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--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Tuesday the 1st of July these are our main stories.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Reports from across Gaza say dozens of Palestinians have been killed in renewed Israeli attacks. The International Criminal Court says it was the target of a sophisticated cyber attack during last week's NATO summit in The Hague. Microsoft says it's found that artificial intelligence can diagnose complex medical problems with far greater success rate than human experts.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Also in this podcast. I was at work when I got the message that I won a large amount of money and I went in and it was 3.9 million instead of 390 kroner.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: A Norwegian lottery company has apologised to nearly 50,000 people who were wrongly told that they'd won huge prizes.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: We begin in Gaza, where Palestinian officials say at least 60 people have been killed across the strip by a wave of Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The bombardment follows the largest evacuation orders issued by Israel since the war with Hamas resumed in March.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Among the dead were around 20 people at a beachfront cafe used by Palestinian journalists and activists in Gaza City.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This man saw the blast and ran to help. Everyone was happy sitting in the cafe. They were escaping the sadness. Then the missile hit. It tore into the children, the women, the men and the workers. No one was spared.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: We heard more from our correspondent in Jerusalem, Ioni Wells.
--:-- Ioni Wells: This beachfront cafe is somewhere that was known as a place for journalists, for activists, people looking for a spot to work because it had internet access and chairs and tables there.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Medics, eyewitnesses and the Hamas-run civil defence have said that at least 21 people have been killed after an airstrike hit that cafe on this seafront in Gaza City.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Now, photos from the scene show people covered in blood.
--:-- Ioni Wells: A cameraman with a local production company has told the BBC that people heard a massive explosion there and that there were bodies and blood everywhere.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Now, this is part of a series of airstrikes that took place across Gaza on Monday.
--:-- Ioni Wells: We've had reports, too, from Al-Ali Hospital saying that 10 people were killed in an airstrike on the Islam Aid Distribution Warehouse.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Another report from Nasser Hospital saying 13 people were killed in a strike near an aid distribution centre, too.
--:-- Ioni Wells: All of this is after Israel announced a wave of evacuation orders for areas in the north of Gaza, but also around Gaza City, too, telling people to move south because of what it described as its use of intense force to expand and intensify its operations to, in its words, destroy Hamas's military capabilities.
--:-- Ioni Wells: I mean, Israel has acknowledged today, hasn't it, that Palestinian civilians have been harmed at aid distribution points in Gaza.
--:-- Ioni Wells: and lessons have been learned apparently. Is that a change, do you think, in the official position?
--:-- Ioni Wells: I mean, what does it mean?
--:-- Ioni Wells: Well, it's interesting because, as we know, over the last couple of weeks since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, this organisation backed by the US and Israel, started operating most of the aid distribution centres in Gaza, there have been near-daily reports of Israeli fire killing people while seeking aid or on their way to seek aid.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Now, the Israeli military in the past has acknowledged that it has fired what is described as warning shots at people it describes as suspects approaching troops but it hasn't sort of directly commented on some reports of people being harmed it's often said that it is investigating cases or looking into them this statement today from the israeli military says that they are reorganizing the aid centers including installing fences and signs following incidents of reports where civilians were harmed it says it will be issuing instructions from lessons learned, although it hasn't said what those lessons will be.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Now, interestingly, Israeli media are reporting military sources admitting more than that, admitting that there have been people killed in what it's described as inaccurate artillery fire on certain occasions.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Now, I've put that to the Israeli military. They say there is no further comment at this time, but they have said that incidents of harm are under review by authorities.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Mitchell Barak is a political analyst and pollster based in Jerusalem who was an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu before he became Israeli Prime Minister.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Paul Henley asked him what does he think Mr Netanyahu's Gaza strategy is right now.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: I think now that he's had a big win in Iran, and especially with the United States, I mean, if the United States became not only in a defensive nature, like had been done before when Iranian missiles came in in April, and last year, but in a very proactive way to destroy their nuclear capabilities.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: That's a big win for Netanyahu. It's a big win strategically, defensively, militarily, because it does seem to be that their desire, their capability to produce a nuclear bomb has been diminished, if not totally obliterated.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: I'm sorry to interrupt. What I'm asking about is the strategy for Gaza now.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: We've been reporting on what's been happening there. So in order to do that, I have to give you the background of where his head is and how he's going to be able to negotiate.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: Because until now, he wasn't able to do a deal in Gaza to get the hostages back and end the war because he would lose his government.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: The right element in his government was threatening to leave if he would make any kind of deal.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: Now that he has this huge win in Iran, which is both a military win and a geopolitical one, in which the United States came to the serious aid of Israel and was involved in many different levels.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: So it gives him the latitude and the ability to make a deal and keep his government intact.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: So it is connected.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: There is speculation in Israeli media that some generals in the IDF consider the military's close to completing its objectives.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: In Gaza? I mean, no. Close to completing the objectives means that the Hamas is totally wiped out.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: The Hamas has been, you know, they could end this war at any time over the last year and a half.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: All they have to do is release the hostages and leave and stop governing.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: Instead, they steal aid and they still have hostages.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: So the Israeli goal is to destroy Hamas and to make sure that we get our hostages back.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: So it's hard to say that we're close to doing that because we still have a number of hostages there.
--:-- Mitchell Barak: And Hamas is still controlling things and is still in charge.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Britain's High Court has ruled that the government's decision to export military equipment to Israel is lawful, despite accepting it could be used in breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The case was brought by a Palestinian human rights group, Al Haq, which sought to block the British government from supplying components for Israeli F-35 fighter jets.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Caroline Hawley has been following the case.
--:-- Caroline Hawley: This is the end of a long-running legal battle, first brought by human rights groups at the end of 2023.
--:-- Caroline Hawley: Last September, the government suspended about 30 export licences for UK-made arms because of a clear risk they could be used in Gaza in violations of international law.
--:-- Caroline Hawley: But parts sent to the global F-35 programme were not included.
--:-- Caroline Hawley: Giving their 72-page written ruling, the judges said they'd had to decide whether the UK should withdraw from a specific multilateral defence collaboration.
--:-- Caroline Hawley: It was an acutely sensitive and political issue, they determined, that was for a democratic government, not the courts, to decide.
--:-- Caroline Hawley: The charity Oxfam called on the UK government to do, in its words, what was morally right, and immediately suspend all arms sales to Israel.
--:-- Caroline Hawley: The campaign group Human Rights Watch said it was incredibly disappointed with the decision at a time of what it called Israel's ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
--:-- Caroline Hawley: Lawyers for the human rights groups involved in the case are now working out if they can find grounds to appeal.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: In Iran, the funeral took place on Monday of the family members of a leading scientist who was assassinated by Israel during the 12 war earlier this month Iran says at least 935 people were killed, including 38 children.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette, is being allowed to report in Iran on condition that none of her reports are used on the BBC's Persian service.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: And Lise was at that funeral.
--:-- Lise Doucette: On the seventh day of a fragile ceasefire, Iran is still bearing the dead.
--:-- Lise Doucette: But these aren't funerals for top military commanders or nuclear scientists targeted by Israel.
--:-- Lise Doucette: This is for family members of scientists killed in the last hours before the ceasefire took hold.
--:-- Lise Doucette: The family of Syed Siddiqui Sabir.
--:-- Lise Doucette: Twelve members of his family were killed in all and today four members are being laid to rest into the smallest coffin which is of a six-year-old boy.
--:-- Lise Doucette: Scenes like this heighten the anger among Iranians whether or not they support their government over this war.
--:-- Lise Doucette: A war in which Israel said it was only targeting military and nuclear sites.
--:-- Lise Doucette: It's clear that civilians were also suffering.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The International Criminal Court says it was the target of a sophisticated cyber attack during last week's NATO summit in The Hague.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The ICC investigates some of the world's most serious crimes and holds highly sensitive information.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: From The Hague, here's Anna Holligan.
--:-- Anna Holligan: The ICC said the incident was swiftly detected and dealt with by its security teams and a comprehensive analysis is underway to assess the impact and any potential consequences.
--:-- Anna Holligan: The timing of the attack coincided with the NATO summit in The Hague, but the ICC has not commented on whether there is any connection.
--:-- Anna Holligan: Dutch officials have noted that pro-Russian hackers targeted various websites during the gathering of world leaders, though no specific suspects have been mentioned in the ICC case.
--:-- Anna Holligan: This is the second major cyber incident the ICC has faced in recent years.
--:-- Anna Holligan: In 2023, the court suffered a breach that disrupted operations for weeks, but details of that attack, including whether sensitive information was compromised, were never disclosed.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Health systems around the world are increasingly strained, but could artificial intelligence come to the rescue by reducing doctors' workloads, saving money and providing a better outcome for patients?
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Microsoft has been looking at real cases published in the New England Journal.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Its AI tool was pitted against a group of experienced doctors to see who diagnosed the cases correctly.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: It says AI was far superior, correctly diagnosing 85% of cases.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The CEO of Microsoft, Al-Mustafa Suleiman, spoke to the BBC's Rob Young about the study.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: We take 300 very long cases that often run to five to seven pages of very detailed information that is often presented by a patient, including pathology tests and radiology scans.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: And on average, our expert physicians get about 20% accuracy in trying to predict, given what they've read about the patient, what is the condition that they have.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: And our AI gets 85% accuracy.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: 85% is pretty phenomenal and four times more than your average expert physician is incredibly impressive.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: What are you doing to get it to 100% or is that just not possible?
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: Some of these cases are extremely obscure, long tail, very rare conditions.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: In fact, we ran the system on last week's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine and it correctly diagnosed a case that has only ever been seen in the entire literature 1500 times.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: So it's that rare and that obscure.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: And I think that that is a seismic leg up for any clinician in practice to be able to have a tool like this at hand.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: So how could this be used then in the real healthcare setting of today?
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: Well, one of the most expensive parts of the process is just being able to figure out what exactly the patient has.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: And you have to go off and commission various tests.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: And so what the AI is very good at is trying to predict what the patient has and minimise the costs involved in prediction.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: So it actually does this using fewer unnecessary tests.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: And that obviously is huge for cost.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: It's huge for time.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: And obviously, it's great for improving patient care.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: So could you see a world in which we speak to this system or a system like it on an app, which would order tests rather than somebody having to go in to see their general practitioner, for example?
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: Yes, at Microsoft AI, we create an AI called Copilot.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: We get between Microsoft Copilot and Bing, our search engine, we get 50 million health related sessions per day.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: So there are people coming and asking about everything from, you know, falling over and scratching your knee through to much more complicated cases around cancer or mental health problems.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: And so the motivation here is to try to enable Copilot to provide great diagnosis and eventually great treatment.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: So are you suggesting you would offer this generally?
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: You just put this out there for free online and people would use it.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: This wouldn't necessarily have to be something that a health system or a nation's health service would buy.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: I think right now this is early research.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: It's pre-peer review, it's important to say.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: So it's a blog post that we're releasing.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: There are studies that have been done using the New England Journal of Medicine papers and case histories.
--:-- Al-Mustafa Suleiman: So it's early research, but it's very, very promising.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: In the UK, a 92-year-old man has been convicted of the murder and rape of a woman 58 years ago in what's thought to be the oldest cold case ever solved in the UK.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Louisa Dunn was found dead in her home in Bristol in England in June 1967.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Detectives looked again at the case in 2023 and sent items from the original investigation for DNA testing.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: John Maguire reports from Bristol Crown Court.
--:-- John Maguire: Louisa Dunn was 75 years old when Ryland Headley broke into her home in Bristol before attacking and killing her in 1967.
--:-- John Maguire: Neighbours found her body lying on a pile of old clothes.
--:-- John Maguire: Police discovered a palm print on a rear window, but despite collecting thousands of prints from men and boys locally, they were unable to identify a suspect.
--:-- John Maguire: With few clues, they preserved evidence from the murder scene and a cold case review in 2023 led to a major breakthrough.
--:-- John Maguire: DNA from Mrs Dunn's skirt had a one-in-a-billion match to Headley.
--:-- John Maguire: Now living in Suffolk, he'd been convicted of raping elderly women in Ipswich in the 1970s.
--:-- John Maguire: This afternoon, Mary Dainton, Louisa Dunn's granddaughter, said the guilty verdict brought some solace after so many painful years.
--:-- Mary Dainton: I have rarely talked to anyone about this until now.
--:-- Mary Dainton: Since Ryland Headley was charged, I've struggled emotionally in ways I did not anticipate.
--:-- Mary Dainton: And it falls to me to speak for people who are no longer here.
--:-- Mary Dainton: It saddens me deeply that all the people who knew and loved Louisa are not here to see that justice is done.
--:-- John Maguire: Detective Inspector Dave Marchant of Avon and Somerset Police says Headley's crimes showed a pattern of behaviour.
--:-- Dave Marchant: Headley, who has a shocking and abhorrent history of violent sexual attacks on elderly women, brutally attacked Louisa in her own home, where she should have been safe.
--:-- Dave Marchant: Her murder left a community in shock, and there are people living in Bristol today who can remember the impact this crime had on the city.
--:-- Dave Marchant: He may have thought he'd escaped justice, time and distance keeping him out of reach, but modern forensic techniques have solved a crime after almost 60 years, and Ryland Headley, aged 92, is now a convicted murderer.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The Chinese Communist Party says it's reached 100 million members, adding a million since last year.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: In 2024, the population of China was estimated at 1.4 billion people.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: In keeping with tradition, the membership data was released a day ahead of Tuesday's celebrations, marking the party's founding more than a century ago.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The data showed that almost 40 million are female and the majority of members are over the age of 61.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: I got more details on the eve of the celebrations from our China media analyst, Kerry Allen.
--:-- Kerry Allen: It is pretty huge and there's widespread media attention on this today.
--:-- Kerry Allen: Everywhere you look in Chinese media there a large focus on the figures originally being in the double digits back in 1921 and nearly a century later reaching this level.
--:-- Kerry Allen: There a lot of fanfare.
--:-- Kerry Allen: The Communist Party has been in power for 76 years since 1949.
--:-- Kerry Allen: And state media, which is dominant in China, is saying this is something to celebrate.
--:-- Kerry Allen: It shows that the party has come a long way from its roots in the beginning in the 1920s to what it is today.
--:-- Kerry Allen: But is this about patriotism or is this about career advancement?
--:-- Kerry Allen: I'd say it's very much about patriotism.
--:-- Kerry Allen: I mean, one thing as well that we have to consider is that China does have a huge population.
--:-- Kerry Allen: And even though the Communist Party does lead messaging, the number of members is actually only about 7% of the population.
--:-- Kerry Allen: And today, if you look on social media platforms, you'll get this impression that every social media user who is posting is a Communist Party member, but it only represents a very small amount of the population.
--:-- Kerry Allen: But some of the comments I've seen, for example, have been from users talking about how they see being a Communist Party member as part of their identity, a responsibility and an obligation.
--:-- Kerry Allen: And you do get this a lot in Communist Party messaging, a real emphasis that it's a unified party, that it's the nation pulling together and that people should join the party, that it's almost a responsibility because of how much the party has given back over recent decades.
--:-- Kerry Allen: And age is no barrier, is it?
--:-- Kerry Allen: I mean, there's quite a lot of attention on a 92-year-old actor deciding to join now.
--:-- Kerry Allen: Yes, absolutely.
--:-- Kerry Allen: So there's been a video that's been doing the rounds today from Chinese broadcaster CCTV, showing that this 92-year-old actor has said that he's decided to join in recent months because he feels he's not done enough for his country.
--:-- Kerry Allen: And actually, the majority of this 100 million population is over the age of 60.
--:-- Kerry Allen: But state media are also keen to stress that there's also been a growth amongst members under the age of 30.
--:-- Kerry Allen: So in particular, there's a real emphasis that the very young demographic are starting to increasingly become members in the Communist Party.
--:-- Kerry Allen: But what happens if you don't join? Will you suffer for it?
--:-- Kerry Allen: You won't suffer, no.
--:-- Kerry Allen: I mean, again, it only represents a very small amount of the population.
--:-- Kerry Allen: But I think if you are a member, then you've got a lot of opportunities in the workplace.
--:-- Kerry Allen: It's seen as something that's very positive.
--:-- Kerry Allen: And the idea of social responsibility in China is something that can go very far.
--:-- Kerry Allen: So I think there are people who think that if they are members, that it could take them places.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Now, have you ever tried to scam a scammer, replying to their dodgy messages or stringing them along on the phone?
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Well, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has taken that idea to the next level.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: They've rolled out an army of AI-powered bots, complete with Aussie accents and backstories, to chat with scammers in fake calls and texts.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: But will it really prevent fraud?
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Sam Fennec asked Dali Khaffar, the bots creator and CEO of Appity, the company behind the technology, about how it works in practice.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: We've built an army of what we call perfect victim bots.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: So these are AI personas, in fact thousands of them, with different accents, different ages, different genders, different personalities, different attitudes even to the colours themselves.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: And they can be really speaking very different languages and different dialects.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: And this army of realistic AI bots are really designed and specifically built to engage scammers across phone calls or messaging platform.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: And their objective is really to waste the scammers' time and waste the resources of these scammers who are placing calls or engaging with them.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: So you're effectively scamming the scammers?
--:-- Dali Khaffar: That's exactly it.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: We're flipping the tables against the scammers and we're scamming the scammers.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: And the idea is really to disrupt their business model indeed.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: So it won't be that they will prevent attacks on the bank.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: They will go out and gather intelligence, really, and waste their time so that they can't attack the bank.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: Exactly right.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: So this is pretty much a different way of really approaching the problem of scam, right?
--:-- Dali Khaffar: We know that the scam problem is a massive challenge.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: And so far, for decades, really, we've been struggling with this problem.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: And the idea here is that rather than just taking a very reactive way to the issue or to the challenge, it's to be really proactive about it.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: So it's really a paradigm shift by taking really this approach of saying, let's really disrupt their operations and the operations behind these scammers and breaking their business model itself and pretty much really making sure that they have very little capacity to reach out to actual victims.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: And wasting their time is one thing, of course, but also making sure that they're occupied, they're busy really engaging with what they think are their perfect victims is the ultimate goal.
--:-- Dali Khaffar: Essentially, because one scammer busy engaging with what they think is their target is a scammer who's not placing thousands of other calls towards possible genuine customers.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Norway's state-owned lottery company has been forced to apologise to nearly 50,000 players who were told mistakenly they'd won huge sums of money.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Norse Tipping said the mistake happened after a Euro jackpot draw on Friday and was due to an error converting Euros to the Norwegian kroner.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Winnings were multiplied by 100 instead of being divided by 100.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The CEO of the company has since resigned.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Christian Fraser spoke to Halvor Bergham and his girlfriend Islund Andersen Olofsson.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: We're planning to build a house next year so the money would come in really handy.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: So tell me about the message that you got.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: I was at work when I got the message that I won a large amount of money and I went in and it was 3.9 million instead of 390 kroner.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: Right.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: And how much is that in UK pounds?
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: I will guess about 350 pounds.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: How did you find out that they got it so wrong?
--:-- Halvor Bergham: And how long after the original message?
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: Well, Halvor called me, like, straight afterwards.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: And he was at work, and I just said, well, we just need to take a break, breathe a little bit.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: And about 20 minutes later, it was through the news channel that we found out that it was a flaw.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: Yeah.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: Did I also read that you proposed on Friday night, that you proposed to Islundn?
--:-- Halvor Bergham: Would you have done that had you not thought you were going to win the money?
--:-- Halvor Bergham: No, I didn't do it like that, but I thought maybe I had an opportunity to do it when I received the money.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: But also, I'm guessing that you wouldn't have done that.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: Yeah, he said it when he got home from work, that his first thought was to not call me at all and then wait over the weekend, go buy a ring and then propose.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: to take me somewhere and just propose Paris or something.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: Have you had an apology from the company?
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: I got a text message this morning saying that it was a mistake and they apologised.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: Is that enough?
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: I still feel really disappointed by the lottery.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: Have you thought about taking legal advice?
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: I think... They have secured themselves through all the rules that's saying that the notification you get through the application is only like a pre-message.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: You have to wait for the mail or the call for it to be final.
--:-- Islund Andersen Olofsson: Your action would probably not take us anywhere.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: But you weren't the only couple that were called or given the wrong message.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: Yeah.
--:-- Halvor Bergham: We've heard about people buying vacations, popping their most expensive champagne, and even one guy paying for everyone at the restaurant he was at.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Well, listen, at least there is a little bit of good news that's come out of it.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: You are getting engaged, so we will wish you congratulations for that.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: And we hope you have a happy life together.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: And maybe a lottery win somewhere along the line.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: I hope so.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Many happy endings, we hope, for them in the future.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: That was Halva Bergham and his girlfriend, Islyn Anderson-Olofsson.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: And that's it from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, send us an email.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: You can also find us on X at BBC World Service.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Use the hashtag Global News Pod.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The producers were Liam McChefrey and Stephen Jensen.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: I'm Valerie Sanderson.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Until next time, bye-bye.
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--:-- 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.
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