--:-- Rachel Wright: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Rachel Wright.
--:-- Rachel Wright: In the early hours of Monday the 15th of September, these are our main stories. The final stage of the Vuelta cycling race in Spain has been abandoned because of clashes between police and pro-Palestinian protesters.
--:-- Rachel Wright: The governor of Utah says the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk isn't cooperating with authorities and has refused to confess.
--:-- Rachel Wright: On a visit to Israel, the U.S. Secretary of State has insisted relations haven't been damaged by Benjamin Netanyahu's strike on Qatar, despite displeasure in the White House.
--:-- Rachel Wright: Reports from northern Gaza say at least 50 more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, continuing their campaign of destruction there.
--:-- Rachel Wright: Also in this podcast... She was able to take down some of the most rich and powerful men out there, and so her voice is still here with us, and it's with all of the survivors. The brother of Jeffrey Epstein's most vocal victim speaks to the BBC.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: The final stage of a major cycling race in Spain has been abandoned after around 100,000 pro-Palestinian protesters entered part of the course in the centre of Madrid.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: Protests around the Vuelta race have been ramping up in the past few weeks with thousands of demonstrators angry at the inclusion of an Israeli-based team.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: Protesters took to the streets of the capital on Sunday, knocking down barriers and occupying the road at several points on the course.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: More than a thousand police officers had been deployed on the streets of the Spanish capital.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: These are protests which have been sort of increasing in intensity, it seems, the closer we've got to the finale of the Vuelta.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And in particular, over the last week or 10 days, we've been seeing not just people lining the roads of the race, waving Palestinian flags, but we've seen some much more vocal, more physical protests.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: On one occasion, there was a crash which was apparently caused by protesters who'd run onto the course itself, knocking two riders off.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: One of those riders, a Spaniard, actually had to withdraw from the race altogether.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And I've seen reports that up to 100,000 people were out on the streets on Sunday.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: Yes, that's the number we've been given by the central government.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: So it has been a huge turnout.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: This day was always in the calendar for protesters because it's the culmination of the race.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And that was the reason why we had, for example, 1,500 police deployed today in Madrid.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: There were a number of occasions when protesters were blocking the road along which the cyclists were riding before they got into Madrid.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: But the real problem was in central Madrid where the race was due to finish.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: There, the protests were getting increasingly violent.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: For example, people were pushing over the barricades that were separating them from the road where the riders were going to be running.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And it was the situation in central Madrid which persuaded the authorities to call off the race altogether.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, took a rather unusual stance on this, certainly for a prime minister, which Israel has taken a dim view of.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: Pedro Sánchez didn't actually address supporters down in Malaga, in the south of the country.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And he spoke about the issue of these protests that have been taking place against Israel and in favour of the Palestinian people.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And he said, for example, Spain is shining as an example and with pride.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: He said it's taking a step forward in defence of human rights.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And he said we are in agreement with a just cause such as human rights.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: Long live the Spanish people.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: So that seemed to be a very clear endorsement of the protests that had been taking place.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: We haven't heard from him since the chaos that took place at the end of the race.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: But a lot of people saw that as a clear expression of support for the protesters in general.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: The Israeli foreign minister has responded to this and said that this was absolutely shameful of Pedro Sanchez to talk like that.
--:-- Guy Hedgco: And that reflects a very tense, fragile relationship between Spain and Israel, which has become more and more tense over the last few days, in particular since Pedro Sanchez spoke about what he said was Israeli genocide in Gaza just a few days ago.
--:-- Spencer Cox: The governor of the US state of Utah, Spencer Cox, says the man held in custody over the murder of Charlie Kirk is not cooperating.
--:-- Arunajay Mukherjee: Speaking to ABC News, Governor Cox said the suspect had not confessed to authorities.
--:-- Arunajay Mukherjee: He said, however, those around him were cooperating, especially his roommate.
--:-- Arunajay Mukherjee: Governor Cox added that they were collecting forensic evidence and other information that will help them tie any loose ends, and more details are likely to come out on Tuesday when they formally file charges.
--:-- Arunajay Mukherjee: At the press conference on Friday, it was revealed that the suspect's family had told investigators that Tyler Robinson had become more political in recent years and had been against Charlie Kirk's ideology.
--:-- Marco Rubio: On Sunday, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, visited the Western Wall, the holy Jewish site in Jerusalem.
--:-- Marco Rubio: Mr. Rubio's trip to Israel comes days after the Israeli strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar, a strike which President Trump and Mr. Rubio have both said they were not happy about.
--:-- Marco Rubio: Not surprisingly, Mr. Netanyahu was keen to stress the deep relationship between the two countries.
--:-- Marco Rubio: I think his visit here is a testament to the durability, the strength of the Israeli-American alliance.
--:-- Marco Rubio: It's as strong and as durable with the stones of the Western world that we just touched under President Trump and Secretary Rubio and their entire team.
--:-- Marco Rubio: This alliance has never been stronger.
--:-- Tom Bateman: So how will he be expressing his unhappiness and Mr. Netanyahu over the Qatar strike?
--:-- Tom Bateman: Well I think that President Trump displeasure is going to be communicated to the Israeli Prime Minister if indeed it has already in some of the public messaging.
--:-- Tom Bateman: On the way here Secretary Rubio reiterated that the US was not happy about the Israeli strike on Qatar but at the same time suggested this wouldn't change anything about the fundamentals of the US-Israel relationship.
--:-- Tom Bateman: I think part of the reason for the irritation coming from Mr Trump and the administration more widely is because of that strong alliance that they have always had with the leadership in Qatar as a key Gulf ally to the US and particularly the sort of close ties between Mr. Trump himself and the leadership of Qatar and his key envoy, Steve Wyckoff.
--:-- Tom Bateman: I think it was extremely embarrassing for the Trump administration that, you know, they were seen not to have been able to reign in the Israelis in carrying out this action, which both, at least according to the Palestinian account, failed to kill the leadership of Hamas.
--:-- Tom Bateman: So, you know, it can be seen, and we still don't have that confirmed independently, but if that is the case, it would be seen militarily as a failure by the Israelis, and at the cost of a huge escalation into the region, with now Arab countries meeting at the same time in Qatar to talk about a response to Israel's action.
--:-- Tom Bateman: So you have a growing further sense of Israel's isolation because of this and condemnation from Arab countries and the Europeans and the Americans unhappy about it.
--:-- Tom Bateman: Having said that, I think we will still see the ties between Mr Netanyahu and Mr Rubio presented extremely strong, a lot of solidarity when they have their talks tomorrow.
--:-- Tom Bateman: Yeah, and quickly, Mr Rubio was also asked on his way to Israel about the Israeli offensive in Gaza City.
--:-- Tom Bateman: Thousands being forced to flee their homes.
--:-- Tom Bateman: What do you have to say about that?
--:-- Tom Bateman: Well, that was interesting because I think the most noticeable thing is there was no kind of ringing endorsement of this.
--:-- Tom Bateman: On the other hand, he didn't criticise it or condemn it either.
--:-- Tom Bateman: He just said he didn't want to talk about it, but it would be coming up in the discussions.
--:-- Tom Bateman: I think the point is that it's pretty clear Mr. Trump wants a quick and decisive way through this.
--:-- Tom Bateman: You know, he wanted a deal where all of the hostages were going to be released in one go.
--:-- Tom Bateman: Now, the way they sought to get that was the diplomatic track, even though they're accusing Hamas of failing to accept the offers on the table.
--:-- Tom Bateman: But that diplomatic track is now clearly in pieces after the Israeli strike.
--:-- Tom Bateman: So I think there will be some tough words from Mr. Rubio on Monday.
--:-- Owen Bennett-Jones: Meanwhile, the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City has continued.
--:-- Owen Bennett-Jones: Reports say at least 50 more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces campaign.
--:-- Owen Bennett-Jones: Israel, meanwhile, says it's only striking buildings and areas used by Hamas.
--:-- Owen Bennett-Jones: The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones spoke to Jacob Granger, the emergency coordinator for MSF in Gaza.
--:-- Jacob Granger: What is happening right now in Gaza City is that Israeli authorities made evacuation order over all the Gaza City.
--:-- Jacob Granger: Gaza City, since January 2025, it's estimated to have 1 million inhabitants.
--:-- Jacob Granger: So me, I went in Gaza City last week to visit my colleagues and my teams over there.
--:-- Jacob Granger: You can see high buildings. It's really constructed and really destroyed as well.
--:-- Jacob Granger: So some of the buildings are totally or partially destroyed.
--:-- Jacob Granger: And you can see people trying to shelter wherever they can shelter.
--:-- Jacob Granger: So that would be in a part of destroyed buildings or in the streets between the buildings.
--:-- Jacob Granger: It's intensely crowded in really dire conditions.
--:-- Jacob Granger: So plastic sheetings, woodstocks and trying to have some kind of privacy and dignity in this kind of setup.
--:-- Jacob Granger: The Israelis have told people that they have to leave Gaza City.
--:-- Jacob Granger: Are they actually doing that?
--:-- Jacob Granger: They are in a space where they have a lack of access to food, to water, to medical facilities.
--:-- Jacob Granger: And they are forced to leave this place, to go south, where there's the same issues, but they have no land, they have no space in the south.
--:-- Jacob Granger: So in the same way the israeli authorities claim that they are open opening the so-called humanitarian territory humanitarian zone in the south of the strip so that would be in han yunes a small part of the albala governor rights and now since two weeks the military operation in Gaza City are increasing a lot, meaning that there are a lot of airstrikes coming from drones, coming from aircraft F-16 and destroying buildings.
--:-- Jacob Granger: And sometimes with prior notice, sometimes not, it's very unreliable.
--:-- Jacob Granger: So now what is happening is that a part of the population left Gaza City.
--:-- Jacob Granger: You must understand that the population has to do the choice between staying and being at risk to be hit by a strike, by a bombing or something like this, and have really reduced access to medical care and also little access to food and water, or to go south knowing that everything costs a lot.
--:-- Jacob Granger: So you need to pay for the transportation of yourself.
--:-- Jacob Granger: You need to pay for the transportation of the items you have.
--:-- Jacob Granger: Just to give you an idea, a small shelter made of woodstock and plastic sheeting would be approximately US$1,000.
--:-- Asma Khalid: It's very hard for the world champion to turn around and say to anyone, I'm crying, you know, I want to kill myself, my head's in bits, can you give me a hug?
--:-- Asma Khalid: These are very hard things to admit.
--:-- Asma Khalid: The former world champion boxer Ricky Hatton has been found dead at the age of 46.
--:-- Asma Khalid: America is changing.
--:-- Asma Khalid: 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.
--:-- Asma Khalid: 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.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: In Britain the Labour government has had a difficult week.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: Just days before President Trump arrives for an unprecedented second state visit the British ambassador to the US Lord Peter Mandelson was sacked because of his close ties to the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: He says he never saw any evidence of abuse.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: One of Epstein's victims was Virginia Defray, who took her own life in April.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: She had alleged that Epstein abused her and trafficked her to his friends, including Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: Prince Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: Now Miss Dufresne's brother and sister-in-law have told the BBC they're proud of all she managed to expose, as Richard Hamilton reports.
--:-- Skye Roberts: She did so many amazing things in her lifetime.
--:-- Skye Roberts: She was able to take down some of the most rich and powerful men out there.
--:-- Skye Roberts: And so we're still grieving through this process, but we're also so proud of what she was able to do.
--:-- Skye Roberts: And we feel that sense of responsibility to want to, to make sure that her voice is still here with us.
--:-- Skye Roberts: And it's with all of the survivors.
--:-- Skye Roberts: We were very close growing up.
--:-- Skye Roberts: She was always like a protector to me.
--:-- Skye Roberts: Every day she would light your room up.
--:-- Skye Roberts: I mean, every day we miss her so much, but we will continue her fight and we will not stop until we get justice and accountability for her and for all the survivors out there.
--:-- Skye Roberts: We should have done something sooner.
--:-- Skye Roberts: He should have never been given that title.
--:-- Skye Roberts: And there are a lot of people that are actively out in our governments, in politics, that are actively holding their titles and positions.
--:-- Skye Roberts: We have to put the spotlight on them.
--:-- Skye Roberts: He should not have been given the position in the first place.
--:-- Skye Roberts: It speaks to how deep the corruption is in our systems, whether that's linked to the UK.
--:-- Skye Roberts: I think anybody that's in that book, including President Trump, should be completely and 100 percent investigated.
--:-- Eve Webster: It's now three years since US citizens lost the constitutional right to abortion nationwide.
--:-- Eve Webster: Since then, 12 states have banned abortion outright, while others have enshrined the right to abortion in their own state constitutions.
--:-- Eve Webster: The small city of Bristol sits on the border between Tennessee, which prohibits abortion, and Virginia, which allows it, giving rise to local tensions over the issue.
--:-- Eve Webster: I actually grew up in Bristol.
--:-- Eve Webster: I come from a very religious family, was put in Christian school my whole life.
--:-- Eve Webster: And so my parents took me to the clinic in Bristol, Tennessee, and had me stand up for my sons as a child.
--:-- Eve Webster: So you were an anti-abortion protester as a child?
--:-- Eve Webster: Yeah, I was a five-year-old.
--:-- Eve Webster: So I felt like that was my retribution, like I wanted to give back to women that I had probably made feel bad, even though I was only a five-year-old.
--:-- Carrie: The charity was set up by local residents here in Bristol to serve people travelling across state lines to get an abortion, paying for hotel rooms and escorting people to the clinic through lines of protesters.
--:-- Carrie: Save you inside your mommy's loose today.
--:-- Carrie: And today they're going to poison you.
--:-- Barbara Schwartz: Escorts like Carrie play loud music to block out the shouts of protesters and carry large umbrellas to mask the identity of people visiting the clinic.
--:-- Barbara Schwartz: They've driven sometimes hundreds of miles.
--:-- Barbara Schwartz: They're under stress, under duress as it is, and it really can affect them.
--:-- Eve Webster: Bristol is a small American city with a population of around 40,000.
--:-- Eve Webster: I'm on its main road, which is called State Street, as on one side of the road is Virginia and on the other the state of Tennessee.
--:-- Eve Webster: This means that in half the city, abortion is legal, whereas in the other half it is not, even in cases of rape and incest.
--:-- Eve Webster: This has been the case since 2022, when the city's abortion clinic moved just a mile down the road from Tennessee into the Virginia side of town, making it the closest place to get an abortion for people living in many of the southern states.
--:-- Eve Webster: This has fueled the abortion debate in the town and driven some to try and change local laws to stop them.
--:-- Victoria Cobb: The town had a lot of people who were devastated that the abortion business essentially walked across the street.
--:-- Victoria Cobb: This is Victoria Cobb, director of the ultra-Christian lobbyist group, the Family Foundation.
--:-- Victoria Cobb: They worked with these locals to put forward a change in local planning laws, which would make opening a new clinic or expanding the existing one practically impossible.
--:-- Victoria Cobb: Our organization has simply come alongside of local individuals who don't want to see their town turn into a destination location where people come from other states, let alone other communities, to have abortions.
--:-- Jay Detrick: Ultimately, the campaign was unsuccessful.
--:-- Jay Detrick: Bristol, Virginia's City Planning Committee director, Jay Detrick, explains why.
--:-- Jay Detrick: In the Commonwealth of Virginia, abortion is legal.
--:-- Jay Detrick: And an ordinance that would not allow that particular use in the city was determined to be not only bad land use planning, but possibly illegal.
--:-- Jay Detrick: In short, changes to local planning laws would come up against state law.
--:-- David Mittling: Two weeks ago, a plane-carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had to land in Bulgaria after its GPS signal failed, forcing the crew to rely on paper maps.
--:-- David Mittling: The jamming of satellite signals or the use of fake ones to confuse pilots has prompted plans for land-based backup systems.
--:-- David Mittling: David Mittling is chief executive of Kairos, a company working on creating an alternative to GPS.
--:-- David Mittling: He told my colleague Sean Lay, what he thinks the problem is with the use of GPS.
--:-- David Mittling: We are overly reliant.
--:-- David Mittling: I would say it's been stated by other experts in the industry that it is a single point of failure for our society.
--:-- David Mittling: We use GPS for our locations app to get around, but it's also a requirement for navigation, it's a requirement for timing, it's a requirement for networks and power grids, so we are overly reliant.
--:-- David Mittling: And what problems have arisen?
--:-- David Mittling: Well fortunately for us GPS has been very solid but there are local areas where there been jamming and spoofing particularly with the conflicts in Ukraine and in the Middle East
--:-- David Mittling: So we starting to see the impacts of those conflicts seeping into the commercial world, impacting commercial airline flights and local networks.
--:-- David Mittling: We had a recent example involving the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, where I think suspected Russian GPS interference forced her plane to land using paper maps, which sounds archaic nowadays, but also quite striking that something that we've become so dependent on could apparently be cut so easily.
--:-- David Mittling: Yeah.
--:-- David Mittling: And that's what we're learning a lot from the conflict in Ukraine is that what used to be something that was only available for very sophisticated militaries has now become relatively commonplace.
--:-- David Mittling: Now we're seeing that there are groups that can build kit that can do some very major damage with very simple hardware, very simple off-the-shelf equipment.
--:-- David Mittling: And so that's creating a lot more concern for this reliance that we have on that signal from GPS.
--:-- David Mittling: If it's that open, does that make it comparatively easy to block or to jam or to send a false signal?
--:-- David Mittling: Absolutely.
--:-- David Mittling: The reasons the receivers work so well, they lock into that GPS signal very rapidly is because the information about the signal, the waveform is published.
--:-- David Mittling: So you're advertising this to the receivers and the companies that build those receivers, but you're also advertising it to any adversary that wants to do some malicious harm.
--:-- David Mittling: So that is, I think, a crux of where the issue could come in is just the ability to not only jam the signal, but something that's much more concerning, which is the ability to spoof the signal, fake the signal so you think you're in a location that you actually aren't.
--:-- Will Chalk: Ricky the hit Manhattan, one of the finest boxers of his generation, has been found dead at the age of 46.
--:-- Will Chalk: The British fighter won world titles in two weight classes.
--:-- Will Chalk: Police in his home city of Manchester in the northwest of England say there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
--:-- Will Chalk: When I got to Ricky Hatton's gym in Manchester, knowing I was about to meet a boxing superstar, I was expecting this huge aura of celebrity, you know, a huge ego about him.
--:-- Will Chalk: But I was wrong.
--:-- Will Chalk: He was, as basically every tribute that's been paid to him says, the most humble down-to-earth man you could imagine.
--:-- Will Chalk: He was floating around the gym, training with young fighters, giving them tips and sharing jokes with fellow boxing legend Tyson Fury, who just happened to be there on the day that I showed up.
--:-- Will Chalk: Now, I was there to make a documentary about YouTubers becoming boxers.
--:-- Will Chalk: And Ricky's take on it was, in short, if it's good for the sport, I'm all for it.
--:-- Will Chalk: At the end of the day, it doesn't matter whether you're a professional boxer, whether you do mixed martial arts or whether you're just a regular guy that has a passion for the sport, has a passion for boxing and if he wants to give himself the opportunity to give the fight game a goal you know he deserves a shot just like everybody else now raised in a pub on a council estate Ricky Hatton was proud of his hometown of Manchester he made his boxing debut at the age of 11 and some of the most memorable of his 45 professional wins were at packed stadiums in the city but he was equally as admired for the fights he didn't win including two in Las Vegas against Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, with thousands of people from Manchester making the trip to the States to watch him.
--:-- Will Chalk: Speaking years later, Hatton said it was a surreal experience.
--:-- Will Chalk: Denzel Washington just walks in and says, excuse me, do you mind if you watch you warm up?
--:-- Will Chalk: No problem, you know what I mean?
--:-- Will Chalk: You know, Sylvester Stallone come in the changing room to watch me warm up, you know, on a regular basis.
--:-- Will Chalk: I never thought when he laced the gloves on, I'd have Rocky watching me warm up.
--:-- Will Chalk: But it was those losses, he later said, that led to the darkest times of his life.
--:-- Will Chalk: After his retirement, he was open about his struggles with his mental health, including long periods of depression.
--:-- Will Chalk: It's very hard for a world champion to turn around and say to anyone, you know, that, you know, I'm crying, you know, I want to kill myself, my head's in bits, can you give me a hug?
--:-- Will Chalk: A world champion saying, can you give me a hug?
--:-- Will Chalk: These are very hard things to admit when you've been seen as this former world champion, take on anyone, fight anyone, take all them fans to Vegas.
--:-- Will Chalk: All of a sudden, I'm a broken man, I'm crying to myself.
--:-- Amir Khan: He was a massive inspiration to me in my career.
--:-- Amir Khan: Not only that, he came to my wedding.
--:-- Amir Khan: He also came to me when I won my first world title.
--:-- Amir Khan: He was at the fight, giving me all the great advice I needed at the time.
--:-- Amir Khan: and it's just so sad because he was a very dear friend of ours.
--:-- Amir Khan: Ricky Hatton leaves behind three children.
--:-- Amir Khan: Here he is speaking to the BBC in 2013.
--:-- Amir Khan: Boxing has given me such a great life through what I've achieved and, you know, the main goal now is to try and become the best dad I've ever done.
--:-- Amir Khan: You know, and just my life, my boxing life was all about, was providing for my little ones and I'm very proud of the job that I've done for them.
--:-- Rachel Wright: Ricky Hatton, who has died at the age of 46.
--:-- Rachel Wright: And that's all from us for now.
--:-- Rachel Wright: But there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
--:-- Rachel Wright: And just to let you know, we are changing the publishing times of the Global News Podcast from today, Monday.
--:-- Rachel Wright: The new publishing times will be 0500 GMT and 1700 GMT.
--:-- Rachel Wright: You will find us in your feed, as usual, wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Rachel Wright: Another quick note before we go.
--:-- Rachel Wright: The last edition of our pod included a story about the amount of gas the EU buys from Russia, but it gave the wrong dollar amount.
--:-- Rachel Wright: In fact, the EU has spent $250 billion on Russian energy since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
--:-- Rachel Wright: We apologize for the error.
--:-- Rachel Wright: An updated version of that podcast is available in our feed now.
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--:-- Rachel Wright: This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll and the producers were Alison Davis and Peter Goffin.
--:-- Rachel Wright: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Rachel Wright: I'm Rachel Wright.
--:-- Rachel Wright: Until next time, goodbye.
--:-- Asma Khalid: America is changing.
--:-- Asma Khalid: 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.
--:-- Asma Khalid: 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.
