--:-- Alex Ritson: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson.
--:-- Alex Ritson: At 14 hours GMT on Friday the 25th of July, these are our main stories. As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, Israel has said it will allow Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to resume airdropping humanitarian supplies shortly.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Thailand has evacuated more than 100,000 people from areas near the Cambodian border, as the Thai Prime Minister says clashes between the two neighbours could develop into war.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Also in this podcast... podcast.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Friday is going to be the evil queen, of course. And then I have poison ivy. So a little DC for you. Thousands of science fiction fans are in San Diego in California for this year's international comic con convention.
--:-- Alex Ritson: As we record this podcast, Israel has said it will soon allow Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to resume airdropping humanitarian aid into Gaza. Israeli officials said Jordan could carry out the first airdrop as early as today.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Several countries and aid groups say Israel's continued and long-running blockade of the Palestinian territory has led to mass starvation.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The main UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, says that one in five children is now malnourished in Gaza City, with the situation getting worse every day.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And as the humanitarian crisis worsens, there's increasing uncertainty over the future of ceasefire talks after the US and Israel withdrew their negotiating teams from Qatar.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Mai El-Wawada is the communications officer for medical aid for Palestinians in Deir al-Bala in central Gaza. She sent us this message.
--:-- Mai El-Wawada: The starvation conditions that we are living through are just beyond severe. In the last period we were receiving cases of people who hadn't eaten for days, children and pregnant women. No one has gone to bed with a full stomach in months. Everyone is tired, exhausted, drained. Situation is no longer bearable.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Just with one of our partners we recorded the deaths of four children with severe acute malnutrition in just a few days and we fear more to come. We demand the immediate entry of food supplies and a ceasefire, nothing less.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And Israeli government spokesman David Mensah accused the UN of working hand-in-glove with Hamas to manipulate the supply of food.
--:-- David Mensah: No one wants to see Ghazan suffering, certainly not people in this country. It is an outrage that anyone, any ordinary Ghazan should suffer. What's been happening right now is that while we've been facilitating aid every single day, Hamas is the problem. They loot trucks, they block distribution, they weaponise hunger, and they deliberately endanger their own people.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I put that Israeli claim to our Middle East correspondent Yoland Nell in Jerusalem.
--:-- Yoland Nell: This does chime with what we've been hearing regularly from Israeli officials. Just a day ago, the Israeli military showed journalists stockpiles of food, other humanitarian aid, sitting in distribution points on the Gaza side and was placing again the blame for starvation in Gaza on the UN.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Now, when you put this to the UN, they say, first of all, they have managed in the past couple of days to collect some of the food aid from just inside Gaza, but they are saying that they have real difficulty coordinating with the Israeli authorities.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There's a lot to go into here, but they are talking about bureaucratic problems, logistical, administrative, other operational problems imposed by the Israeli authorities. You've got the ongoing fighting on the ground. They're facing things like criminal looting as well, they say.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And when they have their own staff and the people on the ground seeking aid at grave risk, then they say this is when they also have to stop collecting pickups of cargo from crossings controlled by the Israeli authorities.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Both sides blaming each other totally, but it does feel as though food supplies are being weaponized here.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Indeed and we have accusations regularly made by aid agencies. I'm looking at a new release just now from the Médecins Sans Frontières accusing Israel of deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Now of course that amounts to a war crime. It's something that Israel very strongly denies but Israel has a responsibility as an occupying power to ensure that there is no harm to civilians and to ensure that food can reach them in wartime.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There is Also, though, this accusation, of course, that the international pressure that is now being exerted to end the war may have made Hamas more reluctant to accept concessions in the ceasefire talks that have just broken down.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Israeli officials with close knowledge of the talks said that Hamas really backtracked on some compromises it had previously agreed to.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And they point to the group's demand to restore previously used methods of distributing aid inside Gaza, which gave it more control.
--:-- Alex Ritson: and Israel says it was able to loot some of the aid that was coming in, something that the UN has been denying.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Jo, whatever the political rights and wrongs of this, the images we're seeing of children starving are just awful.
--:-- Alex Ritson: That's right. And you've got a situation now where it's patients struggling to survive, but also the healthcare workers looking after them, the aid workers who are trying to be involved in the food distribution process.
--:-- Alex Ritson: and we've been hearing the same sort of testimony from our own journalists who we are relying on to try to verify things on the ground.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Now the figures that came out on Thursday from the Hamasran Health Ministry in Gaza said that in the last three weeks at least 48 people including 20 children have died of causes related to malnutrition up from 10 children who died in the previous five months.
--:-- Alex Ritson: and while it's hard to verify the exact causes of deaths when we're not allowed to go into Gaza ourselves you get this sense that hunger levels are now reaching this tipping point.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And there was a very alarming quote that got my attention from the co-founder of the MedGlobal charity, who's a paediatrician, warning, this is the beginning of a population death spiral.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Yoland Nell in Jerusalem. A picture, they say, paints a thousand words. Pictures of suffering children perhaps more than most.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The long will have their own catalogue of the most awful a small scared Jewish boy standing beneath a Nazi submachine gun perhaps or a doomed and starving albino child in the breakaway Nigerian state of Biafra in the late 1960s
--:-- Alex Ritson: Add to that now the scene in a tiny tent in Gaza, lit like a Caravaggio, the brutally prominent ribs of 18-month-old Mohammed Zakaria's back as he lies in his mother's arms, her face itself, a mask of despair.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The man who took that picture is the Palestinian photojournalist Ahmed Al-Areni.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He's been talking to James Menendez about how he came to take it and the emotional cost.
--:-- Ahmed Al-Areni: This photo of baby Mohammed I took when he was with his mother. They have been displaced from their home in the north of Gaza. So he was with his mother in a tent, which is absolutely bare. bar a little oven. It resembles a tomb, really.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And I took this photo because I wanted to show the rest of the world the extreme hunger that babies and children are suffering from in the Gaza Strip.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So baby Mohammed, has he not been able to get the treatment he needs?
--:-- Alex Ritson: He received no baby milk, no formula, no vitamins either. And if you look at the photo closely, you'd find out that he is wearing a plastic bag instead of pampers.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Because of the lack of any humanitarian aid and the lack of any medicines, prices have shot up skyrocketing. so nobody in Gaza can afford these prices.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Yes, I noticed that. Yes, a bin liner instead of a nappy or a diaper.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Ahmed, you're a professional, but how difficult was it to take this picture?
--:-- Alex Ritson: So I walked to the tent where baby Muhammad was and seeing the situation as it is and how babies are suffering from extreme hunger and how emaciated they are, of course I'm a human being and of course I get affected.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And filming baby Mohammed, I did it over a little extended period because I had to pause after each shot and take my breath to be able to continue.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And have you been seeing more and more cases like Mohammed's in the past few days and weeks?
--:-- Alex Ritson: Yes, of course. I have seen several cases like baby Mohammed. Also, the other day, I took some photos of a 17-year-old boy who lost 25 kilograms of his weight in one month alone.
--:-- Alex Ritson: People do not find any food in the Gaza Strip. It's extreme hunger there, if not famine. and people are fighting for any little bit of aid at the fence where they can risk their own lives to get anything.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Ahmed Al-Areni, he was talking through a translator to James Menendez.
--:-- Alex Ritson: A victory for justice is how George Abdallah's lawyer has described the decision by French judges to free him ending a 41-year stint in prison.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Abdallah was jailed in 1987 in connection with the murder of an Israeli and US diplomats.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He soon became a left-wing symbol for the Palestinian cause.
--:-- Alex Ritson: From Paris, Hugh Schofield reports.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: George Abdallah has been forgotten by most people, but for a section of the French left, he remains a hero, a political prisoner in their view who should have been released a long time ago, but for pressure on France from the United States.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Born in northern Lebanon, Abdallah ran a small Marxist group, which in the early 1980s targeted Israeli and American officials in response to Israeli actions against Palestinians.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Captured in 1984, Abdullah denied involvement in the murders of the two diplomats, but at his trial he sought to justify them as legitimate acts of resistance.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: Thailand's acting prime minister has warned that fighting with Cambodia could escalate into a war after cross-border clashes break out on Thursday, displacing more than 130,000 Thais.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Fighting has continued and the UN Security Council is due to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis on Friday.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The Thai authorities said that at least 15 people had been killed whilst the figure is one in Cambodia according to officials there.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Rear Admiral Surah Sant Kongsiri is from the Thai military who spoke after a meeting.
--:-- Surah Sant Kongsiri: We discussed the issues concerning the condolences that we expressed for the losses suffered by the Thai people due to the attack by the Cambodian military, which began firing at Thai forces yesterday morning.
--:-- Alex Ritson: This compelled the Thai side to respond.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The clash was unexpected, and we were unfortunately unable to warn the public in advance.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And therefore, we would like to issue a warning to civilians on both sides who remain in the border areas to evacuate from the combat zones to reduce or prevent collateral damage.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Our correspondent Jonathan Head is on the Thai-Cambodia border.
--:-- Jonathan Head: Both sides, of course, when it comes to the clash that started yesterday, that was an exchange of fire between two groups of soldiers.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Those aren't uncommon, and in one sense it doesn't really matter who fired first, it's almost pointless.
--:-- Alex Ritson: They confronted each other and they were bound to shoot.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The difference yesterday was that Thailand had expelled the Cambodian ambassador the night before, and that was over landmines.
--:-- Alex Ritson: landmines, the second incident where they said landmines had been laid by the Cambodians and had badly injured one of their soldiers, I think that really heightened things.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And the Cambodian armed forces decided yesterday, after this clash, to react with using multi-launch rockets, which are very inaccurate and very destructive.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And that really shocked the Thais.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There was also artillery. Now, the Thais have been firing artillery back, in fact, throughout today, as well as yesterday, we heard the constant boom of artillery as it goes one way or the other.
--:-- Alex Ritson: But the rockets really were, you know, they caused a lot of destruction. They killed quite a lot of people on the Thai side.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And that's really poisoned the mood.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Cambodia doesn't give any details, really, of what it suffered on its side. It just talks generally about Thai aggression, unprovoked and premeditated.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And so you don't get the sense that there was. We knew the Thai Air Force bombed Cambodian military positions yesterday, but it did not, you know, it doesn't appear to have hit many civilians.
--:-- Alex Ritson: We only know of one civilian who's been killed.
--:-- Alex Ritson: But the rhetoric on both sides is very indignant, very angry, does not sound at all like there's any real room for compromise or diplomacy at this stage.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Jonathan, you're on the border. Is your sense that there is a likelihood this could spill into a larger war?
--:-- Jonathan Head: I think it's a possibility, simply because there are now so many heavily armed soldiers who are hyped up.
--:-- Alex Ritson: You know, we've heard three Thai soldiers have been killed today, we presume in artillery exchanges.
--:-- Alex Ritson: the possibility that they have more exchanges of fire like yesterday's is quite high but it takes the two governments to want to do that and I cannot believe either government wants that these are two governments struggling with faltering economies both of them are unpopular that some people argue that's the very reason that this conflict took off that it almost suits them as a distraction and it's just got overheated and very difficult to settle the nationalist feeling on both sides has been really whipped up.
--:-- Alex Ritson: But I think in the broader sense this region has ever since the end of the Cold War prided itself on the fact that they do manage to solve their differences peacefully
--:-- Alex Ritson: They focus on economic development
--:-- Alex Ritson: And I think there be an awful lot of pressure from their neighbours
--:-- Alex Ritson: And they all members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to sort this out within days, I would think we'll see some kind of diplomacy.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Jonathan Head on Thailand's border with Cambodia.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Still to come in this podcast.
--:-- Alex Ritson: At some point when they're working, a real scroll will pop across and they'll go oh well i know what to do in this situation i carry on guiding and i reach my objective the remote controlled squirrel helping train guide dogs
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--:-- Alex Ritson: Comic-Con 2025 is kicking off in San Diego. It's the world's largest fan convention celebrating comic books, sci-fi and geek culture, with fans gathering to meet creators, experts and each other.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It brings over $180 million into the city and is often the occasion for the announcement of new films, games and TV shows.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Here are some of those who are there to enjoy the convention.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Since I'm from Colorado, I kind of have to travel to see my friends. So this is my West Coast group that I get to see everyone.
--:-- Alex Ritson: These fandoms have brought me my closest friends as adults and especially in the online space.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's like it doesn't matter where anyone's at because we can communicate all the time and then when you get something like this, it's so special because it's like, okay, we're all setting aside time in our adult schedules to come do this thing and see each other.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So tomorrow I'm to Fiti for Moana. Yes, it's a little hot, but it'll do. Friday is going to be The Evil Queen, of course. And then I have Poison Ivy. So a little DC for you.
--:-- Alex Ritson: K.J. Matthews is a Los Angeles-based entertainment news journalist. She told us what's expected.
--:-- K.J. Matthews: This is the largest convention, especially for all the Comic Cons that happen around the world, but the largest one in San Diego, California.
--:-- Alex Ritson: This year, you can expect George Lucas, Mr. Star Wars himself, the creator of Star Wars.
--:-- Alex Ritson: This will be his first time appearing at Comic Con.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Can you believe that? He's going to be discussing the opening of his new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art based in Los Angeles, which is supposed to open sometime early next year in 2026.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So he's going to be there.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And, you know, over the years, you've probably seen all the pictures of people that show up in various Star Wars characters throughout the years.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So I am sure when he makes his appearance and he walks through the hall and walks on stage, you'll have a long line of people.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Of course, you're also going to have the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
--:-- Alex Ritson: They've been coming over the years. So it's not their first time coming to the San Diego Comic Con, but they'll be at the convention over the first time in nearly a decade.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I went years ago, my very first time, and I loved it.
--:-- Alex Ritson: You know, there's all these people that line up, I feel like, at the crack of dawn with all their costumes on and their cosplay.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And it's fun. It really is fun to see them. They're all dressed in sky-fi and fantasy and superheroes and anime.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So the thing I like about San Diego Comic-Con is that you get the true fans, the people that buy these tickets, that pay for the hotels, that fly into San Diego.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's because they're the biggest fans, and that's exciting to see.
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--:-- Alex Ritson: Over the past couple of days, we've been hearing from Haiti in the Caribbean, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The security situation in the capital, Port-au-Prince, has deteriorated. 90% of the territory is now controlled by gangs.
--:-- Alex Ritson: We've been reporting on a particularly harsh situation for women, with cases of sexual violence tripling in the last four years.
--:-- Alex Ritson: William O'Neill is the United Nations designated expert on the human rights situation in Haiti.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He spoke to the BBC's James Menendez.
--:-- William O'Neill: So is the situation there getting worse? It's getting worse, yes. Yes, these numbers are always difficult in any country to get.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There's fear of reporting, shame, and all those things. But the UN human rights team has put in a very good monitoring and reporting system over the last several months.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And they do show a serious increase in sexual violence. And it's also the nature. We've seen that what has become the predominant form of sexual violence now in Haiti are collective rapes, gang rapes.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And as your reporter also showed, the victims are very young. But what also is shocking is the perpetrators are also quite young.
--:-- Alex Ritson: At least half the gang members in Haiti are minors. And this is something new and terrifying.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Is it also that many women and girls are more vulnerable because of the level of displacement in the city and the country?
--:-- Alex Ritson: Absolutely. The displacement, which is also driven by gang violence, makes vulnerable people even more vulnerable.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So terrifying statistics of the number of women in displacement sites or who are displaced that have also been victims of sexual violence.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So it's just a cocktail that's leading to this really horrific situation.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The US, I mean, over history, has seen Haiti as being in its backyard. It's often stepped in at various points, but it is now pulling aid as part of those wider cuts to foreign aid.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Is it abandoning Haiti, in your view?
--:-- Alex Ritson: I hope not I really hope they not abandoning Haiti but I have to say the cuts in aid have had a devastating impact on what was already a very weak system or capacity to help the survivors of sexual violence in particular collective rapes
--:-- Alex Ritson: These are very complicated situations where women need psychosocial help, medical help, shelter, earning income. Where do they go later? Are they dangerous to return to where they came from?
--:-- Alex Ritson: So cuts of that magnitude are really, really devastating.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And also, I have to mention that most of the weapons and bullets that the gangs use to have this kind of power, to commit these awful crimes, come from the United States.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So it's incumbent on the United States to do much more to stop the weapons and bullets and to sanction more of the oligarchs and politicians who are also linked to the gangs.
--:-- Alex Ritson: However terrible the symptoms, it is, of course, important to treat the disease.
--:-- Alex Ritson: What do you think can be done to loosen the grip of the gangs? and I mean this is the big question, provide some semblance of governance in Haiti?
--:-- Alex Ritson: Yes, well that's it and it's all about security and so the Haitian national police need a lot of help.
--:-- Alex Ritson: They don't have what they need to succeed against the gangs. The Kenyan-led multinational force needs also to be strengthened.
--:-- Alex Ritson: They don't have enough of anything, people, vehicles, helicopters and then as I just mentioned on the other side of it we have to stop the flow of weapons and bullets to the gangs, which enable them to have such power.
--:-- Alex Ritson: That was William O'Neill, the United Nations designated expert on the humanitarian situation in Haiti.
--:-- Alex Ritson: As the Ukraine-Russia conflict drags on, any kind of ceasefire seems far off. But one thing the two countries do agree on is the exchange of prisoners of war.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Almost 7,000 Ukrainians and thousands of Russian troops have been able to go home.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Our correspondent in Kyiv, Charlotte Gallagher, has met a Ukrainian Marine who was held in a Russian camp for three years.
--:-- Charlotte Gallagher: The moment Maxim and his family waited years for, a reunion they feared might never happen.
--:-- Alex Ritson: His home village came out and cheered for his return, lining the road and holding Ukrainian flags.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Maxim was a 22-year-old Marine when he was taken in Mariupol.
--:-- Alex Ritson: His small unit was encircled by Russian troops at Azov-style steelworks in the city.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Maxim had already been hit by shrapnel. He still has the photos of his bloodied and broken helmet.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Faced with certain death, Maxim's commander decided to surrender.
--:-- Alex Ritson: We surrendered as a group because we felt that it was safer. I felt helpless. It was a terrible feeling. It was the start of his three-year nightmare in Russian captivity.
--:-- Alex Ritson: When we arrived, they beat us with hands, sticks and belts, anything they had.
--:-- Alex Ritson: We heard one guy being beaten unconscious, and then they woke him up and beat him again.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He then went silent, and we think he must have died.
--:-- Alex Ritson: In April, Maxim was finally released as part of a prisoner of war exchange.
--:-- Alex Ritson: His experiences in captivity stay with him.
--:-- Alex Ritson: To be honest, I have really bad dreams and sometimes I wake up screaming.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Sorry, my ear is whistling from my head injury.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He's now at a rehabilitation centre with other prisoners of war.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Men scarred by their experiences.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's in the middle of a forest. It used to be a place where families went on holiday. There's still a child's climbing frame in the garden.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It couldn't be more different to the Russian camp.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There's yoga at 4pm, Maxim smiles.
--:-- Alex Ritson: More prisoner swaps were one of the few things Russia and Ukraine managed to agree at this week's peace talks.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It wasn't a ceasefire breakthrough. But for people like Maxim and his family, those swaps are a second chance at life and a glimmer of hope in a bitter and brutal war.
--:-- Charlotte Gallagher: Dogs can easily be distracted when out for a walk, particularly if they like to chase other animals.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Guide dogs need to resist that natural urge so they can keep their blind or partially sighted owners safe.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There are about 20,000 registered guide dogs around the world.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Training them takes time, patience and sometimes a little bit of innovation.
--:-- Alex Ritson: In one centre here in the UK, they've come up with a new technique using remote-controlled squirrel cars to teach the puppies to ignore such distractions.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Dog behaviour expert Dr Karen Brady told us more.
--:-- Dr Karen Brady: There is a really serious reason for doing it. We find that, as you can imagine, the majority of dogs, when they see something small and fluffy run, they want to chase it.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's their natural instincts. But for a guide dog, this simply can't happen.
--:-- Alex Ritson: They need to safely be able to guide their guide dog owner from A to B without being distracted.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And training around real life squirrels, as you can imagine, is very difficult and unpredictable.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Whereas having one that we can control in the form of a toy squirrel tied to a remote control car makes it easy for us to set our dogs up for success in these situations.
--:-- Alex Ritson: it does work and we have to build it up really slowly and then translate it into real life so we start off very gradually we teach our dogs in a controlled environment to do their guiding work while we initially drive the car very slowly in the distance and then build it up so it is whizzing around all over the place then we take that little squirrel car out on the road and drive it out on the pavements out of the bushes while the dogs are working and eventually at some point when they're working a real squirrel will pop across and they'll go oh well i know what to do in this situation, I carry on guiding and I reach my objective.
--:-- Alex Ritson: We have lots of techniques that we use. We use stuffed dogs in cases. We do have a stuffed cat that meows and purrs to help our dogs get used to cats in real life as well.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It could be anything that moves quickly. We're talking bikes, e-scooters, anything like that that might move quite quickly that we need our dogs to get used to and just be okay with and not be distracted by when they're working.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Dr Karen Brady of the Guide Dogs charity.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And on the BBC website, you can find a video of how the squirrel car is being used to train a couple of aspirational guide dogs.
--:-- 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.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Alex Ritson: You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag GlobalNewsPod.
--:-- Alex Ritson: This edition was mixed by Darcy O'Brie and the producers were Carla Conte and Muzaffar Shakir.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye. Bye.
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