. But we're still in the first of three phases. The really difficult issues, Israel's military withdrawal and the future of the devastated Gaza Strip, have yet to be decided, even negotiated.
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Well, rare, but I see that three other states have now legalised firing squads. Given that, and also those widespread difficulties you were describing about lethal injection, is there a chance we're going to see more people executed by a firing squad in the US?
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And a lot of people do say, don't they, that they're their most treasured possessions. When the house burns or the house floods, that's what they run to.
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Now you're dealing with lots of soggy bits of paper that have been submerged for days, in some cases weeks. How do you go about restoring them?
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And if you have lost some of the image, there's a role for artificial intelligence, I hear.
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The Gaza ceasefire has had many uncertain moments over the past six weeks and this is another. Phase one is over and phase two should already have begun. Phase two involves the release of more Israeli hostages, the release of Palestinian prisoners and crucially the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.
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Now, Israel says it wants an extension to phase one, more hostage and prisoner releases, but no withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Gaza Strip. Israel argues that since Hamas is still there, a force on the ground, that it is not the right time for the Israeli military to relinquish its grip on the Gaza Strip. So they're asking for an extension.
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They say that they have American backing for this. But Hamas is saying, no, we must stick to the original agreement and start implementing phase two. That is the impasse that we have reached. Israel is attempting to pressure Hamas and as part of that has cut off the supply of aid to the Gaza Strip. starting from today.
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Now, that's not having an immediate impact in terms of hunger inside the Gaza Strip. Over the last six weeks, aid agencies have been able to get a lot of supplies in. But the moment the supply of aid is cut off, prices inside the Gaza Strip start to rise. So it will cause hardship. It may be that a negotiated agreement to this is still possible. It's not in sight at the moment.
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And there are many here who fear that what we're seeing now is a gradual slide towards a resumption of a military conflict in Gaza.
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Well, I think it's worth putting it into some context. This is the latest in what is now a very, very long series of, frankly, very cruel, harrowing videos that Hamas has released throughout the past 16 months with the express purpose of playing on the frayed emotions of the Israeli public and heaping pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu.
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In this video, as you just mentioned, we see five Israeli hostages. Two of them have their faces blurred. Two of them are brothers, Eitan and Yair Horn. Now, Yair was released just a couple of weeks ago. It seems, though, this video was filmed just before that moment. And we see in the video Yair and Eitan saying goodbye to each other. It's an incredibly emotional and harrowing thing to watch.
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And Eitan pleads to the camera... pleads to Israel's prime minister not to abandon him and not to abandon the remaining hostages. There are thought to be 24 hostages still alive being held in Gaza. The prime minister's office, as you can imagine, has utterly condemned the video, calling it psychological warfare.
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And the families of the hostages, actually, who approved the release of this video, which doesn't always happen, but said that it was all right to broadcast this, they have said that this underlines once again the importance of getting all the hostages out.
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Well, negotiations on phase two were due to begin yesterday. They did begin in Cairo, but then the Israeli delegation came back. We think that the negotiations are likely to carry on at a distance. Consultations going on with Mr Netanyahu and his senior colleagues, they want some kind of extension in which we will see more hostages and Palestinian prisoners released.
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Hamas seems to be resisting that. And so far, at the moment, there is no sign of a breakthrough.
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What we're looking to do is to provide technology that allows us to develop a mobility service. This means people who maybe can't drive or no longer want to drive or don't even have access to public transport are able to actually move around.
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There is one person who many think will be taken off the reserve bench to take her place as a candidate, and that is Jordan Bardell. Just 29 years old, he is actually the leader of the National Rally Party. He is considered very charismatic, a good speaker.
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But there are question marks about whether someone who is just 29 years old really has the experience to take on the role of being a presidential candidate and indeed to become the president of France.
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One thing I should mention though is that last year Jordan Bardell was seen as taking a bit of a swipe at Marine Le Pen when he said it was a bare minimum for a politician that they should not have a criminal record. Some of his allies then accused him of behaving like a Judas. Now today Mr. Bardel has dutifully condemned the verdict of the court. He said French democracy had been killed.
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However, he is an ambitious man and there are some who will think that underneath that stern condemnation there is a chance that Mr. Jordan Bardel today is grinning from ear to ear.
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Well, inside France, you know, obviously the other far right figures are furious. I should mention Eric Zemmour from the Reconquest Party, who also said it wasn't for judges to decide who people vote for. There are plenty of people who are not political allies of Marine Le Pen, but who are uneasy about the idea of her not being able to stand.
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I mean, it's interesting that Eric Chiotti from the centre-right politician said, the destiny of our nation has been confiscated by an outrageous judicial cabal. People are uneasy about what's happening. Outside France, I think there has been a lot of interest in this, partly because there are political allies of Marine Le Pen who are angry.
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But more importantly, this verdict will strike a chord in many countries. You have people, politicians in many places, for example, of the United States, who claim that what they say is the will of the people is being stopped by the courts. So you have people like here in Spain, the Santiago Abascal, the head of the Vox party, very similar to Le Pens party.
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They will not succeed, he says, in silencing the voice of the people. Das war Paul Moss. Und als wir diesen Podcast recordieren, haben wir gerade gehört, dass Marine Le Pen's Lawyer sagt, dass sie sich anrufen wird.
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There's been a cat-and-mouse chase in the Baltic Sea this past 24 hours. When a Latvian broadcaster's telecoms cable suddenly stopped working on Sunday morning, a Bulgarian ship, the Vezhen, was spotted nearby. The Swedish Coast Guard went speeding after it and ordered the crew to bring the ship back into shore to be inspected.
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That inspection seems to have uncovered the maritime equivalent of a smoking gun. The Vezhen's anchor was damaged, suggesting it had been dragging along the seabed. Now, the head of the company which owns the Vezhen, Alexander Kalchev, has admitted possible responsibility, but no criminal intent. The ship sailed at an extremely bad time.
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The Vezhen had just left Russia when the cable was damaged, and Russia has been repeatedly accused of targeting undersea infrastructure, so the Bulgarian ship owners' protestations of innocence may not convince everyone. Only this month, NATO launched a naval mission to protect Baltic Sea cables.
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Whoever or whatever was responsible for this latest cable failure, it's clear the NATO mission has a tough task ahead. Paul Moss.
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Just worried about the copyrights not being protected, because if it gets a bit like the Wild West, then the people who created these copyrights don't benefit. And I think that takes away a lot of incentive, you know, because when we were kids in Liverpool, we found a job that we loved, but it also paid the bills.
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So, for instance, you get young guys, girls, coming up and they write a beautiful song and they don't own it. and they don't have anything to do with it, and anyone who wants can just rip it off. I mean, the truth is, the money's going somewhere. You know, when it gets on the streaming platforms, somebody's getting it, and it should be the person who created it.
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You know, that is really true, because... You like to think of art as the muse, you know, it's just the muse comes to me. It's not like that.
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Yeah, I get that, you know, and I think AI is great and it can do lots of great things. As you say, you know, we took an old cassette of John's and cleaned his voice up, so it has its uses. But my worry is in this rip-off. You know, that was John's thing. He was in the Beatles. His widow gave us the tape. So there was no question of sort of copyright.
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But when you get if you take that and then rip it off. See, for instance, I think I'm on the Internet singing God Only Knows by the Beach Boys, but I never sang it. But AI made me sing it. So somebody's getting some sort of payoff there. And it's not me. I'm not interested. But I was talking to someone and I said, you know, it didn't sound like me. Not quite.
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But to casual observers, it's me singing God Only Knows. But I said to this person, I said, yeah, but, you know, give it five years and it's going to sound exactly like me. And the guy said, one. Give it one year. And it's true. It's going so fast that, you know, they're going to be able to put my voice on anything, anybody's voice on anything. So I think you just have to worry about the rip off.
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AI is a great thing, but it shouldn't rip creative people off. There's no sense in that. Why would a government want to do that? I don't get it. We're the people. You're the government. You're supposed to protect us. That's your job. So, you know, if you're putting through a bill, make sure you protect the creative thinkers, the creative artists, or you're not going to have them.
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If there's such a thing as a government... It's their responsibility, I would think, to protect the young people, to try and enhance that whole thing so that it works, so that these people have got jobs and can enhance the world with their wonderful art. So protect it.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
If it gets a bit like the Wild West, then the people who created these copyrights don't benefit. Help!
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So the route potentially now is to differentiate these cells into sperm and egg cells, is it, for IVF? What?
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
One other genetic technique that scientists are considering to save species involves gene editing to make animals more resilient to environmental threats. What's the idea there?
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
There's been talk about bringing back the woolly mammoth using stem DNA cells. Is that up your street?
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
For the first time, elements of the Houthi leadership were targeted in the capital Sana'a and elsewhere. Mike Waltz, Donald Trump's national security adviser, said several key Houthi figures were killed. The defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said the attacks would continue until the Houthis stopped targeting shipping in the Red Sea, something they'd been threatening to resume.
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And he said Iran had been enabling the Houthis for far too long. The Houthis have yet to confirm that any of their leaders were killed. A spokesman called the attacks unjustified and said President Trump was being reckless. Iran was furious too.
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The head of the Revolutionary Guard warned of a severe response to any threat levelled at his country, while the foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said the US had no business dictating Iranian policy. Yesterday's attacks were a warning.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
After last year's devastating blows against Tehran's other allies and proxies across the Middle East, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Assad regime in Syria, Washington may now want the Houthis to feel that they could be next.
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The attorney general has said that she was not consulted on this decision. Why is that significant?
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
You were excited enough by this experience. What about witnessing this, well, you could call it a rescue, at least a relief for those who want to go back home?
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
We hear that training takes over in these circumstances, but the routine of life on board must get, frankly, at times boring, doesn't it?
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
You are surrounded by other people's eyes as well. Is privacy not an issue?
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
I keep trying to get you to see a downer of this experience and I'm not managing. But there are effects on your health, aren't there? There's muscle wasting. There's a deterioration of your vision. What might these two astronauts who are coming home find difficult on their return to Earth?
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
The man released is Mohammed Abedini. He's described as an Iranian businessman. The United States says he supplied drone parts used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which is subject to sanctions. And they say these then were used in an attack on U.S. servicemen based in Jordan near the Syrian border. That happened last January and three American service personnel were killed. So the U.S.
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had a warrant out for Mr. Abedini's arrest. And indeed, he was arrested by Italy when he arrived at Milan's Malpensa airport. Iran was furious. They said the evidence was fabricated, but the United States wanted him extradited.
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Cecilia Sala was in Iran making a podcast about Iranian life. She had accreditation, but she was arrested last month for allegedly violating the laws of the Islamic Republic. I'm not clear exactly what that was supposed to mean, but she did have a terrible time. She was held in the notorious Evian prison. She slept on the floor. She was kept isolated, she says.
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But only a few days ago, she was released and allowed to go home.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Yeah, what can I say? I don't think there are many people who are going to believe that this is purely a coincidence. It certainly looks like a prisoner swap. Of course, it suits Iran and Italy to deny the connection because neither wants to look like they gave in to pressure from the other.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
The trouble is, of course, if prisoners can be used as bargaining chips, then there's an incentive for countries to, you know, randomly arrest foreigners. And of course, we've seen this with Russia. There have been lots of swaps where you had Russians held in the United States and Europe for things like espionage. They were released.
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And then in return, very openly, either foreigners held in Russia or dissidents there were released. Now, this does mean, of course, that people will think twice about visiting these countries if they could end up in jail effectively as a sort of diplomatic currency.
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Lucy Williamson. In return for Hamas releasing that latest group of hostages, Israel has released 110 Palestinian prisoners. They were given a boisterous welcome when they arrived, after much delay, in the city of Ramallah on the occupied West Bank. Well, our correspondent Wira Davis is in Ramallah and he watched the homecoming.
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It might seem way too soon to know. The investigation's likely to be long and painstaking. And yet one person is already pretty sure about what was behind it. Donald Trump has been outlining his theories, making sure first to say he'd been shaken by what happened.
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Now, this has all happened on the same day that the United Nations agency UNRWA, that the ban on them working there, has come into force. What difference is that making?
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We're at Davis. As I said, of the eight hostages released in Gaza today, five were Thais, part of a large community of farm workers who travel from poor regions of Thailand, attracted by the offer of higher salaries. Thailand's prime minister said she was elated by their release.
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And yet most of the Thais who were taken on October 7th have not made it back to Israel alive, as we heard from our Southeast Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head.
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Jonathan Head speaking to Mark Lowen. There are some diseases whose very name is enough to inspire fear, and Ebola is surely one of them. A truly horrible infectious medical condition, it causes those who catch the virus to suffer fever, nausea and sometimes haemorrhage. Left untreated, Ebola can have a mortality rate as high as 80 or 90%.
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So it's no surprise that the announcement of an Ebola death in Uganda has caused considerable alarm. So far, one person has died. Our Africa health correspondent, Dorcas Wangira, told me about the circumstances.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
But the US is also a country, Mr Trump said, where mistakes have been made. He claimed his Democrat predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, had weakened safety measures. And he also blamed the encouragement of people from diverse backgrounds to apply for jobs they shouldn't have, something he claimed had happened at America's Federal Aviation Administration.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Well, given that the patient had traveled around whilst apparently infectious, what are the health authorities in Uganda now doing?
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Kampala, the capital of Uganda, is a large, very crowded city. Presumably, it's very difficult to find everyone who's been in contact with this man.
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I know you've managed to speak to some people in Kampala. Is this something people there are worrying about? Are they talking about it?
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Kampala is also one of those cities which has very good links to other places in Africa. Presumably there must be worries about it spreading further in the East Africa region and beyond.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Do you think you might have a Van Gogh painting in your attic? That might sound like a rather daft idea. But in fact, every year, hundreds of people announce they've come across works of art in their homes, which they believe were produced by the famous Dutch post-impressionist. Not surprisingly, it's extremely rare that these claims are taken seriously. But that has just happened.
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Some experts believe that a painting bought for $50 at a Minnesota garage sale may be a Van Gogh original. Among them is Jennifer Mass, the founder and president of the Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, a company which provides artwork authentication.
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James Menendez asked her the $64 million question, or perhaps that should be the $15 million question, does she think the painting really is by Vincent Van Gogh?
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The fine art expert Jennifer Maas talking to James Menendez. And that's all from us for now. There'll 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. And you can also find us on X at Global News Pod.
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This edition was produced by Judy Frankel and mixed by David Evans. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Paul Moss. Until next time, goodbye.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
It wasn't exactly an explicit response, but after the president spoke, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board gave a news conference. Jennifer Homendy emphasized that the accident required a thorough investigation to determine what had happened.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Well, while the investigation may have begun, the clear-up is also still very much ongoing. As our correspondent Nomia Iqbal explained from Reagan Airport, where the passenger plane was heading...
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Well, Sarah Smith is our North America editor. Was Donald Trump speaking off the top of his head when he was talking about diversity policies being behind what happened?
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Sarah Smith. Those on board the plane included a number of ice skaters and coaches. They were returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Wichita, Kansas, where the mayor, Lily Wu, paid tribute.
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As well as the skating competition, many of those on board the plane had then attended a training camp. The BBC's Verity Wild follows the sport closely and explains how news of the crash first spread.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Moss, and in the early hours of Friday, the 31st of January, these are our main stories. President Trump blames diversity employment policies for the fatal plane crash in Washington. Israel finally releases more Palestinian prisoners after complaining about the chaotic handover earlier of Israeli and Thai hostages.
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Verity Wild speaking to Mark Lowen. Anyone who's been on a Tokyo tube train at rush hour will know what a crush you're in for. But one thing you notice is that unlike in some countries, the children on their way to and from school tend to be rather well behaved. No yelling, throwing chocolate wrappers around or maybe getting into fights.
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And that's partly because children in Japan are accustomed to very strict discipline at school. In fact, so much so, there have now been moves to make them just a little less severe. Asia-Pacific regional editor Celia Hatton knows all about Japanese school rules and began by giving me some examples.
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Are we talking just about secondary school here or primary schools are like this as well?
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
So if these rules are so widespread and in primary and secondary schools, what's prompted the idea that things need to change?
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Do you think there's going to be resistance to making these rules less severe? Presumably, some Japanese people think it's good that kids are subject to this kind of strong discipline.
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Celia Hatton. The singer and actor Marianne Faithfull has died, an icon of London's swinging 60s, whose music career lasted more than half a century. She was 78. Faithfull shot to fame as a teenager, with a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. But amidst all her success, her career was overshadowed by a battle with drug addiction, which lasted until the mid-80s.
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And there are fears of an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda as a nurse dies in a hospital in Kampala. Also in this podcast, why strict rules in schools in Japan are making pupils miserable. And... We say goodbye to Marion Faithfull, who's died at the age of 78. What caused a passenger plane and a helicopter to collide in Washington on Wednesday night, killing all 67 people on board?
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David Sillitoe looks back at her life.
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Marianne Faithfull, ending that report by David Sillitoe. Still to come, could a $50 painting found in a garage sale be a Van Gogh worth many millions more?
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It's been another day of human exchange in the Middle East, hostages for prisoners, as the Gaza peace agreement requires. Thursday saw the freeing of eight people seized during the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023. Three Israelis, a soldier and two civilians, and five Thai men. Lucy Williamson sent this report from Tel Aviv.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
The Estlink 2 cable, as it's called, stopped working on Christmas Day and it didn't really require a major investigation to guess why this happened because at exactly the same time it stopped, a ship passed overhead, slowing down as it did so. This was the Eagle S. registered to the Cook Islands in the Pacific. But Finland believes it was controlled by Russia.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
They boarded the ship and they found evidence that the anchor had been dragged along the seabed to sever the cable. And you could have forgiven them for having a sense of deja vu because in November, a communications cable just off Sweden was also severed just as a Chinese ship passed overhead and slowed down. Now, we should say that undersea cables do sometimes malfunction.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
But these two are just the latest in an increasing number, way too many, many think to be a coincidence.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
Well, they're just launching patrols, they say, to have ships to protect the remaining cable, the Estlink-1. The Estonian Defence Minister, Hanno Pevko, has described this as critical marine infrastructure. And you can see why the two cables, S-Link 1 and 2, carry electricity from Finland. If the S-Link 1 was also cut, well, you know, they could carry on.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
They would still have electricity in Estonia, but the price would rise. And Mr. Pevko called for other NATO countries to help protect the cables. As you say, this looks like it's going to happen. NATO has said within the last hour. It will step up patrols in the Baltic. This sounds like it's becoming a bit of a military matter. And I don't suppose really we should be surprised.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
I mean, if a Russian aeroplane dropped a bomb on a NATO member states power station, we would see that as a direct attack. It is not particularly different, though less violent, perhaps, if it uses a ship to cut a power supply. This is allegedly a direct physical attack by Russia on a NATO country's infrastructure, and it follows what seems to have been a similar Chinese one.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
Well, you know, I think Russia's been rather busy the last 24 hours denying that it was responsible for shooting down an Azerbaijani plane. Hasn't had much time to deny severing a cable. But the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday brushed off a question about this, said it had nothing to do with Russia.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
But then you've got to remember, Russia often is in a sort of strange situation of doublespeak with these things where it denies any responsibility. but actually doesn't want you to believe the denial. It would suit Russia if the Baltic countries believe their cables are under threat. They have to divert their Navy equipment, Navy boats, as it seems they're doing to protect these cables.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
Now, this is just as NATO member states are under pressure anyway to supply all the tanks and fighter planes they're giving to Ukraine. It really doesn't help if, as Russia may want, it now has to divert Navy boats to the Baltic.
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One of the themes of Squid Game was the way in which contestants are forced to work against each other at times, leading to the other contestants dying. And in this series as well, I think contestants are being forced to betray each other to make sure other people don't win.
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Now, Mr Beast, who's hosting this programme, he's only 26 years old, but I gather he's already made a vast amount of money out of his appearances on YouTube.
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So having described to us just how tough these contestants have to be to get through the series, are you thinking of applying?
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It was a simple stunt. A team working for the Consumers Association took flights on different airlines and each time they deliberately left a mobile phone behind. Every phone had a message on the screen saying that it was lost and giving a number to call to return it. Nobody did call, but the team then found it difficult or impossible to find anyone from the airline who had helped them.
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All said they had outsourced lost property to other companies. EasyJet directed them to the arrival airport's lost property, but the airport said they didn't handle property left on planes. With British Airways, the team had activated the Find My Phone function, so they could see that the handset had a rather mysterious journey – ending up in a countryside cottage.
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Meanwhile, the phone left on a Ryanair flight from Malta to London found its way into the hands of an Italian airport employee. He did offer to courier it back in return for $60. In a statement, British Airways said it was nonsense to suggest they didn't care about lost property, while EasyJet insisted it had procedures in place to return it. Ryanair dismissed the exercise as a waste of time.