Nick Miles
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We get a scientific explanation for our love of desserts.
Hamas has released the names of the three hostages that it is to release on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. They are the Argentine-Israeli Le Horn, the US-Israeli Tzagil Dekel Chen and the Russian-Israeli Alexander Sasha Tufanov. Hamas had earlier said it would postpone the handover, claiming that Israel had breached the terms of the Gaza ceasefire.
But after mediated talks in Cairo, the Israeli threats to resume the war if the releases didn't go ahead as scheduled, Hamas agreed to abide by the deadline. One of the hostages had been held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Qaza Madira spoke to Moshalavi, the brother-in-law of the hostage Omni Muran, who's not on the list of the hostages to be released on Saturday.
What are his thoughts on this development?
That was Moshe Lavi. The three named hostages will be exchanged for more than 300 Palestinian prisoners. The latest government figures from South Korea indicate that the suicide epidemic among young people there continues to be widespread, and that is despite efforts by officials to address it. Suicide is the leading cause of death among Koreans between the ages of 10 and 39. Here's Jae Sung Lee.
Now to Argentina, where a luxury community built on a wetland in the capital, Buenos Aires, is facing an interesting problem, an ever-growing population of wild capybaras. For anyone who's never seen one, capybaras are the largest living rodents. They're a close relative of guinea pigs, but they can weigh up to 60 kilograms.
The residents of the community have come up with a solution, vasectomies and contraceptives. Luke Jones spoke to Lucia Cholacan Herrera, a journalist in Buenos Aires who's familiar with the problem.
Lucia Chalakian Herrera in Argentina. Now, quite a few of you may relate to this. You've had a big meal, maybe a starter and a main course. You're feeling pretty full up. But when the offer of a dessert comes, magically you feel like you've still got a space in your already bloated belly. The joke is that we have another separate stomach for desserts.
Not true, of course, but it seems there is a biological reason why we're able to carry on eating sweet things even when we've really had enough to eat. And it was uncovered by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Germany through a study of mice. Team leader Dr Henning Fensenlau has been telling James Menendez more.
Henning Fentzelau. The Bantu peoples and their languages are spread across vast areas of Western, Central and Southern Africa. On his new album, Hymns of Bantu, the South African cellist, singer and composer Abel Salauchwe pays tribute to both his Bantu roots and the Western classical music he studied. The album brings together sounds as diverse as throat singing and bark.
Abel's been speaking to the BBC's Martin Venard.
Martin Venard reporting. Thank you.
Global News Podcast · NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine · 14 Feb 2025
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Friday the 14th of February, these are our main stories. The head of NATO has appealed for the West to stay united as a rift opens up between Europe and the United States on peace negotiations about Ukraine.
Days ahead of German elections, the man tipped to be the country's next leader has said things must change after an asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people. Riot police in Tehran have prevented a protest demanding the release of people still under house arrest 13 years after they disputed an election result.
We hear some unusual advice for Valentine's Day. How will the war in Ukraine end and at what cost to Kiev? That is the question dominating the minds of politicians and diplomats across Europe and beyond.
After Donald Trump's conversation with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, speaking to reporters a day later in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked if he believed his Russian counterpart wanted peace.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Kaya Callas, has accused President Trump of appeasing Russia over Ukraine. She insisted that European states and Ukraine itself must be part of any peace talks.
US officials have already said Ukraine can't expect to get all its territory back or be allowed to join NATO. But speaking after a NATO meeting in Brussels, the US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, said this didn't amount to a concession to the Russian president.
The German defence minister did, though, call it regrettable that Washington was already making concessions, in his words, to the Kremlin. Jonathan Beale is our defence correspondent in Brussels, where he asked the head of NATO, Mark Rutter, if he agreed with that.
Yes, certain individual European politicians, as we've heard, are more forthright than NATO over their concerns. Why is that, do you think? Is NATO in some way cowed by Donald Trump?
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