--:-- Celia Hatton: This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton.
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--:-- Celia Hatton: In this edition, how one man's search for his birth mother led him back to someone he already knew.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: It's like I automatically knew him. I felt like I hadn't been separated from him.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: She was already a lady that I respected. And I felt like the conversation was always like that of a mother figure.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: Also. With power comes responsibility. And hopefully, you know, with this platform, we can become stronger, you know, and be able to change all these things that truly can be changed.
--:-- Celia Hatton: The international football star who cycles to work and wears secondhand clothes.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: Green turtles have bounced back from the brink of extinction. It just tells this great story of how people across the planet can come together to turn things around. And that is amazing.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Plus, why the man who won one of the world's most prestigious awards initially thought his wife was joking.
--:-- Celia Hatton: She started screaming, my God, my God. And she said, you won the Nobel Prize. And I said, I did not win the Nobel Prize. She said, I have 200 text messages that said you won the Nobel Prize.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Well, first, we start with an incredible story about separation, love, and cake.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Vimar Hunter loved to visit the Gimme Some Sugar Bakery in his home neighborhood in Chicago, enjoying the cakes, pies, and cookies, but also the warm company of the owner, Lenore Lindsay.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Vimar had a tough time growing up and only discovered he was adopted when he was in his 30s. Years later, he decided to look for his birth mother.
--:-- Celia Hatton: A genealogy expert tracked her down and told him to expect a call. When his phone rang, it was the bakery, and his birth mother was none other than Lenore.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: So I called and he said, Miss Lenore? I said, yeah. He said, give me some sugar, Miss Lenore? I said, yeah. And he said, it's Vermar, Vermar Hunter.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: So hold on, so straight away, he knew you were the woman in the bakery. He knew because he had my number in his cell phone.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: And I called him from the bakery phone because I wasn't exactly sure who he was, so he wouldn't have my real number.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: It took a second for me to put it together. I knew I was calling my son.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: Okay, he didn't know. But he didn't know who was calling him. So therefore, when Give Me Some Sugar popped up, he's just thinking, why is you give me some sugar calling me? Right.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: When I'm waiting for a call from my mother. Right.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: How did the conversation progress? What did you actually tell him?
--:-- Mabin Azhar: We didn't say anything. We just realized the minute I'm hearing his voice and he tells me who he is, then I knew, oh, my goodness, he'd been coming in all this time.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: And this was my son. And that was just like clicked in my spirit. And I knew it was real and that this was true.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: So we're just like crying and screaming on the phone and we just for like five minutes or something like that.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: And this was unbelievable because the complete miracle of it.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: She was already a lady that I respected. And I felt like the conversation was always like that of a mother figure.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: Like, you know, she'd be like, so when are you when are you going to get married? He had a playhouse and, you know, like that.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: So that was always the interaction.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: The next step was to organize a meetup. You know, his family was going to want to meet me and everything and some of his friends.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: And so we actually had a big meeting at the church. That was a pretty exciting day.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: Were you nervous?
--:-- Mabin Azhar: No, I mean, I know you. Like, you know, she actually fit in with with my circle and how I how I move amongst people anyway.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: So it was really for me, it was kind of like after we had that conversation, it's like I automatically knew him.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: I felt like I hadn't been separated from him, which is really what my friends and family say.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: They kind of go, you just like went zoop and connected and being around him more.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: He is like so much us. It's crazy. He is just like my family without having been around my family.
--:-- Mabin Azhar: And that's what's so absolutely cool.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: Yeah, it's made me a lot more open. It's made me, I think I'm more emotional now.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: This made me more motherly. Yes. Toward Rachel too.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: It's a weird thing. It's like almost like now I'm free to be a mom, sort of.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: Where before I had to lock that down from, so it was like from the time I was 17, you know, that was on lockdown and you didn't have those kinds of emotions and you had to get through your life.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: And my job was to march through life. So yeah, I was feeling things in a lot different ways.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: So now, you know, Rachel and I will be on the phone for three or four hours at a time.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: I can't even describe it. It's just how much warmer I am and how much more, you know, attentive I am to her life.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: I'm just, I'm just, I'm a mess, you know, mostly these days about both of them.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: I think she's awesome as a mother. Like, at this stage of life, I view things a lot differently than somebody who probably has had their mother for the entirety of their life.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: At my age, you've had your parents in your life long enough to say, you get on my nerves. I'm sick of y'all. I don't feel like it, you know, whatever.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: But of course, they still love their parents. But there's that level of you take them for granted.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: And for me, there's none of that. It's like, man, you know, I'm eager to learn more about her.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: I love everything about my mom. You know, I love her sincerity, her humor, you know, her work ethic.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: But it's fun to talk about our differences because we're both at a stage where we can do it in a healthy manner and a respectful manner.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: And we have ears open because we both want to hear.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: I want to know what you're thinking. You know, she want to know what I'm thinking.
--:-- Lenore Lindsay: It's like, it's that curiosity. And it's been awesome, you know.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Vimar Hunter and Lenore Lindsay. And you can hear more from them on Lives Less Ordinary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Now around the world, the top players in men football are associated with luxury lifestyles, Rolexes and all of that.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But one player is determined to do his part to change that image, opting instead to cycle to work, use public transport and wear secondhand clothes.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: Hector Bellerin, who plays for the Seville team Real Betis in Spain's La Liga, is passionate about trying to live a more sustainable life, something he shares with his 3.7 million followers on social media.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: He's just been named global champion at the BBC Green Sport Awards, and he's been speaking to the BBC's Elizabeth Conway.
--:-- Elizabeth Conway: Well, I feel with power comes responsibility you know I think is some sort of duty for for the people that we have these kind of platforms and not just on social media but like just football itself every time they put a microphone next to you there's always a chance to talk about issues for me sustainability has something it is something that has touched me pretty close since since I was pretty young
--:-- Elizabeth Conway: I'm a kid that has grown up in nature in the sea in the mountains football has brought me to many different cities and and to question the way I and we consume we we move around we eat there's so many decisions that I feel that I could take and I could promote these messages to just try to generate and and promote a better life and a safer space for for everyone
--:-- Hector Bellerin: You know so when we talk about what you do on a daily basis where you make more sustainable choices can you give us some examples of things you do daily which other people perhaps wouldn't that you try to encourage the first one which for me is the most important and it's not something that happens every day but it's something that we all must do which is vote for me that is the number one way that we can all change
--:-- Hector Bellerin: There's always governments that are more willing to take in projects and and laws in favor of a greener planet and when we talk about our day-to-day lives I always feel that this is important to take time to really think every time we consume and where from
--:-- Hector Bellerin: I think we're bombarded constantly with like ads and publicity making you feel the need that you need to buy something that was probably something that two days ago you didn't even think about
--:-- Hector Bellerin: I've been consuming secondhand clothes and shoes for a really long time but I remember there was a time that I saw these shoes it took me six months to buy them and I wear those shoes almost all the time and that's just a way of not just questioning before you consume but once you consume a good make sure that you use it make sure you give it a good life and when you never you don't need it anymore for whatever reason make sure that another life is given to to that product
--:-- Hector Bellerin: And we also hear that you don't often take the car and when you can you would cycle to training yeah the heat here is like pretty overwhelming at times but i move around uh walking on my bike around the city i also take the bus quite a lot here in the city
--:-- Hector Bellerin: I know it will be easier many times to just ring a cab, you know, I'm very privileged. I know I have the chance to do it, but I feel that's the way it should be.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: And I know sometimes I need to plan my journey the day before, and sometimes it's a bit more uncomfortable.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: To be honest, most of those decisions are a bit more uncomfortable. But if you have the chance of making them and you have the time, I feel the more demand there is on it as well, the better the public transport would be.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: And I think it's the right thing to do, you know. We need greener cities with less cars.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: And it's a joy when you just walk down the street and, you know, the air is cleaner. The streets are for everyone and they're for us to enjoy.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: And we need to also ask for cities that everyone can enjoy. And I think that in itself creates more community.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: Is it difficult to have your opinions on the fact that football needs to be more sustainable when things like the World Cup happening this summer are across three different countries with more countries than ever, so much air travel?
--:-- Hector Bellerin: Well, definitely it is. I'm not the one that makes the choices over here.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: I've come to the realisation with time that just because football works that way, I'm not going to stop doing what I've worked for and what I love.
--:-- Hector Bellerin: I'm very conscious of how the football industry works. But I'm just a football player and I don't even think that I can change anything but I can raise my voice and hopefully with this platform that we have we can become stronger and be able to change all these things that truly can be changed.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Now to a major conservation victory. Green turtles have been rescued from the brink of extinction.
--:-- Celia Hatton: They were once hunted extensively for their meat, eggs and decorative shells and had been listed as endangered since the 1980s.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But thanks to decades of global efforts, green turtle populations are now rebounding.
--:-- Harry Bly: The red list of endangered species is updated regularly and more and more species are added to the list all the time and generally it's bad news, things going from bad to worse.
--:-- Harry Bly: So it is quite remarkable to get a story like this where numbers are rebounding.
--:-- Harry Bly: But a long history of exploitation, a massive conservation effort across the world over five decades to protect the green turtle and news that it's been downgraded on the red list to have least concern as Dr Nicholas Pilcher of the Marine Research Foundation based in Sabah, Malaysia explains.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: It just tells this great story of how people across the planet can come together to turn things around and turn the trajectory, the negative trajectory of turtles into a positive one. And that is amazing.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: It really is. We've got to be careful, though, because while this is a great story, there are other species that aren't faring anywhere near as well.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: Let's use this win as a catalyst to achieve numerous other wins.
--:-- Helen Briggs: Lots of things. So working across the whole life cycle of the sea turtle, if you like, of the green turtle on land.
--:-- Helen Briggs: It was about protecting the beaches where the females lay their eggs. So patrolling the beaches, protecting the females, protecting the eggs, releasing the hatchlings out into the ocean.
--:-- Helen Briggs: At sea, sea turtles tend to get accidentally caught in fishing nets. So it's developing technology to try and help them.
--:-- Helen Briggs: Something called a turtle excluded device, which is sort of like an escape hatch that's added to a net so that if a turtle gets stuck in the net, it can find its way out.
--:-- Helen Briggs: An education and public awareness that these animals are endangered, working with local communities to protect them.
--:-- Helen Briggs: So a massive effort across the world involving huge numbers of both conservation scientists but crucially local people and the general public
--:-- Helen Briggs: And this work has to go on as well So even though numbers are rebounding they have to keep doing this conservation work to protect the green turtle
--:-- Helen Briggs: Presumably some of these methods that have helped green turtles, you've mentioned there the turtle escape hatch, will also be good for other animals which are endangered or under threat.
--:-- Helen Briggs: That's right, yes. So a lot of work on stopping fishing nets catching accidentally species that shouldn't be there.
--:-- Helen Briggs: And it's about protecting a whole ocean habitat and whole ecosystems, really.
--:-- Helen Briggs: So by protecting some of these species that grab the limelight, like sea turtles, because they are incredibly charismatic, You can also protect whole areas of ocean and lesser known species that perhaps don't get as much attention, as Dr. Pilcher here explains.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: You can't deny that green sea turtles have everything going for them. The little baby hatchlings are some of the cutest things on the planet.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: And so what happens with species that aren't quite that majestic? Well, one of the things I think is that sea turtles can actually bridge that divide.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: There's a whole bunch of seahorse species, for instance, growing in seagrass beds where sea turtles feed. And if we protect sea turtles, that means we have to protect seagrass beds, which means indirectly we're protecting those less charismatic seahorses.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: We need to step up and we need to recognise that it's all species on the planet that require protection. It's not about just the pretty ones.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: The scientists, they sort of tell me their lessons from this. It's about celebrating this win, but using it to galvanise support for conservation, inspiring people to make a difference and inspiring people to love the oceans.
--:-- Dr Nicholas Pilcher: Because despite all of the depressing stories we hear about species sliding to extinction, we can all do little things that can make a difference.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Coming up in this podcast, the cafe that's helping homeless people with jobs as well as meals.
--:-- Celia Hatton: What a great community. You're feeling welcomed and everybody loves you. I mean, truly, they welcome you and trust you. Massively uplifting.
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--:-- Celia Hatton: America is changing. And so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval.
--:-- Celia Hatton: It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
--:-- Celia Hatton: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. I'm Tristan Redman in London, and this is The Global Story.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Celia Hatton: It's been the week of Nobel Prizes, recognizing some of the amazing discoveries that are improving lives around the world.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And in medicine, the prize went to three scientists for their discoveries that explain how our immune systems attack hostile infections, but not our body's own cells.
--:-- Celia Hatton: The work of Japan's Shimon Sakaguchi and U.S. researchers Mary Brunko and Fred Ramsdell is being used to develop new treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But while the rest of the world learned who won the award on Monday, Dr. Ramsdale didn't hear the news for a while, as he explained over the phone while on the road to my colleague Tim Franks.
--:-- Tim Franks: My wife and I and my two dogs often take a long, extended camping, backpacking trip right after Labor Day.
--:-- Tim Franks: We did so this year, and we were in the high country in western Wyoming, a little bit east of Yellowstone National Park, up pretty high in the mountains.
--:-- Tim Franks: So there's no service of any kind up there. So I stick my phone in airplane mode and we had a bunch of snow, but we managed to get out.
--:-- Tim Franks: It was our last day of the trip actually. And we drove through Yellowstone looking at elk and moose and all sorts of other things.
--:-- Tim Franks: And then as we got out of the mountains, my wife's phone essentially exploded while I was walking my dogs.
--:-- Tim Franks: And she started screaming, my God, my God. And we're actually in grizzly bear country at this point.
--:-- Tim Franks: And so I started looking around for a grizzly bear, which was not the problem.
--:-- Tim Franks: And she said, you won the Nobel Prize. And I said, I did not win the Nobel Prize.
--:-- Tim Franks: And she said, I have 200 text messages that said you won the Nobel Prize.
--:-- Tim Franks: And so we still weren't in cell communication space.
--:-- Tim Franks: So I actually, we had drove down to a small town in southern Montana, which is where we were headed anyway.
--:-- Tim Franks: And I went to the front desk of the hotel and said, I need to check in like now. So I could get service, which is what I did.
--:-- Tim Franks: And by then it was probably three o'clock in the afternoon here I called the Nobel Committee of course they were in bed because it was probably one o'clock in the morning there so then I started calling my fellow laureate and good friends and started returning phone calls etc so it was an interesting day.
--:-- Tim Franks: My goodness me an interesting day is a is a is a wonderful understatement um I just wonder I mean so many questions spring to mind I just wonder whether I mean first off whether it's the sort of trick that you might imagine that your wife would play on you she couldn't be that cruel no she couldn't and my first thought was okay i have a lot of friends but they're not coordinated enough to pull off this joke um not with that many of them at the same time so uh i knew it wasn't a joke and i knew it wasn't beyond the realm of possibility but i certainly didn't expect a nobel prize at this point so well i mean just enormous congratulations and i presume that your drive to where you managed to get a signal or wi-fi must have been one with hands shaking.
--:-- Tim Franks: But now that you've had a little bit of time, I mean, you've probably had zero sleep, but now that you've had a little time to digest, I mean, your reaction to the news itself?
--:-- Tim Franks: It's obviously amazing. I was actually doing a television interview and the person came on before he went on and said, you're smiling. And I said, how could I not be smiling right now?
--:-- Tim Franks: It's fantastic. Beyond the personal recognition, which is great, but the team, I've been in constant contact with the team that was involved in this.
--:-- Tim Franks: And you know they over the moon excited I love the fact that my two co are being honored because they both incredibly deserving
--:-- Tim Franks: You can argue people who should be on this list I not going to quibble with the Nobel Committee on any of that But it's great to have the work recognized and to really highlight what can take decades to come to fruition with some perseverance and some luck and really just some really hard work.
--:-- Tim Franks: And so it's just incredibly gratifying to me to see the work and the field get the recognition that it really deserves.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And you can find out more about his research and that of all of the Nobel Prize winners on the BBC News website.
--:-- Celia Hatton: A central London project set up as an emergency response to those left homeless on the streets during the early stages of the COVID pandemic has just celebrated its fifth anniversary.
--:-- Celia Hatton: It now serves up to 90 in a pop-up restaurant inside a church hall, supported by prestigious hotels and private members clubs in the city's wealthy Mayfair district.
--:-- Celia Hatton: The project also runs a cafe that's open to the general public, and it's staffed by homeless people and others trying to get back into work.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: in the grounds of a mayfair church a large crowd of supporters gathered to celebrate the milestone as well as to witness the launch of a new community vegetable growing project
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: it's the latest development in a much more humble original outreach initiative so i'm father dominic robinson i'm the parish priest here at farm street and i run also the central london catholic Church's homeless services, which we started five years ago in Trafalgar Square at the time when everywhere was being closed down because of the pandemic.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: There were about 200 to 300 people left on the streets and we provided food for them. Everything's gone up several notches since the early days, with support from prestigious local hotels and private members clubs such as the Connacht and Annabelle's.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: My name is Linda McHugh and I am the volunteer coordinator and it's different from the norm. We do not peel potatoes and cook food from scratch.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: What we've done is get together with lots of very prestigious restaurants, hotels and clubs and they provide us with the food.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: We're not running a soup kitchen, we're running a restaurant where they come in, sit down, they have waiters and waitresses who are our volunteers.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: Volunteer Mark Smith reflects with pride on how the original charitable project is now twinned with a going concern, a stylish cafe open to the public, which is giving people who've fallen out of the world of work a second chance.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: The restaurant service that we offer on Wednesdays and Saturdays is a sit-down service for homeless and precariously housed individuals.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: But then an outgrowth of that project was the development of the Kena Cafe.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: And we employ people who are guests upstairs, so they're homeless or unemployed, in the capacity of cooking and serving in the Kena Cafe, serving regular folks who come in off the street to pay for the food.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: Martin started off as a guest at the drop-in lunches and has progressed into a position of responsibility in the cafe.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: I basically run the cafe in terms of organisation, management and administration and the selection of volunteers.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: We have people that are having some disabilities, some people that suffer from certain substances used. So, I mean, we try to get them involved, you know, as much as we can.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: There are people who can't really work that many hours, but they can still work a little bit, or people that can have some problems of concentration, you know, and so they can do little tasks and contribute.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: Brian has also benefited from being part of the project.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: I'm the dishwasher. I get to wash all the dishes and I get to cook a little bit too.
--:-- Bernadette Keogh: What a great community. You're feeling welcomed and everybody loves you. I mean, truly, they welcome you and trust you. Yeah, massively uplifting.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But it's certainly not just about food, as Father Dominic Robinson explains.
--:-- Celia Hatton: We have also creative writing. We have Pilates. We have job creation days. We have wonderful relationships with different businesses here.
--:-- Celia Hatton: It's a real local success that the local community have come together to realise that those who are on the streets and for whatever reason they've hit hard times and need our help and need to be shown dignity.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Father Dominic Robinson, ending that report by Bernadette Keogh.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And finally for this week, we wanted to share the story of a simple act of kindness that will hopefully make you smile.
--:-- Celia Hatton: It's about a hotel worker who went above and beyond, driving hundreds of miles to return a forgotten bag to a stranger because he could tell the things inside the bag meant a lot to its owner.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Kieran Gelpin tells us more about the journey.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: Driving back after staying by Loch Lomond, Sharon Bolton realised she'd left her handbag containing several sentimental items at the Queen of the Loch pub.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: She said she was really upset about it, but couldn't get a courier because it would cost as much as the contents of the bag.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: Soon after, her phone rang.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: Here she is describing the call from Andrew Leggett, a staff member at the pub.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: He just floored me with this conversation saying, oh, I hear what happened and I hope you don't mind.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: He said, look, I can see there are some things in this bag which are sentimental value and you really ought to have.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: I believe there is a solution to all problems. And he was so upbeat.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: So I thought, well, thank you.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: His solution to this problem was to drive 400 miles, taking over seven hours, to meet Sharon near her home.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: Then he handed over her bag without anything in return.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: He explained why. It was the right thing to do.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: There were some personal things in there. And to be honest with you, it was often next year and I thought, why not?
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: It was really good to get your belongings back to you.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: When I met with you outside of the Mawson's, probably mad at the same time.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: The smile on your face was enough for us. So it was a good day.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: And if you hadn't already realised from his chipper tone, Andrew had no regrets about the 800 mile trip.
--:-- Kieran Gelpin: It was a good journey down. It was well worth the journey.
--:-- Celia Hatton: That's all from the Happy Pod for now.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But if you have a story you think we should cover, or you'd like to comment on anything you've heard, we'd love to hear from you.
--:-- Celia Hatton: As ever, the address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And you can now watch some of our interviews on YouTube.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Just search for The Happy Pod.
--:-- Celia Hatton: This edition was produced by Harry Bly and Rachel Bolkley and mixed by Rebecca Miller.
--:-- Celia Hatton: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Celia Hatton: I'm Celia Hatton. Until next time, goodbye.
--:-- Celia Hatton: America is changing. And so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval.
--:-- Celia Hatton: It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
--:-- Celia Hatton: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. I'm Tristan Redman in London.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And this is The Global Story.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
