Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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A scam exploiting vulnerable families with sick children. I would have done anything to get the medicine for Khalil. The child is directed on camera to plead for help. I want to be a normal kid. I want to go to school. They were going to upload it to social media. Millions of dollars pour in, but the families never receive the money. He told us it wasn't successful.
As I understood it, the video just didn't make any money.
They used to raise funds for their own benefit.
World of Secrets, the child cancer scam from the BBC World Service. Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Moss, and in the early hours of Tuesday, December 23rd, we hear about a desperately ill one-year-old child who was evacuated from Gaza but is now back in the Palestinian territory.
Donald Trump suspends all US offshore wind power projects, claiming they're a national security risk. Amazon says it's blocked North Koreans trying to sign up as tech company employees. Also in this podcast, the 19th century slave who escaped from the US and the letter she wrote to her mother back home. It's a really poignant story about how her daughter is OK.
Her daughter made it and now she's free. Back in June, the BBC reported on a one-year-old girl from Gaza with severe nutritional problems. After that broadcast, Siwa Ashour was evacuated to Jordan for medical treatment. She's now back in the Palestinian territory, but she's also back in hospital. Our correspondent Fergal Keane has been following her story.
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Chapter 2: What is the story of Siwar Ashour and her medical evacuation?
And the mental health services are extremely limited. Considering the unimaginable challenges that you are facing right now, from so many angles, how hopeful are you that this ceasefire will reach the next stage? Well, if you ask me or anyone else in Ghana, we will answer you the same response. We still have hope. Part of our belief in God is to have hope.
So we have hope for the future, but we are disappointed from the current pace that this ceasefire is moving on or the stages of the deal is moving on. We hope that we could see the next stage where everything will go to normal, where the rebuilding starts, where opening the crossings will start, when everything really starts like normal. building schools again, building hospitals, etc.
So we have hope for the future, but the signs on the ground are not very promising. Abir, a teacher from Gaza City, describing the situation on the ground and her hopes for the future. The US has a habit of naming Navy ships after its presidents. There's been a Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier and one called John F. Kennedy. There was even a Thomas Jefferson submarine.
But what these all had in common is that the ships were given these names after those presidents had died. Donald Trump, though, has decided to break with this tradition. It's less than a week since the Kennedy Arts Center he's chairman of announced that it would in future be called the Trump Kennedy Center.
And now the president has decided to extend his brand to Matters Maritime with a decision to build the Trump class of battleships.
There's never been anything like these ships. These have been under design consideration for a long time. And it started with me in my first term because I said, why aren't we doing battleships like we used to?
The announcement came in a wide-ranging news conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. And there was another significant policy announcement from his administration, that it was suspending all offshore wind farm projects. Now, the president has never been a fan of renewable energy, certainly not for its green credentials, as he's repeatedly suggested that climate change is a hoax.
There were five large-scale windmill projects underway, all of them now on hold. I talked about this with our White House reporter, Bernd de Busseman, who's at Mar-a-Lago. According to the administration, these wind projects present national security concerns. Specifically, they said that the towers and the blades of the windmills themselves caused what is called radar clutter, in which
certain items might not be caught on radar or there might be false positives on radar, which they say could be a concern going forward. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burdum specifically gave the example of drone warfare between Ukraine and Russia as an example of why this is a concern to them, given the potential threat of drones from other states or from non-state actors as well.
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Chapter 3: How has Siwar's return to Gaza impacted her health?
We ask why. The Global Jigsaw looks at the world through the lens of its media. Find us wherever you get your BBC podcasts. North Korea has found all sorts of illicit ways of earning foreign currency, despite being subjected to extensive United Nations sanctions.
It stands accused of involvement in cyber hacking, printing counterfeit cash, not to mention being paid millions to send its soldiers to fight for Russia in its war against Ukraine. Now, the head of security at the technology giant Amazon has revealed that the company's detected a growing number of North Korean job applicants.
Stephen Schmidt offered assurances that Amazon had managed to block all but one of these applications. But he warned they weren't the only firm being targeted. Our Asia business correspondent, Suranjana Tiwari, has been following the story. This came through in a LinkedIn post from Amazon's chief security officer.
And he said that the technology giant has blocked more than 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents. He added in the post that North Koreans try to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities. And then they typically get hired, get paid and funnel those wages back to Pyongyang to fund the regime's weapons programs. Those were his words, rather.
How exactly do these applicants disguise themselves? I mean, presumably they don't apply for a job at Amazon with an address in Pyongyang. Yeah, it seems that these kinds of operatives typically work with people managing what's called laptop farms, which refer to computers based in the US that are run remotely from outside of the country.
Now, then they use a combination of artificial intelligence tools and verification by staff to screen job applications.
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Chapter 4: What is Jordan's policy regarding medical treatment for Gazan children?
And the strategies used by such fraudsters have become more sophisticated. That's according to Mr. Schmidt's LinkedIn post as well. How important is it for the North Korean economy to make foreign currency by these various illicit means? Yeah, well, North Korea is possibly the most reclusive country in the world. As you can imagine, it can't trade normally with other countries.
It can't pay wages. It doesn't really have much of an economy to speak of for its citizens, and therefore it has to make money through other means, often illicit and illicit. Actually, back in July, a woman from Arizona was sentenced to more than eight years in jail for running a similar laptop firm.
And it was found that she was helping North Korean IT workers secure these kinds of remote jobs at more than 300 U.S. companies. And at the time, the DOJ, that's the Department of Justice in the U.S., said that the scheme generated more than $17 million in illicit gains for her and Pyongyang employees.
So you can see the kinds of numbers and figures that can be generated from these types of schemes. Surinjana Tiwari. Has Nigeria come up with a new way to tackle the scourge of kidnapping? Mass abductions have become so common there, they sometimes don't even make the news. Only last month, hundreds of children were taken from a Catholic school, though they have now been rescued.
And what the government has done is to redesignate kidnappers as terrorists ā It's not clear what practical difference that will make, but as our reporter Richard Kugoy told Anchor Desai, they're putting them in the same category as a host of other hostile actors. It's a designation because previously acts such as kidnapping were widely regarded as just ordinary criminal acts.
But now this now signals the intention by the government to address this problem, which has been described by analysts as one of the things that do pose existential threat to the country. So President Bolatino will last week say that... These measures were sort of like resetting the country's security architecture and it now will be able to help them tackle banditry, kidnapping and terrorism.
And do we know why this has been happening or who's behind it?
Well, we've witnessed a surge of kidnapping incidents from 2014. This is when we had the Chibok girls who were abducted, close to about 250 of them. That really got global attention. But we've seen that over the years, this has been taken up by groups that are locally known as a bandit. So these are armed men who normally target schools. They target churches. You know, those are soft targets.
And they basically seize people, particularly for ransom. But then, you know, payment of ransom in Nigeria is outlawed. And that's why the government say that those who have been released are especially in the past couple of days, has been as a result of military police-led intelligence operations.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges faced by Siwar's family upon returning to Gaza?
For those who aren't familiar with the franchise, tell us more about Call of Duty and what's unique about it. So Call of Duty has been going since the early 2000s. And it was one of the first shooting games that really felt like war stories. They felt more like war movies than the kind of more simplistic military shooters that had come before.
It also really set the template for multiplayer games. These are games that really...
emphasize playing with your friends playing in a squad and there's a sense of camaraderie and kind of shared experience that really call of duty set a template for in the earlier days of online gaming there's really no there's no online game and no shooter that does not have some of call of duty's dna in it really now it became a huge cultural phenomenon didn't it it wasn't just a game
No, I mean, so more than 500 million Call of Duty games have been sold now in total. And every single year, it has been an enormous, enormous deal when a new Call of Duty comes out. It's something that people get together for. And, you know, people reunite friends that have maybe been playing since high school or playing since university.
And who are, you know, in their late 30s now, they'll still get together when a new Call of Duty installment comes out and they'll still play as a squad. So it's something that people do feel very strongly about. I think Call of Duty will be his, it's one of the most famous games in the world. It will be the thing that he's best known for.
But, you know, players of his other games, such as Titanfall, which is an incredibly brilliant first-person shooter that came out later in his career, basically everything that he touched was quite a special game. And I think that lots of people, especially fans of shooters, will have a less well-known favourite game of his. Mine is definitely Titanfall.
I think that was Titanfall 2 particularly was a brilliant testament to his talent and to the talent of his studio. Keza McDonald on the legacy left by Call of Duty creator Vince Sampella. Thank you very much. But what we didn't know yesterday was that this year's lottery might just make the history books.
The winning numbers were announced today, and one group of victorious ticket holders comes from a part of Spain which had previously suffered great loss. Carla Conti has that story. People across Spain spent the morning of December 22nd glued to their TV screens, watching the annual tradition of schoolchildren singing out the winning numbers in the country's famous Christmas lottery, El Gordo.
This year, the top prize went to number 79,432, and a huge share of the winning tickets were sold in the northwestern province of LeĆ³n. The biggest winners were residents of the town of La Banieza, where locals shared out around 468 million euros, or 550 million dollars.
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