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--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 13 Hours GMT on Monday the 25th of August, these are our main stories. At least 20 people, including several journalists, are reported to have been killed by Israeli strikes on a hospital in Gaza.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: We're on the front line in eastern Ukraine, where tens of thousands of people have died trying to hold back Russia's invasion. Also in this podcast, in the US, troops have begun carrying firearms on the streets of Washington, D.C. The Democratic governor of Maryland condemns President Trump's threat to deploy them in Baltimore.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This serves as a distraction from the fact that the president's disastrous economic policies. I am against this and I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be utilized for this.
--:-- Yolande Nell: We start in Gaza, where two Israeli strikes have hit Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Hanunis. Amongst the panic and dense smoke, people scramble to help the injured after the blasts.
--:-- Yolande Nell: As we record this podcast, at least 20 people have died, according to Gaza health officials. Among the dead are several journalists working for the international media.
--:-- Fadi Umar: What's happened today is a new horrific crime, bombed twice by the occupation force at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khanyun.
--:-- Fadi Umar: And what we are seeing in our eyes is that the journalists were targeted by a drone. Journalists were taking their usual photos from the top of Nasser Hospital.
--:-- Yolande Nell: In a statement, the Israeli army confirmed it had carried out a strike in the area of Nasser Hospital and would conduct an initial inquiry as soon as possible.
--:-- Yolande Nell: The IDF said it regretted any harm to uninvolved individuals and did not target journalists as such.
--:-- Yolande Nell: I'm Midley's correspondent Yolande Nell, who's in Jerusalem, told me about three of the journalists who died.
--:-- Yolande Nell: Reuters confirmed that Hossam al-Masri, a cameraman working for the news agency, was killed. He was operating their live camera feed, which is used sometimes by the BBC, and it shut down at the moment of the initial strike.
--:-- Yolande Nell: Another Reuters worker was also injured. The Associated Press have said there'll be a statement about Mariam of Dhaka, who is a journalist working for that agency.
--:-- Yolande Nell: There was also Mohamed Salameh, a cameraman for Al Jazeera. There was also a rescue worker among those killed, according to the reports that we have.
--:-- Yolande Nell: It does seem that there was, after an initial strike, an attempt by some people to hurry to help those who had been wounded when there was a second strike.
--:-- Yolande Nell: And there is live camera footage that shows a position, appears to be a live TV position, that was attacked in one of these strikes.
--:-- Yolande Nell: And this comes, doesn't it, Yulande, on a day when Israel's top general has reportedly said that the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should accept the ceasefire deal, which Hamas agreed to last week.
--:-- Yolande Nell: Indeed. So there have been these increased signs of tension between the military and the government from which it's taking its orders.
--:-- Yolande Nell: And this comes just as the Israeli Prime Minister is supposed to meet the Security Cabinet on Tuesday evening to discuss the war in Gaza and the new hostage deal proposal from regional mediators that Hamas accepted, very similar to one that Israel previously accepted, but it's not expected to agree to this deal, saying it's a partial one.
--:-- Yolande Nell: It will only talk about a deal, it says now, which involves freeing all the hostages at once and ending the war on conditions that Israel can accept, basically tantamount to the surrender of Hamas.
--:-- Yolande Nell: But against that backdrop, reports say, based on classified discussions that these BBC has not been able to verify, that the chief of staff, Eil Zemir, speaking at a naval base on the Sunday evening, said there's a deal on the table.
--:-- Yolande Nell: It needs to be taken. The Israeli military has created conditions for a hostage deal. Now it's in Netanyahu's hands.
--:-- Yolande Nell: You know, restating this argument, the Israeli military fears that going into Gaza City, conquering it, as the Israeli security cabinet has ordered, will endanger the lives of the remaining hostages.
--:-- Yolande Nell: It's believed that 20 out of 50 held by Hamas are still alive. And their conditions, according to the Israeli security establishment, are believed to be worsening, deteriorating.
--:-- Yolande Nell: And the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, the biggest hostage support group, has said the chief of staff voiced what most Israelis are demanding.
--:-- Yolande Nell: They're getting ready for another big day of protests tomorrow, demanding a ceasefire and hostage release deal, ending the war in Gaza.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: It's a prize that Russia has long wanted and has been hard fought over. Only about 30% of Donbass in eastern Ukraine is still under Kyiv's control, and Moscow wants the rest.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: In peace talks being pressed by the US, one suggestion is that Donbass could be swapped for land elsewhere, along with the freezing of the conflict along current front lines.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: President Zelensky insists it will take Russia another four years to overcome Ukrainian forces there.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: But Ukraine is under increasing pressure, and the fighting is particularly fierce, taking a huge toll on both civilians and soldiers.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: Our correspondent, Quentin Somerville, reports from the frontline town of Dobropilya.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: For all that, we need to shut them in front of the bus, so we can pick them up. Universal Aid Ukraine are running evacuation convoys in and out of the town of Dobropilya, which is under Russian attack.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: And these people, they must be out, because it's children, because it's people who need to stay alive, and secondly for the soldiers, because they need to defend the city.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: So this evacuation convoy is going as fast as it can. Dopropelia is increasingly under Russian attack, and they've been attacking aid convoys as well, evacuation convoys.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: One was hit just a few days ago.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: We've just arrived at an apartment block. There are three people waiting to be evacuated.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: You know, you come into these neighbourhoods where they're doing the evacuations and you see well-tended gardens, roses in bloom.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: These are homes that people love and might never see again.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: There's that one man, he looks quite frail, he has a bandage on his leg, he's about to leave, getting the vehicle, he's just saying goodbye to his son.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: A drone landed just a couple of hundred metres away, just beyond the rose bushes over there.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: Yet another explosion, there's been six in the last and another one 10-15 minutes.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: We were warned that there were many drones flying overhead, and it certainly seems that they are attacking the city.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: Just outside his apartment building is 56-year-old Vitaly, he's been injured by an explosion of the Russian missile.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: That's why he's leaving today.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: I've actually had to come back to Vitaly's building.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: We're now in the corridor. The evacuation team just detected a drone directly overhead.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: So we've taken cover for now.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: Now. Explosion. It sounded like it wasn't that far away, but there's still one person to be picked up from this evacuation run.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: Crammed in the car beside me is Alexander, who's 80 years old.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: Alexander, why are you leaving today?
--:-- Alexander: Well, those sleepless nights, it bangs and bangs all night long.
--:-- Alexander: Every time I hear that, I must take shelter, and then, you know, it's terrifying.
--:-- Alexander: Yes, I'm old, but I still want to live.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: This is a former kindergarten, but it's a place of safety now. It's a transit centre and people are being brought here, mainly older people from the shelling in Konstantinivka and then they're being taken further west.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: I arrived today and I haven't eaten anything, only liquid.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: I have nothing.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: I already had noodles here because you cook what's quicker, some kind of porridge over the fire. That's it.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: And if it's almost ready and you hear shelling, you run to the basement.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: Small groups of Russian soldiers infiltrated Ukrainian lines around here.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: We've been told they've been driven back, but it's come at great cost.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: Heading to Dopropelia, it's after dark.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: I'm just arriving at a medical stabilisation point.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: They say it's best to retrieve their battlefield casualties at night. It's safer that way.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: This medical facility's underground for obvious reasons.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: They say that the Shahid drones start attacking from about 10 o'clock.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: It's 10 past nine now.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: They say here at this medical stabilisation facility that about 25% of the injuries they get are gunshot wounds, 50% come from drones.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: But most importantly, they say they've never seen so many very badly injured soldiers.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: They just brought a man in, a soldier, he's in a pretty bad way.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: He looks like a gunshot wound. About half a dozen doctors have him on the operating table.
--:-- Quentin Somerville: They're giving him oxygen. They're trying to find whatever's inside him.
--:-- Dima: I was mobilised in 2023.
--:-- Dima: How does it compare to the work you did in civilian life?
--:-- Dima: It's much different.
--:-- Dima: Because in civilian medicine we have time, we can think, and here we don't have time.
--:-- Dima: We have to do something to save the life. And that's it.
--:-- Dima: You have seen a lot of patients. Some who made it, some who didn't.
--:-- Dima: Tens of thousands of Ukrainian men have died for Donbas.
--:-- Dima: Is it worth it?
--:-- Dima: That's a complicated question.
--:-- Dima: Yes, I think it is.
--:-- Dima: Because it's our country. It's our land and it's our freedom.
--:-- Dima: You know the negotiations that are going on. You never have to give up Donbass.
--:-- Dima: How does that make you feel?
--:-- Dima: It's painful.
--:-- Dima: We have to stop it, but we don't want to stop it like this.
--:-- Dima: We just want to go home. To live in peace without this nightmare, this blood, death.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: Paramilitaries in Sudan's Darfur region have been accused of killing more than a dozen civilians as they tried to flee the besieged city of El Fasher.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: The Sudan Doctors Network accused fighters from the Rapid Support Forces of continuing a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: A statement by Sudan's Doctors Network says among those killed by fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces or RSF were five children.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: The incident took place on the road between the besieged city of El Fasher and Tawila.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: The RSF has repeatedly been accused of targeting non-Arab communities in Darfur, an allegation it dismisses.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: Fighting between the RSF and the Sudanese army has continued to intensify in parts of Sudan.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: On Sunday, the paramilitaries claimed downing a military drone belonging to the army over Neala in North Darfur.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: The army has not yet responded to the claim.
--:-- Calcutane Yebaltal: The escalating tensions are making the food crisis worse.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: So every report made by the NGOs and the United Nations, they're covering like partial areas of Kurdistan and Darfur.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: So whatever numbers that are mentioned in these reports, they're actually only the numbers within their area of cover.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: So we in Sudan Doctors Network, we believe that the actual numbers are far more than whatever is being published in media and in the official reports by the United Nations and the NGOs.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: And the informations and the data there are almost impossible to get.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: Although we're saying 46 people have died of malnutrition in South Kordofan, in recent weeks, you're saying it's likely to be significantly greater than that.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: Oh yeah, definitely.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: The actual numbers are far more beyond that.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: What is the availability of food like in South Kordofan?
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: The numbers within August and July, the availability is nearly impossible because they're providing like a blockade and a siege for all these cities.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: So they're not allowing any like food or any humanitarian aids to come to these areas.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: So then people are there, South Kurdofan and even in Darfur and Fasher, they're struggling so much.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: They have no food. They're nearly eating nothing now.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: So they just have their locker for whatever is there, which isn't enough.
--:-- Dr. Mohamed Faisal Hassan: And that's why the numbers of the malnutrition and all these like mortalities are fairly uprising at this stage.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: As we record this podcast, heavy rain and strong winds have been battering coastal provinces in Vietnam as Typhoon Kijiki made landfall after moving west through the South China Sea.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: More than a half a million residents have been moved from their homes and schools and public buildings have been converted into temporary shelters.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: The eye of the storm is predicted to move further inland in a few hours.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: So I think that people will start seeing much stronger rains.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: At least half a million people have been evacuated.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: So I think the government has been trying to do as much as they can to minimize the human impact.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: Right now there are concerns that there will be river levels rising above the acceptable amount.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And so people are concerned about how long the water will retreat after the storm.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And there will also be risk of lens lies in at least 400 communes across six provinces in Vietnam.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And so I think a lot of people will be worried about the aftermath of how it will affect their livelihoods in these provinces.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: So they've evacuated half a million. Do you know if there are plans to evacuate more?
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And if, you know, a lot of properties have been boarded up and airports and schools closed?
--:-- Sen Nguyen: Yeah, so there hasn't been news that more people will be evacuated at this moment.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: But flights have been cancelled in affected provinces like Thanh Hwa and Quang Binh.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: At this very moment, I think the government is trying very hard to show sympathy, especially when the impact of Typhoon Yagi last year is still being felt right now.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: Yes, tell us about that typhoon, because that caused quite a lot of damage, doesn't it?
--:-- Sen Nguyen: Yeah. So one big difference between Typhoon Kajiki and Typhoon Jaggi is that Typhoon Jaggi happened in many northern provinces.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And so not so much in central Vietnam.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And people in central Vietnam are actually more accustomed to living through many seasons of storms where they are.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: So people are more aware, more alert, and they know what to do.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: Whereas for many provinces in the north, that's not necessarily the case.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And so a lot of people were caught off guard, especially given the intensity of Typhoon Yagi.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And that was the worst one we saw in 30 years.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: And there have been predictions that the wind powers of Typhoon Kajiki can be as powerful as Typhoon Yagi.
--:-- Sen Nguyen: But because of the preparation, there are hope that it will be less damages, but it's too soon to say right now.
--:-- Simon Atkinson: Still to come in this podcast. He gave me a call and he said he had a cameo that he wanted me to do.
--:-- Simon Atkinson: I would do anything for him.
--:-- Simon Atkinson: He said, it's called The Sopranos.
--:-- Simon Atkinson: I said, well, I just want to warn you I can't sing.
--:-- Simon Atkinson: The American actor Jerry Adler, best known for his role in The Sopranos, has died at the age of 96.
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--:-- Pamela Wood: In the US capital Washington DC troops have begun carrying firearms on the streets President Trump has doubled down on deploying troops to other cities accusing them of being weak on immigration and crime
--:-- Pamela Wood: He threatened to send National Guard troops into another democratic stronghold, the city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland.
--:-- Pamela Wood: Its governor, Wes Moore, hit back.
--:-- Pamela Wood: One, it is not sustainable. You cannot continue this type of pace of operations, particularly when it's costing over a million dollars a day.
--:-- Pamela Wood: The second, it's not scalable. You're not going to be able to do this in every single major American city, particularly when many of the cities that have the highest crime rates are the places that have actually deployed their National Guards to Washington, D.C.
--:-- Pamela Wood: So who's going to who's going to go do the work in their cities?
--:-- Pamela Wood: The third, it's unconstitutional. It's a direct violation of the 10th Amendment.
--:-- Pamela Wood: And if for a party that talks about state rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big government approach in the way they're conducting public safety.
--:-- Pamela Wood: When we think about the fact that it serves as a distraction from the fact that the president's disastrous economic policies are making everything more expensive for everyday Americans.
--:-- Pamela Wood: There is a multitude of reasons that I am against this and I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be utilized for this.
--:-- Pamela Wood: President Trump has been criticizing a lot of American cities for their crime numbers.
--:-- Pamela Wood: We know he sent troops and law enforcement into Washington, D.C. He has threatened to do it elsewhere.
--:-- Pamela Wood: And Baltimore is the latest target. Alleging that it's crime-ridden and infested and that he should send in the troops.
--:-- Pamela Wood: Is Baltimore, the city you live in, we are speaking to you from, crime-ridden and infested?
--:-- Pamela Wood: It is not as bad as President Trump makes it out to sea.
--:-- Pamela Wood: Yes, Baltimore, like many American cities, does have a high rate of violent crime, but it has been trending downwards very significantly the last few years.
--:-- Pamela Wood: Governor Moore, the mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott, police community groups have worked together on a strategy to prevent crime and as well to, you know, hold offenders accountable.
--:-- Pamela Wood: And the homicide rate in particular has been sharply declining the last couple years.
--:-- Pamela Wood: Are people seeing this as a politically motivated move by the president? Because it looks like it comes down to the politics with the Republican president in charge of the government coming into conflict with what is essentially Democrat-led states and cities?
--:-- Pamela Wood: People in Baltimore and the state of Maryland really do see this as politically motivated.
--:-- Pamela Wood: Some see this as racially motivated as well.
--:-- Pamela Wood: Here in Maryland, we have Black leadership, We have a black mayor. We have a black governor.
--:-- Pamela Wood: President Trump has gone after other black-led cities.
--:-- Pamela Wood: So it's both political and potentially some see it as racial as well.
--:-- Pamela Wood: And in general, how are people in Baltimore and Maryland feeling about these comments by the president that he might be sending in the National Guard?
--:-- Pamela Wood: People are not taking it too well.
--:-- Pamela Wood: Certainly people who live in Baltimore are very proud of where they live in their city.
--:-- Pamela Wood: The progress on violence is something that people are rightfully proud of.
--:-- Pamela Wood: And people are defensive about the city and don't want to see troops coming in, don't want to see President Trump meddling in Baltimore.
--:-- Pamela Wood: People don't take it too kindly.
--:-- Pamela Wood: And like Governor Moore the other day said to President Trump, if he's not going to try and help, if he just wants to hurt, then he should get our names out of his mouth, a slang term saying basically, shut up and stop talking about us.
--:-- Anissa Cadry: A posthumous memoir by Virginia Jouffre, who accused the British royal Prince Andrew, as well as the disgraced financier Geoffrey Epstein, of sexual assault, is to be published later this year.
--:-- Anissa Cadry: Miss Jouffre took her own life in April at the age of 41.
--:-- Anissa Cadry: Prince Andrew, King Charles's brother, has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
--:-- Anissa Cadry: Virginia Jouffre was one of the most outspoken accusers of the convicted sex offenders Geoffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
--:-- Anissa Cadry: She alleged they trafficked her to London to meet the Duke of York when she was 17, which Prince Andrew has strenuously denied.
--:-- Anissa Cadry: Her publisher says the book will share intimate, disturbing and heartbreaking new details about her time with them.
--:-- Anissa Cadry: Prince Andrew reached an out-of-court settlement with Miss Dufresne in 2022.
--:-- Anissa Cadry: This included a statement in which he expressed regret for his association with Epstein, but it contained no admission of liability or apology.
--:-- Guy Pitt: The American actor, director and producer, Jerry Adler, has died at the age of 96.
--:-- Guy Pitt: He had a long career in film, theatre and television, but as I report, there's one role for which he'll be best remembered.
--:-- Guy Pitt: If anything defined the career of Jerry Adler, perhaps it was the groundbreaking New Jersey mob television series, The Sopranos.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Adler, already 70, played Hesh Rabkin, a lone shark and advisor to the mob boss Tony Soprano.
--:-- Guy Pitt: His was one of the very few Jewish characters in a series about the Italian-American mafia.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Jews, because of their history, have common cause with the oppressed.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Some Indians were deliberately given blankets, tainted with smallpox, died like flies.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Yeah? You want to talk bioterrorism? Look who started it. Amen to that, my friend.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Years later, during Covid, he told the Talking Sopranos podcast how the series creator David Chase had given him the role.
--:-- Guy Pitt: He gave me a call and he said he had a cameo that he wanted me to do. And was I available? I said, sure, I would do anything for him.
--:-- Guy Pitt: And he said, it's called The Sopranos. And I said, well, I just want to warn you, I can't sing.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Other major television shows would follow, The Good Wife, The Good Fight.
--:-- Guy Pitt: But it was The Sopranos which put him on the TV map.
--:-- Guy Pitt: His polished ease in front of the camera belied a late start to acting, despite his roots in Yiddish theatre.
--:-- Guy Pitt: He was born in 1929 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, another member of the huge Adler dynasty.
--:-- Guy Pitt: His cousin Stella Adler was the famed acting teacher.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Gerry Adler began his career as a stage manager in 1950, before eventually starting to perform himself.
--:-- Guy Pitt: On screen, he made his mark in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Manhattan Murder Mystery in 1993, though it was only his second cinema film.
--:-- Guy Pitt: He played Paul House, whom a married couple, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, suspect of murdering his wife.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Now look at these presidentials. Look at the colour work. Even the perforations are still in there.
--:-- Guy Pitt: Where's Carol? I should really be going, actually.
--:-- Guy Pitt: A clever, understated performer, he had a clear idea of what a theatre director needed.
--:-- Guy Pitt: No great surprise, since he himself was one, directing notably the award-winning Broadway revival of My Fair Lady in 1976.
--:-- Guy Pitt: His credits on stage and screen were numerous.
--:-- Guy Pitt: He was still acting, aged 90, but it will probably be for Hesh Rabkin that he will be forever remembered.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: I'm Karen Martin. I'm Valerie Sanderson. Until next time, bye-bye.
--:-- 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.
