--:-- Alex Ritson: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson.
--:-- Alex Ritson: American TV host Jimmy Kimmel is taken off air indefinitely over comments about Charlie Kirk's shooting. Britain's King Charles and President Trump hail transatlantic relations at a lavish banquet in Windsor Castle. And another 60 Palestinians are killed in Gaza City as Israel's ground offensive continues.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Also in this podcast, Brazil's President Lula talks exclusively to the BBC about tariffs, climate change and the world order. And scientists say AI can predict who might be at risk of disease.
--:-- David Willis: Well, this goes back to Monday's show, the start of the show, Alex, when Mr Kimmel, who has hosted four Academy Award ceremonies in the past for ABC, suggested that the man responsible for the death of Charlie Kirk was a so-called MAGA Republican, that's a reference to Make America Great Again, Mr Trump's slogan, and accused Donald Trump's party of seeking to score political points from it.
--:-- David Willis: Now, as a result of that, there was the threat of legal action by federal regulators who make up the FCC, and that in turn, it appears, has sparked a revolt by ABC-affiliated stations who presumably fear that they could get into legal difficulties or perhaps lose their licences as well.
--:-- David Willis: So following the decision by one of the largest affiliate groups to ditch the Jimmy Kimmel Live programme, ABC has now pulled the plug and announced it's cancelling his show altogether, Alex.
--:-- Alex Ritson: And ABC, well, it's acted quickly. Has there been any other reaction?
--:-- David Willis: A short while ago, Donald Trump, on his Truth Social platform, hailed this news, the news of Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation, as great news for America, and he urged another network, NBC, to cancel the two remaining late-night shows that it hosts, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers both have late night shows on that network.
--:-- David Willis: But Charlie Kirk's death, Alex, has sparked a very heated war of words in this country, as I'm sure you're aware, between those on the right, President Trump among them, who blamed the assassination on what they call left wing radicals.
--:-- David Willis: And those on the left who fear that the Trump administration may now use the conservative activists' death as a pretext to crack down on its political opponents and basically stifle dissent and free debate.
--:-- David Willis: And in the course of the last week, people in a variety of positions in this country, academics, political commentators and others, have been essentially forced out of their jobs after expressing criticism of Charlie Kirk online.
--:-- David Willis: And the CBS network announced a few weeks ago that it was cancelling another late night show hosted by the comedian Stephen Colbert. At the time, it blamed the decision on falling ratings, but there's been widespread speculation since then that the decision was more in response to political pressure on the part of the White House.
--:-- David Willis: Stephen Colbert was also a frequent critic of Donald Trump's.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Meanwhile, President Trump is in the UK. Later today, he'll meet with the British Prime Minister at his country estate, Chequers, and the two men are expected to sign a new technology deal.
--:-- Rob Watson: This unique and important occasion reflects the enduring bond between our two great nations. Anchored by the deep friendship between our people, this relationship, which with good reason we and our predecessors have long called special, has made us safer and stronger through the generations.
--:-- Rob Watson: Our people have fought and died together for the values we hold dear. For his part, President Trump said the word special does not begin to do justice to the UK-US relationship.
--:-- Rob Watson: Being the first president to receive an invitation for a second state visit was, he said, one of the highest honours of his life.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Our political correspondent Rob Watson described the welcome given to President Trump.
--:-- Rob Watson: 1,300 soldiers in ceremonial outfits, 120 horses, I think, carriage procession, flypasts, the beating of the retreat. You just couldn't really have had a redder carpet than this or a more full fat welcome from the royal family.
--:-- Rob Watson: Give us a flavour of the speeches at the banquet. Essentially both men said that there was something extraordinary bond between the two countries.
--:-- Rob Watson: I think one would pick out from King Charles perhaps two elements that were maybe slightly controversial where he talked about the importance of supporting Ukraine against tyranny.
--:-- Rob Watson: And given that the United States takes a less hard line on that than the UK, that did stand out to me.
--:-- Rob Watson: And also where he talks about the importance of preserving nature for the next generation, something which we know that the King feels very passionately about, whereas we tend to associate President Trump with drill, baby drill, but it was clearly very friendly.
--:-- Rob Watson: President Trump said some words about Princess Catherine, Princess of Wales, looking in good health and how much he liked King Charles.
--:-- Rob Watson: It was a love fest, basically, right? They laid it on for the President and he clearly enjoyed it.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Yes, there were several moments when I looked at the President during the day as he was honoured with this extraordinary military, assorted military processions, the carriages, and he looked to be lapping up every minute of it.
--:-- Rob Watson: And also the case when he visited St George's Chapel to lay a wreath on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II and that's really what it was all about.
--:-- Rob Watson: I mean I don't think you should beat about the bush Alex this was something laid on at the behest of the British government asking the royal family to do this to put the president in a good mood to make him feel favourable about the UK and maybe potentially perhaps a little bit more open to British asks on things like YEP trade and things like support for Ukraine.
--:-- Rob Watson: He's going to be meeting with Keir Starmer. Can we expect any big announcements?
--:-- Rob Watson: I don't think there's going to be big announcements in the sense that this visit wasn't about a specific trade deal, a specific foreign policy issue.
--:-- Rob Watson: So I think you're going to get more of the same of what we heard at the dinner. So there's lots of talk about why the relationship is so special, so deep.
--:-- Rob Watson: And I think you're going to get lots of business, business, business, trade trade trade talk particularly the focus on the so-called tech prosperity deal which is all about how American and UK high-tech companies can work together.
--:-- John Donison: Palestinians in Gaza City have described Israel's attacks as hell as the IDF pushes ahead with its widely condemned offensive to capture the city.
--:-- John Donison: Thick clouds of smoke could be seen as Israeli forces fired artillery shells and smoke bombs.
--:-- John Donison: 60 people were reportedly killed on Wednesday.
--:-- John Donison: Pictures show a long line of cars and people walking down the coastal road further south.
--:-- John Donison: But with vehicles and fuel in short supply and tents selling for more than $1,000, many people can't afford to leave the city.
--:-- John Donison: And those who can say there's nowhere safe to go.
--:-- John Donison: Israel does not allow the BBC to report independently from inside Gaza, so our correspondent John Donison has been following developments from Jerusalem.
--:-- John Donison: Israel's push into Gaza City is intensifying.
--:-- John Donison: Hundreds of thousands of people have now fled.
--:-- John Donison: The road south, packed with families carrying what they can.
--:-- John Donison: Others, like Nidal al-Shabi, have stayed put, fearing there's nowhere safe to go.
--:-- John Donison: Last night was extremely difficult with continuous explosions and shelling that lasted from night until dawn.
--:-- John Donison: Israeli vehicles advanced from Sheikh Rodouan and Talil Hawa and also from Shijaiya.
--:-- John Donison: It was a very, very frightening night.
--:-- John Donison: Umm Mazen says she lost 10 members of her family, half of them children, when an Israeli airstrike hit their tent.
--:-- John Donison: Where can we go?
--:-- John Donison: For two years we have been pleading with the world to help us find a solution.
--:-- John Donison: My neighbours have fled to the south but even that journey took them more than 12 hours on the road because of the heavy traffic.
--:-- John Donison: Doctors say Israel bombed at Gaza's only specialist children's hospital, the Al-Rantisi, damaging the upper floors and forcing sick and injured patients to flee.
--:-- John Donison: Israel's military, which says it's targeting Hamas, says it's looking into the incident.
--:-- John Donison: Tess Ingram from UNICEF in Gaza says it's children who are suffering the most.
--:-- John Donison: The children that I have met are sick, they are malnourished, they are restless and traumatised.
--:-- John Donison: There are children who are enduring, being buried underneath the rubble, their mother being killed, being separated from their family in the chaos of these mass movements, starving and becoming malnourished.
--:-- John Donison: And in Gaza City, and much of the north of the Strip, there is no internet or phone communication after the main telephone company was targeted.
--:-- John Donison: The operation to capture and fully occupy Gaza City is expected to take months.
--:-- John Donison: Criticism from abroad and at home has done little to alter Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's course and his determination, he says, to eradicate Hamas.
--:-- Carla Conte: Both Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers are on a mission to document the ongoing war, but the Israeli government is equally concerned about the war of public opinion.
--:-- Carla Conte: And the culture minister is not happy about this year's winner at the National Film Awards.
--:-- Carla Conte: The Ofir Awards are known as Israel's very own Oscars. Celebrating the country's film industry each year with prizes in feature and documentary cinema.
--:-- Carla Conte: On Tuesday night in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Academy of Film and Television awarded the Best Feature Prize to the Sea, an Arabic-language drama written and directed by Shai Karmeli-Polak.
--:-- Carla Conte: The prize is to the Alilati of the World's Day.
--:-- Carla Conte: The film tells the story of Khaled, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank, who longs to see the ocean for the first time.
--:-- Carla Conte: Khaled finally gets the chance to visit the beach in Tel Aviv on a school trip.
--:-- Carla Conte: But when he gets turned away at an IDF checkpoint, he sets off on his own, despite not knowing the way or speaking any Hebrew.
--:-- Carla Conte: But the film's success has not been welcomed by all.
--:-- Carla Conte: Israel's culture minister, Miki Zohar, has called the awards ceremony pathetic, accused it of spitting in the face of Israeli soldiers, and pledged to strip it of government funding from next year.
--:-- Carla Conte: As is tradition, the Ophir winner for Best Picture is usually put forward as Israel's Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film.
--:-- Carla Conte: That automatic slot has now become a political flashpoint.
--:-- Carla Conte: But politics were already in plain view at the offers.
--:-- Carla Conte: Attendees wore shirts reading A Child is a Child and End the War.
--:-- Carla Conte: Producer Bahir Agbaria said the film's message was simple, that every child should be able to live and dream in peace.
--:-- Carla Conte: And there is precedent for these clashes reaching beyond the ceremony.
--:-- Carla Conte: Last year, the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and its makers used their speech to criticise Israel's conduct in Gaza and the West Bank.
--:-- Carla Conte: And Israel's culture minister denounced that film too, calling it sabotage against the state.
--:-- Carla Conte: And with the sea now bound for Hollywood the fight over Israel image and who gets to tell its story looks set to intensify.
--:-- James Gallagher: European scientists have used artificial intelligence to forecast which health problems people are likely to suffer from over the next decade or more.
--:-- James Gallagher: Experts say the technology can spot patterns in medical records.
--:-- James Gallagher: The researchers describe this artificial intelligence model as like a weather forecast for your health.
--:-- James Gallagher: But instead of warning of a 70% chance of rain, it tells you the risk of more than a thousand diseases.
--:-- James Gallagher: The AI has learned to spot patterns hidden in the types and timings of different medical diagnoses.
--:-- James Gallagher: So now it can look at a patient and predict what is likely to come next.
--:-- James Gallagher: The AI was trained using more than 400,000 people's anonymous medical records from the UK and tested on nearly 2 million people's records the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, says the vision is to spot high-risk patients.
--:-- James Gallagher: We can do that not just for one disease, but all diseases at the same time.
--:-- James Gallagher: Now we've never been able to do that before.
--:-- James Gallagher: Now just to stress, this is research.
--:-- James Gallagher: Everything needs to be tested, and of course it needs to be well regulated and thought about before it's used.
--:-- James Gallagher: But the technology is here to make these kinds of predictions.
--:-- James Gallagher: But what can we do with such predictions.
--:-- James Gallagher: People are already offered a cholesterol-lowering statin based on a calculation of their risk of a heart attack or stroke.
--:-- James Gallagher: Understanding how diseases unfold could lead to new ways of intervening early.
--:-- James Gallagher: The AI could also help inform screening programmes or help hospitals plan for future demand.
--:-- James Gallagher: The researchers say there is work to do, but that they are at the beginning of a new way of understanding health and disease.
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--:-- Alex Ritson: Earlier, we heard Donald Trump talking about his special relationship with Great Britain.
--:-- Alex Ritson: Well, Brazil's President Lula da Silva has said he has no relationship with Donald Trump.
--:-- Alex Ritson: His comments came during an interview with the BBC in which he said relations with the US have been icy since Mr Trump imposed 50% tariffs on Brazil in response to the insurrection trial of the former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Well, for any kind of conflict, the best alternative is to sit around a negotiation table and negotiate.
--:-- Ioni Wells: What we cannot negotiate is the Brazilian sovereignty.
--:-- Ioni Wells: You've written articles which you say are to start a dialogue with Donald Trump.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Why not just pick up the phone to him?
--:-- Ioni Wells: Because they don't want to talk.
--:-- Ioni Wells: But he said you can call him anytime.
--:-- Ioni Wells: But they don't want to talk.
--:-- Ioni Wells: It's important to remember that when President Trump communicated imposing tariffs on Brazil, he didn't communicate in a civilized manner.
--:-- Ioni Wells: He just published them in his social media.
--:-- Ioni Wells: And I found out by the newspapers in Brazil, whenever they wish to talk, we're ready to talk.
--:-- Ioni Wells: In a few words, how would you describe your current relationship with President Trump?
--:-- Ioni Wells: There's no relationship. None at all?
--:-- Ioni Wells: I had good relationships with President Bush, with President Biden, with Obama.
--:-- Ioni Wells: You have built relationships, as you say, with other world leaders.
--:-- Ioni Wells: You went to Russia's World War II anniversary celebrations, for example.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Who do you have a better relationship with, President Putin or President Trump?
--:-- Ioni Wells: No, with President Putin I had a relation because he was president in previous times and I also was president of Brazil in previous times.
--:-- Ioni Wells: I don't have any relationship with Trump because when President Trump was elected the first time, I was not in the presidency.
--:-- Ioni Wells: And now his relation is with Bolsonaro, not with Brazil.
--:-- Ioni Wells: You say you want a more democratic, united nations.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Why not call out the authoritarianism among some of your allies, Russia, China, Iran.
--:-- Ioni Wells: These are countries where it has been widely documented that there have been unfair elections, undemocratic elections, and human rights abuses too.
--:-- Ioni Wells: I want that the United Nations should represent the world geography of the 21st century.
--:-- Ioni Wells: Where is Brazil in the UN Security Council, China, India, Germany, Japan?
--:-- Ioni Wells: Where are the African countries in the Security Council of the UN?
--:-- Ioni Wells: So the UN cannot continue.
--:-- Ioni Wells: It was just five permanent members.
--:-- Ioni Wells: If it doesn't have strength, it will not have influence in any conflict.
--:-- Ioni Wells: They can't have any influence in the Ukraine war, in Israel.
--:-- Ioni Wells: I want to move on to COP30, where Brazil will be on the world stage hosting the COP30 climate summit.
--:-- Ioni Wells: How is your climate leadership consistent with your personal desire to allow oil companies to drill in the Amazon basin?
--:-- Ioni Wells: COOP was chosen to be held in the Amazon region because I want that the world and they get to know truly the Amazon region
--:-- Ioni Wells: With respect President the International Energy Agency says there can be any new oil projects if net zero is to be reached by 2050
--:-- Ioni Wells: Are they wrong
--:-- Ioni Wells: Brazil is a country that has oil
--:-- Ioni Wells: And possibly we have oil in the equatorial margin, and we are making surveys, and we're following the law and the rules so that we can do the research.
--:-- Ioni Wells: We never had such a spill here, and if we do have a problem, we will be the ones that are liable and responsible to take care of the problem if it comes.
--:-- Ioni Wells: I am totally favourable that there will be a moment that the world will not need any more fossil fuels.
--:-- Ioni Wells: But this moment has not come yet.
--:-- Ioni Wells: I want to know any country on the planet that is prepared to have an energy transition that is capable to give up fossil fuel.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: The US Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, has lowered interest rates for the first time since Donald Trump began his second term.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: The President has frequently criticised Fed Chairman Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates faster, calling him a numbskull who should be sacked for his caution.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: After nine months on hold, the US central bank has cut interest rates by a quarter point, breaking its paws amid clear signs of weakness in the labour market.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: Officials also signalled the possibility of two more cuts this year.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: But the decision wasn't unanimous.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: Stephen Myron, a Trump appointee who just joined the board, pushed for a deeper cut.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: Given Myron's ties to the president, a vocal advocate for lower rates, His stance is raising eyebrows and putting added pressure on Fed Chair Jay Powell.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: We did welcome a new committee member today, as we always do.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: We're strongly committed to maintaining our independence, and beyond that, I really don't have anything to share.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: Politics aside, Powell acknowledged the economy is facing trouble on two fronts.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: While the unemployment rate remains low, it has edged up.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: Job gains have slowed, and downside risks to employment have risen.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: At the same time, inflation has risen recently and remains somewhat elevated.
--:-- Michelle Fleury: And that's starting to sound an awful lot like stagflation, the toxic mix of stagnant growth and high prices not seen in America for 40-odd years.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: Commuters in France are in for a day of misery after unions called for strikes and protests nationwide.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: Some 400,000 people are expected to take to the streets to ramp up the pressure on President Macron and his new Prime Minister over-planned budget cuts.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: There'll be a fair amount of disruption on public transport as well as at airports and some schools will shut.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: Throughout the day, there'll be demonstrations in the big cities.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: The one in Paris starts from the Place de la Bastille in the afternoon.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: As ever on days like this, trouble can't be ruled out, with members of the so-called Black Bloc ultra-left-wing groups expected to break away from the main cortege to vandalise and attack police.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: The aim of the movement is to protest against the budget cuts outlined by the last government of François Bayrou, which the new Prime Minister, Sébastien Le Corneau, has not entirely renounced.
--:-- Hugh Schofield: He's still unable to formalise any kind of budget because he's in consultation with the political parties, hoping vainly so far that he can wrench from them some kind of compromise and then begin by at least forming a government.
--:-- Ira Khan: In the sprawling valleys and scenic landscapes of Indian-administered Kashmir, a new crisis is forming.
--:-- Ira Khan: Across the region, roads are littered with around 4,000 trucks, carrying apples that were supposed to get to the rest of India, but instead remain at a standstill because the highways used to transfer produce out of the region have been damaged, and it could not have come at a worse time.
--:-- Ira Khan: The blockades coincide with peak harvest season, where apples, walnuts and rice are gathered across the valley.
--:-- Ira Khan: Horticulture forms the backbone of Indian Kashmir's economy
--:-- Ira Khan: And people's entire livelihoods depend on these harvests
--:-- Ira Khan: With losses estimated to be up to $80 million
--:-- Ira Khan: The government in Delhi says it's working around the clock to clear the highways
--:-- Ira Khan: And has dedicated a train to transport the fruit
--:-- Ira Khan: But Kashmiri farmers say it isn't enough
--:-- Ira Khan: They are worried that the prices of their produce have already started to fall
--:-- Ira Khan: And in protest, they have closed down fruit markets
--:-- Ira Khan: These apples, that were nurtured in orchards since spring, now sit rotting on blocked highways an entire year of hard work gone to waste.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: It's quite a simple piece of gold, but then it's also got a lapis lazuli bead at one part of it.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: A lapis lazuli is a particularly important stone because it's only found in Afghanistan.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: So the very fact this is on a bracelet in Egypt, thousands of miles away, indicates quite how important that particular piece is and how valuable it is.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: It was found back in 1939 in a tomb at Tarnis in northeastern Egypt in one of the only two king's tombs ever found intact in Egypt, the other one being the famous one of Tutankhamun.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: This is much, much later on, and it actually contained no fewer than three separate pharaohs.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: And the owner of this bracelet, Amenemope, was one of those.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: There are plenty of collectors out there who don't really care about legality.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: They want to own this thing, even if it's hidden in a safe and nobody will ever see it again.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: This thing is hot. nobody legit would ever think of buying it.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: But clearly there is a market for this sort of thing.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: But the worrying thing is that somebody might want to melt it down for the gold.
--:-- Aidan Dobson: That's always another risk because the 24-karat gold it's made of is worth a hell of a lot of money in its own right.
--:-- 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.
--:-- Alex Ritson: The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Alex Ritson: You can also find us on X at BBC World Service.
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--:-- Alex Ritson: This edition was mixed by Chris Hansen and produced by Wendy Urquhart and Anna Aslam, The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Alex Ritson: I'm Alex Ritson, and until next time, goodbye.
