Keith Adams

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I'm Keith Adams, and in the early hours of Friday the 6th of February, these are our main stories. Lawmakers in Venezuela advance an amnesty bill for hundreds of political prisoners, a central demand by opposition figures and the United States. Scandal in Norway, after several high society figures are found in the Epstein files. A former prime minister is now being investigated by the police. And have scientists in China found a less invasive way to test for cervical cancer?

Also in this podcast. More material, a greater surface area in the suit. It can quite dramatically affect how far a ski jumper can fly. Controversy at the Winter Olympics. The strange way some ski jumpers might be cheating. We start this podcast in Venezuela.

Nämä kappaleet tulevat Venäjän suurta kulttia Karakassa, jossa poliittiset jäsenet kutsuivat uudestaan viikonloppuun. Aiemmin jäsenet kutsuivat uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan

This gives us a lot of hope amid the uncertainty. It has given us more hope and strength to continue with this struggle that we all share. There are people here whose relatives have been unjustly imprisoned for years, and today we want everyone to be free, not just a few, but all of us, with our relatives back on the streets. BBC Monitoring's Latin America analyst Luis Fajardo has been following developments from Miami.

Louis Fajardo. To Norway next, which is being rocked by scandal after revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein files. The documents have revealed relationships between the late convicted sex offender and a number of people in the country's elite, including the Crown Princess, an ambassador, and now police have opened a corruption investigation into the former Prime Minister, Torbjörn Järglund. Paul Carlundset, head of the Economic Crime Unit, explains why they've taken this step.

So this is to Norway, one of many people's most known, most trusted senior political figures. Torbjörn Jagland, he served as prime minister of the Labour government in the 90s. He was secretary general of the Council of Europe for 10 years. He was chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2009 to 2015, which obviously awards the Peace Prize. So very prominent figure.

Since the latest tranche of the Epstein files were released about a week ago, there have been very vocal calls to launch investigations into his dealings and his connections with the late sex offender. It has emerged, for instance, that he requested...

Jeffrey Epsteins help with the property purchase, that Tobin Jagland with his family had planned to go on a holiday to Epsteins Island, although that appears to have been cancelled before it happened. And to be very clear, he has not been charged with a crime here, but this investigation is now being opened by Norwegian police. And he has also made a public apology and admitted to what he called an error of judgment. So what happens now?

Eli Öko-Krim, joka on ekonominen krimi-yhtiö, he ovat laittaneet tämän mahdollisesti aggraveerimisen korruptiivisuuteen. Eli mitä he olisivat katsomassa, on tutkia, onko joitain rikkoja, menetelmää tai mahdollisia lupauksia, joita on otettu yhteydessä Torbjörn-Jaglandin positiivisuuteen.

Now they're requesting documents from Jagland, his lawyers. And it was also quite a complicated matter because of Jagland's previous role at the Council of Europe, he currently enjoys immunity. So the current Norwegian government, including the foreign minister and the prime minister, they have had to send a request.

to lift that immunity so that the police can conduct a full investigation. And I watched an interview with Jaglands lawyer, who was interviewed on Norwegian TV on Thursday evening. He said that he's convinced Jagland will be proven to not have done anything unlawful. He welcomed an investigation by the police, and he said it's better that they do a proper investigation rather than the Norwegian media, which obviously over the last couple of days have been reporting extensively on this.

And this is just one story, isn't it, involving Norway and the Epstein files? I mean, it's had a really big impact in the country. It has indeed. It's been quite a historically shocking week for Norwegians. We had the revelations of the crown princess, the future queen of Norway, Crown Princess Mette Marit, having had extensive contact. She appears in the documents, I believe, more than a thousand times. There's extensive information.

Text messages, plannings of holidays, lots of conversations between the two. She has also had to make a public apology, but in the kind of context in Norway currently, there's a lot of people that say this is really proof that her judgment is not up to par to be the future queen of Norway. And we have also seen a very prominent ambassador that has been suspended from her roles because

It appears that she had close connections with Epstein, including him potentially leaving her child millions of dollars in his will. And now we have this investigation opened into a former prime minister. So yes, the Epstein documents, the contents of them, that's reverberating around the globe. But in Norway it has been a quite shocking week. Stephanie Zachrisson.

Many women find cervical smear tests for cancer painful, intrusive and inconvenient and put off going to the doctor to have it done. But scientists in China have identified what they say is a potential alternative by testing menstrual blood for signs of cancer. The researchers found this way of testing was nearly as good at picking up people who had the disease as other methods. Our health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson explains how the study was carried out.

Esitykset kehittävät sen, mitä he kutsuvat minipadilla. Se on syrjintä, joka liittyy sanittaripadille. Kun se liittyy sanittaripadille, se on saapunut noin kaksi kolmeaikaiselta syrjintäpäivästä. Nuoret laittavat sen järjestelmään, joka on kutsuttu käsityksellä, ja laittavat sen järjestelmään labiin, jossa se on testattu.

HPV-papiloomaviruksen, joka vaikuttaa melkein kaikille kärsimyksille, joita tiedämme. Tämä tutkimus oli tehty Wuhanissa, Ruotsissa, ja naiset, jotka osallistuivat, olivat 20–54 vuotta vanha, ja niistä oli enemmän kuin 3 000.

There have been other research programs, but on a much smaller scale, like programs in hospitals and things like that, that showed there might be some positive results. But they wanted to broaden it out to a kind of community project, if you like. At the same time as these women sending off results in this way from their menstrual blood, they were also tested in conventional ways. Those two different types of tests were compared with each other.