Ankur Desai

Until next time, goodbye.

Olen Anka Desai ja 6 Hours GMT. Joulukuussa 12. novembraa. Nämä ovat meidän mainit tarinoitamme. Donald Trump lähettää suurin piirtein aerojen käsittelyä Suomen-Amerikan alueelle. Kaliforniaan puheenjohtaja Gavin Newsom kertoo COP30, että presidentti Trump on vähentänyt Yhdysvallojen klimaattisen poliisin. Ja Istanbulin puheenjohtaja käsittelee 2000 vuotta prisoon. Hänen puheenjohtajansa sanotaan, että vaatimukset ovat poliittisesti motivoituneita.

For months Donald Trump has been massing US Navy ships in the Latin America region near Venezuela, ordering strikes on boats that he says are running drugs to the US. Now one of his most advanced warships has arrived in the region, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.

At least 76 people have been killed by the US operations, described by some human rights observers as extrajudicial killings. On Tuesday, Colombian president Gustavo Petro said he was suspending intelligence sharing with the US until the attack stopped, adding that the fight against drugs must be subordinate to the human rights of the Caribbean people. Our South America correspondent Ioni Wells has been telling me why the arrival of this latest US ship is so significant.

Ione Wells reporting. Venezuela's southern neighbor Brazil is hosting the COP30 climate talks this week. And the US, one of the world's largest producers of carbon emissions, has not sent a delegation. The White House said in a statement that President Trump would not jeopardize US economic and national security goals to pursue what it called vague climate goals that are killing other countries.

But dozens of state and local officials from across the US have traveled to the meetings in Belém to present their own message on climate, including California Governor Gavin Newsom. He's a leading figure in the Democrat Party and a possible presidential candidate for 2028. Our environment correspondent Mac McGrath is there.

Prosecutors in Turkey have announced 140 new charges against the opposition mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who is the main rival to the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mr. Imamoglu, who strongly denies allegations of corruption, has been in jail since March, when his arrest sparked the largest protests in Turkey in over a decade. His party says the fraud charges are politically motivated. From Istanbul, our senior international correspondent Ola Geren reports.

The authorities here insist the courts are independent. Human rights groups say they have been weaponized. Ola Guerin reporting. China's once surging economy is struggling with exports falling, ongoing trade tensions with the US and record high youth unemployment. The government is under growing pressure to turn things around. One idea is to encourage younger consumers to increase their spending in order to give the economy a shot in the arm.

President Trump has reiterated his intention to sue the BBC over a documentary about the events leading up to the storming of the Capitol building in Washington DC in 2021, saying he had an obligation to do so. At the weekend, the BBC's director general and head of news resigned after it was revealed that a BBC documentary had edited two parts of a speech by the US president.

making it appear that he had explicitly encouraged the January 6th riots. The BBC chairman Sameh Shah has also apologised. But Mr Trump's lawyers are threatening to launch a $1 billion lawsuit against the corporation unless it makes a full and fair retraction of the documentary by this Friday and appropriately compensates him for the harm caused. In an interview with Fox News, Mr Trump was asked if he planned to carry out that threat, and this was his reply.

I asked our North America correspondent David Willis what he made of the president's latest interview.

David Willis puhuu minulle Los Angelesista.

Israeli Parliament has passed the first reading of a bill that would impose the death penalty on people convicted of terrorism against the state. The national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gavir, whose far-right Jewish Power Party proposed the bill, has said it's aimed at deterring Arab terrorism and that terrorists will be released only to hell. That last remark appears to be a reference to the recent deals with Hamas, which saw Israel release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages.

You might remember the story of two NASA astronauts who became stranded on the International Space Station after the capsule that was supposed to take them back to Earth experienced a series of technical problems. They came home in March after nine months on the ISS. Now three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their craft was hit by debris.

They had been due to return to Earth last week after a six-month mission on the Tiangong space station. The space journalist Leo Enright told us more about this delay.

In Mongolia, standing by, ready to launch if needed. Space journalist Leo Enright.

For Kevin Laidlaw of Scotland, it's also a day to think about family. His great-grandfather, Daniel Laidlaw, was a bagpiper in the First World War and won the Victoria Cross for rallying the troops at the Battle of Loose. He was one of only three pipers to win Britain's highest military honor. Now Kevin is campaigning to have a statue of him built in his hometown. He told us about Daniel's acts of bravery.

And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this episode or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. And you can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was produced by Peter Goffin and Steven Jensen. And it was mixed by Martin Williams and the editor is Karen Martin. I'm Ankur Desai. Until next time, goodbye.

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Amanco de Sion at 16 hours on Thursday the 6th of November. These are our main stories. World leaders gather in Brazil ahead of UN climate talks, but Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi will not attend. South Africa says it's received distress calls from 17 citizens lured into fighting for Russia in the war in Ukraine. And could the Trump administration be charged with crimes against humanity for striking ships near Venezuela?