Jean McKenzie
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Global News Podcast · Trump signs executive order to close Department of Education · 21 Mar 2025
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New York Herald.
Thank you.
But look, this doesn't actually change the charges that Mr Yoon is facing. So he is charged with insurrection. This is one of the most serious crimes that you can be charged with. in South Korea, which is why he, as a sitting president, has been able to be charged with it, because presidents have immunity from most crimes. So he is still going to stand trial.
It just means that he's not going to do it from behind bars. And his lawyers have been fighting all along, you see, to get him released. They've been arguing that it's illegal to keep him in custody. And the courts have agreed with them, essentially, on a number of legal technicalities. The prosecutors, they could have appealed this But it seems that they're playing it safe.
So they've chosen not to appeal it. This case is just so important. It's totally unprecedented. It's the first time a sitting president has ever been arrested. So there's just no legal precedent for this. There's no legal rulebook. And it seems that they want to avoid any disputes that come further down the line so that there's no doubt when this verdict comes in.
Well, what we could see is if he is removed as president, then it could open him up to a whole load of other charges that he hasn't been subjected to yet because of that presidential immunity. Because there is a separate process that's happening here. So you've got the criminal process, but then you've also got President Yoon's impeachment process.
And this is going to decide whether to permanently remove him from office. So he was suspended a couple of weeks after he declared martial law. The parliament suspended him. But the courts have to rubber stamp that. So they've been holding a trial for the last few weeks and going through the evidence. And they're going to rule just in the coming days, really.
We're expecting it next week about whether to permanently remove him from office. And, yeah, that does change his status. And that could change things quite a lot. What we weren't expecting was to have him walk free before the court decided whether or not to bar him from office.
Yeah, so martial law lasted for six hours in the end. But what has been staggering is how much it has polarised this country. And we're seeing still the ground and the crisis deepen here. So still more people want to see him permanently removed from office than want to see him reinstated. But the number of people who do want to see him back has been growing. And people really...
His supporters, what we've seen, I mean, I've been at many of these protests all along, and what I've really noticed is that they are becoming more loyal, his supporters, and more agitated. They see him as a martyr. They think that he is being mistreated, and they're out on the streets and they're celebrating because they see this as a victory.
So whatever the courts decide in the coming weeks about whether to remove him from office, it is going to obsess a lot of people here, and the authorities are bracing themselves for potential unrest.
Hello, I'm Jean Lanham and I live up in Ayrshire in Scotland. I'm a garden designer. My studio is a converted out house in the garden. My desk sits up against a big picture window looking onto the garden, which includes a very old gnarled pear tree and a bird box, which is often home to a family of blue tits. I never know if they'll return.
The bird box is attached to the top of a post in a corner of the pergola, which is next to a weeping birch and has a climbing rose and a honeysuckle clambering up it. At this time of year, after brushing my Labrador, I attach her fur to a branch on the pear tree with a clothes peg for premium nesting material for the birds.
I'm not sure whether this is an added attraction to this particular nesting box, but I like to think so.
As I worked at my desk yesterday, I was delighted to see a pair of blue tits flitting through the branches of the birch tree, landing on the tangled old climbing rose, and as one sat on a branch of the pear tree to look out, the other flew to the bird box and started the spring cleaning, ready for nesting this year. They're back again. Such an absolute joy.
Global News Podcast · Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump · 28 Feb 2025
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The world is playing with fire. I want to send a clear message to our partners from the US, UK, and all other Western countries that please don't come to blame Africa when there will be a pandemic coming from Africa because we decide to stop funding to critical programmes.
I'm near South Korea's constitutional court where at the moment the impeached and imprisoned president is testifying and his supporters have rallied outside. They want him released, they want him returned to office and they are shouting some pretty extreme things. They're saying that the left-leaning opposition party are communists and that the leader of the opposition should be executed.
When the president here declared martial law, he justified this extreme move by claiming that the parliament had been infiltrated by people who were pro-North Korea, pro-communist. Now, he didn't provide any evidence, but since then, these ideas have really taken hold.
There's no denying these threats used to be very real. Experts say Mr Yoon has exploited these historic fears.
Sangshin Lee is a polling expert for the Korea Institute for National Unification.
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