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--:-- Asma Khalid: America is changing. And so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
--:-- Tristan Redman: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. I'm Tristan Redman in London. And this is The Global Story. Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet.
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--:-- Janet Jalil: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil.
--:-- Janet Jalil: And at 16 Hours GMT on Thursday the 3rd of October, these are our main stories.
--:-- Janet Jalil: For the first time ever, a woman has been chosen to lead the Church of England.
--:-- Janet Jalil: British police say one of the two people killed during an attack on a synagogue in the UK was hit by police gunfire.
--:-- Janet Jalil: Drones spotted over Germany's Munich airport force it to cancel flights in the latest such disruption to European aviation.
--:-- Janet Jalil: Also in this podcast, the heir to the British throne, Prince William, gives a rare, candid interview.
--:-- Prince William: I think it's safe to say that change is on my agenda. Change for good. and I embrace that and I enjoy that change. I don't fear it.
--:-- Janet Jalil: Not overly radical change, but changes that I think need to happen. It's something that would have been inconceivable just a few decades ago.
--:-- Janet Jalil: But now, for the first time ever, the Church of England has chosen a woman to lead it. Sarah Mullally has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
--:-- Sarah Mullally: Nearly a year since her predecessor, Justin Welby, in challenging circumstances, was forced to resign over his failure to report a prolific child abuser associated with the church.
--:-- Sarah Mullally: Speaking at Canterbury Cathedral, the new Archbishop said people suffering around the world were in her thoughts.
--:-- Sarah Mullally: Jesus Christ is the life-changing hope that brings us together as church, even in our own brokenness and messiness and sends us out into the world to witness to that love.
--:-- Harry Farley: I long for that same hope for all those around the world caught up in war, for those living in extreme poverty, for those on the front line of the ever-worsening climate crisis, for our Palestinian Christian brothers and sisters, for all peoples of the Middle East, the people of Ukraine, Russia, Sudan, Myanmar and the DRC.
--:-- Harry Farley: Our correspondent in Canterbury, Harry Farley, told me more about why her appointment is such a big moment for the Church of England.
--:-- Harry Farley: It is historic and it's difficult to overstate just how historic it is. This was the first time that there was an opportunity, a possibility even, for a woman to be appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
--:-- Harry Farley: Legislation allowing women to become bishops only passed in 2014 after Sarah Mulally's predecessor, Justin Welby, was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
--:-- Harry Farley: So this was the first time that it was even an option for a female Archbishop of Canterbury, and that has gone ahead.
--:-- Harry Farley: The first time in the Church of England's 500-year history, the first time in the 1,500 years since the Archbishop of Canterbury position has been in existence that a woman will hold that.
--:-- Harry Farley: And it is a challenging time, as you mentioned, for the Church of England, but a challenging time also for the role of Archbishop, because as Archbishop of Canterbury, this role is not just for the Church in England, not just for Anglicans in this country, but the Archbishop of Canterbury also has a symbolic role as the figurehead of that worldwide Anglican communion that represents 85 million or so Anglicans around the world.
--:-- Harry Farley: They also have a political role. They sit in the House of Lords, the upper chamber in the British Parliament, and they are expected to comment and contribute to public debate on all sorts of social issues.
--:-- Harry Farley: For example, there is assisted dying legislation, legislation to allow terminally ill adults to take their own life going through the Houses of Parliament at the moment.
--:-- Harry Farley: That that will be something that Sarah Mulally will be expected to weigh in on, as well as social issues ranging from migration to education.
--:-- Harry Farley: So a complicated, multi-dimensional role and a very, very significant day that for the first time in history, a woman will be the Archbishop of Canterbury.
--:-- Harry Farley: And tell us more about her, because she has already been speaking today.
--:-- Harry Farley: She has. She has already been speaking. So she was actually a nurse for many decades.
--:-- Harry Farley: Then became chief nursing officer in England before becoming a priest.
--:-- Harry Farley: She was made a Bishop of London in 2014.
--:-- Harry Farley: One of her roles has been to share a body that was trying to find a way forward for the Church of England as it tried to decide what to do around same-sex relationships.
--:-- Harry Farley: And the Church of England, when it eventually decided in 2023 to allow priests to bless same-sex couples, she called it a day of hope for the Church.
--:-- Danny Savage: A day after a deadly attack on a synagogue here in England, it's emerged that one of the two Jewish men killed was hit by police gunfire.
--:-- Danny Savage: Three other people remain in hospital with serious injuries, one of them also apparently hit by a police bullet.
--:-- Danny Savage: Police shot and killed the attacker within seven minutes of being alerted.
--:-- Danny Savage: The British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and his wife visited the synagogue in the city of Manchester as part of the government's efforts to reassure Britain's Jewish communities that it's doing its best to protect them.
--:-- Shabana Mahmood: I was very disappointed that those protests went ahead last night.
--:-- Shabana Mahmood: 40 arrests were made, including for assaulting police officers.
--:-- Shabana Mahmood: We will not tolerate that behaviour.
--:-- Shabana Mahmood: Those individuals will face the full force of the law.
--:-- Shabana Mahmood: And I do think that carrying on in this way does feel un-British.
--:-- Shabana Mahmood: It feels wrong.
--:-- Shabana Mahmood: And I would ask people who are thinking about going on protests this weekend, take a step back, imagine it was you and then just give this community a chance to grieve and to process what has happened.
--:-- Danny Savage: Our correspondent in Manchester, Danny Savage, told me more about the revelation that one of the victims had apparently been hit by police gunfire.
--:-- Danny Savage: The Chief Constable's statement today says the Home Office pathologist has advised that he is provisionally determined that one of the deceased victims would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury.
--:-- Danny Savage: It's currently believed that the suspect was not in possession of a firearm
--:-- Danny Savage: It follows therefore that subject to further forensic examination this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers
--:-- Danny Savage: And it believed that both victims were close together behind the synagogue door as worshippers acted bravely to prevent the attacker from gaining entry the statement says
--:-- Ulrika Franke: So the picture that you can build up from that is that as the attack unfolded outside the synagogue, they quickly locked up the building.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: And that included some people behind the synagogue door.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: Now, a few moments later, on the other side of that door outside the building, the police were on scene firing at the assailants.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: They fired initially at the man, put him on the ground, and then he tried to get up again and there were more shots fired.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: And it appears somehow some bullets either ricocheted or somehow went through the synagogue door, hitting two people the other side, killing one and injuring another.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: And at the same time, the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been visiting the scene of the attack as the government tries to reassure Britain's Jews that it is taking the threat against them seriously.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: We've had comments from the UK's chief rabbi this morning saying the attacker to the synagogue is the tragic result of an unrelated wave of Jew hatred, as he described it.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: The Prime Minister said yesterday he wants to wrap his arms around the Jewish community and promise that the country and the security services here and the police will protect them.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: He came here with his wife this morning to see the scene for himself.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: He met with some of the emergency service personnel involved.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: It's a message of reassurance, if you like, from the Prime Minister that he's taking the situation very seriously.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: We already know security has been stepped up at Jewish establishments, schools and synagogues across the country as a result of yesterday.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: And that will probably have to be kept going for a little while yet until police are confident that there is no further threat.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: But there is some concern that pro-Palestinian protests in the UK went ahead despite calls for them to be called off.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: And we've had the Interior Minister, the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, talking about her disappointment that they went ahead.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: Protests were planned for last night and went ahead anyway and there's been some reports in the papers about anti-Semitic comments made by some people at those protests.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: What the government is saying is that they know that there are more pro-Palestine protests planned for this weekend, I think in London especially.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: And they are calling for those protests to be called off, to be postponed at the very least, because the security service and police needed to actually look after those protests are actually needed elsewhere at the moment, say the government and the police and the Metropolitan Police in London, saying that they need to be elsewhere, actually guarding and keeping an eye on Jewish sites.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: So that's the message they're trying to get across.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: But at least one group involved in the protest tomorrow who said, look, it's our right to protest.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: As things stand at the moment, we're going to carry on and go ahead and do it.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: So there is a bit of a standoff, if you like, at the moment between people saying they're exercising their democratic right to protest and the police saying, look, we actually need our resources somewhere more useful than policing a protest.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: Please don't do this.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: And it'll be interesting to see what shakes out over the next 24 hours.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: Danny Savage in Manchester.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: It's been a tense few weeks for European air travel.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: Last month, the airports of Copenhagen and Oslo were forced to close temporarily after multiple drones were spotted flying overhead, all while Poland, Estonia and Romania reported deliberate airspace violations by Russia, accusations the Kremlin denies.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: Now, Germany has become the latest European country to shut down air travel after drone sightings.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: Munich Airport was temporarily closed late on Thursday and 17 flights cancelled, with nearly 3,000 passengers affected.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: A search to identify the origin of the drones has been launched.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: But the question remains, what should Europe do to prevent future drone incursions?
--:-- Ulrika Franke: Ulrika Franke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council of Foreign Affairs, specialising in German and European security and defence.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: This is part, I would argue, of a larger kind of hybrid warfare that Russia is waging against Europe.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: And here, you know, the answer is kind of bigger about resilience, about sanctioning Russia, things like that.
--:-- Ulrika Franke: But on the drones itself, honestly, counter drone measures are there and should be acquired.
--:-- Bethany Bell: Flights have resumed this morning at Munich airport.
--:-- Bethany Bell: The closure was temporarily there overnight.
--:-- Bethany Bell: As you said, 17 flights unable to take off.
--:-- Bethany Bell: 15 other flights were diverted to other places, including Vienna, Stuttgart, Nürnberg and Frankfurt, and all of this coming ahead of a public holiday in Germany.
--:-- Bethany Bell: The authorities have not said who they believe are behind these drone sightings.
--:-- Bethany Bell: But in a statement, the airport said that the safety of passengers was paramount.
--:-- Bethany Bell: And that was why the decision had been taken to close the airport overnight.
--:-- Bethany Bell: And do the German authorities have a lead on their investigation into the origin of these drones?
--:-- Bethany Bell: The German authorities have said nothing about who they believe were behind these drones.
--:-- Bethany Bell: The investigation is continuing at the moment, but it's clearly a time when there have been a number of unexplained drone incidents across Europe.
--:-- Bethany Bell: So of course, this is being treated with great care at the moment.
--:-- Bethany Bell: Yes, because there have been a series of incidents as I was outlining, many people pointing the finger at Russia.
--:-- Bethany Bell: But there's already a sort of state of heightened security in Munich, if you like, because of a recent bomb scare related to Oktoberfest, the beer festival.
--:-- Bethany Bell: That bomb threat didn't materialise.
--:-- Bethany Bell: There was an incident in Munich with a family dispute, A letter was found suggesting what the authorities called an unspecified bomb threat against Oktoberfest.
--:-- Bethany Bell: Oktoberfest was closed temporarily for much of one day, but then police said that they hadn't been able to confirm any link.
--:-- Bethany Bell: They had found nothing at the Oktoberfest site, and that is there again.
--:-- Bethany Bell: But yes, as you say, a sense of tension in Munich.
--:-- Bethany Bell: Meanwhile, in terms of drones again, we've also just getting in media reports from Belgium saying that 15 drones were spotted near a military site of Elsenborn, which is an army training camp near the German border.
--:-- Bethany Bell: Now, those media reports say the authorities are investigating that incident.
--:-- Bethany Bell: The drones are believed to have flown over the Belgian military site and then gone back into Germany.
--:-- Angus Crawford: A new report says the algorithms of the social media platform TikTok recommend pornography and highly sexualised content to children's accounts.
--:-- Angus Crawford: More details from Angus Crawford.
--:-- Angus Crawford: Researchers from the campaign group Global Witness were able to set up four children's accounts on TikTok using false dates of birth, pretending to be 13 years old.
--:-- Angus Crawford: They activated the app's safety settings, but were immediately recommended sexually suggestive search terms, which led to explicit posts, including pornographic videos.
--:-- Angus Crawford: TikTok says it investigated the claims, removed the content, and made improvements to the search function.
--:-- Angus Crawford: In July this year, the Online Safety Act's children's codes came into force.
--:-- Angus Crawford: Platforms are required to have robust age verification to prevent children seeing pornography, and must alter their algorithms to protect them from other harmful material.
--:-- Daniela Relf: The heir to the British throne, Prince William, has said he intends to bring change to the monarchy when he becomes king in what palace sources describe as his most open interview to date.
--:-- Daniela Relf: The Prince of Wales was speaking to the Canadian actor Eugene Levy at Windsor Castle.
--:-- Eugene Levy: Forget state bentleys and horse carriages For this future king it is the electric scooter that is the preferred mode of transport around the castle
--:-- Eugene Levy: Eugene good morning Your Royal Highness
--:-- Prince William: The Prince of Wales was a Eugene Levy fan in the American Pie films.
--:-- Prince William: And in a Windsor pub, it was pints all round, as the Prince and the actor discussed his future role as king.
--:-- Prince William: I think it's safe to say that change is on my agenda. change for good and i embrace that i enjoy that change i don't fear it
--:-- Prince William: That's the bit that excites me is the the idea of being able to bring some change not overly radical change but changes that i think need to happen
--:-- Prince William: There was a bespoke castle tour for the Canadian actor and an insight into the pressure prince william sometimes feels stuff to do with family overwhelms me quite a bit
--:-- Prince William: You know worry or stress around family side of things that does overwhelm me quite a bit
--:-- Prince William: But in terms of you know doing the job and things like that I don't feel too overwhelmed by that
--:-- Eugene Levy: To me it was more a conversation you know I wasn't thinking of it in my own mind as you know any kind of you know scoop
--:-- Eugene Levy: We were able to have a little, you know, back and forth. You know, it was totally a surreal day for me.
--:-- Eugene Levy: There were no direct questions about Prince Harry, but there was a reference to him and the intense media scrutiny of their childhood.
--:-- Prince William: I want to create a world in which my son is proud of what we do.
--:-- Prince William: I hope we don't go back to some of the practices in the past that, you know, Harry and I had to grow up in.
--:-- Daniela Relf: This was a relaxed and open Prince William, a future king laying out his vision of modern monarchy.
--:-- Daniela Relf: Still to come on the Global News podcast, a vaccine breakthrough that will help to protect young elephants from a deadly disease.
--:-- Victoria Gill: We've actually lost seven calves over the last kind of 15 years or so. So it's something that has affected us quite strongly.
--:-- Victoria Gill: And that really kind of gave us the motivation to make sure we were doing as much work to tackle it and to research as much as we could about the virus.
--:-- Victoria Gill: One of the researchers who developed the vaccine is Professor Falco Steinbach from the UK's Animal and Plant Health Agency and the University of Surrey.
--:-- Victoria Gill: He said that when he and the team analysed blood samples from the zoo elephants that they inoculated, the results were even better than they had hoped for.
--:-- Victoria Gill: The vaccine was able to stimulate the so-called T cells that are very crucial to fighting viral infections.
--:-- Victoria Gill: It also shows that you can design and apply vaccines to help endangered species.
--:-- Victoria Gill: The next step is for scientists to test the vaccine in younger elephants, which are the animals most vulnerable to severe disease from EEHV.
--:-- Victoria Gill: Ultimately, scientists want to use this vaccine in all elephants that are at risk, including in the wild.
--:-- Victoria Gill: And this, they say, is the first step towards using it to protect these endangered giants.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: Asahi is one of the world's largest brewers. Its products, including the flagship Super Dry Beer, originated in Japan and are enjoyed all over the globe.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: But a major cyber attack, first reported on Monday, has severely disrupted the operations of most of its Japanese factories, prompting warnings that the Asahi Group could be just days away from running out of its most popular beer.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: Most of the Asahi Group's factories in Japan have been at a standstill since Monday, after the attack hit its ordering and delivery system.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: Asahi, a household brand best known for its super dry beer, said earlier this week that the system failure is limited to its domestic operations.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: It also said there had been no confirmed leakage of personal information of customer data.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: Asahi is the biggest brewer in Japan. It also owns Fuller's in the UK and global brands including Peroni and Pilsner Orkwell.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: Japan accounts for about half of its total sales.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: Major Japanese retailers, including Family Mart and Lawson, have warned customers to expect shortages of Asahi goods.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: Family Mart said that Asahi has suspended orders and shipments of its products with no prospect of resumption.
--:-- Shaima Khalil: Lawson, another major Japanese convenience store, also said it expected some Asahi products to be in short supply.
--:-- Mark Savage: Now, here on the Global News Podcast, we don't normally cover the release of an artist's new album, partly because of rights issues.
--:-- Mark Savage: But then, Taylor Swift is not just an artist. She's a global phenomenon.
--:-- Mark Savage: Her previous albums have appealed to her legions of mostly younger fans with their songs about heartbreak and messy breakups.
--:-- Mark Savage: So now that she's happy and in love with the American footballer Travis Kelsey, will the highly anticipated the life of a showgirl live up to the hype?
--:-- Taylor Swift: I had had concerns that this more upbeat album wouldn't be so appealing to my fans.
--:-- Taylor Swift: It's a full picture of like the full life experience which for me is like there's always some element of drama that someone is forcing into my consciousness which is fun to write about too but by the way i love being sickeningly in love it's so nice it's wonderful it's wonderful
--:-- Taylor Swift: I used to kind of have this dark fear that if i ever were truly happy and free being myself and nurtured by a relationship like what happens if the writing just dries up what if writing is directly tied to my torment and pain
--:-- Taylor Swift: And it turns out that's not the case at all.
--:-- Taylor Swift: And we just were catching lightning in a bottle with this record.
--:-- Mark Savage: Taylor Swift actually recorded this album on her days off from the record-breaking eras to her last year.
--:-- Mark Savage: When she was in Europe, she would play three shows, three and a half hours every night over the course of a weekend.
--:-- Mark Savage: And then on her days off on Monday and Tuesday, she'd fly to Sweden and work with Max Martin, who is the biggest hit songwriter in US chart history after the Beatles.
--:-- Mark Savage: He's had more number ones than anyone else except the Beatles.
--:-- Mark Savage: And they crafted this suite of songs.
--:-- Mark Savage: It's 12 songs, very short, about the excitement and the exuberance of that tour, but also capturing the early days of her romance with Travis Kelsey.
--:-- Mark Savage: And there are a lot of love songs in this album, which is a big change for Taylor Swift.
--:-- Mark Savage: It is because albums have capitalised on songs about heartbreak and loss and being miserable while you're in love.
--:-- Mark Savage: But this is very different, isn't it?
--:-- Mark Savage: It is.
--:-- Mark Savage: And it's actually quite nice as a listener and a fan of Taylor Swift, having sat with her through all of that heartbreak and the betrayals and the public castigation she had during that big feud with Kanye West, to hear her happy.
--:-- Mark Savage: There's something quite moving about it.
--:-- Mark Savage: And that's not the only theme on the album.
--:-- Mark Savage: You know, there is still some score settling because Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift.
--:-- Mark Savage: And there's a song about an old school friend who passed away in 2023 and she flies home from the tour to attend their funeral and that's an incredibly heart-wrenching song.
--:-- Mark Savage: So she's not just talking about Travis Kelsey and there is a song, a bedroom song, let's put it that way.
--:-- Mark Savage: It's probably the most explicit Taylor Swift has ever been but there's a lot of breadth to the record.
--:-- Mark Savage: I mean, her songs are very catchy. She writes great lyrics. She's a very appealing personality but what is it about her in particular that inspires such devotion more than pop stars normally get from their fans?
--:-- Mark Savage: I think it's that openness.
--:-- Mark Savage: The way that she writes, which is very poetic, she's very good at drawing illusions and imagery and metaphors in her lyrics.
--:-- Mark Savage: And they speak directly to people, and young women in particular, who are going through the same things that she has gone through.
--:-- Mark Savage: Those men that don't turn up on your 21st birthday when you're expecting them to.
--:-- Mark Savage: The betrayals of old school friends and the backbiting between the girl gangs.
--:-- Mark Savage: The audience has grown up with her.
--:-- Mark Savage: So a lot of them will be entering that phase of thinking about settling down, talking about having kids, and this album will relate to them in exactly the same way that the previous ones have done.
--:-- Mark Savage: And I think that's why she sells so much.
--:-- Janet Jalil: And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
--:-- Janet Jalil: If you want to comment on this podcast, you can send us an email.
--:-- Janet Jalil: The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Janet Jalil: This edition was mixed by Abbey Wiltshire
--:-- Janet Jalil: The producers were Arian Kochi and Oliver Berlau
--:-- Janet Jalil: The editor is Karen Martin
--:-- Janet Jalil: I'm Janat Jalil, until next time, goodbye.
