--:-- Julia McFarlane: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Julia McFarlane.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: On the early hours of Monday the 7th of July, these are our main stories. The number of people killed by Friday's flash floods in central Texas is continuing to rise. Nearly 80 deaths have been confirmed so far.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: Israel says it's carried out airstrikes against Houthi targets at three ports in Yemen. Officials in the Sudanese capital Khartoum say they've found and buried the bodies of nearly 4,000 people since the army recaptured the city in May.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: Also in this podcast... France's most successful ever TV quiz show contestant has finally been defeated after a two-year winning streak.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: We begin in the US state of Texas, where rescue operations are continuing for the 41 missing people after severe flooding. But the window for hope is fading four days in.
--:-- Michael McCown: We're at Camp Mystic looking for our kids. We've been in Kerrville all night. We got here and started looking and the game warden showed up. We went as far as we could downstream, but we don't have the equipment for that so we're letting them do that and then we're looking for places that they're going to potentially be alive.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: There's hundreds of folks out here from different agencies across Texas and we're talking about a huge, huge area of the length of the Guadalupe with tons of bends. And there's so much debris that it's easy to sort of miss if someone is trapped. So that's really what search and rescuers are doing right now.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: They're in boats, they're using helicopters and cadaver dogs as well, trying to see if anyone else is somehow still breathing and still trying to make a go of it after being swept. But again, there isn't a lot of hope left that after so many days that anyone could still be out there.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: I certainly hope so. I met Michael briefly while I was on the camp property and talking to a couple of longtime workers, and he walked up and talked about how he had found the body of a little girl while he was searching for his own little girl right there on the camp property.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: His daughter's name is Linny. She was in the Bubble Inn, which was one of the cabins that was most affected by water that seemed to have been rushing in from two directions.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: I have not been in touch with him since. I have not heard any news that would make me hopeful that Linny was found or that she might have survived.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: But we can certainly keep on hoping that that might be an unexpected, if you will, miracle in all of this.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: And Aurelis, in your piece, you paint such a picture of the desperation of these parents who have driven to this woodland and are walking around searching with their own hands.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: Is there growing anger at the authorities in Texas? And there are questions people are starting to ask now about those recent cuts to federal agencies.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: Yes, absolutely. People are looking for answers about why the severity of this particular flash flood seemed not to have been communicated in any timely way to the residents here.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: And now we're still digging into what people knew at what time, what alerts specifically went out at different moments.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: The camp director's son told me that they're used to these types of alerts and simply weren't able to distinguish between the severity of something coming imminently or something coming directly towards them in a sort of catastrophic way versus sort of the normal alerts that go out.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: But they're certainly going to be growing anger. I certainly see it on social media and in the questions that local media are asking about what folks knew.
--:-- Araylis R. Hernandez: And I think today at the press conference, local officials sort of evaded some of those questions.
--:-- Elettra Naismith: The Greek-owned carrier was targeted by gunfire and grenades from eight small boats before being hit with sea drones. No injuries were reported, but fire broke out on board and the ship soon began to sink.
--:-- Elettra Naismith: A UK maritime agency said the attack bore all the hallmarks of Houthi fighters who control Hodeida and large swathes of Yemen.
--:-- Elettra Naismith: Marine traffic has increased on the vital Red Sea route as Houthi attacks have slowed and the group agreed a truce with Washington But tensions remain high in the region both over the war in Gaza and US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
--:-- Sebastian Usher: He's always been under conflicting pressures. He has hard right members of his coalition who've spoken out again against doing any deal.
--:-- Sebastian Usher: Ben Gavir, Smotrich, the finance minister, have made their views quite clear again. But they don't, I think, endanger his hold on power at the moment.
--:-- Sebastian Usher: There is and continues to be a very, very strong underswell of feeling in Israel, demanding, as they have for months, that Mr Netanyahu should prioritise the release and the saving of the lives of those hostages who are still living in Gaza.
--:-- Sebastian Usher: And if he needs to, even if it's something that is unpalatable to many Israelis, he must make the sacrifice of ending the war in order to achieve that.
--:-- Sebastian Usher: So he's certainly under some pressure here in Israel. And he's also under pressure internationally.
--:-- Sebastian Usher: I mean, there have been many outspoken declarations by some of Israel's closest allies in the past two or three months, the UK, France, etc., saying that they believe that the way that the war is continuing to be prosecuted in Gaza is essentially unacceptable.
--:-- Rebecca Kesby: I was recently in Khartoum and there was a lot of destruction, a lot of damage. When you go into the city centre, it's like a ghost town, which is extremely surprising knowing how Khartoum was such a bustling city before.
--:-- Rebecca Kesby: You know, it was a city that had a population of up to 10 million. and many people fled. But those that stayed really bore the brunt of the conflict, especially in terms of having enough food to eat and being in the middle of the war.
--:-- Rebecca Kesby: So it was a really harrowing situation. But now there's a lot of hope that Khartoum can recover, that people can return, and that there's hope to rebuild the city.
--:-- Lenny Kinsley: Definitely. I mean, Khartoum was largely inaccessible for the first two years of the conflict. Parts of South Khartoum were at risk of famine.
--:-- Lenny Kinsley: It's not only just the fighting itself, That's also the humanitarian situation and just the dire level of hunger that we had seen there.
--:-- Lenny Kinsley: We've supported over one million people in recent months and really been able to expand and scale up and also overcome the harrowing stories that they lived through and to rebuild not just the infrastructure, but hopes and dreams.
--:-- Lenny Kinsley: And in terms of elsewhere in Sudan, do you have an idea of what the aid situation is there? Because we've heard several stories of how difficult it's been to get aid into Sudan.
--:-- Lenny Kinsley: And we've heard the authorities themselves haven't been that helpful in getting aid through to civilians.
--:-- Lenny Kinsley: Across the country, half the population faces acute hunger. That's 25 million people, a population the size of Australia.
--:-- Lenny Kinsley: We have famine confirmed in some places like in Al-Fashir, which has been the hardest place to get to.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: Grizzly bears are curious, wonderful animals that engage our imagination and our hearts, but they're also at the same time feared.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: And a lot of that is based on misconception and the way we approach even situations like Texas migration.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: He's a four-year-old young male. He's curious, and he was pushed out of his home range by his mom.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: He's at that age where he's looking for a mate So he out exploring He hasn really been getting into too much trouble he young so he a bit bratty so people are a bit concerned He will follow people when they walking their dog and things like that
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: And that one of those areas where it can be misconstrued because some people think that he's stalking them, but it's not the behaviour that he's exhibiting.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: He's actually just following and being curious. So there's a lot to learn about that.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: And a community like Texeda, it's new to them. When a bear arrives on the island as it has. Does it come under anyone's care or is it just left to roam free?
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: Yeah, so grizzly bears roam free all over the province of British Columbia, but they're on the coast, particularly on these small islands in Vancouver Island.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: They haven't been seen for many generations because settlers, you know, hunted them out or maybe even on Vancouver Island, for example, they never were historically there.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: So it's new for people, for settlers, But it's not new to First Nations. And so that's what's really interesting about the welfare and conservation of this one bear is that there's a conversation happening between the province of British Columbia and the First Nations whose traditional territory this bear roams.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: This is fascinating. So how hard would his swim have been?
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: The easiest way to tell a grizzly bear from a black bear is they have this big hump behind their shoulders. That's actually a muscle. It's good for digging and tearing things up.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: So for a swim like that and a young bear who's driven to find new food sources and a mate, that's a pretty good swim for them.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: But we've got lots of evidence that they've been doing that up and down the British Columbia coast.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: So this conversation has now started between the people of the First Nations and the local urban community.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: What is the thinking here? What are you going to do with text, basically?
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: Well, there's this amazing conversation happening in British Columbia. In 2019, the province signed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People into law, and we're the first province in Canada to do that.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: And what that means is the province needs to build partnerships with First Nations and sort of talk about co-management.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: So it's not the—in a way, we're decolonizing conservation, and it's a unique model because there's many countries around the world who've also signed that UN declaration.
--:-- Nicholas Scapolati: So what's happening right now, and Tex's fate is really in their hands, is how quickly can they have that conversation and work out this new model of conservation through reconciliation.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: Still to come on this podcast. The site is located north of Peru's capital, Lima, and includes the remains of temples and other stone and mud buildings.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: An ancient Peruvian city founded at least three and a half thousand years ago has been unveiled to the public.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: We'll be right back.
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--:-- Samira Hussain: The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, has been celebrating his 90th birthday in the Indian town of Dharamshala.
--:-- Samira Hussain: Thousands gathered to see him in his traditional golden and deep red robes, including the Hollywood actor Richard Gere.
--:-- Samira Hussain: There have been prayers and celebrations in spite of heavy monsoon rains.
--:-- Samira Hussain: The Dalai Lama was identified as the reincarnation of his predecessor at the age of two.
--:-- Samira Hussain: He's lived in exile since fleeing Tibet back in 1959 as Chinese authorities took control of Tibet.
--:-- Samira Hussain: He's announced there will be a successor to him, named, he said, after his own death.
--:-- Samira Hussain: In Tibetan Buddhism, the philosophy is that the Dalai Lama is reincarnated after death.
--:-- Samira Hussain: That chosen person then becomes the next spiritual leader.
--:-- Samira Hussain: The Dalai Lama says the next one will come from the free world, meaning outside China.
--:-- Samira Hussain: That is a direct challenge to the authorities in Beijing, which insist any Tibetan spiritual leader must be approved by the Chinese leadership.
--:-- Krupa Padi: Jill Hicks was one of the survivors of the bombings. She was travelling to work when a suicide bomber entered her train carriage.
--:-- Krupa Padi: She lost both of her legs in the explosion. To mark the 20th anniversary, Jill has taken to the stage with a one-woman play called Still Alive, Still Kicking.
--:-- Jill Hicks: I see it very much as 20 years of living very differently, but of course, very fortunate to have a life at all.
--:-- Jill Hicks: So the way that I've been able to process and evolve, if you like, over 20 years is to just think about the hierarchy of value of, you know, being alive is everything.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And even though I'm in a different physical form, I absolutely celebrate the fact that I'm still Jill.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And even just listening to the intro of the communications of what was happening that morning, it's extraordinary just to think back of how really timeless for me that space is of 20 years.
--:-- Jill Hicks: Tell us about your show.
--:-- Jill Hicks: Well, I see it as a love letter, really, to all of those incredible first responders, all of the incredible medics, nurses, doctors, everyone that gave so much that morning and not only that morning, but every day since.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And I've always been searching of how you're finding the way to say thank you and and to celebrate them.
--:-- Jill Hicks: So this this show really is, I would say, a love letter to all of them and a beautiful reminder of of how powerful our shared humanity really is.
--:-- Jill Hicks: You sound like a ray of positivity considering all of what you've gone through and the extent to which your life changed.
--:-- Jill Hicks: You're now back in London. I wonder, do you feel vulnerable at all? How are you feeling? I mean, it's just the second time that you're back in the city since the attacks.
--:-- Jill Hicks: London was home for a very long time. And I think with London, it's a very special place, isn't it? You know, it can kind of get under your skin.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And I feel that coming back, that it's like, again, returning to home in a very different way.
--:-- Jill Hicks: But there's a certain light, there's a certain energy and it's just it's glorious to be back really.
--:-- Jill Hicks: A lot of people when they're trying to recover from a trauma like you have might turn to counselling, might turn to other kinds of therapy.
--:-- Jill Hicks: Was this creative outlet, was that your therapy?
--:-- Jill Hicks: Oh gosh that's so beautifully put. Look the greatest thing that I feel that I lost and was when I look at it you know in a bigger view than just limbs, you know, just both legs.
--:-- Jill Hicks: It's essentially what I lost was freedom and freedom just to be, freedom to do something impromptu, freedom to run or to, you know, to dance, to do anything.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And coming back to the arts has been like a pathway and a moment and a sense of what that freedom is for me now.
--:-- Jill Hicks: So the moment I'm with music, I'm just lost in the music. The moment I'm back painting on canvas, I'm just lost in the canvas.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And that's the closest thing that I can find to be free.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And it is a therapy, but to me it's a sort of sense of just being able to lose myself in something that I just love and that it is a language that is universal and I can throw myself into it and speak through it, if you like.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And it's, you know, it has been a saviour on many, many levels.
--:-- Krupa Padi: There will be some special guests in the audience as well, members of the medical and emergency teams who attended that day.
--:-- Krupa Padi: What does it mean to you to have them there?
--:-- Jill Hicks: Oh gosh, I'm already feeling rather anxious and nervous about it because, you know, essentially, they are the people that held my life in the balance in their hands.
--:-- Jill Hicks: And then here I am, 20 years on, performing in a very, very large tutu on stage in front of them.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: An ancient Peruvian city founded at least three and a half thousand years ago has been unveiled to the public.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: The city of Penico served as a trading hub for the oldest civilization in the Americas, the Corral.
--:-- Leonardo Rocha: The site is located north of Peru's capital Lima and includes the remains of temples and other stone and mud buildings.
--:-- Leonardo Rocha: Many objects that give an insight into the Kharau culture were also found, including sculptures of people and animals and necklaces made from beads or seashells.
--:-- Leonardo Rocha: Benico connected communities that lived on the Pacific coast to those settled to the east in the Anges Mountains and the Amazon rainforest.
--:-- Leonardo Rocha: Researchers believe the Kharau civilization collapsed because of prolonged droughts caused by climate change nearly 4,000 years ago.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: It's Emilien who dethrones today Mathias. Emilien who becomes the master of the midday.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: That was the moment in September 2023 that Emilien became the new midday master of the game show, The Twelve Strokes of Noon.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: The quiz involves four contestants going head-to-head on general knowledge, with the winner returning the next day.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: For Emiliane, it's been a whopping 647 return appearances, helped by spending up to 17 hours a day swatting up on every topic under the sun.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: But today marked the end. Today, Sunday 6th, Romain, the throne of Emilia!
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: Emiliane, who put his education on hold to focus on his winning streak, says he now intends to go back to studying, but not until he's had a year off to relax.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News podcast later.
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--:-- Julia McFarlane: This edition was mixed by Zabi Hula Karouche.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: The producers were Liam McSheffrey and Charles Sanctuary.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Julia McFarlane: I'm Julia McFarlane. Until next time, goodbye.
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