Will Ross
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Yes, it seems to be true that the army, the Sudanese army, has taken over the airport and it's pretty rapid, this kind of move across the areas of the capital Khartoum that had been under the control of the RSF are rapidly being taken back by the army. You have to remember, this is a city that was home to around... 6 Millionen Menschen, vor dem Krieg, vor fast zwei Jahren.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Also gab es einige Szenen von Begegnung in Teilen des Kapitol-Kartons. Leute, die nur glücklich sind, dass die RSF verlassen wird. Sie haben unter den Radlöchern gesucht, sie haben die Verbrechen, die Verbrechen und die Stadt viel verletzt. But the army is basically saying the whole of Khartoum is pretty much under its control. And we haven't seen an awful lot of fighting.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
There are videos showing some of these RSF fighters moving pretty rapidly across the Jebel al-Wia Dam. There's a bridge there across the River Nile. And they're then heading west towards the Darfur region.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Well, I think it's a huge moment for the people living in Khartoum and that's why there are the celebrations, huge relief. But whether this war will rumble on with intense fighting or whether we're moving now towards a situation where
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
You've got the RSF in control of large parts of the country, but mostly the Darfur region and then the army in control of central and southern areas and the east, Port Sudan. Whether this is now kind of the country split in half? And that may possibly move towards a more peaceful time in terms of a lack of fighting between the two sides.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
But we don't know what the army's plan is as far as Darfur and trying to move on those RSF areas. Just this week we've had, you know, appalling atrocities taking place in Darfur, including the report that we had 24 hours ago of a market being bombed from the air by the army. So the abuses are still going on on both sides, civilians trapped in the middle.
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Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
But this is a significant moment, certainly for the population of Khartoum.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
Eastern Congo is a major source of minerals, and the global thirst for them has fuelled wars there for decades. There have been attempts to set up monitoring systems to ensure conflict minerals don't get into supply chains, but rights groups say this has not worked.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
They say large quantities of minerals from legitimate mines, as well as from facilities run by armed groups, are transported into neighbouring Rwanda and end up in our phones and computers. Kigali has in the past described the Congolese government's legal action against Apple as a media stunt, and it's denied selling any conflict minerals to the tech company.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
Very clear that one of the things he wants to do is kind of create a whole new reality by challenging the conventional wisdom. You could say he has done that, but he still has to have Arab states who are prepared to go along. And this is clearly very difficult.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
for Arab states to go along, because whether he intends it this way, and I'm not sure that he does, I really think he seems to intend this more as we're going to transform an area, a land area that has always been impoverished. It's a real estate building problem. It's not a political problem. The problem, I think, for President Trump is that in the region, it's looked at as a political issue.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Mr Abrego Garcia's lawyers have said he received protected legal status from an immigration judge after originally being slated for deportation in 2019. His legal team have urged the US government to ensure his immediate return to the United States from the mega-prison, calling it a notorious detention chamber. In a post on X, Vice President J.D.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Vance called Mr. Abrego Garcia a convicted MS-13 gang member. Mr. Abrego Garcia's legal team firmly denies the claim, stating that he has no criminal convictions either in the U.S. or El Salvador. Will Grant.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
So this market, Torah market, attracts people from villages across that area of North Darfur. And we understand that it was extremely busy when it was hit. The videos are horrific, to put it mildly. I mean, a lot of destruction and destruction. burnt property, but also the videos show the charred remains of people who were hit during these attacks that we understand came from the air.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
So the Sudanese armed forces bombing from the air. As you said there, the army itself has denied carrying out the attack. It says it only attacks legitimate targets, not civilians. But throughout the war, both the rapid support forces and the army have killed huge numbers of civilians and they certainly haven't discriminated between military targets and civilian ones.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
But yes, possibly the biggest single attack since the war began. It's very hard to know the numbers but two different groups the Darfur Initiative for Justice and Peace and the Emergency Lawyers Network are both giving details of this attack and interesting that the Emergency Lawyers Network it's really reported abuses by both sides in this war even
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
Just 24 hours ago, they were talking about an atrocity committed by the RSF where a mosque was attacked in Khartoum. So it does sort of add to the credibility that they are pointing out atrocities by both sides.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
That's right. I mean, the RSF do have drones. So sometimes for people in areas when bombs are falling from the skies, there can be confusion. But in this case, the reports are consistent that these were army planes.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
The fighting's definitely intensified. And as we've been hearing over the last few days in the capital Khartoum, the army's been making quite a lot of inroads, including taking the presidential palace. It still seems that both sides are determined to fight on. And of course, accusations of external interference, including by the United Arab Emirates.
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China hits back against US tariffs
It's not just, you know, Goma City that's suffering at the moment. You have to remember that before this latest conflict around Goma flared up... The whole region was suffering with immense amounts of problems, largely brought on by the presence of so many dozens of groups. So you've got millions of people displaced who are reliant on some kind of humanitarian aid.
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China hits back against US tariffs
And there are health volunteers who are working. But the problem is with the airport shut at Goma, that's kind of really putting the brakes on some of the humanitarian work that needs to go on. So... the humanitarian coordinator in the DR Congo. He basically described Goma as a lifeline and said it's incredibly important that it opens immediately.
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China hits back against US tariffs
And he talked about the survival of thousands of people depending on the reopening of this airport.
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China hits back against US tariffs
Yeah, it's difficult to be certain what brought it about. I mean, we're expecting there to be talks at the weekend between Congo and Rwanda, or at least regional talks, of which we hope that the presidents of those two countries are present. So it's possible that the M23 have declared this ceasefire in order to go to those talks with some kind of goodwill.
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China hits back against US tariffs
We haven't seen a dramatic kind of change on the ground, partly because it had been relatively calm for a few days after the Goma was seized and then an attempt to move into South Kivu province seemed to stall.
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China hits back against US tariffs
So we haven't seen a dramatic change with the declaration of the ceasefire, but there's a huge amount of mistrust between the Congolese government and the Rwandan government and the M23 rebel group. So at the moment... It's kind of everything is pinning on some effort at peace talk, some dialogue restarting.
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China hits back against US tariffs
But we have to remember that, you know, in just over the last year or so, we've had numerous ceasefires that were agreed that quickly broke down. And at the moment, the M23 does hold quite a lot of territory that it's captured in recent weeks. So it can kind of easily say, right, let's have a ceasefire and it stays put. And it's made it clear that it will fight to defend the areas it controls.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
He was speaking at an event in Kinshasa where the term genocost is being pushed and this is an attempt to get people to look at the whole conflict in the east of DR Congo in a different way and not to see it in terms of ethnic divisions and tribal tensions but instead a determination often by outsiders to exploit the mineral wealth of of that area.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
So he's talking about a genocost or the cost of the conflict and the economic cost of all these wars. But yes, he was blaming neighbouring countries. And we know that in the past, Uganda has been heavily involved. And now we know Rwanda is very involved with the M23 rebel group. But he was also talking, as you say, about the international community kind of ignoring what's going on. I
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
It is a tragedy that since the mid 1990s, these vast areas of eastern Congo have been troubled by endless conflicts and they have involved neighbouring countries.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
Well, he does, and some of the figures he used, perhaps people will question, 10 million lives lost since the mid-1990s. I mean, there have been some extraordinary numbers that have been talked about in the past. The Global Conflict Tracker that looks pretty closely at what's happening in Congo, it talks about 6 million deaths since 1996.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
We've also had the UN in the past, over a decade ago, talking about... 45,000 people dying every month, not because of the bullets flying around, but because of the collapse of the health service. So yes, the numbers are extremely stark. And he does have a point when he says that neighbouring countries are contributing to it.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
But those countries, including Rwanda, would say that Congo itself has not played a strong hand in trying to deal with these rebel groups to stop the conflicts. And in fact, Rwanda's accused the Kinshasa government at times of working hand in hand with those Hutu rebels who are against the Kigali government.
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Trump aide tells Ukraine to ''tone down'' US criticism
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Trump aide tells Ukraine to ''tone down'' US criticism
He is a significant capture for the Mexican security forces, there's no doubt about it. This is José Ángel Canovio, commonly known as El Guerrito, meaning the blonde one. He is ostensibly the head of security for one of the sons of the jail drug lord El Chapo Guzmán. his son, Iván Achivaldo Guzmán. And just that alone tells you that he's a significant figure in the Sinaloa cartel.
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Trump aide tells Ukraine to ''tone down'' US criticism
Drug war experts in Mexico say he was also influential in the organization's recent push to make fentanyl trafficking such a large part of its criminal empire.
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Trump aide tells Ukraine to ''tone down'' US criticism
It is. I think it's always important to take any single arrest in its context. Of course, all of these figures, from El Chapo Guzman himself down, are important when they are detained. But the criminal organisation is much bigger and much stronger than any single individual.
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Trump aide tells Ukraine to ''tone down'' US criticism
I think what is significant is that this shows there's a sort of more concerted effort by the Mexican government to try and focus on the issue of fentanyl trafficking, something that clearly Donald Trump has been pushing for to secure, as he saw it, a greater commitment by the government of Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican president, towards strengthening the U.S.
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Trump aide tells Ukraine to ''tone down'' US criticism
border and having troops focus on fentanyl trafficking and undocumented immigration.
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Trump aide tells Ukraine to ''tone down'' US criticism
On the US side, there's the belief that there is no way that US gun manufacturers can be held responsible for the ultimate destination of those guns. But I think what Claudia Sheinbaum is doing is pushing the elements that matter to her in this relationship with Donald Trump in its early days. She's saying, look, this is a two-way street.
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Trump aide tells Ukraine to ''tone down'' US criticism
You're obviously worried about fentanyl trafficking, so are we. But in return, you have to acknowledge two things. One is that the demand for fentanyl on illegal drugs is in the US. And two, as you mentioned, the guns are coming illegally smuggled from the United States.
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Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
For many Liberians, the sight of flames inside the House of Representatives and large clouds of black smoke rising from its roof are evidence of a political feud that's out of control. Governing party politicians have been trying to remove the Speaker, Jonathan Fonaticova, from his post over allegations of corruption which he's denied. Will Ross.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
A bit of context that Cuba was taken off the list of states sponsored by terrorism by President Obama, put back on during Trump's first term in office. And only now taken off by President Biden. Quite clearly, the feeling is that the incoming Trump administration is simply going to put them back on again.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
And we've had indications to that by Marco Rubio during his Senate hearings as prospective Secretary of State.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
Well, I think timing is everything. If they don't get out before the Trump administration does that, does the whole deal fall down? Is there an element in which the Vatican, which has played a very important role in brokering this agreement, is there's a certain agreement there with the Roman Catholic Church that no matter what happens, these prisoners will be released?
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
I think if you were in prison in Cuba and you suspect you would be on the list of those who would be let out as a result of this agreement, you are hoping that things move very, very quickly in the coming days.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
José Daniel Ferrer is definitely one of the most visible faces of the dissidents and of general opposition in Cuba to the one-party state, to the Cuban government in general, and to the communist system. So I think that he being released is important, certainly to those who follow politics more closely. He might not be very, very well known by everybody on the streets, but
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
But it does show that I think the Cuban government was willing to let out some of the kind of key figures as part of this deal. As you say, 553 prisoners slated for release. Only a fraction of those are out so far.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
And arts NGOs and groups are pushing hard or calling certainly for the release of a group called the San Isidro movement, which is made up of musicians and artists who are lined up against the government.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
Well, it is obviously the final days of the Biden administration. It was always quite curious in a sense that the Biden administration didn't do this a little earlier. I think the calculation with Cuba is always tied up to votes in Florida. So there may have been some of that going on.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Critics argue that it is improbable that a site apparently used for the torture and mass disposal of victims' bodies could have gone undetected for so long by local law enforcement without either negligence or corruption. For her part, President Claudia Sheinbaum has ordered the Attorney General's Office to take control of the investigation.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Mexicans are long used to the extreme brutality of the country's drug war, but many have been shaken by the full extent of the horror unfolding at Rancho Eseguirre. you
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
By day, the scale of the tragedy became apparent. The entire roof had collapsed onto the band and audience alike. Body after body was brought out on stretchers, covered by blankets. Occasionally, a survivor would emerge too, bolstering hopes of finding more people alive beneath the rubble.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
As I look through the doors of the Jet Set nightclub, there is simply rubble and open air where once there was a roof. People are speaking in hushed tones because it's believed there are still survivors beneath that rubble and the teams are working around the clock to try and reach them.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
This was supposed to be a concert by one of the country's most celebrated singers, now the biggest tragedy of its kind in modern Dominican history.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
Outside the collapsed building, family members sit in the shade, waiting anxiously for news. Among them was Shailene Pena, whose father, Maximo, was still inside, along with her stepmother and aunt. The uncertainty was becoming unbearable, she said.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
In due course, the relatives will also want to know what caused this tragedy and whether it could have been avoided. Many blame a fire at the venue two years ago, which they fear may have structurally weakened it, especially if the repairs were not properly carried out.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
The nightclub owner released a video to express his condolences, saying his team was complying fully and transparently with the authorities. Every few hours, the emergency team delivers a grim update, generally a sharp rise in the number of dead. However, the director of the Emergency Operations Centre, Juan Manuel Mendez, insisted survivors could still be pulled out alive.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
For now, the families are clinging to that hope, staying as optimistic as they can under the circumstances. But with each passing hour, they know all too well that the hopes grow a little slimmer and the chances of success begin to dwindle.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
As to how long this war will last, we are not the ones who can decide. We'll never yield. We'll fight until we completely triumph.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
It was a night of music and dance which turned to tragedy in an instant. As revellers and the band began to notice debris falling from the ceiling, suddenly it caved in, killing dozens and trapping scores more. Among the victims, the singer that night, the hugely popular Dominican artist, Ruby Perez, as well as two beloved former baseball players and a local politician.
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
In recent weeks, Tundu Lisu has been holding rallies across Tanzania. His main message to the crowds has been that there's no chance of a free and fair election in October unless there are reforms. He wants changes in the electoral commission, which he says must not include people appointed directly by President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
The leader of the Chadema Party has been repeating the slogan, no reforms, no election. Mr Lisu has been arrested several times before, and in 2017 he survived an assassination attempt when he was shot 16 times.
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
In front of me are two huge cranes still lifting debris and rubble out of the site and loading them onto trucks. There is earth moving equipment in there too and of course an absolute hive of activity made up of emergency service workers, rescue teams, soldiers and police. Und was wissen wir von denen, die gestorben sind?
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
Well, there were some very well-known figures in Dominican society, starting not least with Ruby Perez, the singer who was performing that night and a hugely popular artist in the Dominican Republic. As well, there were two former MLB baseball players. They were both... Any clue yet as to how this roof came to collapse so completely?
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
That is the question that the authorities say they will get to in time. They're fully focused for the time being on purely the search and rescue effort. There was a fire in the building just two years ago and a lot of fingers of blame are being pointed at that, at structurally weakening the building.
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
But the investigations are ongoing and the venue's owner says he is complying with it fully and transparently.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
This man, Amadou Hadital, he's the leader of a Sufi order, also known as the Caliph of Tijaniyya. Now, we understand he was at a kind of pilgrimage close to the Mauritanian border, and he was traveling in a convoy of three vehicles when armed men attacked the convoy and only took him, left everybody else alone. So clearly a targeted attack.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Now, no one has said it carried out this attack, but this is an area where Islamist militants are extremely active.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Well, basically, they have very different views of Islam. The Islamist militant groups have their own very extremist view, and they consider that Sufis are un-Islamic and the fact that Sufis worship saints. And that's why over a decade now, back in 2012, when large areas of northern Mali were taken over by the Islamist militants,
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
They literally went to smash up the Sufi tombs using pickaxes and vehicles and destroyed quite a number of them before the Islamist militants were pushed out of those areas.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Well, they've really struggled since the two coups. They've kind of turned their back on France. The whole international alliance against the Islamist militants has kind of collapsed. And Mali's embraced Russia, both politically and militarily. And that hasn't managed to stop the spread of these jihadist attacks. And we're seeing a similar story here. in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
I mean, there have been relentless attacks against the militaries there and also against civilians. And also human rights groups point out that there have been more and more abuses, partly because of Russian soldiers being involved with civilians the Malian military, but certainly things seem to be getting worse across the wider Sahel region.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
And other countries beyond these three are also worried about the militancy spreading and affecting their countries too. Will Ross.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
It's pretty noisy as you can hear drivers sounding their horns in support of the several hundred people who have gathered here in the wintry heart of Kiev to stage a special Christmas demonstration in support of the thousands of Ukrainians who remain in captivity this Christmas.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
the head of this alliance of rebel groups, Korné Nanga. Now, he used to head the country's electoral commission, which seems a very odd turn of events, but he's then gone on to head this rebel alliance, the Congo River Alliance. And within that alliance, there's the M23 group, which is backed by Rwanda.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
So the leaders, the two leaders, Bertrand Bissimois and Sultani Makenga, there's also a $5 million group reward for information leading to the arrest of those two.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
As for the journalists, I mean, this kind of shows the somewhat bizarre way in which the Kinshasa government operates, because here you've got, you know, a massive rebellion in the east of the country, with territory being captured, taken away from the army. You're offering $5 million for the capture of those or the arrest of those rebel leaders.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
And at the same time, you're saying $4 million for a couple of journalists who are in exile, who've spoken out against the president and the government being very critical. But it seems rather odd to have the two in the same announcement.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
Well, it certainly seems that the Congolese army has been pretty weak compared to the strength of this M23 rebel group, which has had backing from Rwanda, even though at times Kigali has denied that. So it seems unlikely that they would manage to capture these people themselves.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
And in fact, what the Kinshasa government has mainly focused on is trying to persuade the international community to put pressure on Rwanda to stop backing the M23 rather than kind of take them on head on militarily and try and retake this territory.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
Yeah, these are negotiations that have been going on. We understand involving a lobby firm, but the idea is to try and get President Donald Trump to agree to a deal that would give the United States special access to the vast mineral wealth. But Congo is a complicated country to operate in, and given all these armed groups, it's not...
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
clear that American companies would be able to come in easily and operate.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
I think the capture of Masisi is significant. This is the capital of an administrative area and we understand that the Congolese army sent a lot of ammunition there to try and defend this town. It's somewhere that's been very well defended before and has been seen as a kind of prize. But the army and the militias couldn't defend it. It was taken over by the M23.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
This is a group that's been imposing taxes on the mines that it captures in the areas it seizes. And people are looking at the map and kind of wondering where is next. But this is clearly part of a very rapid expansion by this M23 rebel group.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
So Rwanda initially denied being involved but doesn't really counter the claims now and there has been a lot of evidence that they're supporting this M23 rebel group. and that there have been Rwandan troops in Congo. Rwanda has always said that this Tutsi population in eastern Congo is under threat.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
And this is a Tutsi-led group, the M23, fighting to really protect the Tutsi population, which Rwanda says has kind of been discriminated against for many years. So the M23 itself says, you know, we are simply fighting for our rights. But then the whole mineral question comes in and people look at the minerals that are moving through Rwanda to get onto the global market.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
These are vital minerals for the whole energy sector and for our mobile phones. And the Rwandan government's also concerned about the presence of hydrocarbons. Hutu rebels in eastern Congo and it's always blamed the Kinshasa government for working with those rebels and not doing enough to stop them from being active and helping Rwanda.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Sam Nyoma's casket, wrapped in Namibia's blue, red and green flag, was taken by gun carriage to Hero's Acre, outside the capital, Windhoek. The site honours those who fought against brutal German colonial rule and later South African occupation. The current president, Nangolo Bumba, led tributes describing Sam Nyoma as a giant among leaders.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
He headed the Soviet-backed Liberation Movement that began cross-border attacks from Angola in the 1960s after South Africa refused a UN order to give up the colony. After independence, Mr Nyoma's critics pointed to his authoritarian style of rule, but today, many more Namibians are praising him for unifying the nation.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
You take a look at Enora and I think the locations are profoundly important. The mansion, Brighton Beach, the club where Annie works, they are a character in the story and a lot of times a backdrop of a film informs you so much as to the life of the characters in the movie.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Sean wanted to make sure that no matter what, we could get this block and be able to see the cyclone and you know, it's just famous Coney Island.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Mushrooms, beef, cream, some onion, parsley. It's pretty good. Really good.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
That's your moment of glory, right? I have a couple little moments of glory. Did they mind you shooting here?
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
I love being the location manager, but it's fun to be in the movie and have a few lines and do some work with the actors. I love acting as well. So, yeah, it was so appreciative that he threw me in there.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Still to come in this podcast... The mansion, Brighton Beach, the club where Annie works, they are a character in this story.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
Excuse me, I don't suppose you'd like a cup of tea, would you?
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
I don't suppose you'd like a cup of tea, would you? How do you like your tea? That's the big question to ask. Oh... Milk and no sugar. Milk and no sugar. Perfect. Excuse me. I'm sorry. I don't suppose you want a cup of tea, do you? Sorry? I don't suppose you want a cup of tea, do you? I don't understand what you mean. So I'm a filmmaker. A filmmaker, yeah. And I make people cups of tea. Okay.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
And I go around London and I have teas with people and I make a little film about the tea that we have. Wow. Would you be down for a little? Of course.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
I've got my tea here. I've gone for a peppermint today. I've already had my English breakfast. What flavour is your tea?
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
Basically, I was on holiday with my sister out in Morocco. People on the beach in Morocco offer you cups of tea.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
through that you end up having a really good chat with them and hearing all about their life and I was like flying back and I was like is there a way to be able to go out to the parks in London and offer people a cup of tea so one day I just got out of my flat and I went to the local park and I said to someone I was like excuse me would you like a cup of tea and the first person I went up to said yeah and I was petrified at the start I was like is anyone actually going to say yes to this and
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
The majority of times I go up and say, do you want a cup of tea? People say, yeah. And you don't know where the story is going to take you. And it's always surprising and it's always beautiful. And this project has been really about like realizing that everyone's got a great story. It's just untapping that extraordinary story that everyone has.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
I have never felt better. And like, yeah, obviously we need to be cautious about talking to strangers. But I do think we've built this world where we're like, we think it's weird to go and talk to a stranger. Or when a stranger tries to start talking to you, you go, oh, and your guard goes up. Like, that's certainly for me.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
The nice thing about this project is it's made me realise that actually when you do go up and ask someone and you start talking you feel so much better and it's just so good for your mental health.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
I've loved it and the fact that like it's gone incredibly viral online right with millions of views and I think that's because it touches this nerve that the fact that we live in this world which is very celebrity conscious and here's a project which is very much about going out to talk to the ordinary person and then telling their story
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
It's really hard to have favourites. I sort of take things from each chat. Some of the stories that stand out, for instance, there's a guy called Raza who hadn't spoken to his dad for years after his mum and dad had divorced. And he was talking over the cup of tea about how he would love to one day rekindle that friendship.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
There was also another guy called Brian, who I met in Finsbury Park, who basically ended up being friends with Robin Williams. And that was just amazing. It's getting to know people and hearing their stories. And still, I think we leave like we're not strangers anymore. And there's a beauty in that.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
I have been blown away, Holly, by the response, by how many people have watched it. People from all around the world, all parts of the globe. And the messages that come in with so much positivity about how it's helped them with their day-to-day life. It's amazing to know that people who are watching it, it's inspiring other people. It's making people feel better and happier.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
Sometimes, like, I'm so excited by what I've heard. And it's like, you'd like kick yourself. What an extraordinary story that went on. And at the end of it, you're just sort of in awe. The way to describe how I feel afterwards sometimes is like honoured. I couldn't recommend it enough. You should definitely go out and try it, Holly.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
You'll be blown away with where that story will take you.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
I think it's this, it's been don't put barriers up. And I think that that would be my one bit of advice, is just strip any barriers that are stopping you from doing that thing that you wanted to do in your life. Because when you open your door and you get out the house that day and you start it, then you're going to feel so much better.
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The Happy Pod: Tea for two - sharing a brew with a stranger
When you do go up and ask someone and you start talking, you feel so much better and it's just so good for your mental health. I've loved it.
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The Happy Pod: A gift that reopened the world
Yeah, I think when most of us picture a stereotypical royal, they're probably listening to classical music or a string quartet or something. Clearly, from this programme, that's not the case. So what does this say about attempts to modernise the royal family's image?
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I was going to bring that up because, again, you don't often picture a king dancing. But then does that feed into, is this an effort from Buckingham Palace to kind of to humanise maybe a bit?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
What does that strong action look like? What kind of things?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
And what about barriers in terms of moving things, moving people, rules, regulations? I'm guessing those kind of things will be on the table once again as well.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
There have been some videos circulating showing some M23 fighters within the city itself establishing some kind of a presence. It's been a very fast advance throughout the day. The M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, have quite a lot of vehicles with them. They move fast, and initially they took the towns of Katana and Kabamba with very little fighting.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Then it was Kavumu Airport, and that's the main airport that serves the city of Bukavu, Bukavu home to roughly a million people. And that's a key capture because the Congolese military was flying some of its fighter jets. out of Kavumu airport and attacking M23 positions. So it's a big setback for the Congolese military.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
There have also been videos showing some Congolese troops leaving the city of Bukavu, as well as Burundian troops who were allied to the Congolese army leaving the city, suggesting that there's not really a great attempt to hold on to this territory, partly, I guess, because they know they're completely outgunned by a very well-armed rebel group that's backed by Rwanda.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Certainly no sign yet of the kind of resistance that there was when the rebels came close to the city of Goma before attacking it. We understand at least 3,000 people died when it was captured at the end of last month. And it seems that the Congolese authorities are banking on international pressure, principally on Rwanda, as a main tool in what is a conflict really between these two countries.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Yeah, well, the World Health Organization says that there were more than 140 confirmed Mpox cases. So these were patients who were in isolation rooms.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
units in the city of goma and close to goma so in various hospitals and clinics and it says out of those more than 140 128 fled and only 15 remained in those isolation wards i mean eastern congo is chaotic at the best of times but you add on top of it a fast moving conflict and the kind of effort at any health care and humanitarian assistance just gets that much harder
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Before this policy was introduced, nationals of more than 20 African countries needed to get visas on arrival in Ghana. Just days before stepping down, President Nana Akufo-Addo said he was proud to have brought in the new policy. He said scrapping the visas was a logical step towards building the African Continental Free Trade Area, which is expected to be the world's largest trading bloc.
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Ghana clearly sees the value of making it easier to visit. 2019 was dubbed the year of return and attracted a large number of mostly African Americans, a move which helped give a much-needed boost to a struggling economy.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Throughout January, the M23 advance has been rapid, perhaps deliberately timed to take advantage of when the world was distracted by politics in America and conflict in the Middle East. By the time the UN Security Council rang the alarm bell, the Rwandan-backed rebels were already knocking at the door of Goma.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
President Paul Kagame's government says this conflict is about protecting Rwanda from the threat of Hutu rebels based in eastern Congo. But Kinshasa sees that as a convenient excuse and accuses Kigali of trying to annex part of eastern Congo to exploit the minerals. What happens next will partly depend on whether Rwanda faces any threat of sanctions. Will Ross.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
Kurochov is not a big city. It had a pre-war population of about 22,000. It's largely in ruins now, of course, like all the towns and cities that Russia is fighting over. We were expecting this. About two weeks ago, Kiev said it had withdrawn some units from the area to prevent them from being encircled.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
Much more important and potentially much more of a loss to Ukraine would be if Russia takes the strategic city of Pokrovsk. That's an important transport hub not far from Kurochov. So, you know, this is a blow to Ukraine. But things are bad overall for the country. You know, Russia's taken a large number of settlements in eastern Ukraine in recent days and weeks.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
Well, last year, Russia took a large amount of territory, at least 2,000 square kilometres, perhaps more according to some estimates. Now, that's still a tiny fraction, less than 1% of Ukraine's overall territory, but it is the fastest pace since the early days of the war.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
So, you know, things in the east of Ukraine are not good for Ukrainian forces and it doesn't look like it's getting any better.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
Yeah, it's difficult to know what exactly is going on in the Kursk region. What we do know is that yesterday Ukraine launched a fresh offensive in the area. That was confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian officials and pro-Kremlin officials. military bloggers. Some of those bloggers said that Russian forces had come under intense pressure by the offensive.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
But there hasn't been any sign yet that the Ukrainians are making significant advances. Usually by this time, you know, 24 hours plus after the beginning of operation, if it were successful, we'd expect some update about forces moving forward, perhaps seizing some settlements in the area. There's been no indication of that so far.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
So something is definitely happening in the Kursk area, but it's difficult to establish what the exact state of play is.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
Well, that may well have played into it, into the decision to launch an offensive, although, again, we don't know how successful it's been so far or will be in the coming days. I'm sure that both sides, Russia and Ukraine, are keen to take as much territory as possible before Donald Trump takes his seat in the Oval Office.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
The Ukrainians also will be keen to show the present elect that they are capable of mounting offensive operations, of going on the attack, and that they are capable of securing victories, even relatively small ones.
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It's still in its very early hours, really. We heard earlier from the Russian Defense Ministry who said that the Ukrainians had launched an attack at around 8 a.m. local time and that fighting was ongoing. And we also heard from the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak.
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He wrote on social media, he didn't entirely confirm that the operation had started, but he did hint at it, saying there was good news from the Kursk region and Russia was getting what it deserved. And I've also been reading some reports from Russia the pro-Kremlin military bloggers, they also have been reporting what they call a major operation by Ukraine.
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But there's a lot, of course, we don't know. We don't know what scale this is on or whether it will make any difference whatsoever, really, to Ukraine's pretty tenuous position on the battlefield.
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Well, it's important because it's inside sovereign Russian territory, right, which creates a real headache for the Kremlin when you've got the Ukrainian army not only not surrendering and not being destroyed on their own territory, but actually attacking and pushing deep inside Russian territory, seizing towns and villages. When Ukraine launched this pretty surprise incursion
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into the Kursk region in August last year. They made pretty good progress, seized quite a large chunk of territory. And it wasn't entirely clear at the time why Ukraine was doing this. There was some speculation it was trying to draw away Russian forces from the east of the country, from elsewhere on the front.
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President Zelensky said later that the Kursk operation was designed to be used as a bargaining chip. in any future peace talks with Russia. But since August, Ukraine has been pushed back. Russian forces have been reinforced, of course, by several thousand troops from North Korea too. And although Russia has retaken large parts of that original area that Ukraine seized...
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They haven't been able to push the Ukrainians out of the region altogether. So we'll have to see whether this operation is sustained, whether Ukraine manages to expand its presence. Ukrainian forces badly need a victory at the moment. Morale is pretty low here. Russia's been making significant advances on the battlefield in recent weeks.
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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
So Ukraine really needs to show its own people, show Western countries and the incoming Donald Trump administration that it can still mount offensive operations and it can still manage to have some victories, even if they're relatively small ones.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
Three years ago, Mr Bukele declared war on the gangs, using emergency powers granted to him under a state of exception. While human rights groups have criticised the methods and the suspension of certain constitutional norms, few can deny that the transformation of some neighbourhoods has been nothing short of extraordinary.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
The Diez de Octubre in San Salvador is one such formerly gang-controlled community. As I look around me, you could scarcely expect to see a calmer corner of Central America. There is three soldiers with long machine guns standing under the shade of a tree to my right. Everybody in this particular neighbourhood credits the difference in security to President Nayib Bukele and his gang crackdown.
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Roxana, who didn't want to give her surname, says her family opened a shop since the state of exception was introduced. Things have changed a lot. We feel calmer having a business and we can stay open late, she says. The constant extortion and demands for money by gang members have dried up too, she explains.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
Yet Roxana admits that a lot of innocent people, as she put it, were rounded up in President Bukele's crackdown. On the third anniversary of the State of Exception, protesters turned out on the streets of San Salvador carrying photos of their relatives, who they say were illegally swept up in the clampdown. Many on the march identified with the plight of the families of the 238 Venezuelans.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
Three years on and they haven't once heard from their loved ones being held inside the Secot Supermax facility, and some are beginning to lose hope that they ever will.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
As 238 shackled Venezuelans landed in El Salvador, they were then bundled onto buses and taken to probably the most feared prison in the Americas. The Secot, or Terrorism Confinement Centre, was set up by the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, to house hardened members of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
The Trump administration accuses the men of belonging to a Venezuelan gang and removed them from US soil without due process, under the 1789 Alien Enemies Act. Some 1,800 kilometres away, Getrudes Pineda is growing increasingly desperate about the well-being of her son, Oscar. Having entered the US illegally, he was working as a carpet layer.
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She'd heard he'd been picked up by US immigration agents and was in Texas en route back to Venezuela. Her other son, living in Colombia, soon called her to say he'd seen Oscar's name on a list of those sent to El Salvador. They're not from El Salvador, they're Venezuelans, said Gertrudis. If they've committed a crime, let them face the charges in Venezuela, she added.
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Outside the Salvadoran Supreme Court, lawyer Jaime Ortega addressed the press after lodging a petition of habeas corpus to try to secure the men's immediate release, and argues that there are some major legal irregularities in the transfer of the men to El Salvador.
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Trump hosts UK's Keir Starmer at the White House
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The extradition of 29 people from Mexico to the United States in and of itself is historic. There are many who say this is the biggest extradition of its kind in the history of Mexico's brutal and relentless drug war. But more than the simple number, I think what stands out are some of the names of those involved. They include, for example, Miguel Ángel Treviño and his brother Oscar Omar Treviño.
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They are the founding members of Los Zetas cartel, known as Zeta Cuarenta and Zeta Cuarenta y Dos, respectively. They ran a criminal empire that had its finger in many, many different pies. Cocaine trafficking... People smuggling, extortion, kidnapping, a whole range of different criminal activities before it eventually lost its power and essentially splintered and fractured in the mid-2010s.
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They are important figures in the history of Mexico's drug war. But another name in the group of 29 that has been extradited is perhaps even more significant, Rafael Caro Quintero. Now, he was one of the founding members of the Guadalajara cartel, an absolute linchpin in how drug trafficking in Mexico was carried out.
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He is wanted in the United States in connection with the murder of a DEA agent in 1985, Enrique Quique Camarena. He was arrested at the time and served around 28 years in Mexico before eventually being released. However, he was still wanted in the U.S. The Obama administration was very disappointed that he was allowed to be released by the Mexican authorities. He is now in his 70s.
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He was recaptured in 2022 and is now on U.S. soil. So the broader question is why is all of this happening and perhaps why now? Well, I think we need look no further than the push by the Trump administration to the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum to do more on the question of the drug war in this country, to do more in terms of cross-border cooperation in security.
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Trump hosts UK's Keir Starmer at the White House
Is this perhaps a gift, as it were, to Mr Trump amid the threat of tariffs over fentanyl, for example? That's difficult to know, but certainly it is an effort, I think, by the Mexican government to show greater willingness and more cooperation on cross-border security issues.
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Trump hosts UK's Keir Starmer at the White House
Chaos as the explosions caused thousands of people to run for their lives in panic. From buildings overlooking Bukavu's Independence Square, people filmed what was happening on their phones shortly after the leader of a rebel alliance, Kornei Nanga, had addressed the rally. When the crowd was gone, there were dead bodies on the street and rescuers carried away the injured.
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This was meant to be a day for the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels to tell the city's residents and the world that eastern Congo is safer with them in charge. It's not clear who carried out the explosions, but on Wednesday leaflets were distributed warning people to stay away from the M23 rally.
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In recent weeks, the rebels have been rapidly capturing territory from the Congolese army and ignoring UN calls to stop the attacks. People living in mineral-rich eastern Congo have been repeatedly fleeing violence over the last three decades. There have in the past been dramatic escalations in the fighting, which at times has drawn in the armies of several other African countries.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
It was interesting that she also began her morning press conference by referring to new figures from Custer and Border Protection Agency, which show that seizures of fentanyl have dropped to their lowest level in three years, a 75% drop in just the last three years.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Er hat sich in den letzten sechs Monaten seiner Präsidentschaft, also ich glaube, sie wäre in der Telefonrunde, die sie hatte, all die Bereiche bemerkt, in denen Erfolg gemacht wird, wie diese Figuren, wie der Fakt, dass sie, wie er beantragt hat, 10.000 Truppen an die US-Mexiko-Border gesendet hat. Sie hat 29 hochprofile Drogenkartell-Figuren gesendet. Aber es ist, Will, nicht es?
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Nur eine monatelange Verabschiedung von Tarifen. Es ist, und ich denke, das ist richtig, wir sollten das nicht verlieren. Ich denke, es gibt ein Element von Exasperation in Mexiko, über das Fakt, dass das so aussieht, wie es geht. Das ist jetzt zweimal in zwei Monaten, dass eine letzte-minütige Telefonrufe getroffen wird, und zwischen den Maßnahmen, die gemacht werden,
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Es wird von Claudio Schoenbaum gesagt, wenn du das tust, werde ich in Ordnung antworten. Das bringt nicht so viel Stabilität zum Markt, so viel Abhängigkeit auf die Beziehung mit der White House. Ich denke, es gibt ein Element von Frustration darüber.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
The owner of a clothing factory in the capital of Lesotho, Maseru, said waking up to news of the 50% tariff had been devastating for the country, but said he'd look for markets in Africa and Europe. Across Africa, tens of thousands of workers produce clothing for the US under a tax-free initiative known as AGOA. It was partly set up to help countries trade their way out of poverty.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Now Lesotho's government is warning of job losses. Botswana faces a 38% tariff on its exports because Donald Trump wants to get rid of a trade deficit. But that won't be easy. Botswana has diamonds.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
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Queen Elizabeth's fifth visit to Barbados in 1989 was to celebrate the 350th anniversary of its parliament, a largely ceremonial trip which it would turn out was her last as the island's head of state. Fast forward to midnight on 30th November 2021 and her son, the then Prince of Wales, was in Bridgetown to see Barbados become a republic, the first nation to do so in almost 30 years. MUSIC
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I'm in National Heroes Square in Bridgetown, what was until recently called Trafalgar Square, complete with a monument to Lord Nelson. That was taken down and in its place has been erected the monument to the Barbadan family. Reimagining this square and rebuilding it is a vital part to the new understanding of Barbados' place in the world.
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Today, the Parliament building is undergoing restoration work. But instead of being surrounded by ugly temporary fencing, the Parliament invited schoolchildren and local artists to paint murals on it under the title Barbados and What It Means to Me.
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I love it. I think it's so good. And guys, it's an interesting idea, isn't it, that you're painting part of the Parliament building.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
Member of Parliament Trevor Prescott is in charge of taking these debates over the exploitation of the island's colonial past to their logical conclusion. He's the Prime Minister's special envoy for reparations and economic enfranchisement.
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Guilt alone won't be enough, will it? I mean, if there are people who have become extremely wealthy and companies and obviously governments, do you think they will need to be legally forced to make reparations in the next coming years?