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--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 1300 Hours GMT on the 12th of September, these are our main stories.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: President Trump says the authorities believe with a high degree of certainty they've caught the suspect in the shooting of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Washington threatens further action against Brazil after the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is convicted of plotting a coup.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Israel intensifies its military offensive in Gaza City, issuing a new mass evacuation order for the territory's biggest urban area.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Also in this podcast, ahead of Malawi's election next week, the push to get more women involved in politics.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Trust me, in 2030, our generation, my people right now, our generation is going to ensure that this never happens again. We're working towards breaking down those barriers.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: We start in the US, where, as we record this podcast, President Trump says he believes the suspect in the shooting of the conservative youth leader, Charlie Kirk, is in custody.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This is what the president said when interviewed on Fox News channels, Fox and Friends.
--:-- Donald Trump: Can I always say, I think, just to protect us all so Fox doesn't get sued and we all don't get sued and everything else. But I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him. We're in custody, right? In custody. Everyone did a great job. We worked with the local police, the governor. Everybody did a great job.
--:-- Donald Trump: Mr Trump added, somebody very close to him turned him in. He said there'd be an announcement later.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: There's been a massive manhunt after Charlie Cook was fatally shot in Utah on Wednesday as he was addressing a student gathering at a university campus.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Since then, people have gathered to pay their respects. Our correspondent, Neda Tofik, has been speaking to people at a vigil in Orem, Utah.
--:-- Neda Tofik: Let us pray.
--:-- Neda Tofik: At an outdoor park, hundreds in Orem turned up to pay their final respects to Charlie Kirk. Around them, a large police presence to give them comfort.
--:-- Neda Tofik: Some addressed the crowd to share their reflections. And some people maybe didn't agree with everything that Charlie Kirk said.
--:-- Neda Tofik: 100% behind everything he said. Regardless, we're here together to help each other grow and to heal. And I believe it's important to realize this is not a battle of right versus left. This is a battle of good versus evil.
--:-- Neda Tofik: McCain Miller wore a shirt with Charlie Kirk's name drawn in large letters.
--:-- Neda Tofik: The 17-year-old said he became a Republican after listening to and meeting the right-wing activist.
--:-- Neda Tofik: I'm really sad. I feel like people are feeling angry, but I'm just feeling sadness. My heart's broken. I really looked up to him.
--:-- Neda Tofik: And how concerned are you about the direction of the country? And what have you made of all of the discussion around his death?
--:-- Neda Tofik: I think it's not going the way that we want to go. I think we all need to really come together as a country.
--:-- Neda Tofik: And this is an opportunity for us to do that because we're so radically, left side and right side, we're both radically positioned so far that we're going to extreme lengths for this. And this is an example of that right here today.
--:-- Neda Tofik: You're quite emotional right now. Tell me what you're feeling.
--:-- Neda Tofik: My heart is broken.
--:-- Neda Tofik: Angie Hulley was there with her son Dalton, who witnessed the fatal shooting.
--:-- Neda Tofik: My son is 21, and he is just coming into learning about politics. And I really think that listening and watching his YouTube videos helps him. Because he has the same values as Charlie Kirk does.
--:-- Neda Tofik: So you agree, right?
--:-- Neda Tofik: And we pray for our officers, for the FBI, that they can be blessed with insight and the skills needed to find the shooter and any that are involved.
--:-- Neda Tofik: 30-year-old Aaron Lindsay connected with Charlie Kirk because of his faith.
--:-- Neda Tofik: I respect his stance on allowing people to share their opinions. When we have a platform where we are able to talk civilly. That allows us to form a bridge and understanding.
--:-- Neda Tofik: Charlie Kirk's casket arrived back in his hometown in Arizona as they gathered. This a final goodbye and a moment of unity during these tense times.
--:-- Neda Tofik: Ned Atorfic in Utah.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Brazilians are coming to terms with the news that their former president, Jair Bolsonaro, faces 27 years in jail after being convicted of plotting a coup, as the United States threatened to respond against a ruling President Trump called very bad for Brazil.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This was the moment the Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Carmen Lucia, delivered the decisive vote to convict Mr Bolsonaro.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: As the dust settles, reactions inside Brazil reflect a nation divided.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: This was the reaction of Paulo Figueiredo, a Bolsonaro supporter and grandson of the former president of Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship.
--:-- Paulo Figueiredo: This is obviously a very sad day for the country. We can say also that it's very similar to what they tried to do in the United States with a former president, now President Donald Trump.
--:-- Paulo Figueiredo: The difference that they were, the institutions in Brazil weren't strong enough to resist the weaponization of the Supreme Court. So that's why we have right now the most popular leader in the country being sent to prison for 27 years, more than drug dealers, murderers and serious criminals.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: To discuss what the verdict means for Jair Bolsonaro and for Brazil, I've been talking to our world affairs reporter, Mimi Suave.
--:-- Mimi Suave: This has been a highly divisive, highly polarising case from start to finish, and that has continued in the verdict.
--:-- Mimi Suave: Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro have taken to the street really pushing for amnesty. They're saying you can't send this 70-year-old man to prison where he will spend the rest of his days.
--:-- Mimi Suave: Brazil has a long history with military dictatorships and rule, but it's always given a sense of an ethos of forgive, give amnesty and move on.
--:-- Mimi Suave: But this is a very different approach, a new path for Brazil.
--:-- Mimi Suave: Whereas critics of Jair Bolsonaro have said, even plotting a coup didn't go through but even plotting it and being aware of the conspiracy to kill his rival left-wing the current president Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva that is enough to warrant such a absurdly excessive sentence according to Bolsonaro lawyers
--:-- Mimi Suave: So does Bolsonaro have options to challenge this? His lawyers definitely will challenge this. They are looking to appeal and his supporters in parliament are really pushing for amnesty going through the National Congress, starting with the chamber of deputies.
--:-- Mimi Suave: Although this will be really hard to appeal this verdict, as only one out of the five judges acquitted him, not the two needed to actually appeal the verdict.
--:-- Mimi Suave: So that is a very important fact in this case, which makes the next steps for Bolsonaro to seek any kind of way out of this very difficult.
--:-- Mimi Suave: Now, there have been strong words of support for Jair Bolsonaro from the Trump administration.
--:-- Mimi Suave: How is that going to play into this situation, do you think, in Brazil?
--:-- Mimi Suave: President Donald Trump has been a strong ally of Bolsonaro from the start. He came out with very strong discourse saying he was very surprised by the verdict.
--:-- Mimi Suave: And it's very bad for Brazil. He likened it to his own experiences.
--:-- Mimi Suave: And Washington have said they're going to take the appropriate action.
--:-- Mimi Suave: And this comes after the US has already put 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods. They sanctioned one of the judges in the case as well.
--:-- Mimi Suave: So it really has even widened the divide.
--:-- Mimi Suave: You've got Bolsonaro supporters backed by the US, the US imposing its economic and political might trying to influence this trial.
--:-- Mimi Suave: And then Lula and his supporters and what he calls Brazilian democracy, which the foreign ministry today said will not be intimidated by these threats from the US who, like I said, have come out with some really strong discourse.
--:-- Mimi Suave: They've backed Bolsonaro from the start and seemingly are going to continue to do that.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Israel has issued another mass evacuation order for Gaza City as it steps up its military offensive there.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Thousands of people have already fled as Israel's military continues to target buildings and areas it claims are being used by Hamas.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: A correspondent, Wira Davis, is in Jerusalem.
--:-- Wira Davis: For several days now, Israel has been issuing pretty stark warnings to the one million or so people who live in or are in Gaza City to move further south to an area called Almawasi, which Israel says is a designated safe zone because of Israel's expanding and intensifying military campaign targeted on Gaza City.
--:-- Wira Davis: But the problem is that Almawasi itself is not really a safe zone. It's been attacked and people have been killed there.
--:-- Wira Davis: Also, many people in Gaza City have very little money, very little means to travel.
--:-- Wira Davis: There is nowhere really in Gaza that can be categorized as safe.
--:-- Wira Davis: So what's happening is that hundreds of thousands of people are refusing or reluctant to move.
--:-- Wira Davis: So Israel has now issued a new evacuation order, and it says there are six areas in central Gaza and eight areas in southern Gaza towards which people can leave, and Israel, again, has designated these as safe zones.
--:-- Wira Davis: The reality is that many of them are very close to Israeli military positions, and there has been increasing military activity all over Gaza.
--:-- Wira Davis: So it will be interesting to see if this Israeli warning, which is, again, a very stark warning, telling people they're not safe if they don't move, if it will be successful or not.
--:-- Wira Davis: Because a lot of them have moved time and time again already, haven't they?
--:-- Wira Davis: Yeah, people have been displaced six or seven times during this war.
--:-- Wira Davis: Specifically those who live in northern Gaza, they were moved south. During the ceasefire we had in February, March, some of them were allowed to go back north.
--:-- Wira Davis: Gaza City being the biggest conurbation, people think it might have more food than other areas.
--:-- Wira Davis: And a lot of people are living in tents. They're not even living in houses.
--:-- Wira Davis: A lot of buildings, of course, are being destroyed.
--:-- Wira Davis: The Israeli prime minister acknowledged in a speech a couple of days ago that in recent days, more than 50 buildings in Gaza City had been blown up by the Israeli air force.
--:-- Wira Davis: So even if people are living there, it's a very temporary existence.
--:-- Wira Davis: Is the Israeli military saying anything about their strategy?
--:-- Wira Davis: Not yet. We haven't had this declaration yet, this expected big ground push by the Israelis, which will include, as I thought, tanks and troops on the ground.
--:-- Wira Davis: But what Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu wants to do is control the whole of Gaza and defeat Hamas completely before he is ready to end the war.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: More than 300 South Korean workers detained last week by the US immigration authorities have arrived home, marking the end of a saga that had threatened to disrupt the close relationship between the two countries.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The workers arrived at Seoul's international airport to be greeted by a small crowd, including one person wearing a Donald Trump mask and holding a banner that depicted an ICE agent carrying a gun and a chain.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Our correspondent in Seoul, Jean McKenzie, was at the airport.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: Honestly, they looked exhausted. I mean, they were very subdued.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: Bear in mind that they had just got off a 15-hour flight.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: They have spent a week now in detention and they had gone to the US to do short term work to help build this car battery factory.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: Part of the US push really to get companies, foreign companies, to move their manufacturing to the States.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: And then they were ambushed by these immigration officials about a week ago and carted off in chains and handcuffs, which I think was probably the most shocking thing to people here in South Korea.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: But today they were brought through the terminal by one of the companies who'd organised their returns.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: They were brought through in very small groups.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: They were put then onto buses and their families were waiting for them elsewhere.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: So we didn't get to see those emotional family reunions, which I'm sure they would have been.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: But one man did shout, I'm home, I'm free.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: So definitely a sense of relief.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: What has been reaction to this incident in South Korea?
--:-- Jean McKenzie: You say people have been shocked by some of it.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: Yeah, I mean, hugely shocked.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: If you think that South Korea is one of the US's closest allies, its companies have invested billions in the US.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: They've really subscribed to what the US wants, which is trying to move their manufacturing to the States.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: So when people hear all those pictures of these workers not only being rounded up and taken into detention, but as I said, like chained and with handcuffs on, they were absolutely horrified.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: And we did have, you mentioned it earlier, but these protesters at the airport, just a couple, but they were holding up these signs saying, you know, look, we invest in your country and you arrest us.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: You treat us like criminals.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: And I think that is what people here are struggling to come to terms with.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: You know, these people were here short term to build these factories in the States, to install this quite specialist, high tech equipment.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: They weren't planning to work in the United States long term.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: The idea is that those jobs in those factories would go to American workers.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: And I think it's highlighted this tension between two of Trump's main aims.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: He wants these companies to invest in the United States, but at the same time he wants to cut immigration.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: And the U.S. has said all along, well, these workers didn't have the right visas.
--:-- Jean McKenzie: But the South Korean government has said, well, yeah, but we've been trying for years to get them the right visas and you haven't been granting them.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: In Pakistan, rescuers say they're struggling to respond to the growing flood emergency in the province of Punjab.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: More than 4,000 villages have been submerged and 2 million people displaced in the country's most populous province, while across the nation more than 900 people have been killed since monsoon rains started in June.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Our Pakistan correspondent, Azadeh Mishiri, is in one of the worst affected areas.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: In our boat, we pass six men wading through the floods, dragging six of their buffaloes with them.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: But one of the animals breaks free and starts drifting away in the currents.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: The man can do nothing but look on, as their prized possession and part of their livelihoods disappears into the waters.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: Sitting with us is Mohamed Arif.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: He asking for directions because he has lost sight of his entire village It submerged and with vast amounts of water stretching out all around us he just can find it
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: People have been stuck for the past six days.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: There's no food.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: In the distance, we spot two minarets peeking over the edge of the water that guide him home.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: When we get there, many people are desperate to leave.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: But there isn't space in our boat for all of them.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: Some weep as they're forced to leave family members behind.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: Back on dry land, those who've been rescued still need help.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: Dozens of people run towards a truck full of food and water.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: Give me, one girl begs, desperate for a loaf of bread and competing for it with the other children and adults around her.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: Despite help from the army, rescuers are struggling to reach everyone who needs help.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: In two months, more than two million people have been evacuated in Punjab.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: One man, Obaidullah, decides to take matters into his own hands.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: A lot of people are still stuck and we are unable to bring our own belongings.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: We built a boat for ourselves and we are doing everything ourselves.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: We're in a boat with rescuers in the middle of the sudlej river dozens of families are in this boat there are children sitting on their parents laps while many have chosen to go to shelters stay with families on higher ground many others are deciding to stay in their village they say they've been through so many floods so many evacuations over the years they just don't want to go through it all over again.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: They'd rather take their chances and face the floods.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: More than 40% of people live below the poverty line in Pakistan.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: Millions live in areas that are destroyed again and again from annual floods.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: But they simply can't afford to move anywhere else.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: That's the reality of climate change.
--:-- Azadeh Mishiri: It hits the poorest, the worst.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Coming up...
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: So this fireball streaked across the sky and we think dropped up to 10 kilos at a time of space rock across the Highlands.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Looking for the remains of a meteorite in the Scottish Highlands.
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--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Russia and Belarus have begun a major joint military exercise close to NATO's eastern flank.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: It comes just days after what Warsaw called an unprecedented Russian drone incursion into its territory.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Donald Trump has suggested the incursion might have been a mistake, but that was brushed off by the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake, he wrote on X, but it wasn't, and we know it.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Radek Sikorsky is Poland's foreign minister and deputy prime minister.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: He's currently in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and he echoed Mr Tusk's comments.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: They've come from over both Ukraine and Belarus.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: The first one before midnight, the last one we shot down at 6.30 in the morning.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: So the firefight lasted for seven hours.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: The same night here in Kiev, over Ukraine, they've sent 400 drones and 40 missiles.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: These are no mistakes.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: We've had these triannual ZAPAD exercises before.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: They always have an aggressive scenario that includes invading NATO territory.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: And in the past, it also included launching a tactical nuclear warhead.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: Belarus and Russia have been conducting a hybrid operation of pushing thousands of migrants across the border of the EU.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: We've had to build a big and beautiful fence at great expense, over half a billion euros, and it's taking up thousands of servicemen.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: So Belarus is being hostile and therefore we are taking appropriate action.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: That includes closing your border with Belarus, is that right?
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: Yes, we closed border points before in response to Belarus taking hostages from amongst minority in Belarus.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: This is now an action that is meant to persuade President Lukashenko to stop the hybrid war and to release the political prisoners.
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: Have you had any sense about whether this tactic is going to work?
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: Any dialogue with President Lukashenko, for example?
--:-- Radek Sikorsky: Well, Russia has asked us to reconsider, and of course we would reconsider if Belarus finally does what we are asking, stops assaulting our border, releases people in custody who have done no crime.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Voters in Malawi go to the polls next Tuesday to elect a president, MPs and local councillors.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: More than half of the African country 7 million registered voters are women and yet female representation in elected positions remains alarmingly low
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The BBC Nomsa Maseko has been to Malawi to find out more.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: A group of rural women sit under a huge mango tree here at Cholua Primary School, more than 100 kilometres from the capital, Lilongwe.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: They are attending a workshop on leadership and skills required for those with political ambitions.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: The September 16th election has been dominated by the cost of living, poverty and inequality, and women here want a place at the table.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: Maggie Katawerapanda is the founder of the Women's Manifesto Movement.
--:-- Maggie Katawerapanda: We have been implementing a project which we are calling Promoting Gender Inclusive and Youth Transformative Project.
--:-- Maggie Katawerapanda: So that project has been targeting women as parents.
--:-- Maggie Katawerapanda: So women that have expressed interest to contest as MPs, as councillors.
--:-- Maggie Katawerapanda: We have actually been training them.
--:-- Maggie Katawerapanda: We have done a lot of trainings, the whole Malawi, explaining to them what is the role of an MP, what is the role of a councillor, how can they put up effective campaigns, how do they work with communities, how do they come up with manifestos that are going to appeal to the communities and all that.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: The majority of voters are women, and yet very few get elected.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: Many have said tradition has taught them that leadership positions are for men, and for the most part, women have not been afforded the opportunity to go to school.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: As a woman, it's important to support fellow women who are contesting.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: In my case, if there was no requirement to pay nomination fees, I'd contest as a counsellor.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: Access to funding also plays a huge role in limiting women participation in politics.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: In communities like these, very few can afford to pay US$50 for nominations for being a councillor, let alone $700 for an MP.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: At the same time, presidential candidates are required to pay over US$5,500 to stand a chance of being the head of state.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: As a result, former President Joyce Bander is the only female presidential candidate out of 17 contenders.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: Helen Chabunya is the vice president of the UTM party.
--:-- Helen Chabunya: She said women must occupy rooms in which decisions are made.
--:-- Helen Chabunya: What we need to change is to have those critical discussions about in Africa, at a pan-African level, and trickle it down to Malawi.
--:-- Helen Chabunya: What can these parties do? What can our legislation do? What can our party constitutions do to ensure that women do have a seat at the table?
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: Right now for this election, I'm hopeful, even though the key four political parties, which the contest is for, none of them have got a female presidential candidate.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: But trust me, in 2030, our generation, my people right now, our generation is going to ensure that this never happens again.
--:-- Nomsa Maseko: We're working towards breaking down those barriers.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Albania has appointed what's thought to be the world's first AI-generated government minister.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The Ella is a digital assistant who already helps Albanians navigate government services online.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: Now she's expanding her portfolio to tackle public procurement in an attempt to cut down on corruption.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: As Rene Yanger reports, Yela, an AI avatar dressed in traditional costume, has since January been giving voice commands on the eAlbania portal, helping people to access public services.
--:-- Rene Yanger: She's performed so well that Prime Minister Eddie Rama has promoted her, boldly promising at his Socialist Party conference in Tirana that she'll make Albania a country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption.
--:-- Rene Yanger: Large public contracts have long been a source of scandal in the country.
--:-- Rene Yanger: Diella means sun in Albanian.
--:-- Rene Yanger: The PM hopes his newest recruit will focus a laser beam on bribes, threats and conflicts of interest as the country seeks to join the European Union.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: And finally, to Scotland.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: And hill walkers aiming to climb some of the most remote mountains in the highlands have been asked to look for fragments of a meteorite that landed there this summer.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: It was the first time a meteorite has come down in the area in more than a century, and experts say the remains could help further our understanding of the early solar system.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: As Lana Gordon reports.
--:-- Lana Gordon: The bright burning light of the exploding meteor was captured on cameras across Scotland as it shot across the sky in July.
--:-- Lana Gordon: Using those images and data on the meteorite's trajectory, planetary scientists think the small distinctive fragments of rock from the fireball are likely to have landed across three mountains and a mountain plateau near Dalwini in the Highlands.
--:-- Lana Gordon: Their own efforts to find the remains were curtailed by bad weather.
--:-- Lana Gordon: They're now in a race against time, warning the more the rocks are left exposed and weathering on Scotland's hills, the less they'll be able to tell about their composition and are asking walkers to get in touch with the University of Glasgow if they find any small, shiny, heavy black fragments of rock.
--:-- Lana Gordon: Dr Anya O'Brien from the UK Fireball Alliance told us more about what happened when the meteorite landed.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: So this fireball on the 3rd of July in Scotland was so bright that despite it being at one in the morning, it lit up Scotland literally like the night sky.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: People saw it across the country.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: People heard a massive sonic boom that sounded like a bomb to some people.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: Apparently there are people in Fort William who thought that there was an explosion.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: And there was an explosion.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: It was just of space rocks and nothing more worrying than that.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: So this fireball streaked across the sky and we think dropped up to 10 kilos at a time of space rock across the highlands.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: So we're really keen to have this meteorite retrieved because scientifically there'd be so much value.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: So we think the kind of meteorite it is, is probably older than the Earth or at least lots of parts of it are.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: So what we're asking for is if anyone is out Monroe bagging, there are three Monroes on the fall line, we're asking them to be thinking about meteorite bagging as well.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: So if you want to bag a Monroe, you can bag a meteorite.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: And quite literally, we'd like you to bag it.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: So ideally, if you think you found a meteorite, you wouldn't touch it with your bare hands because then it might contaminate the stone.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: They're not toxic. Don't worry.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: If you think you found one, what you're looking for is something dark and shiny.
--:-- Anya O'Brien: Probably really listically it's going to look quite different to anything around it it's going to look out of place
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--:-- Valerie Sanderson: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Valerie Sanderson: I'm Valerie Sanderson. Until next time, bye-bye.
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