Celia Hatton

Where the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has been warmly greeted at a colorful ceremony hosted by the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The two men signed a friendship and cooperation treaty. But the visit also seemed to be about optics, showing solidarity between nations not aligned to the United States and the West. The newsroom's Mickey Bristow told me more about the visit.

So trade, diplomatic ties being built. I mean, North Korea does seem to have more friends and to be in a better economic position than it was just a few years ago.

Mikki Bristow. Nyt mennään Australialle, joka käsittelee yhteiskunnallisen terveydenhuollon vaikutuksia. Regulaatiot siellä kutsuvat isoja reformeja ympäristöön. Se oli, kun yhteiskunnallinen huolto alkoi viime vuonna, kun tutkimus löysi, että moni suomalainen suomalainen huoltovaihtoehto ei ole tuottanut huoltoa, jota he suosittelivat.

The proposed changes will focus on improving the reliability and transparency of what sunscreens promise to customers. I spoke with our reporter, Lana Lam, who's in Sydney, and she started by telling me about that initial investigation. It was quite a shock to the consumers, because I guess there's been for decades this sort of inherent trust among Australians that the sunscreen just works. And so to know that some of these popular and quite expensive brands...

Weren't providing the protection that they claimed to be. Sort of sent shockwaves across the nation, really. About 2,000 people die from skin cancer or melanoma per year here. We are like a skin cancer hotspot, and so we really rely on sun cream in our daily lives.

And what did those initial investigations reveal? That some of these products, for instance, if they're claiming on the packaging, we have like a SPF rating, a sun protection factor rating. And so there were products that in one case said it had a 50 plus SPF, when in fact it only had a SPF of four. And so the sun protection of that product is much lower than the person thinks it is.

Joten sinun luonnon turvallisuus on todennäköisesti vaarallinen. Mitä regulaatit sanovat nyt? Luulen, että kun huomioimme, että nämä ympäristöryhmät eivät anneet suojelua, niin kun huomioimme tuon raportin ja seuraavien tutkimusten jälkeen, niin terapiaatit ovat päättäneet, että heidän täytyy käsitellä regulaatioita, jotka ovat nykyään olemassa.

So they're looking at greater oversight basically for the regulations that currently exist. So having greater scrutiny of the laboratories that test the sun protection factor of these products. And also looking at simpler labeling for the products as well. What's the effect of this sunscreen scandal overall? I mean the Australian government has spent so much money and time with these huge public campaigns to convince people to cover up and to wear sunscreen.

Sunscreen. What have the findings of these investigations done? Are people starting to question that a

Lennon Lam, Sydney.

Now, around the world people are living longer. That's good news. But how do we view these extra years? A new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of aging from adolescence to older age through art, science and popular culture. It's called The Coming of Age and it's on at the Wellcome Collection in London. My colleague Jane Hill was shown around by its head curator, Shamita Sharma-Charja. They began by looking at some beautiful objects from Japan.

Ehkä ei kaikki tarvitse olla täydellinen. Se on osa ymmärtää ymmärrystä. Mitä haluaisit, että ihmiset ottaisivat loppuun tämän esityksen lopussa? Mitä ajattelut ovat vanhemmista, miten me kaikki näemme vanhemman ihmisen, arvotaanko vanhemman ihmisen ja onko heidän kokemuksensa tarpeeksi? Onko se kysymyksiä?

Kiitos.

This edition of the Global News Podcast was mixed by Syd Dundon. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Celia Hatton. Until next time, goodbye.

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I'm Celia Hatton and it's 16 hours GMT on Wednesday the 4th of March. These are our main stories. The United States has sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka. Iran has carried out further attacks on several countries as Israel and the US continue to strike Iranian targets. Funeral ceremonies for Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei that were due to begin today have been postponed.

Also in this podcast we hear from Iranians who fled across the border to Turkey to escape the war. There is a lot of chaos in the city, a lot of missiles and attacks. We hear some things, some collisions outside of the city, sleeping in fear and waking up in stress.

We're focusing on the US-Israel war with Iran. In this podcast, we'll have the latest on Iranian drone and missile attacks across the Gulf region. They're happening as American and Israeli airstrikes on Iran continue. We'll also be hearing from BBC Persian about the situation on the ground in Tehran. But first, the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says a torpedo fired by a US submarine has sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.

BBC Verify has clarified that claim, and it's not the first sinking of an enemy ship by torpedo since World War II. The British sank an Argentinian ship in 1982, and an Indian frigate was torpedoed by a Pakistan submarine in 1971. However, if confirmed, it is the first time since 1945 that an American submarine has done this.