Charlotte Gallagher

The French sailor Thomas Covell and his seven-man crew have set a new round-the-world sailing record. They completed the 50,000 kilometre non-stop voyage in 40 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes, wiping more than 12 hours off the previous record to claim the Jules Verne trophy. Helen Fretter, who's the editor of Yachting World magazine, says it's a gruelling challenge to undertake.

Jules Verne-trofi on ympäri maailmaa yhdessä. Aloitetaan Suomesta, menet Etelä-Atlantikkaan ympäri maailmaa ja tulet takaisin. Olin kutsunut Jules Verneen, koska tehdä sen yli 80 päivää oli kuitenkin ongelmallista. Nyt he yrittävät tehdä sen yli 40 päivää. Ja teknologia, joka on olemassa vuonna 2017, on tullut yli ja yli. Veneet ovat ongelmallisia koneita.

but the margin that they have broken the record by is still really small, because it's just such an incredible challenge. You're at the lap of the wind gods, effectively, as to what conditions you get, and there's also the real technical challenge of managing these really complex boats through really extreme sea states, all the fatigue and damage that can occur over a month and a bit of pushing it to its absolute limits.

Tämä on todella huomattavaa.

You're trimming, you're adjusting the foils, the sails, constantly trying to squeeze like every fraction of performance out of this boat. And they're hurtling around at 30-35 upwards knots, which is right on the limit. And then the noise on these boats is phenomenal. The foils in the water create this really high-pitched howl, and the movement of the boat is phenomenal.

Kind of like your worst nightmare fairground ride. It's lurching and pitching and slamming around. So it's a really hard physical environment to be in as well. It's cold, it's noisy, it's really hard to rest. So the physical challenge is relentless. That was Helen Fretter.

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Internal Interpol files shared with the BBC show Russia is consistently breaking the global agency's rules when Moscow is requesting arrests abroad, devastating the lives of those left in limbo. If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that draft is flawed?

In 1999, four Russian apartment buildings were bombed. Hundreds killed. But even now, we still don't know for sure who did it. It's a mystery that sparked chilling theories. I'm Helena Merriman, and in a new BBC series, I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story. What did they miss the first time? The History Bureau. Putin and the apartment bombs. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

...kysyvät, että heidän tapauksensa on ylipäätänsä. Interpolin järjestelmä on myös osoittanut, että lisäkysymyksiä, joita organisaatio oli russiaan, jälkeen Ukrainain, on lukenut. Natasha Peach sanoo. Minä olisin aina esittänyt mieleni. Minä olisin ylipäätänsä sanonut, että Putin on raskas. Mutta sitten aloin tunnella, että nämä kivet ovat kiveteltäneet.

Eugene Lorenchuk oli tehtävä teatteri Moskovassa, kunnes vuonna 2014 hän sanoi, että hän ei ole enää tunnustunut turvallisuudesta. Hän on tullut kotiin Ukrainaan, jolloin hän soittaa operoita ja soittaa täällä, Ivan Franko-teatterissa Kyivissä. Mutta kun hän meni työskentelemään, hän oli vahvistettu italian alueiden avulla. Passport-kontrollissa he pysähtivät minua. Vain kaksi kertaa tuli, että olin vahvistunut ja Moskova.

Russia had requested via Interpol for Eugene to be arrested, accusing him of fraud and seeking his extradition. Apparently I stole money from a theater. I don't know what to tell you. It never happened. Interpol didn't take a view on his criminal case. He spent three weeks behind bars in Italy before the organization decided to cancel Russia's arrest request because of doubts raised over whether it was politically motivated. Today's threats are global threats.

Ja se on juuri se, mitä Interpolilla on. Interpolilla on pitkäaikainen kritiikki, että hallitsevien regioiden käyttäjät käyttävät itsenäisiä järjestöjä, jotta he järjestävät ympäristöjä. Ukraina-CCTV käsittelee näitä kuvia, joissa russi miltäri käsittelee rannasta Crimeaan suuntaan.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Interpol acted and said it would add extra scrutiny on requests from Russia. Despite the extra checks, leaked documents reveal Interpol approved about 90% of Russia's requests in 2024. At the same time, when Interpol's independent watchdog was reviewing complaints about Russia's requests, they overturned roughly half for breaking the rules. Internal reports also showed Interpol was aware of Russia's flagrant violations of its rules.

I've been working for Interpol for quite a while now. I won't say where. That's a whistleblower from inside Interpol, who has leaked thousands of internal documents to BBC Eye and Disclose, a French investigative newsroom. We've disguised their voice and identity. They claim to be transparent, but that's just not true. Everything is on a need-to-know basis.

Olemme kertoneet, että Interpol on vähentänyt joitain sen ristriksioita Venäjän vastaan. Interpol on vastannut, että heillä on järjestelmällinen olo pysyä vähentämään ristiriitaa. He sanoivat, etteivät he voivat kommentoida, onko ristiriitaa ristiriitaan. Olemme pysyneet ristiriitaan, jonka Venäjä on tarkoittanut, koska sääntö alkoi. Kun hän on tullut rauhassa, hän on kuin rauhassa.

Igor Petrikov nyt asuu Suomessa, jossa hän etsii asiloita. Hänen yrityksensä olivat suurin piirteet rauhallisia teräyhtymäriä. Lopulta lopulta hän ei halunnut pysyä ulkopuolella. Minä olin vastattava tästä. Minun pitäisi pysyä paljon vahvemmin kuin minulle. Se ei ollut vain yrityksen asia, se oli myös moraalinen asia. Hän sanoo, että hänen pysyänsä liittyi hänen yrityksensä nationalisoimaan ja kriminaaliseen tutkimukseen. Hän lähti Ruotsiin ja oli laittanut Interpolin halutuista listaa.

Egor's name was on the wanted list for almost two years, before Interpol ruled that his case was predominantly political.

A big part of Saudi Arabia's reinvention of its troubled global image has been through hosting sporting events. That'll culminate in the World Cup in 2034 going to Saudi. But the path is not proving entirely smooth. It's just been announced that the Asian Winter Games, which the kingdom was due to host in three years, have been postponed indefinitely. The event was due to be held in the planned megacity of Neom.

So how's that progressing? It's something that Alison Killing from the Financial Times has been looking into. She began by describing the vision for Neon. There were a number of projects that were actually part of it. One that people might have heard of is the line. That was this giant megastructure which was meant to be 200 metres wide, 500 metres high and then 170 kilometres long. It looks like this giant mirror glass wall stretching from the sea up into the desert. And 9 million people were supposed to live inside that thing.