Ankur Desai

Russian state media say President Putin has ordered the emergencies minister to visit Tuopse to oversee firefighting efforts. I had more from the news editor from the BBC Russian service, Farmil Ismailov. This is the third time the port of Tuopse itself and this major refinery had been hit by the Ukrainian drones.

We have more on this on our YouTube channel. Search for BBC News on YouTube and you'll find Global News Podcast in the podcast section. There's a new story available every weekday. Now we go to Indonesia, where at least 15 people have been killed and dozens of passengers injured after a long distance train smashed into a stationary commuter train. Most of the dead are women. A women-only carriage bore the brunt of the impact.

You can hear the sound. There are rescue teams that had to race to free some survivors following the deadly train crash near the capital, Jakarta. The tragedy happened after an electric taxi broke down on an intersection of train track. A train hit the taxi. That accident in itself didn't lead to any fatalities. But a commuter train waiting further down the line, unable to move past the crash site, was struck from behind by a long-distance train traveling from the island of Java.

Now to an animal rescue story on a big scale in more ways than one. A member of India's richest family, Anant Dambani, is offering to save 80 hippos in Colombia that are at risk of being culled. Our global affairs reporter Paul Moss told me more about how they came to be there.

This was because of a man I think many in our audience will have heard of, Pablo Escobar, the famous Colombian drugs lord, regarded as called the king of cocaine, possibly the richest criminal literally in history. A man, yeah, mainly involved in the cocaine trade, but with a sideline in murdering his opponents.

Like many people with great wealth and power, he was accused of becoming something of a megalomaniac. At one point he decided he fancied having some hippos on his estate. As casually as you or me might get ourselves a cat or dog, he had four hippos flown in. Pablo Escobar was eventually killed in a shootout, at which point the hippos escaped. Since then they've been living wild and crucially breeding. There are now more than two hundred.

100 of these enormous animals eating local vegetation. And they're accused of also attacking fishermen and at one point invading a school. So Colombia decided that they were going to cull 80 of these animals. This caused a huge outcry. And as you say, Anant Ambani has now offered to fly these 80 hippos to India and house them in his own private zoo. So tell us a bit more about him and why he exactly wants to do this.

Well, he's from one of the, as you said, the wealthiest family in India. They're valued at nearly 100 billion dollars. And just as Pablo Escobar has huge wealth and also influence, the Ambani's too, though I obviously should stress their wealth was acquired legally. Yes, the sun and air, who famously had a wedding last year, which cost more than 500 million dollars, wants to put these animals in his private zoo. He's offered to fly them to India and do it all himself privately.

So how has this idea gone down and the practicalities around it? Well, you know, Ambani Zoo is already controversial. It's a private place. The public aren't admitted. Last year India's Supreme Court ordered an investigation into whether animals there were being mistreated. More seriously though...

There has been a criticism that animals have been kept in the zoo that aren't really suited to Gujarat's climate. Now, ironically, that was said, exactly the same thing was said when Pablo Escobar brought the hippos to Colombia. And conservationists are worried anyway about this zoo. They're worried that animals are kept there that aren't...

Global Affairs reporter Paul Moss.

This is the Global News Podcast. Taylor Swift's Era's Tour, which spanned 149 shows across five continents, was the highest grossing of all time. But her opening concert in the Austrian capital Vienna in 2024 narrowly avoided ending in tragedy after a bomb plot was foiled. A 21-year-old man is on trial in Vienna, charged with terrorism and other offences. Our Vienna correspondent Bethany Bell has been in court.

Tiedätko, mitä hän ajatteli tehdä?

Se oli suuri vaikutus, eikö niin? Vienojen ja Austriallisen alueiden sisällä.

Kiitos.

It comes at a time of heightened diplomatic tension between both countries over NATO, Greenland, Ukraine and the Chagos Islands. And President Trump has openly criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer many times, most recently over his refusal to support him in the offensive against Iran. As we record this podcast, President Trump is giving the King and Queen a ceremonial welcome to the United States at the White House. For what we can expect later, here's our correspondent in Washington, Shaima Khalil.

Okay, Shaima, it's a careful balancing act, isn't it, for King Charles III? Yes. Because he can't get too political. And Donald Trump has always said that he loves the royal family, he loves the king. So is there a lot of pressure? Because I guess the UK government will be thinking, okay, he has some soft power. What can he deliver?

Seuraavaksi, jos Artemis 2-missio viime aikoinaan teki teidät kaikkia onnistuneita maassa, teki teidät glamourisesta näkökulmasta, että ehkä yhden päivän kokemusta on itselleen, niin on aika antaa hieman tasapainoa. Lähdetään puheenjohtajamme Will Chalkin kanssa, jotta meidät saadaan taas taas maan.

I think while the idea of going to space might seem attractive to a lot of us, the reality is if you're going to Mars, say, that's six months of travelling in extremely close quarters with your fellow astronauts. If by the time you get to Mars you all hate each other, well that's not ideal to say the least. So that is why six brave volunteers have just started the European Space Agency's Solace 100 isolation study.

Joten he käsittelevät 100 päivää yhdessä pienessä rakennuksessa. Ei seksia, ei alkoholia, ei päiväluokkaa, vain tinnitöitä. Heidän täytyy harjoitella yhden ajan päivässä, mutta he voivat vain huutaa kaksi viikkoa. Heillä on vain yksityinen videocalli ulkopuolella. He käsittelevät myös yksityiskohtaisen syrjinnän kohdalla, mutta he eivät voi tehdä yksityiskohtaisen kohdalla.