--:-- Alex Ritson: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and at 0500 GMT on Thursday 25th September, these are our main stories.
--:-- Alex Ritson: A bullet engraved with the words 'anti-ice' is found at the scene of a deadly shooting at an immigration centre in Dallas, Texas.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Syria's first head of state to speak at the UN General Assembly for nearly 60 years calls for all sanctions on his country to be lifted.
--:-- Alex Ritson: China commits to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 10%.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Also in this podcast, depending on the time that we launch, depending on the illumination, we could see parts of the moon that never have had human eyes lay upon them before.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And believe it or not, human eyes are one of the best scientific instruments that we have.
--:-- Alex Ritson: We meet the astronauts who could slingshot around the moon as early as next February.
--:-- David Willis: An investigation is ongoing in Texas after a deadly shooting at her Centre of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
--:-- David Willis: That's the agency chiefly responsible for carrying out President Trump's pledge to expel millions of undocumented migrants.
--:-- David Willis: One detainee was killed and two others critically injured.
--:-- David Willis: The gunman is reported to have died from a self-inflicted wound.
--:-- David Willis: The FBI director, Kash Patel, posted an image of unspent bullets from the scene with the phrase 'anti-ICE' written on one of them.
--:-- Ted Cruz: This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP, or Customs and Border Protection.
--:-- Ted Cruz: This must stop.
--:-- Ted Cruz: To every politician who is using rhetoric, demonising ICE and demonising CBP, stop.
--:-- Ted Cruz: To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxed and calling for people to go after their families, stop.
--:-- Ted Cruz: This has very real consequences.
--:-- David Willis: Later, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform to accuse what he called the radical left of inciting violence against immigration officers.
--:-- David Willis: He also said he'll be signing an executive order to dismantle what he called domestic terrorism networks.
--:-- David Willis: We heard more from our North America correspondent, David Willis.
--:-- David Willis: It took place, Alex, at an immigration field office in Dallas.
--:-- David Willis: That's where detainees were being processed before being transported to a detention facility.
--:-- David Willis: And officials say the gunman started firing indiscriminately from a nearby rooftop, both at the building and at a van that was parked inside a secure entryway.
--:-- David Willis: They say that bullet casings bearing anti-government messages were found at the scene of this incident, and they believe the gunman was targeting members of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE.
--:-- David Willis: The presence of ICE agents, normally heavily armed, wearing masks and so on, in various parts of this country, has drawn quite a lot of criticism.
--:-- David Willis: Yet despite that assertion, no ICE officials were hurt or killed in this attack.
--:-- David Willis: Instead, three migrants were struck by bullets and one of them subsequently died.
--:-- David Willis: And of the other two who were injured, one who is said to be of Mexican descent, is now in a critical condition in hospital.
--:-- David Willis: The gunman has been identified, Alex, as 29-year-old Joshua Juan, but officials have yet to reveal a motive for this attack.
--:-- David Willis: And yet President Trump talked about deranged radical leftists.
--:-- David Willis: That's right.
--:-- David Willis: And, of course, there's been a rise in political violence in this country, and we've seen a lot of finger-pointing, if you like, particularly since the murder of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist, two weeks ago.
--:-- David Willis: President Trump really leading the way.
--:-- David Willis: He blamed Mr. Kirk's death on radical left-wingers, as he put it.
--:-- David Willis: He vowed to clamp down on groups made up of such individuals.
--:-- David Willis: And he actually intends to sign an executive order later this week, which is aimed at dismantling what he calls left-wing domestic terrorism networks, which he says basically are inciting violence against conservatives, although he's yet to provide any evidence that left-wing groups pose more of a threat, a violent threat, than groups on the right.
--:-- David Willis: I mentioned we've yet to learn the motive for today's attack, but that didn't stop Mr Trump and members of his cabinet from politicising this shooting, which, as Ted Cruz mentioned, is the third shooting directed at members of ICE in Texas alone over recent weeks.
--:-- Aula Guerin: Syria's interim president has made his debut on the international stage in New York.
--:-- Aula Guerin: Ahmed al-Sharah is the first Syrian leader to address the UN General Assembly for nearly six decades.
--:-- Aula Guerin: The former head of the Islamist al-Nusra Front toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad in a lightning offensive at the end of last year, bringing to an end the civil war that started in 2011.
--:-- Aula Guerin: Our senior international correspondent, Aula Guerin, reports from the Syrian capital, Damascus.
--:-- Aula Guerin: This was a moment of history for Syria, its return to the international stage.
--:-- Aula Guerin: Ahmad al-Shirah said Syria was reclaiming its rightful place among the nations of the world.
--:-- Aula Guerin: He called for the complete lifting of sanctions, which he said shackled the Syrian people.
--:-- Aula Guerin: The rebel commander turned interim president, a former member of al-Qaeda, looked at ease at the podium in a dark suit.
--:-- Aula Guerin: Until last December when he led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
--:-- Aula Guerin: He had a $10 million bounty on his head.
--:-- Aula Guerin: His speech was broadcast live in the main square in Damascus, accompanied by fireworks in the night sky.
--:-- Aula Guerin: Ahmed al said his country had transformed from exporting crisis to providing an opportunity for regional peace.
--:-- Aula Guerin: But he said continuing Israeli strikes against Syria were creating new dangers.
--:-- Aula Guerin: He said Syrians stand firmly with the people of Gaza because they are deeply aware of the horrors of war.
--:-- Aula Guerin: He told the UN the Assad regime had killed around a million innocent people and used chemical weapons and the worst kind of torture against its own citizens.
--:-- Aula Guerin: He promised those responsible for sectarian violence in Syria would be held to account and said the country was now writing a new chapter of peace, prosperity and development.
--:-- Aula Guerin: Orla Guerin.
--:-- General David Petraeus: It's hugely significant.
--:-- General David Petraeus: There's a personal angle to this as well because, as is well known, he was in detention in Iraq.
--:-- General David Petraeus: But obviously, he has traveled quite a path since then, built the force that was able to topple the Bashar al-Assad regime.
--:-- General David Petraeus: And now is, of course, the interim president, if you will, of the country and trying to pull together a country that has just about all of the ethnic, sectarian, tribal and political fault lines of the Middle East.
--:-- General David Petraeus: What sort of path have you had to travel to go from someone who essentially put him in prison to sitting down with him as you did the other day and having a civil conversation.
--:-- General David Petraeus: And I think you have said you are a fan of his.
--:-- General David Petraeus: Well, I am a fan of what he's trying to do, certainly, and what he has done.
--:-- General David Petraeus: And I should also note that I had not just the time with him on stage in the interview, but it's time before that in the green room and then an hour before that, which is a business council of many Syrian-American business leaders.
--:-- General David Petraeus: And he has a surprising mastery of the economic situation there with considerable detail.
--:-- General David Petraeus: And I hope that in addition to lifting the sanctions that President Trump has already lifted, that Congress of the U.S. will follow through as well and that they will lift the sanctions that they imposed, of course, on the Assad regime.
--:-- General David Petraeus: But those right now prevent, for example, investing in construction, energy and the financial sector, the three of which are probably the most important in helping the Syrian economy recovered.
--:-- General David Petraeus: You know, though, that there are some in Congress who still view him as a jihadist, have not been on the journey that you have been on to recognize what you think is the journey he has been on.
--:-- General David Petraeus: Are you trying to persuade them otherwise?
--:-- General David Petraeus: Do you think Congress will come around to that way of thinking?
--:-- General David Petraeus: I do.
--:-- General David Petraeus: Look, we deal with people that have traveled considerable paths all around the world, including a number in the Middle East.
--:-- General David Petraeus: And he is certainly saying all the right things.
--:-- General David Petraeus: I asked some very tough questions of him about how he is going to ensure not just majority rule, but what about all of the, again, ethnic, sectarian, tribal minorities?
--:-- General David Petraeus: Will they have their rights honored?
--:-- General David Petraeus: And there have been some troubling incidents.
--:-- General David Petraeus: Yeah, no, I mean, troubling incidents, thousands killed.
--:-- General David Petraeus: And the UN and human rights groups have said that his security forces were participating in that.
--:-- General David Petraeus: That is the reason that Some people are very sceptical.
--:-- General David Petraeus: Yeah, no, I raise this with him.
--:-- General David Petraeus: I lay that out.
--:-- General David Petraeus: His answers were very encouraging, frankly, but it's not words, as always, it's deeds.
--:-- General David Petraeus: And I do think it's in our interest, our national interest, to do everything we can to enable him to succeed, at least until he proves that he does not any longer warrant our support.
--:-- Matt McGrath: On Tuesday, President Trump told the UN climate change was a con job.
--:-- Matt McGrath: On Wednesday, the Chinese President Xi Jinping told the UN his country was setting its first ever concrete target to cut carbon emissions.
--:-- Matt McGrath: His words are spoken by a translator.
--:-- Matt McGrath: China will, by 2035, reduce economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% from peak levels, striving to do better.
--:-- Matt McGrath: Mr Xi also indirectly took a swipe at the US, saying green transformation is the trend of our times, despite, as he put it, some countries going against that trend.
--:-- Matt McGrath: But China is currently the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, and our environment correspondent Matt McGrath told us some people were hoping for more ambitious targets.
--:-- Matt McGrath: President Trump came to the UN on Tuesday and gave climate change a battering and basically said every country in the world was doing the wrong things on renewable energy.
--:-- Matt McGrath: And there's been a lot of pushback on climate change this year all around the world.
--:-- Matt McGrath: So there's been a lot of hopes pinned on China, the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, to come to bat basically and put a new plan on the table, as all countries are required to do this year, that would really move the dial in terms of keeping temperatures down, would move the world away from fossil fuels.
--:-- Matt McGrath: So to see a target of 7% to 10% is a bit disappointing, I think, for many, many people.
--:-- Matt McGrath: But to keep it in context, as I said, China is the world's biggest emitter.
--:-- Matt McGrath: In 2023, it emitted 14 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
--:-- Matt McGrath: 10% of that is 1.4 billion tonnes, and that's four times the UK's annual emissions of carbon.
--:-- Matt McGrath: So it is a very significant amount of carbon.
--:-- Matt McGrath: But I think people feel that this might have been a missed opportunity, given the fact that the US and others are a little bit in retreat on climate change.
--:-- Matt McGrath: Yes, President Xi implicitly criticised the US for retreating on climate change.
--:-- Matt McGrath: But what has China been doing up until now before announcing this target?
--:-- Matt McGrath: China has been doing a vast amount in terms of renewable energy and in planting lots of trees.
--:-- Matt McGrath: And it's the renewables that give real hope here.
--:-- Matt McGrath: In 2020, they promised that they would install 1,200 gigawatts, which is a lot of wind and solar by 2030.
--:-- Matt McGrath: And they achieved that last year.
--:-- Matt McGrath: So they're six years ahead of schedule on the installation of renewables.
--:-- Matt McGrath: In this new plan, they're going to double that again, if you like, and get to 3,600 gigawatts by 2035.
--:-- Matt McGrath: Most people think they will easily do that.
--:-- Matt McGrath: And what's really interesting and what people are picking up on and holding on to as a sense of hope here is that President Xi clearly spoke about wind, solar and electric cars as being at the heart of their efforts to decarbonise and move their economy away.
--:-- Matt McGrath: And they are doing that more than anybody else in the world right now, and they are doing it faster than everybody else.
--:-- Matt McGrath: So while the headline target may be less than people expected, I think there's a lot of hope that they will overachieve, particularly on the renewables as they've done to date, and that that will actually drive down emissions far more than 10% in the long term.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: It's nearly 50 years since the last manned mission to the Moon, so when NASA announced on Tuesday it would be sending a team on a flight around it as early as February of next year, the world took notice.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: The four astronauts have told a press conference they're ready for every scenario they could face during their 10-day mission to deep space and back.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: The Artemis crew, three Americans and one Canadian, also announced that they'd named their spacecraft Integrity.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: Our science editor, Rebecca Morrell, has the details.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: The four astronauts have been in training for their moon mission for the last two years.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: They'll be the first people to travel in the Orion spacecraft, now known as Integrity.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: The mission pilot Victor Glover said a key moment would be the 45 minutes that they be out of contact as they pass around the far side of the moon.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: Mission specialist Christina Cook said this would be an opportunity to study the lunar surface.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: We get to take three full hours and devote it to nothing other than observing the lunar surface.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: And depending on the time that we launch, depending on the illumination of the far side of the moon, we hope it's not the dark side.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: We hope it's the lit far side because that could mean that we could see parts of the moon that never have had human eyes lay upon them before.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: And believe it or not, human eyes are one of the best scientific instruments that we have.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: The spacecraft will have enough food, water and oxygen on board for the 10-day journey, as well as a specially designed toilet to overcome the challenges of going to the loo while weightless.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: But the conditions will be cramped.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: The spacecraft is about the size of a minivan.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: And for Canadian Jeremy Hansen it will be his first time in space.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: I do think it is going to be a bit of an adjustment for us when we get up there.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: We're going to constantly be in each other's way.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: These three are going to have to mentor me a little bit as I get my space legs because they've all had six-ish months on space station and I'll be learning how to float and fly and bumping into stuff and I'll need a little help probably.
--:-- Rebecca Morrell: Artemis commander Reid Wiseman said the crew were working well as a team and they were ready to get the job done on what he described as a magical mission.
--:-- Janat Jaleel: It's nearly 50 years since the last manned mission to the Moon, so when NASA announced on Tuesday it would be sending a team on a flight around it as early as February of next year, the world took notice.
--:-- Janat Jaleel: The four astronauts have told a press conference they're ready for every scenario they could face during their 10-day mission to deep space and back.
--:-- Janat Jaleel: The Artemis crew, three Americans and one Canadian, also announced that they'd named their spacecraft Integrity.
--:-- Janat Jaleel: Our science editor, Rebecca Morrell, has the details.
--:-- Tom Bateman: Donald Trump has been strongly criticized by his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, over lethal airstrikes carried out by the U.S. on alleged drug trafficking votes in the Caribbean.
--:-- Tom Bateman: Speaking to the BBC in New York, Mr Petro accused Mr Trump of an act of tyranny.
--:-- Tom Bateman: At least 14 people are known to have been killed.
--:-- Tom Bateman: UN experts have described it as extrajudicial execution.
--:-- Tom Bateman: Here's what the Colombian president told our State Department correspondent, Tom Bateman.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: We have a long history of collaborating with American agencies and other agencies of carrying out maritime seizures of cocaine.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: No one has ever died before.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: There is no need to kill anyone.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: And it is not necessary because just like one might do with streets, you block the speedboat with larger boats.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: We have larger boats.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: And in recent years, we have been able to carry out operations with no deaths.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: Why launch a missile if you could simply stop the boat and arrest the crew?
--:-- Gustavo Petro: That's what one would call murder.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: So how would you characterize President Trump's behavior and his decision to militarize this activity in the region of your country and using military force against boats like this?
--:-- Gustavo Petro: Launching missiles over sovereign waters outside the United States is an act of tyranny.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: And what is happening there is a tyranny.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: We cannot know if these young people were migrants or if they were working for drug trafficking mafias.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: And in both situations, they have no right, Mr. Trump has no right to launch a missile against them.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: If we are able to confirm that among these young people we don't know yet but if there are Colombians we have the obligation the Colombian justice system must open a criminal investigation for murder and it would be the officials responsible for these murders that would be prosecuted.
--:-- Gustavo Petro: Which government officials from the United States allowed the murder of these young people by launching a missile at this speedboat, independent of what they were transporting, because right there they broke international law.
--:-- Monica Miller: Is the dream of home ownership slipping out of reach for many Americans?
--:-- Monica Miller: Prices are climbing, supply can't keep up with demand, and high interest rates are keeping sellers on the sidelines.
--:-- Monica Miller: Tariffs and rising construction costs are squeezing builders too, piling more pressure on families and the economy.
--:-- Monica Miller: As Monica Miller explains.
--:-- Monica Miller: Robert McKenna is settling into his new home in the suburbs of Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
--:-- Monica Miller: Come here.
--:-- Monica Miller: He now has time to enjoy his new backyard and play fetch with Kia, a five-year-old golden doodle.
--:-- Monica Miller: This was important when we were getting the house to have a backyard so she could do this.
--:-- Monica Miller: Hey.
--:-- Monica Miller: He and his wife Megan say they are happy the house hunting process is finally over.
--:-- Monica Miller: So, I mean, we would look at maybe 15 homes sometimes on a Saturday or Sunday.
--:-- Monica Miller: Like, literally, we'd leave our house at like 9 a.m., get home by like 6 p.m., eat and want to just sleep.
--:-- Monica Miller: For generations, homeownership in the U.S. has been a path to stability and wealth.
--:-- Monica Miller: But today, many Americans say the dream feels out of reach.
--:-- Monica Miller: The couple looked at dozens of homes and lost eight bidding wars before finally landing a house.
--:-- Monica Miller: Even with solid jobs in health care and finance, the couple say the process left them drained.
--:-- Monica Miller: I finally get to a number that I'm happy with.
--:-- Monica Miller: I can see myself living in it.
--:-- Monica Miller: And then you get the news.
--:-- Monica Miller: Hey, guess what? You didn't get this one.
--:-- Monica Miller: Across the country, high prices, scarce supply, and historically high mortgage rates are keeping many potential homebuyers locked out.
--:-- Monica Miller: Some homeowners who paid off their properties or refinanced during the pandemic are reluctant to sell, while younger buyers are struggling to compete.
--:-- Monica Miller: Real estate agents like Diane Loomis say speed is everything.
--:-- Monica Miller: You don't have the time to process here.
--:-- Monica Miller: Stay up all night because, you know, I'd like to think about it.
--:-- Monica Miller: Start thinking because it may not be there tomorrow.
--:-- Monica Miller: So this will be four bedrooms.
--:-- Monica Miller: I think there's actually.
--:-- Monica Miller: Homebuyers and real estate agents aren't the only people impacted by the shifts in the market.
--:-- Monica Miller: Andrew Kay is a real estate developer in New Jersey.
--:-- Monica Miller: With material shortages that came out of COVID and now tariffs being in place, it's an extremely uncertain industry.
--:-- Monica Miller: Real estate developers often face a patchwork of zoning laws, permitting delays, and local opposition that slow or block new construction.
--:-- Monica Miller: Andrew says codes and regulations were once more lenient.
--:-- Monica Miller: I am all about both smart growth and smart planning and smart construction.
--:-- Monica Miller: There were mistakes, as I said, made in the 70s and 80s with regard to land planning and stormwater and things that were not accounted for.
--:-- Monica Miller: And now, as I said, I think we've just gone too far in the other direction, mostly out of fear of, oh, no, what if that happens again?
--:-- Monica Miller: Washington lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are alarmed.
--:-- Monica Miller: Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much these days, but a bipartisan bill is making its way through Congress.
--:-- Monica Miller: Someone should say praise the Lord.
--:-- Monica Miller: That's a miracle like Peter walking on the water.
--:-- Monica Miller: Speaking at an event in Washington, the bill's co-sponsor, Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, says it aims to expand affordable housing, reduce regulatory barriers, and improve oversight of federal housing initiatives.
--:-- Monica Miller: Solving this problem has got to be paramount.
--:-- Monica Miller: For decision makers all across the spectrum of government, and frankly in the private sector as well.
--:-- Monica Miller: So I look at this through the eyes of a kid who wanted a front yard to play in and not just a concrete driveway.
--:-- Monica Miller: First-time homebuyers Megan and Robert McKenna finally got their foot on the property ladder.
--:-- Monica Miller: They say achieving the American dream is a lot of work these days.
--:-- Monica Miller: It's an exhausting dream.
--:-- Monica Miller: It's a hard dream to obtain.
--:-- Monica Miller: Homeownership remains a cornerstone of the American dream.
--:-- Monica Miller: The Fed's rate cuts could help more buyers chase it, even if the cost of that dream has never been higher.
--:-- Monica Miller: Monica Miller.
--:-- Clizia Sala: 23 miners who were trapped in a mine in the northwest of Colombia for 48 hours have now been rescued.
--:-- Clizia Sala: Come on guys, you can do it, say colleagues and family members as the 23 miners emerge one by one from the collapsed shaft of Colombia's La Reliquia mine, covered in mud but alive.
--:-- Clizia Sala: Social media footage shows family members welcoming them with hugs and tears.
--:-- Clizia Sala: The group had been trapped underground since Monday, receiving food and water through a water extraction hose.
--:-- Clizia Sala: This time, one of the many mining accidents that occur in Colombia every year has a happy ending.
--:-- Clizia Sala: In light of the many deadly incidents in the sector, the National Mining Agency has expressed its commitment to worker safety and training.
--:-- Cletia Sala: Now, how do you move a nearly 1,000-year-old prized artwork from one country to another without damaging it?
--:-- Cletia Sala: That's the challenge facing the authorities in France, which is loaning its world-famous Bayer tapestry to the British Museum next year.
--:-- Cletia Sala: The 70-metre-long embroidery chronicles the Norman invasion of England in 1066.
--:-- Cletia Sala: Many French cultural experts have warned that the priceless artefact is too fragile to be transported.
--:-- Cletia Sala: So now a trial run has been arranged for officials to assess the risks.
--:-- Cletia Sala: Historian Dr David Musgrove has studied the tapestry extensively.
--:-- Cletia Sala: There's been a lot of concern raised in certain causes in France about the fragility of the tapestry and whether it is tenable to move it without damaging it.
--:-- Cletia Sala: So there's been a lot of work done on this over several years.
--:-- Cletia Sala: The loan was initially announced back in 2018, so it's been like seven years in the planning.
--:-- Cletia Sala: They've had a chance to do lots of studies on it, and those studies have been published.
--:-- Cletia Sala: They're technical, lots of interesting scientific details.
--:-- Cletia Sala: But what they're doing now, they are putting these plans into action, And in December, there is supposed to be a dry run, a voyage à blanc, I understand, is the French term for it, where basically they are going to see what happens when they do a replica.
--:-- Cletia Sala: I'm not sure exactly what it is they're moving because I'm not sure they've got a replica linen artefact.
--:-- Cletia Sala: They've got a photographic record, which was once owned by Charlie Watts of Rolling Stones fame, but that's not on linen.
--:-- Cletia Sala: So I don't think that would give it the sense.
--:-- Cletia Sala: So they're going to get some sort of linen artefact, which is the same extent as the tapestry, 70 metres.
--:-- Cletia Sala: They're going to put it into some sort of vibration damping case and they're going to drive it to the Eurotunnel and I assume across to the UK from there.
--:-- Cletia Sala: And then they're going to study it and then they're going to announce the results of that in January or February.
--:-- Cletia Sala: And then they will be able to say whether it's viable to move it or whether they need to do further work on it.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
--:-- Alex Ritson: If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email.
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--:-- Alex Ritson: This edition was produced by Stephen Jensen and Rebecca Wood.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It was mixed by Caroline Driscoll and the editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I'm Alex Ritson.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Until next time, goodbye.
--:-- Asma Khalid: America is changing and so is the world.
--:-- Asma Khalid: But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval.
--:-- Asma Khalid: It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
--:-- Asma Khalid: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.
--:-- Asma Khalid: I'm Tristan Redman in London, and this is The Global Story.
--:-- Asma Khalid: Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet.
--:-- Asma Khalid: Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
