Tom Bateman
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Global News Podcast
Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
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Global News Podcast
Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
We just saw a sign there saying they're going to come and clear all of this.
Global News Podcast
Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Along the roadside are America's left behind. Tens of thousands of homeless people are facing a brutal winter on the US East Coast.
Global News Podcast
Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
John Sebastian, living in a tiny one-man tent, scrapes by, spending the freezing nights at the shelter, and comes back to guard his spot here during the day. Can you show us your place? Sure. And so you've got inside just a bit to eat and a bit of food, something to drink.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
One of the tents, there's a gas canister outside and one of the burners you get outside restaurants where someone's been obviously using that to try and keep warm. But what there is also here is a sign saying, telling them that they have just around a week left here before these tents are going to be removed and cleared by the city authorities and they'll all be moved on once again.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Sariya Knight, an aid worker, comes to help. Homelessness in the US hit record levels last year, with hundreds of thousands rough sleeping in American cities. At the complex intersection of factors driving it, soaring rents and the post-pandemic economy... Come out.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Can we chat to you quickly? G lost his job as a mason's apprentice and has been sleeping rough for two years. What's it like with this snow and cold?
Global News Podcast
Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
We just saw a sign there saying they're going to come and clear all of this.
Global News Podcast
Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
So where are you going to go next? Not even sure. Well, I'm standing now next to an expressway. But next to this road, as cars zoom past here, are around another 20 or so tents. One of them looks virtually buried in snow. And you get the sense here that because of the way people are constantly being moved on, that this is a last refuge, a last place that rough sleepers can come.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Where they won't get moved on again is on the embankment next to the highway. As people have shifted around this city, the soup kitchens mean warmth and continuity and some sanctuary. In this one, hunkering over an empty cup, I meet Angie. She's fled her home state, a survivor of domestic violence, and come to Washington, now facing her first winter on the streets.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
And how long have you been without somewhere to live in D.C. ?
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
There seem to be so many people, it seems to be a problem that's growing.
Global News Podcast
Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Back out in the ice, we say goodbye to Angie. Her wheelie case and bags are packed and are being dragged along in the slush and snow. She's on the move again in the shadow of the US Capitol building. Fighting the cold is still a daily struggle for many in the world's wealthiest country.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
I think it was an attempt really at a victory lap, a valedictory pronouncement on his four years of foreign policy. But of course, coming against the backdrop that he's in a position he never wanted to be, which is he took over from Donald Trump, thinking of himself as the man both domestically and in terms of its impact on foreign policy that could ensure there would never be another election.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
Trump presidency, and yet here he is acting as effectively the bridge between two Trump terms in the White House. So attempting, I think, to shore up his legacy when it comes to foreign policy, a lot of the focus on that was about support for Ukraine and about policy as they see it of successfully managing competition with China.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
So, you know, a standing ovation among his VIP diplomats and staff here in the very sort of august Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room here in the State Department. Many outside the room, I think, might take a more critical appraisal of his impact. But that was how he wanted to set it out in front of his staff, attempting to define his legacy.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
Yeah. And it was I mean, I think that was one of the areas where his critics might say it felt like he was in the strongest form of denial because he very much portrayed that as a as a success in terms of the withdrawal, not necessarily the operation itself. But he was saying, you know, he was the first American president to hand over.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
to another one in quite some time without American troops still fighting in Afghanistan. But of course, that has been something that his opponents have used as a political stick to beat him with repeatedly about what they have seen as the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. So I think that was perhaps pushing against what many of his opponents would see as the situation there.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
but also more broadly talking about the way that he said the U.S. had rebuilt alliances from the first Trump presidency. And that, he said, was very much a success story, albeit that they had these crises and emergencies that they didn't foresee.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
The big underlying message was that they believe that President Trump's legacy from his first term was to lose the US's friends in the world, to attack their allies and not to keep hold of those multilateral alliances. So I think the big message was that they feel that they have rebuilt them The other one, he said on two points, artificial intelligence and climate change.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
He thought these were the sort of, you know, fundamentals that had to be addressed and protected in order for there not to be, as he put it, an existential threat to humanity and urging the next administration to adopt similar policies as his, basically, when it comes to those areas.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
There's been a series of meetings, actually, as Benjamin Netanyahu has been with senior White House officials, including Mike Waltz, the national security adviser. We've also had the press briefing here in the White House. I was sitting inside as Caroline Levitt updated the press on
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
The details of Mr Trump's plan, although I have to say we didn't really learn anything new, but one of the striking things was, astride her she had two big screens where she repeatedly displayed images of the destruction, widespread destruction inside Gaza.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
Now there will be a very specific irony there felt by Palestinians and rights groups who have repeatedly used such images to show that in their view the destruction by Israel was in breach of international law has gone way beyond its military objectives. And this, of course, is being carried out using American munitions in the vast majority of cases.
Global News Podcast
UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
Now, those images are being used by the Americans themselves as part of a sort of justification for why they say or Mr. Trump says Palestinians should leave Gaza. And, you know, he will rebuild it, as he says, for people of the world, as he puts it, over a period of 15 years. So one of the issues that came up, and I pressed Caroline Levitt.
Global News Podcast
UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
This question was asked repeatedly, particularly by the American journalists in the room, because Donald Trump was asked that question and said that basically he was not ruling anything out, that they would do whatever was necessary in terms of the use of US forces to take over Gaza, as he put it. Now, the reason that is...
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
such a an important issue is because remember donald trump campaigned to become president on a promise of ending so-called forever wars foreign entanglements an america first foreign policy now caroline levitt said that you know nothing was ruled out sort of echoing president trump's words, but that they're not committing to the use of American forces.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
And one of the reasons for that is even some Republican allies of Mr. Trump on Capitol Hill have questioned the plan, even criticized it because of that very element. They don't want to see American boots on the ground. So that in itself causing problems for Mr. Trump with his own party when it comes to his Gaza plan.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
We are thrilled, we are so happy, we are crying all day because Keith is a close friend of mine and he came back after a long, long time. We want all the 79 hostages that left there to come and return home.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
What's up, Stick Nation in Angat, Philippines. Hello, Stick Nation. I'm Max from Belgium. All right, Stick Nation, we are at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It is a magical sword with healing properties.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
Protesters in Panama City burned effigies of Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. Elsewhere, riot police moved in on a crowd, firing tear gas and wrestling demonstrators away.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
The clashes in the run-up to Mr Rubio's visit were small-scale, some led by a well-known union leader, but the resistance to Mr Trump's sudden policy pronouncements for Panama is broad, including from its conservative president, José Raúl Molino. For weeks now, including at his inauguration, President Trump has said he wants America to take back the Panama Canal.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
He said it was being run by China and falsely claimed Chinese soldiers were operating it and that American ships were unfairly charged more than others. The waterway is in fact owned and operated by the Panamanian government under a neutrality treaty signed with the US decades ago. However, Chinese companies have invested heavily in ports and terminals near the canal.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
The visit by Mr Rubio, the first Hispanic Secretary of State and a China hawk, is meant to signal a growing intolerance to countries soaking up Chinese investment in what the US sees as its own backyard.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
But the muscular approach of President Trump, who when asked by reporters even refused to rule out military action to get the canal back, has aroused strongly patriotic sentiment in this small strategic nation. US officials say Mr Rubio's visit is meant to help reinstate a golden age of the Americas by building economic cooperation and tackling migration. Tom Bateman.
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We already had a diplomatic standoff here between the US and the Panamanian government, and after that two-hour meeting between Mr Rubio and Mr Molino, it only seems to have escalated. A statement that was put out by the State Department directly after or shortly after the meeting, not mincing its words, and we've had Mr Rubio now saying that... The U.S.
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USAID Programs Halted, Netanyahu in Washington, Rubio Visits Panama, Cannabis Safety
believes that Panama is allowing China's influence and control over the canal and basically says if they don't take immediate measures to change that, that the U.S. will take necessary measures, as they put it, to protect their rights. in a treaty that was signed decades ago between the U.S. and Panama, which basically says control of the Panama Canal by the Panamanians has to remain neutral.
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USAID Programs Halted, Netanyahu in Washington, Rubio Visits Panama, Cannabis Safety
So language, I think, that will be seen by most Panamanians as being threatening from the U.S. here and really deepening this diplomatic standoff, as I say, between these two countries.
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USAID Programs Halted, Netanyahu in Washington, Rubio Visits Panama, Cannabis Safety
He's made some concessions over the months, really ever since Donald Trump was elected in November, and it became clear that this may become a point of tension. We've seen the Panamanians start to ease off some of the contracts, or at least the proposed investments that they had from Chinese firms in some infrastructure here in Panama.
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USAID Programs Halted, Netanyahu in Washington, Rubio Visits Panama, Cannabis Safety
But the bigger issue about what the US alleges is Chinese control over the canal, which the Panamanians completely reject. They say this is a complete misinterpretation of the fact that a Hong Kong-based company has a majority control of two of the five ports close to the canal. They say that the US is basically turning this into an issue, which they say it is not.
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USAID Programs Halted, Netanyahu in Washington, Rubio Visits Panama, Cannabis Safety
The American position is that Beijing could sort of close the canal in the event of a trade war.