Anka Desai

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hei, olen Anka Desai ja 16 GMT. Joulupäivä 22. keväällä nämä ovat meidän mainit tarinoitamme. Yhdysvallan puheenjohtaja Marco Rubio sanoo, että Yhdysvallat käsittelee koko ajan yhteistyötä NATO-militaarien yhdysvallan kanssa. Myös protesteja on loppunut Turkissa, jossa yliopisto, joka on tunnustettu liberaalista poliitikasta, on loppunut presidentin puheenjohtajana. Manchester City on osoittanut, että heidän johtajansa Pep Guardiola jätetään englannin futba-klubin jälkeen 10 kauden jälkeen.

Also in this podcast, scientists at Oxford University are working to create a new Ebola vaccine as the number of suspected cases rises to 750.

Las Vegas is gearing up for the enhanced games, which will allow athletes to use banned substances. NATO is officially an alliance, but there's a lot right now that its members seemingly aren't aligned on. The US is upset with other nations for not doing more to help during the war with Iran. European countries, though, have had their own concerns, with Donald Trump's pressure to annex Greenland from Denmark.

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Where students at Bildu University have been protesting after news that it's been closed by presidential decree. The university is private and is known for its liberal politics. The future of its more than 20,000 students remains uncertain. Reporter Hilken Boran is in Istanbul and is following the story he gave us this update.

Is there anything in the sense that there is a reputation for being a liberal university, for its liberal politics, and is that something that goes against maybe the president and his politics, and is that maybe a reason some are using as to why it's being closed down?

Now to the latest developments with the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The World Health Organization say there have been now 177 suspected deaths and 750 suspected cases. The head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says the organization has upgraded its risk for Ebola within the DRC to a level which indicates high fatality and high transmission.

DRC's health minister Roger Kamba says this outbreak is proving more challenging because this is a different strain of Ebola than the country usually deals with.

The current outbreak is caused by the Bundy-Burgio strain, which has no vaccine. Efforts are underway at Oxford University in the UK to change this. My colleague James Menendez spoke to Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, which also helped develop the AstraZeneca shot.

It's been nearly three months since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran. And yet during the heaviest attacks, it was very hard to hear the voices of people in Iran. Now a new BBC podcast has captured what it was like in those most dangerous of times. Two Iranian sisters, one in the UK and one in Iran's city of Shiraz, recorded their conversations and despite the risks, have shared those with the BBC.

Still to come in this podcast. The new owner's desire to please Trump could put pressure on late night host and frequent Trump critic Stephen Colbert. Major American talk show ends after three decades. But was it cancelled to save money or because the host is a critic of Donald Trump?

On Sunday the world will be introduced to the first ever Enhanced Games in Las Vegas. Enhanced because the athletes will be allowed to use drugs that are banned in competitions elsewhere. As you might imagine, plenty of people are not impressed. The head of World Athletics, Lord Koh, said taking part would be moronic.

The founders of the event reckon they're pushing the boundaries of what superfit humans can achieve. My colleague James Kopnell spoke to Sam Ryder, a health and fitness journalist who's written about the Enhanced Games.

After 33 years the US TV institution The Late Show has broadcast for the final time. The program which broadcasts from New York was hosted by David Letterman for more than two decades before being taken over by Stephen Colbert in 2015. The showbiz journalist Janelle Riley gave her assessment of the final show.

The US television network CBS announced it was cancelling the show last July, insisting the decision was based on financial reasons. Just a few days earlier, the host had also taken aim at his corporate bosses at CBS and its parent company Paramount, saying they'd settled a million dollar lawsuit with President Trump to make way for a Paramount Skydance merger.

Both Donald Trump and his appointed head of the Federal Communications Commission, who has the power to approve that merger, celebrated Colbert's sacking on social media, saying Colbert is finally finished at CBS. You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he's finally gone.

Next, there are plenty of musicians who are outraged about the thought of artificial intelligence getting anywhere near their art. But despite this, the world's biggest streaming platform, Spotify, has just unveiled its first tool for making AI versions of songs by famous artists. I asked our reporter Will Chalk whether this was a risky move.

Will Chalk reporting. A football story to finish the podcast from here in the UK. Manchester City have confirmed manager Pep Guardiola is leaving after 10 seasons in charge and 20 trophies. The news was confirmed three days after City missed out on winning the English Premier League title. When asked why he was leaving, Pep Guardiola said there is no reason, but deep inside I know it's my time.

I asked our sports reporter Patrick Geary to put into context just how special Guardiola is.