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--:-- Asma Khalid: America is changing and so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere. I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. I'm Tristan Redman in London. And this is The Global Story. Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Asma Khalid: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and at 17 Hours GMT on Wednesday the 24th of September, these are our main stories.
--:-- Nick Miles: Russia has dismissed claims by Donald Trump that it is a paper tiger and that a real military power would have beaten Ukraine in a week.
--:-- Nick Miles: Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Shara will address the United Nations General Assembly, making him the first Syrian president to speak at the UN since 1967.
--:-- Nick Miles: Also in this podcast. This gene therapy news is really the first time in the history of Huntington's disease that we have convincingly slowed the progression of Huntington's disease.
--:-- Nick Miles: How one of the cruelest genetic disorders has been successfully treated for the first time and a landmark deal to make a highly effective new HIV prevention drug available to poorer countries at a fraction of the price.
--:-- Nick Miles: When it comes to the world's two largest nuclear powers, it's always better if they trade metaphorical blows rather than real ones. And that is thankfully what the US and Russia have been doing.
--:-- Nick Miles: In an animal-themed war of words, the Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is a real bear.
--:-- Nick Miles: It was in response to this snub from Donald Trump after a meeting with the Ukrainian president in New York. Russia should have stopped it, but they've been three and a half years and they've gotten that so far. So we'll see what happens. But the other side can fight too. And they've proven that.
--:-- Nick Miles: Maybe it's a, it could be that Russia is a paper tiger. Well, the US president also said that Ukraine, with European help, could win back all the territory it had lost to Russia.
--:-- Nick Miles: Vitaly Shevchenko is the Russia editor at BBC Monitoring. I asked him whether words matter when it comes to dealing with Mr. Putin.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: I'm beginning to wonder if they do at this stage because there have been so many words and so little action.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: And these particular words by Donald Trump, they may be the kindest so far towards Ukraine and the most critical towards Russia.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: But we've learned at this stage that the US president's words have often been remarkably divorced from reality and action.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: And there's no sign at this stage that what he said yesterday about Ukraine and Russia is going to lead to action or any changes in actual policy towards Russia and Ukraine.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: When he posted on Truth Social about Ukraine being potentially able to reclaim all of its territory back, maybe even more, he said, he didn't say anything at all about how exactly that's going to happen.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: So far has been so proud of not giving Ukraine anything that it needs.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: He's allowed others to buy weapons for Ukraine. But when it comes to action taken by Donald Trump's administration, there's been very little that could change the progress or outcome of this war.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: And Dmitry Peskov has been saying, look, the Russian economy meets all the needs of the army. We're not worried.
--:-- Nick Miles: You've been looking at reaction to Donald Trump's comments in Ukraine, haven't you?
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: I have been. And at this stage, Ukrainians, well, they're paying much less attention to what the US president is saying about their country.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: It's a remarkable turn of events. After all, it's, or it was, the biggest donor of aid to Ukraine, the world's biggest economy.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: And now what they're saying sort of oscillates between, well, do we really care? And the other significant trend of thought is, well, it's good to see him criticise Russia, but we'll pay more attention when he does something.
--:-- Nick Miles: Later today in New York, Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, will address the United Nations General Assembly, the first Syrian leader to do so since 1967.
--:-- Nick Miles: It is a symbolic moment for him and for his country that's just beginning to recover from 14 years of civil war.
--:-- Nick Miles: Our senior international correspondent, Orla Gherin, has been in Damascus asking Syrians what they make of their new leader.
--:-- Orla Gherin: One woman told her that everyone will be watching Al-Shara's speech.
--:-- Orla Gherin: We're like, oh my God, we're going to be represented somehow, you know? Like it's been so long, like my dad doesn't even remember when the last time something like that happened.
--:-- Orla Gherin: So like, I've never, never in my life lived a year in my life where we were represented like that, you know, or like we were like acknowledged, you know.
--:-- Orla Gherin: So it's a happy moment.
--:-- Nick Miles: Will you watch him when he speaks at the General Assembly at the UN?
--:-- Orla Gherin: Of course I will. I think everyone will.
--:-- Nick Miles: Our Middle East correspondent Lina Sinjab has more from Damascus.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: It is a big moment for the country, but also for Ahmad al-Shara himself, who was designated as a terrorist, heading terrorist organization, now been lifted of this, cleared and also welcomed by international leaders.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: He'll be addressing, you know, the UN this evening. There's already preparation for a big show here in Damascus and several cities.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: They will be screening the speech immediately.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: This is the first Syrian president to address the public at the UN since 1967.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: Syria has also under the leadership of late Hafez al-Assad and then his son Bashar al-Assad were on the terrorism list.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: This country now is coming out of the brink. It's coming out back to the international community.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: Mr. Ashraf met with various leaders over the past couple of days. And we're expecting a message of peace, a message of opening up and reconnecting to the world, especially in terms of relationship in the region with Israel.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: We expecting some sort of a peace agreement to take place in the coming few days.
--:-- Nick Miles: So everyone is watching and Syrians are jubilant about this moment although some are worried that there are still violations happening inside Syria
--:-- Lina Sinjab: There are still problems with human rights, with transparency, with corruption, with non-inclusivity, including many Syrians in the leadership.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: And that's what everyone here is pressing this new leadership to do.
--:-- Lina Sinjab: And it's all in the hands of Al-Shara to do it.
--:-- Nick Miles: 40 million people around the world live with HIV, but after cuts to aid budgets, concerns have been raised about the global fight against the virus.
--:-- Nick Miles: Well, now there's been a deal to slash the price of the injectable HIV prevention drug Lennacabavir for low and middle income countries.
--:-- Nick Miles: We asked Marnie Jones, BBC Africa correspondent, about the deal.
--:-- Marnie Jones: So it's a deal that was brokered by a number of organizations, philanthropic and health organizations, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton's Health Foundation, the Bill Gates Foundation and South Africa's Research Institute, WitsRHI.
--:-- Marnie Jones: And basically, it's around this drug, which is the world's first twice yearly injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP.
--:-- Marnie Jones: You take it every six months.
--:-- Marnie Jones: They've managed to reduce the price of it from $28,000 a year per person to just under $40 a year.
--:-- Marnie Jones: So around 0.1% of the cost.
--:-- Marnie Jones: This cheaper version is going to be manufactured in India, where the generics industry is pretty developed.
--:-- Marnie Jones: And is going to be rolled out in 2027 in around 120 middle to low income countries.
--:-- Marnie Jones: The reason it's taking this long is because they need to get approval.
--:-- Marnie Jones: Whereas the original drug has already got regulatory approval, the new generic version needs to go through the same process.
--:-- Marnie Jones: So the earliest these low and middle income countries are going to be able to access it is 2027.
--:-- Nick Miles: Now, Manny, tell us why this drug is so important for the fight against HIV.
--:-- Marnie Jones: Well, at the moment, if you are at high risk of catching HIV, so you haven't got it yet, but you might be engaging in risky sex, then you can take a pill.
--:-- Marnie Jones: But it has to be taken daily, ideally seven days before exposure at the same time.
--:-- Marnie Jones: And obviously, if you can't make plans ahead of time, but you think you might still be exposed, you take two pills in the same day.
--:-- Marnie Jones: That makes it difficult for a lot of people. People forget to take them. People may not have access to them.
--:-- Marnie Jones: The idea of this new drug is that because it's only injected twice a year, it's easier to remember.
--:-- Marnie Jones: It lasts a lot longer. You take one injection, it lasts you six months, then you take another one and so for lots of scientists, they say this is going to be a game changer.
--:-- Marnie Jones: Particularly in countries where taking pills is stigmatized where access to hospitals is difficult so getting your daily pills might be hard.
--:-- Marnie Jones: And they also think that it will be significant in reducing infections among young women and girls who at the moment particularly in the developing world among the group that have the fastest growing rates of HIV infections.
--:-- Marnie Jones: They think for these women who perhaps don't want to be seen to be taking pills every day, having this twice yearly injection will be a game changer for their infection rates.
--:-- Nick Miles: Now to another largely incurable disease, Huntington's disease.
--:-- Nick Miles: It's often described as one of the most devastating genetic disorders.
--:-- Nick Miles: It usually presents as a mixture of dementia, Parkinson's and motor neuron disease.
--:-- Nick Miles: There's also no cure, but it has now been successfully treated for the first time, according to the results of a trial which was shown to slow down the progress of that disease by 75%.
--:-- Nick Miles: Professor Edward Wilde is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and a Huntington's disease specialist.
--:-- Nick Miles: He led the UK part of the trial and told us more about it.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: It really is breathtaking and it's unlike anything we've ever seen before.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: I've been doing Huntington's disease research and looking after patients with HD for 20 years.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: And trial after trial after trial has, you know, we've been in the world of incremental progress, but each individual trial has ended in disappointment and a negative result.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: We know what we need to achieve, though. We know the cause of Huntington's disease, and that's what gave us the head start.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: And this gene therapy news is really the first time in the history of Huntington's disease that we have convincingly slowed the progression of Huntington's disease, and we have biochemical evidence that the mechanism is through rescuing neurons, protecting neurons from dying.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: So the gene therapy is an inactivated virus which is injected deep into the brain, a part of the brain called the striatum.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: It's a long neurosurgical procedure. So there's a lot of upfront work and risk.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: Once the gene therapy has been delivered to the brain, that's it. It's there, the virus gets into the neurons and injects a piece of DNA.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: And it basically reprograms the neuron to become a factory for its own cure.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: So the neuron is producing the harmful protein, but it's also producing a molecule which halts production of that protein.
--:-- Professor Edward Wilde: And that must be how we've slowed the disease. There's less harm happening and the disease is slower.
--:-- Nick Miles: Typhoon Ragassa has made landfall in southern China after causing the deaths of at least 17 people in eastern Taiwan.
--:-- Nick Miles: This year's most powerful tropical storm yet has battered the area with heavy rain and strong winds.
--:-- Nick Miles: But is now losing strength as it moves inland.
--:-- Nick Miles: In Hong Kong the typhoon didn make landfall but still unleashed such powerful wind and rain that 62 people were injured
--:-- Nick Miles: And that is the moment when a storm surge smashed through the doors of a hotel on the south coast of Hong Kong's main island.
--:-- Nick Miles: Water poured into the hotel lobby, sweeping a man off his feet and causing panic amongst many others there.
--:-- Nick Miles: Professor Johnny Chan is from the Asia-Pacific Typhoon Collaborative Research Centre in Shanghai.
--:-- Nick Miles: He is currently in Hong Kong and my colleague Sarah Montague asked him why this particular typhoon is so intense.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: The typhoon gathers its strength from the ocean because of the warm ocean, then the typhoon can get stronger.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: However, if a typhoon hits land, its circulation will be disrupted and so therefore it will weaken.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: The reason why this one is particularly strong is because it comes through the Luzon Strait, that is between Taiwan Island and the Luzon Island.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And it came into the South China Sea unimpeded by any of the land masses.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And therefore, it can continue to develop throughout its whole lifetime until it's very close to land.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: So therefore, throughout most of its lifetime, it was able to continue to become stronger and stronger.
--:-- Nick Miles: How does this compare with previous typhoons?
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: OK, so the closest similar one to this one was Typhoon Mankut in 2018.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: It was almost about the same path as this one.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And at that time, the circulation was also very large.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And so it actually brought quite a bit of damage to Hong Kong.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And in fact, because of this damage, people learned the lesson that these severe typhoons can bring a lot of damage.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And so this time when the government says, look, this is very similar to that of Mancourt, then people said, ah, yeah, I remember that. That was really bad.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: So this time I would be prepared.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: So most people are a lot more prepared this time than the case of men could.
--:-- Nick Miles: Is it expected that they will be as intense, increasingly intense in future?
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: We expect the typhoons to be, could be even more intense in the future for several reasons.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: One is that the ocean continues to warm because of global warming.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And number two is that the atmospheric conditions can sometimes be even more favourable.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And as a result of that, both the atmosphere and the ocean will collaborate together to more intense typhoons making landfall along the East China coast.
--:-- Nick Miles: I mean, the destruction from this is absolutely phenomenal.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: Are there ways that nations can better protect themselves against the effects of these storms?
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: Now, you can't tame the storm, so you just need to be able to be prepared for it.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: The thing is that in a typhoon, there are three destructive elements.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: One is the severe winds, and second is the heavy rain, which then lead to flooding and landslides and so on.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And the third one is what we call the storm surge, which is the water coming in from a shore.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: It's kind of like a mini tsunami, the water being pushed up by the typhoon against the shore, and so the water level goes up quite quickly.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: In order to mitigate the potential damage that these typhoons cause, then you need to have all these three adaptation measures.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: So, for example, with severe winds, then you need to make sure that any loose structures such as scaffoldings are tied up.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And then people need to tape their windows so the windows won't break.
--:-- Professor Johnny Chan: And of course, people need to stay home and not go outside and have fun.
--:-- Nick Miles: The Danish Prime Minister is visiting the autonomous territory Greenland to apologise in person to the victims of a forced contraception programme that Denmark ran for more than three decades.
--:-- Nick Miles: Meta Fridriksen said that the apology constituted an important marking of a dark chapter.
--:-- Nick Miles: Our global affairs reporter Paul Moss told me more.
--:-- Paul Moss: Well, this goes back to the 1960s when about 4,500 women became part of a programme that lasted for several decades in which, as you suggested, they were fitted with contraceptive coils without proper consent.
--:-- Paul Moss: Some of them were just schoolgirls. Others say they were coerced or they certainly didn't understand what this device was for.
--:-- Paul Moss: And crucially, the intention of the Danish government was explicitly to reduce the birth rate of the Inuit people.
--:-- Paul Moss: I should explain that Greenland is this island, the biggest island in the world, in fact, up in the Arctic, in which about 90% of the people identify as Inuit.
--:-- Paul Moss: It has its own parliament, but Denmark has sovereignty over it.
--:-- Paul Moss: There'll be this formal apology in the Greenland capital.
--:-- Paul Moss: I should say it's not just about the forcible use of contraceptive coils.
--:-- Paul Moss: There's also been scandals of women having their children forcibly taken away and adopted because they were judged not to be suitable parents after tests which, it's alleged, were deliberately designed to discriminate against Inuit people.
--:-- Paul Moss: Now, this forced contraception programme took place years ago. Why the apology now?
--:-- Paul Moss: It did take a long time to come to light. Many of the women, of course, just didn't want to talk about it.
--:-- Paul Moss: They were ashamed.
--:-- Paul Moss: There was a big moment in 2022 when there was a podcast in Denmark all about the scandal and an inquiry was launched.
--:-- Paul Moss: However, Nick, allow me to introduce an element of cynicism here.
--:-- Paul Moss: Cast your mind back six months. And Donald Trump gave a speech to Congress in which he repeated an idea, which he'd floated before, that the US should annex Greenland.
--:-- Paul Moss: Its strategic position in the Arctic would be good for American security, he said.
--:-- Paul Moss: And he added it would be good for the people of Greenland to be ruled by the US.
--:-- Paul Moss: He said they hadn't been treated very well by Denmark.
--:-- Paul Moss: Now, some are suggesting that is why Denmark is now on a desperate, rather belated charm offensive, with the Prime Minister falling over herself to say how much they're terribly sorry about what happened in the past.
--:-- Paul Moss: I think this view was expressed rather well by Aja Chemnitz.
--:-- Paul Moss: She's an MP from Greenland who sits in the Danish Parliament.
--:-- Paul Moss: She said she'd represented the island for 10 years and had never seen this kind of movement on the scandal.
--:-- Paul Moss: She said it was totally because of Donald Trump's designs on Greenland.
--:-- Nick Miles: In a much anticipated episode of late night television in the US, the talk show host Jimmy Kimmel returned on Tuesday night.
--:-- Nick Miles: President Trump criticised the move before the programme aired, saying he couldn't believe ABC fake news had given Mr Kimmel his job back.
--:-- Nick Miles: The comedian was suspended last week for comments he made about the killing of the right wing activist Charlie Kirk.
--:-- Nick Miles: In an opening monologue, Jimmy Kimmel said government pressure on his show was anti-American.
--:-- Nick Miles: The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs.
--:-- Nick Miles: Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can't take a joke.
--:-- Nick Miles: Our North America correspondent Peter Bowes was watching.
--:-- Peter Bowes: Back on the air, Jimmy Kimmel returned to late night television almost a week after he was suspended indefinitely.
--:-- Peter Bowes: Anyway as I was saying before I was interrupted if you just joining us we are pre your regularly scheduled encore episode of Celebrity Family Feud to bring you this special report I'm happy to be here tonight with you.
--:-- Peter Bowes: The comedian's bosses at ABC, which is owned by Disney, pulled the plug after America's broadcasting regulator, the Federal Communications Commission, threatened action over Kimmel's comments last Monday about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
--:-- Peter Bowes: We hit some new lows over the weekend. With the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
--:-- Peter Bowes: There was a huge backlash to Kimmel's suspension. Fellow comedians rallied to his defence, calling it an attack on free speech.
--:-- Peter Bowes: Hollywood Union members took to the streets to protest, while some Americans said they cancelled their subscriptions to Disney's streaming service.
--:-- Peter Bowes: Donald Trump claimed the late-night presenter had been dropped because he had terrible ratings.
--:-- Peter Bowes: Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk.
--:-- Peter Bowes: And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago.
--:-- Peter Bowes: So, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent.
--:-- Peter Bowes: But as suddenly as he was taken off the air, Disney announced on Monday that Jimmy Kimmel was coming back, saying it suspended the show because it felt some of his comments had been ill-timed and insensitive.
--:-- Peter Bowes: But he isn't back on every TV screen.
--:-- Peter Bowes: Two of the country's biggest owners of local stations say they'll continue to keep Kemmel off the air.
--:-- Peter Bowes: Outside the theatre in Hollywood, where the show is recorded, there were mixed views about its return.
--:-- Peter Bowes: He may be cracking jokes again, but tensions remain between America's broadcasters, the authorities that oversee them, and a president many fear is trying to silence them.
--:-- Nick Miles: In the 1980s, the Blitz nightclub in London was the place where musical stars flaunted their lacy shirts and heavily lacquered hairdos.
--:-- Nick Miles: After opening in 1979, it quickly became the place to go for stars of the new romantic era, like Spandau Ballet or singer-songwriters like Boy George.
--:-- Nick Miles: It's the subject of a new exhibition.
--:-- Nick Miles: It was a place where how you looked was at least as important as the music.
--:-- Nick Miles: The experimentation led to the mixing 1940s tailoring with theatrical costumes, charity shop finds and full faces of makeup.
--:-- Nick Miles: Vincent Dowd reports.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: In the early 80s, the Blitz Club had become a cultural phenomenon big enough to be analysed by the BBC Newsnight programme.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: To outsiders or their more politically active contemporaries, This set, bent on enjoying themselves, seems scandalously decadent.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: The romantics see themselves more as creative.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: They spoke to the young Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet.
--:-- Gary Kemp: There's a big difference between the kind of people who were at the club last night and the kind of people who go and see a band.
--:-- Gary Kemp: When you go and see a band, you're just purely consuming, where people who go to clubs, you are your own visual entertainment.
--:-- Gary Kemp: You have to put a lot more into it.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: Today, Gary Kemp says the performer who inspired the Blitz kids' look more than anyone was two decades older, David Bowie.
--:-- Gary Kemp: We were coming together, we were a bunch of kids who were influenced by Bowie, and I think our influence with Bowie would have been you can wear different masks, you can keep changing, you definitely need to be theatrical.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: Bowie even went to the club to find the most stylish people for his Ashes to Ashes video.
--:-- Gary Kemp: They got paid £50 each.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: I think we did feel there was part of an evolution in youth culture.
--:-- Gary Kemp: It had its place. We were the next big thing, if you like.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: You know, we were taking the baton from punk and before then from glam rock.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: Broadcaster Robert Elms went to the club virtually every evening it was open.
--:-- Robert Elms: I would say there were about 120 regulars probably and it held about 200.
--:-- Robert Elms: Boy George and Steve Strange and Spandau Ballet and Bananarama and quite possibly Sade.
--:-- Robert Elms: But you would also have seen writers and dancers. Michael Clarke would have been there.
--:-- Robert Elms: But at that stage, almost none of them were over 21.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: I think it's hard to remember now just how randomly violent and sexist, racist, homophobic, all of those things Britain was in the late 1970s.
--:-- Robert Elms: And so if you look like Boy George or Melissa Kaplan or even me or Chris Sullivan, you needed somewhere safe to go.
--:-- Robert Elms: Because it really genuinely wasn't safe to look like that and be dressed like that and be gay or be flamboyant or extravagant in normal places.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: Two men were behind the club. Steve Strange died in 2015. His colleague was Rusty Egan in charge of the eclectic playlist.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: But what mattered as much he knew was the visual image.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: They made the clothes, they designed it, or their friend did.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: Spanner Ballet's album cover, Visage's album cover, the clothes, the hair, the make-up, the style, the video, everybody was all your friends, and all your friends wanted to express themselves through you.
--:-- Vincent Dowd: But in the age of social media, can any club matter the way the Blitz used to?
--:-- Vincent Dowd: The show's curator is Danielle Tomer.
--:-- Danielle Tomer: Although certainly today the landscape is very different, what hasn't changed, I think, is the need for people, especially young people from marginalised communities and identities, to find a sense of home and of belonging.
--:-- Danielle Tomer: That need to find your chosen family, so to speak, and club culture is an important mechanism for that.
--:-- Nick Miles: And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
--:-- Nick Miles: But before we go, it's almost two years now since the war in Gaza began after the Hamas attacks on October 7th.
--:-- Nick Miles: And to mark the anniversary, we're going to be making a special Global News Podcast.
--:-- Nick Miles: We'll examine the conflict from lots of different angles, from the situation on the ground in Gaza to public opinion in Israel.
--:-- Nick Miles: But we also want to hear from you. What questions do you want to ask our Middle East correspondents in Jerusalem?
--:-- Nick Miles: Please send them in, either written in an email or attached as a recording.
--:-- Nick Miles: The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Nick Miles: If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email.
--:-- Nick Miles: The address is the same one, globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Nick Miles: You can also find us on X, BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod.
--:-- Nick Miles: This edition was mixed by Craig Kingham and the producers were Carla Conte and Charles Sanctuary.
--:-- Nick Miles: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Nick Miles: I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
--:-- Nick Miles: America is changing and so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
--:-- Nick Miles: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. I'm Tristan Redman in London, and this is The Global Story.
--:-- Nick Miles: Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet.
--:-- Nick Miles: Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
