--:-- Alex Ritson: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson.
--:-- Alex Ritson: At 0500 GMT on Sunday the 28th of September, these are our main stories. President Trump deploys troops to yet another Democrat-led city, this time Portland in Oregon. 39 people are killed in a crash at a political rally in India. And thousands take to the streets in Argentina to protest against the live-streamed torture and murder of three young women.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Also in this podcast... I don't think anyone in Europe has experienced anything like this interference. Russia will try absolutely all methods to achieve what it wants. Moldovans go to the polls in pivotal elections which could decide whether it turns towards the EU or Russia.
--:-- Alex Ritson: First, it was Los Angeles, then Washington DC, then Memphis, and now President Trump has ordered US troops to be deployed to the city of Portland in Oregon, this time to suppress protests targeting immigration detention centres.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Posting on social media, Mr Trump said the soldiers were needed to deal with the left-wing Antifa movement which was this week designated as a domestic terrorist organization.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The governor of Oregon, Tina Kotek, said she told Mr. Trump that was not the case. In my conversations directly with President Trump and Secretary Noem, I have been abundantly clear with them that Portland and the state of Oregon believe in the rule of law and we can manage our own local public safety needs.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There is no insurrection, there is no threat to national security, and there is no need for military troops in our major city.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The announcement marks a further expansion of what Mr Trump is portraying as a crackdown on violent crime in Democrat-led American cities.
--:-- Alex Ritson: In the case of Portland, Mr Trump said that he'd authorised the use of full force without explaining what that meant.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I've been speaking to Will Grant in Washington, D.C. He has said that he is given the directive to the Department of Defense, or the Department of War, as he now calls it, to provide all necessary troops to protect what he called war-ravaged Portland.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The basic point that he made in his social media post was that facilities of ICE, the Immigration Authority in the United States, were, as he put it, under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists.
--:-- Alex Ritson: That is his claim that essentially there is a concerted effort by the radical left in the United States to attack facilities of the immigration authorities.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It comes, of course, in the wake of a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas. But, of course, that's not in Oregon.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And he has said that he is also authorizing the use of full force if necessary. But there was no expansion on that or explanation of those words by the White House as to what full force would entail.
--:-- Alex Ritson: How have the mayor and other federal leaders reacted?
--:-- Alex Ritson: Well, the mayor, Keith Wilson, is one of those mayors that's lined up against this. He doesn't believe that there is any need for the deployment of the National Guard or troops to his city to do the work of law enforcement.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He pointed out that Mr. Trump has said he would send as many troops as necessary. And he retorted, well, the exact number of troops we need in Portland is precisely zero and added, and in all American cities.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The governor of Oregon, Tina Kotek, has also said that there is no national security threat in Portland.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And as you can imagine, the wider context of senators and so on, congresspeople from Oregon on the left, certainly lined up on the Democratic side, lined up against this idea.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Senator Jeff Merkley said that it was essentially provocation, urged people not to, as he put it, take the bait from Donald Trump.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Why do these people, the mayor and others, think that Mr. Trump is doing this?
--:-- Alex Ritson: Well, I think they believe that it is essentially a sort of form of provocation that these are inherently Democrat towns and cities in red states, in parts of the country that don't vote for Donald Trump, that have protested his tactics, that have protested what they see as the overreach by the ICE authorities.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And I think that they believe that this is essentially political, that it has very little to do with law enforcement at all.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I mean, we should put that up against the Republican governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, who wants to see troops in Memphis and see them as part of a sort of surge of resources to fight crime in the city.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Of course, Mr. Trump isn't going to see eye to eye with the governor of Oregon or the mayor of Portland. But it stands to be seen whether or not people take to the street and protest against this or if they remain calm and the whole thing passes off calmly.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Briefly, Will, he's done this in a number of cities. He's promised to do it in many more. Is he going to? Has he got the resources to? It's hard to know how far this could go.
--:-- Alex Ritson: You're right, he's done it in Los Angeles, here in Washington DC, of course, and now we've mentioned both Portland and Memphis in Tennessee.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So it is part of a wider policy, one which he thinks, I believe, shows him to be tough on crime, is attractive to his supporters, shows that he's prepared to go to great lengths over the issue.
--:-- Alex Ritson: But it does put him in conflict with those mayors and governors who are lined up against it.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Will Grant in Washington.
--:-- Alex Ritson: A crush of people at a political campaign rally in Tamil Nadu, India, has left at least 39 people dead and more than 50 injured.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The event in which the actor and aspiring politician Vijay was speaking attracted thousands of people who surrounded his vehicle as he spoke.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Our global affairs reporter, Anbarasan Etirajan, spoke to Samantha Simmons about what happened.
--:-- Anbarasan Etirajan: The relatives of those still missing or those who were injured or died in this unfortunate event, they have been searching various hospitals in the town of Karur in the western part of Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
--:-- Anbarasan Etirajan: Now, as you said, thousands of people had gathered for this political rally by Vijay, a very well-known, very popular film star turned politician, to listen to his speech.
--:-- Anbarasan Etirajan: He has been holding these rallies across the state for the past few months. ahead of the state elections, and he's rising as a political force in the southern Indian state.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And we don't know exactly how this crash happened, how the surge happened, but television pictures were showing how hundreds of fans, they were breaking through these barricades set up by police to have a glimpse of this actor.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He's very popular among the youth and also among women. No one expected this type of crowd.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He has been attracting huge crowds in these meetings. and the people were fainting as he was speaking and he was even asking people to leave way for ambulances and the police were trying to control the situation and then this crash happened and it was very tragic.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has issued a condolence message like many other political leaders but once again it has also shown how crowd control is still a massive subject.
--:-- Alex Ritson: People need to learn on these things, authorities as well as political parties
--:-- Alex Ritson: But in the meantime, when the people are still looking for the relatives, dozens have been injured and the casualty figure is likely to go up.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And Ambaru-san, can you tell us a bit more about Vijay and his career as an actor and as a politician?
--:-- Anbarasan Etirajan: Vijay, he's very popular among the youth. He's acted in more than 70 films in the southern Tamil film industry.
--:-- Anbarasan Etirajan: And he was someone who's always fighting for justice, this angry young man image, and then taking on the authorities.
--:-- Alex Ritson: When he launched his political party last year at TVK, Tamaragha Vetri Karakam, the fact that he was drawing huge crowds shows that he is a force to reckon with for other political parties
--:-- Alex Ritson: In fact some of the major political parties were trying to have an alliance with him but he was very clear that he wanted to go alone.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So he wanted to make a mark. Then this unfortunate incident has happened.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He has described this as a very tragic event, indescribable pain. He was sorrowed by this.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Now, at the moment, the priority is for taking all those injured people to various hospitals and the government there has rushed dozens of doctors to this town of Karur so that they can be treated.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And Barasan Etarajan.
--:-- Alex Ritson: A triple homicide that's thought to have been streamed on social media has shocked people in Argentina and around the world after three women were lured to a house, tortured and killed.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Thousands of protesters were on the streets of buenos aires on saturday marching on congress to demand justice with the victims families carrying banners and photographs of them other protests against femicide took place around the country
--:-- Alex Ritson: Stephanie Prentice told me more the details being reported in domestic press in argentina are too graphic to discuss but suggest these three young women, one of them was actually only 15, were subjected to different types of torture at a house in Buenos Aires by a gang of people.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And it's those sorts of details that are really fueling the shock, anger and outrage across Argentina.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So far, police have arrested 12 people.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It seems that under questioning, one of them revealed the killings were streamed into a live Instagram group that could have been watched by around 45 members of this private account.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Now, the women's bodies were found buried in a garden. It was five days after they were missing, and they were seen on CCTV getting into a white van.
--:-- Alex Ritson: That van was found burnt out near that property.
--:-- Alex Ritson: An early investigation suggests they'd been invited to a party that was actually a trap by a drug-dealing gang.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The Buenos Aires security minister has said in video footage of the torture, a gang leader can be heard and he's saying this is what happens to people who steal drugs from me and the governor of Buenos Aires has posted on X saying drug trafficking knows no borders or jurisdictions and it employs all forms of sexist violence.
--:-- Alex Ritson: As you mentioned Stephanie we saw a large-scale protest in the capital it was peaceful but the strength of sentiment was very clear people people were crying people were holding banners and photographs.
--:-- Alex Ritson: They were Alex The sentiment was certainly clear.
--:-- Alex Ritson: A relative of one of the victims, that was Lara Gutierrez, her aunt was at the march and we can listen to her.
--:-- Alex Ritson: She's saying, please, as a country, join us. It's a rallying cry.
--:-- Alex Ritson: She's saying what happened is terrible. And it happened to all of us, not just our family.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It happened to us as a society, as mothers, daughters and sisters.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And a lot of the banners we saw, they related to femicide rates in Argentina, members of the Neonomenos feminist movement were there.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's been pushing for more public awareness of femicide, stronger protections for women, pushing for things like increasing funding for women's shelters, and actually criticising proposals to remove the classification of femicide in Argentina.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The other piece of this is the crime's alleged drug links.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So overall, Argentina has less drug-related violence than many of its neighbouring countries, So the brutality and the visibility of this crime, it's really notable there.
--:-- Alex Ritson: On the ground, some activists in some of Buenos Aires more disadvantaged neighborhoods have been warning of crime gangs expanding.
--:-- Alex Ritson: We know a religious leader from San Justo, where one of the victims lived, he released a statement in response to these killings.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He said large areas have been left at the mercy of small and large scale drug mafias.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So overall, this crime has shone a light into ongoing social issues.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's led to more calls for reform as well as those calls for justice for the victims.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Brenda del Castillo, Moreno Verdi and Lara Gutierrez. Stephanie Prentice.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Ever since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a range of sanctions have been imposed on Russia and its close ally Belarus, including in the sporting arena.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Now, the International Paralympic Committee, the IPC, has voted not to maintain the partial suspensions of the two countries.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The decision could pave the way for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their own flags at next year's Winter Paralympic Games.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Ukraine has accused the committee of betraying the spirit of the competition.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The BBC's Danny Eberhardt has been telling James Kumrasamy about today's decision and the background to it.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: So this was a vote held at the General Assembly. so the member nations of the IPC in Seoul and South Korea, and it changed the vote in the last General Assembly in 2023 in Bahrain.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: So what happened in the arc of the war, shall we say, is that after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the IPC banned all para-athletes from Russia and Belarus from the Beijing Winter Paralympics.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: Later at the General Assembly in 2023, It changed that. The member states said it was a partial suspension.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: So athletes from Russia and Belarus could participate, but only as neutrals.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Now the decision has been made to restore full rights to both of those countries.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And it means that they can compete under the national flag and with, for example, the national anthems of those two nations.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So quite a victory for the Russians and the Belarusians as well. and a defeat, you have to say, for the Ukrainians.
--:-- Alex Ritson: What's the reaction to this been?
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: So Russia, understandably, has hailed that decision.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: They've called it fair. That was the verdict of the Russian Paralympic Committee.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: They said that the rights of athletes must be protected without discrimination on the basis of nationality and political affiliation.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The Ukrainians, obviously, are totally appalled by this.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So there's been accusations from the sports minister that this is a betrayal of consciences and of Olympic values.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The head of Ukraine's National Paralympic Committee, Valery Sushekiewicz, has told me the prospect of his athletes being at medal ceremonies next to Russian military para-athletes appalls him.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: I can't imagine that my sportsmen during the Paralympic Games are standing on the podium and look before him or maybe near him. Military athletes from Russia, these military athletes maybe kill his daughter, his wife and kill children.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: And it is criminal, criminal killer. but today he is athletic of Paralympic national team of Russia.
--:-- Alex Ritson: What do you think? What my sportsmen will be feeling in this situation? It is terrible.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: Mr. Sushkiewicz has also heavily criticised the Paralympic committee itself.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: He said that basically this decision discredits the entire movement
--:-- Alex Ritson: And he has put the shift in votes from 2023 to now down to a concerted Russian diplomatic offensive.
--:-- Danny Eberhardt: So he said that has changed countries voting patterns, particularly in Asia and Africa.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Mr. Sushkiewicz also criticised the Paralympic decision.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He said it actually is a complete abrogation of everything that the movement stands for in terms of human rights.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And so he has come up with some very hard hitting comments on that as well.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's worth underlining here that it's not absolutely certain that Russian and Belarusian athletes will be at the Milan Cortina Games in March next year.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The reason for this is that international sporting federations that govern the sports that happen at the Winter Olympics have their own bans in place on Russian and Belarusian athletes.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So that complicates the situation quite a lot.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Danny Eberhard.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The people of Moldova are voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday that could have a major impact on the government's quest to join the European Union.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Russia has invested heavily in restoring its influence as a popular pro-Russian group seeks to steer the small nation away from closer ties with Europe.
--:-- Alex Ritson: In the run-up to the election, our correspondent Sarah Rainsford met voters and some key players in the Moldovan capital, Kishinau, to find out what's at stake.
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: In central Kishinau with its street musicians and its pretty parks I still hear a lot of Russian spoken as well as Romanian
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: There's the Pushkin Street, and Yevgeny Anjegin is playing at the opera here.
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: The cultural ties with Russia linger, more than 30 years after the Soviet collapse.
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: But ever since Russia's all-out war on Ukraine, Moldova's government has taken a sharp political pivot away from Moscow.
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: And in this election campaign, Russia is pushing back.
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: We met the chief of police, Fiorel Chernowtseno, and he told me his investigation suggests Russia has spent upwards of $300 million here buying votes and spreading disinformation.
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: Then this week, police and prosecutors announced that dozens of men had been detained, accused of training in Serbia to stir trouble here at home.
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: The most serious thing is the preparation for destabilization and disorder.
--:-- Sarah Rainsford: Groups were trained abroad on how to break police lines and in violent protests.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I don't think anyone in Europe has experienced anything like this interference.
--:-- Alex Ritson: We understand very well that Russia will try absolutely all methods to achieve what it wants.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Just standing at the end of the main street and a little crowd starting to gather here.
--:-- Alex Ritson: They're supporters of PASS, the governing party, and they're coming to march down the central street here on the last day of political campaigning ahead of the election.
--:-- Alex Ritson: People are being handed EU flags to wave and lots of people have wrapped themselves in the red, yellow and blue national flag of Moldova.
--:-- Alex Ritson: So the front row here holding the yellow banner are all candidates in these elections and behind them marching environment minister too.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's just something because I've been hearing some very scary messaging, talking about this as the final battle for Moldova.
--:-- Alex Ritson: That's pretty strong language. Is that really how serious you think this is?
--:-- Alex Ritson: This is exactly the risks right now here in Moldova because Russia wants to use Moldova in its geopolitical attack.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Is that what people care about or do they care about the economy and about their living standards more?
--:-- Alex Ritson: It's true that in Moldova we have people that expect more from the government but the biggest threat right now is the Russian threat to overtake the power since the Russian attack in Ukraine.
--:-- Alex Ritson: That is a constant pressure from Russia to try to influence the vote.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There's a little old lady here in a flowery apron and a headscarf selling purple flowers.
--:-- Alex Ritson: She looks a bit amused. Are you going to go to the Vansu?
--:-- Alex Ritson: Of course. Are you already ready for her?
--:-- Alex Ritson: So Alexandra is saying that she hopes whoever wins this election, it means that her family will come back to Moldova, that the conditions here will be better.
--:-- Alex Ritson: She said all of her sons, all of her children have left the country, like many, many Moldovans, to work overseas, and she just wants them all to come home.
--:-- Alex Ritson: For many people, it's poverty and living standards that will be at the top of their minds when they go to vote, probably more than a threat from Russia or the danger to democracy.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Igor Dadon sees no threat at all.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He is the main opposition contender in this ballot and a former president himself.
--:-- Alex Ritson: In his office, guess whose photos are on the wall? There are Western leaders too, but definitely more Putin.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Daron says he supports Moldova joining the EU, but he also wants to go back to good relations and to trade with Russia, not sanctions.
--:-- Alex Ritson: He doesn't believe Russia is interfering in the election, and he insists instead that it's being rigged for the governing party, PAS.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Unlike the police, though, he has no evidence.
--:-- Alex Ritson: If PAS say they've won a majority on Sunday, it will be a fix. They can only get a majority by falsification.
--:-- Alex Ritson: People will come out onto the streets and protest.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Just passing the main government building here.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There's a huge EU flag draped down the front of the building.
--:-- Alex Ritson: There's been a lot of talk in Moldova for many, many years about pivotal elections, decisive moments, but this one does feel different because of the scale of the attempts by Russia to interfere with the vote here.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And also because of the context, the fact that, of course, right on Moldova's border, the war in Ukraine is still raging.
--:-- Alex Ritson: It shows what the real threat from Moscow actually is.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Sarah Rainsford.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Still to come in this podcast.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I flew near the water to escape the clouds and rain, but found that the fog lay close to the surface, and I had to rise above it.
--:-- Alex Ritson: That was Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, talking to the BBC about her achievement in 1933, a year after she completed her journey.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Four years later, she disappeared while trying to circumnavigate the globe and was never found.
--:-- Alex Ritson: That spawned numerous theories, from a simple crash to more elaborate claims of espionage or capture by a foreign power.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Now, President Trump has ordered the declassification and release of secret government records about a story which, he said, had captivated millions.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Laurie Gwen Shapiro is the author of a newly released book about Amelia Earhart called The Aviator and the Showman.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: Well, I don't think we're going to find out anything new, but I think anyone that's involved with Amelia Earhart as an industry is very excited.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: And that includes you, does it?
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: Well, I've certainly been getting a lot of calls and doing a bunch of interviews, but I think that even the people that are connected to the tourism for Amelia Earhart, they're all happy today.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: It's certainly not going to change the story.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: One of the reasons that Amelia Earhart died is because she wasn't particularly prepared for this last final flight, where many of her friends who are very seasoned pilots were warning her that this is a very dangerous stretch that goes from lay New Guinea over the Pacific Ocean.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: And she was making a pit stop at Howland Island, which is basically the size I'm going to use a New York reference, like Central Park.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: And it's very difficult to see.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: So there's no chance that other alternative theories could get more credence from the release of these records.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: I mean, specifically this theory.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: And there's a Republican member of Congress who's written to President Trump urging him to release these records because of, quote, credible firsthand accounts that the aviator was spotted on the Pacific island of Saipan.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: No, no. I mean, really, if you're really deep into the Amelia Earhart world, and especially at a very credible level, say like the directors of the Smithsonian or even the family members.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: Nobody in the family believes anything than she ran out of gas.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: Well, of course, I mean, the reason, I mean, one of the reasons why this is all still out here swirling around is because we haven't, no one's found the body.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: Is there any hope? I mean, I don't know whether this makes it anything more likely that the body could be found?
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: Yeah. I mean, I think there's credible search organizations and there are those that put out things to fundraise their expeditions.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: But you have people thinking that they have a hunch that they had a sign from above that they're the ones to find Amelia Earhart.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: You really have to be very careful.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: Those of us that are in the Amelia Earhart business, so to speak, are quite happy because it's suddenly like she's again on the front page news.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: And Amelia Earhart has always been very useful for people that need to draw attention to, for whatever reason, to something that is very exciting.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: She's a fascinating woman, full stop.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: She was a brave woman, but she also was not, again, at her ability.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: She had left a lot of equipment behind. She did not learn Morse code.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: So there's a combination of her being this fascinating, great woman.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: And really, this is a tragedy foretold.
--:-- Laurie Gwen Shapiro: It's not the story that is not conspiracy-laden, but at the same time, any kind of attention to it is welcomed by people in the Amelia Earhart industry.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Laurie Gwen Shapiro, biographer of Amelia Earhart, was speaking to James Kumrasami.
--:-- 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.
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--:-- Alex Ritson: This edition was mixed by Rose Enwin Dorrell and the editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.
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