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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Monday, the 25th of May, these are our main stories. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan adopt a joint plan to counter the spread of Ebola across the region.
And President Trump tells US negotiators not to rush into a deal with Iran, despite earlier suggestions an agreement had largely been reached. also in this podcast. It was horrific, you know, on all levels. The story of an activist on the Gaza flotilla raided by Israeli forces and its elite sports ultimate taboo.
Think of everything that's banned in the Olympics and anything that's banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, but that's approved by the FDA and that's what they're on. We go to the enhanced games, literally the Olympics on steroids.
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Chapter 2: How are African countries coordinating to combat the Ebola outbreak?
You're in stress positions.
So you've got some broken ribs, broken coccyx. How are you getting about it?
It really pained for me with lots and lots of codeine. But when the Turkish government gave us flights out of Israel, we were immediately taken to hospitals. Our testimonies were taken. And when we get back to Australia in 24 hours, I will then go to another hospital and go through the same thing just to make sure everything's been documented.
Yeah, I was going to ask you legally, what are your intentions?
Chapter 3: What is President Trump's stance on the US-Iran negotiations?
Every delegation from each country will get a case together to hopefully press charges.
Are you in a position to identify your assailants?
known because they wear balaclavas. Yeah, and big men. I'm five foot. I'm five foot. I'm a blonde five foot fifty, fifty five year old woman.
They didn't identify themselves in any way?
At all. No, no. They just humiliated us, insulted us, you know, used our bodies as sort of punching bags. While we asked the Israel Defence Forces for a response to the allegations, they sent us this statement, which has been voiced up by a BBC producer.
The IDF rejects allegations of abuse by IDF soldiers during the operations to protect the legal naval security blockade. IDF orders require respectful and appropriate treatment of flotilla participants on the intercepted vessels, and there are clear and established procedures in this regard. No specific incidents of deviation from these binding procedures are known within the IDF.
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Chapter 4: What allegations have emerged from the Gaza flotilla incident?
Any concrete complaints submitted to the IDF on the matter will be examined thoroughly. The maritime area adjacent to Gaza is subject to a naval blockade imposed for security reasons in accordance with international law, aimed at preventing smuggling and terrorist activity that endanger the security of the State of Israel and its civilians.
The legality of the blockade and its enforcement in accordance with international law have also been recognised by a special committee established by the United Nations for this purpose. The ODF, which enforces the lawful naval blockade, intercepted vessels attempting to violate the blockade using recognised and lawful means in accordance with international law.
Next, in the US, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has declared a state of emergency as crews race to prevent a toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County. Officials were initially preparing for two scenarios. The chemical tank ruptures and spills or it blows up. But there may now be a third option. Here's Orange County's fire chief, TJ McGovern.
Our firefighters went in and they were able to visualize the tank. What they found was a potential crack in the tank, which could potentially be relieving some of the pressure in there. With this new information, it could change our trajectory and our strategy to this event.
But with the worst-case scenario still in mind, emergency workers are trying to cool the overheating tank. The county health officer, Dr Regina Chin-Siao Kwong, said anyone who notices a fruity and heavy smell should alert authorities.
So in this situation, our biggest concern is when this chemical reacts and the temperatures rise, it can cause a vapor. If that vapor goes into the air and people inhale that, it causes significant damage.
No matter what happens with the situation, whether the polymer just leaks out and then just hardens, or if it does explode and there is a vapor, you are all safe as long as you are out of the zone that was determined to be an evacuation zone.
Around 50,000 people remain under evacuation orders in the Garden Grove suburb of Los Angeles, but local shelters are running out of space.
You know how, like, when people go out drinking, they, like, bar hop? For the last 24 hours, I've been, like, evacuation site hopping.
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Chapter 5: How has the Taliban's ban on girls' education affected Afghan women?
The unknown is really scary. Still to come in this podcast, the BBC reports from inside Afghanistan. Women tell us the Taliban's ban on girls' education is ruining lives. Oiko tiellä kaikki järjestyy?
Kun työpäivät vaativat paljon, tuolin pitää antaa enemmän. Kotimaiselta Hexaplanilta ergonomiset työtuolit, jotka tukevat, rullaavat ja pysyvät mukana, olipa työpäiväsi millainen tahansa. Löydä juuri sinun tarpeisiisi sopiva työtuoli osoitteesta hexaplan.fi.
Hexaplan, työtilojesi pelastaja.
We'll be right back. Tuli pulkkamäkiä, polttareita tai puutarhajuhlia. Löydät nyt yli tuhat pysyvästi edullista tuotetta K-ruokakaupoista. This is the Global News Podcast. Donald Trump has lashed out at critics of his negotiations with Iran, calling them losers.
But several senior Republicans fear that unconfirmed reports of a possible 60-day ceasefire would strengthen Iran's influence in the region and undermine Israel.
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Chapter 6: What challenges do Afghan women face in the current political climate?
Earlier on Sunday, President Trump said both sides must take their time, saying the US's blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz would remain in place until an agreement is reached. 24 hours ago, it had seemed that a US deal with Iran was edging closer. Here's our North America correspondent, Peter Bowes.
The impression yesterday was given that the deal was imminent, but honestly, I don't think it was. The precise words of the president largely negotiated and still to be finalized. And really, that is still the situation. In fact, the president, Donald Trump, seems to be a little bit more cautious now, saying that he's told his negotiators not to rush into a deal and that time is on the U.S.
's side. He's been quite complimentary about Iran in some of the language that he's been using. But I think he's trying to lower expectations that a deal is indeed imminent. I think some sort of agreement is in the works. We might hear about it in the coming days. But I think that will just be the beginning, potentially the beginning of the end of this conflict.
It seems as if there is still quite a lot to discuss.
negotiate and especially those issues at the heart of the matter whether Iran will ever get a nuclear weapon and some of those other really difficult points like the Strait of Hormuz which it seems as if must be opened before they can move on to the those difficult issues later in the negotiations and there's been some backlash from Donald Trump's own party hasn't there
Yeah, I think the reaction has been really interesting from some pretty senior Republicans who generally are very close to Donald Trump.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Enhanced Games on sports and doping?
Lindsey Graham saying that he fears that a deal would still leave Iran in a strong position in the region and lead to, as he put it, a nightmare for Israel. Some very strong words from Senator Roger Wicker, who's the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He warned that the rumoured 60-day ceasefire, with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good faith, he said, would be a disaster.
And he added everything accomplished by Operation Epic Fury would be for naught. And just one more. Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, again, generally very close to the president, said he was deeply concerned by the reports that he's hearing about this emerging deal.
And with the midterms on the horizon, how do you think President Trump is going to sell this to the American public? Are they going to be asking, well, what has this war achieved?
That's going to be one of the questions. I think we still need to see the detail of what he will be selling to the American public. I think the first thing that Americans want to notice is that petrol prices are coming down. That can't happen until the Strait of Hormuz is completely and freely open to shipping and Crude oil prices come down. All of that is going to take some time.
Chapter 8: What are the controversies surrounding the Enhanced Games and performance-enhancing drugs?
So I think that's going to be the first issue that Americans will judge progress on. But then there'll be those questions about whether this war should have been fought in the first place and whether ultimately it has achieved anything over what President Obama achieved a few years ago.
And there's been much debate comparing that deal with potentially what this president, Donald Trump, could be about to achieve.
As you heard from Peter there, the US and Iran haven't reached any agreement about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said that would form part of later discussions. We got more from Kazra Najji from BBC Persian.
The only thing solid that we have heard is from Iran's president, Massoud Pesashkian. He repeated again that Iran was not after a nuclear weapon, wanting to reassure the world. Beyond that, nothing really. But hardline newspapers and news agencies in Iran are making a lot of noise, saying that what Trump says is not the reality of the talks or the agreement that so far has been reached.
And they are referring to two things. One is the Strait of Hormuz. The other is the release of Iran's frozen assets. I get the impression, that's the sticking point, in a sense, that Iran is refusing to relinquish its claim to management of the Strait of Hormuz.
And the Americans are refusing to entertain the idea of releasing Iran's assets before the whole negotiations got through and they've got to the end of the line in 60 days' time. So that's where we're still at.
While speculation mounts that the US and Iran may be close to some kind of peace deal, there's been no let-up in the violence in Lebanon. Israel's military has continued to hit what it says are Hezbollah targets in the south and east of the country.
Despite Iran's insistence that any agreement must include a meaningful ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel is making it clear it reserves the right to take military action beyond its northern border. Our correspondent John Sudworth is in Beirut.
The Lebanese have long earned the right to be sceptical about talk of peace deals and ceasefires. Even as hopes are raised that the US and Iran may be getting closer to an agreement with the promise it may also include an end to hostilities in Lebanon, the violence is continuing. with more Israeli strikes on villages in the south in a weekend of violence that included the deaths of six medics.
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