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Rob Watson. Still to come in this podcast. We'll hear from teenage sisters in Gaza who are turning the rubble of war into something that can be used to rebuild.

Vito. Sormituntuma. Istuvuus. Viltosuoja. Kestävyys. Puorellinen. Puoreton. Mukava. Miellyttävä. Vedenpitävä. Lämmin. Hengittävä. Minunkin täytyy hengittää. Sinä asetat vaatimukset. Meiltä löytyy käsine. Tegera. Suoja käsineet työhön kuin työhön.

Meille Akria-eläinvakuutuksessa on tärkeää, että lemmikilläsi on mahdollisuus parhaaseen hoitoon. Eläinvakuutuksemme tarjoavat sopivan turvan kaikenlaisiin tarpeisiin. Sinä valitset vakuutuksen laajuuden, me tarjoamme maksuttoman etäeläinlääkärin sekä nopean suorakorvauksen klinikan kassalla.

This is the Global News Podcast. There was a time when having a Trump Tower in your city was something that many would see as a sign of wealth and prosperity. And developers were planning to bring one of those branded buildings to Australia. At 91 stories high, it would have been the country's tallest tower.

But now plans for the one billion dollar project in Queensland have been scrapped. Developer David Young blamed what he called the toxic Trump brand and the Iran war for the building's demise. Charmaine Allison is a journalist with Australia's ABC News. She's been covering the story from the Gold Coast and she spoke to me from there.

Tämän vuoden loppupuolella Eric Trump, US-presidentin toisen lapsen Donald Trump, antoi sosiaalisen mediaan suunnitelmia 1,5 miljoonan dollarin Trump-taurun Surfers Paradisein Gold Coastissa Australiassa. Tämä 91-luvun 6-stari hotellipalvelu oli Australiassa ensimmäinen Trump-kirjoitettu asunto. Se oli pitkän taurun suurimmassa paikassa, joten se oli iso uusi asunto tähän alueeseen.

Australian Developers Altus Property Group confirmed they'd be spearheading the luxury resort build. But despite lots of community controversy and media coverage around this, a development application for this project was never actually submitted to the local council. And now just three months after this deal was made, it's been scrapped. Why has it been abandoned?

Well, it depends on who you ask. Altus Property Group founder David Young, who the ABC revealed has twice declared bankruptcy, said the Trump organization had pulled out of the deal. He said in a statement that the Trump brand was increasingly toxic in Australia, citing the Iran war as one example of this. He added that some time ago his company had decided it was time to part

company from the Trump brand. However, the Trump organization has hit back today. They've offered quite a different perspective. A spokesperson said that they'd been excited to bring the project to the Gold Coast, but that after months of negotiations and empty promises, Altus had been unable to meet the most basic financial obligations. So what's been the reaction in the community to the project, but also to its cancellation?

It really has divided the city. There were numerous petitions against the Trump Tower, which attracted more than 120,000 signatures. There was a small protest at the local council chambers earlier this month against the project, even though a formal development application hadn't even been issued.

Charmaine Allison.

To South Africa, where the country's top police chief is appearing in court, charged with violating public finance law. General Fani Masamola is accused of wrongdoing in connection with a controversial $21 million health contract. He's not the first South African police chief to face a criminal investigation while in office. Pumza Falani has been following the case.

This is actually one of the most serious cases happening in South Africa at the moment, and it's playing out in the country's courts with the citizens able to follow via live streaming. At the heart of it are allegations that General Fani Masumula, who is the country's most senior officer, along with 11 other police officers, were involved in the awarding of a

a tender that was supposed to provide wellness services within the country's police force. It's alleged that despite numerous indications that the businessman who had put in the bid for this tender did not have the capacity to provide it and also had been flagged under another incidence for not completing work

He went ahead and awarded the tender. So the suggestions by the prostitution are that he, along with these other officers, benefited either through bribery or promises of some kind. And this is what led to them awarding this very lucrative tender. It really sits at the heart for a lot of people. The allegations sit at the heart of what the level of alleged rot within the country's police services. Allegations that businessmen were able to flout

but also that in some extreme cases they were able to persuade the police to not investigate serious criminal syndicates here. Pumzi, you mentioned the alleged rot within the police services. How big an issue is police corruption in South Africa? Well, it's one of the key talking points for a lot of people, and this is because of an ongoing inquiry here known as the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry,

which has been hearing evidence since last September of wide-scale corruption within police services. This was first unearthed by a national police commissioner who came out and said that they were being put under pressure by businessmen

by criminal gangs to not investigate cases and that senior officers within the police were in cahoots with them in doing that. And for a lot of people this has been greatly concerning because South Africa has not only a crime problem but a violent crime problem. So it's been shocking for people to hear that this might be because of criminal corruption behind the scenes.

Pumus of Fulani in Johannesburg. In the last edition of our podcast, we heard about two teenage sisters from Gaza who've been awarded an environmental prize, the Earth Prize for the Middle East region, for a construction idea. They've developed building blocks made out of rubble.

Since we broadcast that story, the two sisters, Tala and Farah Musa, who are 17 and 15 years old, have been speaking to the BBC about their prize-winning idea, which they had after their house in Gaza was bombed. They're now living in a tent. They've been speaking to James Kopnell. Farah answers the first question. You'll hear her older sister occasionally helping her out with her English.