Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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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.
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Chapter 2: What genetic mutation was found in the sperm donor and why is it concerning?
I am here on behalf of my mother, Maria Corina Machado, who has united millions of Venezuelans in an extraordinary effort that you, our hosts, have honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize.
Before handing out the award, the Peace Prize Committee chairman, JĆ¼rgen Wettner-Fritnes, called on the Venezuelan president to resign. Here today, in this hall, with all the gravity that attends the Nobel Peace Prize and this annual ceremony, we will say what authoritarian leaders fear most. Your power is not permanent. Your violence will not prevail over people who rise and resist. Mr. Maduro.
accept the election results and step down.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of Maria Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance?
Well, as we record this podcast, Ms Machado is still thought to be heading to the Norwegian capital. In her earlier message, she said she was very grateful to the many people who risked their lives so I could get to Oslo and indicated she was getting on a plane. Her daughter said she would return to Venezuela very soon.
But that will not be easy, as I heard from our Latin America editor, Vanessa Buschlutter.
That is no easy feat. But then it was no easy feat to leave Venezuela for her either. Remember, she had been in hiding for more than a year, ever since she spoke out against those disputed elections. And we think that she probably had been moving from one hiding place to the other. And we will be very interested to hear how she did manage to make it out of the country.
Remember, there are very few flights in and out of Caracas at the moment as well, because the US President Donald Trump... declared the airspace around the capital closed amid a heightening of military tension.
Her daughter read her words. What do you make of the speech?
The speech was emotional. Of course, you could hear Ana Corina Sosa's voice breaking at times as she tried to keep her composure. What I thought was very interesting is that she stressed the role of families in Venezuela, and specifically families of the families whose loved ones have emigrated.
More than 8 million people have left Venezuela over the last 10 years as the economic and political crisis has gotten worse and worse.
And Ana Corina Sosa, reading out the words from her mother, said that these families and appealing to these families and telling them that if they can be in power, if Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez, who stood in for her at the elections because she was barred from running,
If they can come into power, they will make sure that all of those 8 million people have the chance to return to a safe Venezuela. And she said that it was that that made people often change their minds and which united the hitherto very divided opposition.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the National Rally's rise in France?
Maria Corina Machado and her opposition movement provided proof in the form of voting tallies of the election victory of Edmundo GonzƔlez. And yet then nothing happened. Maduro took power. He was sworn in.
Chapter 5: How does the new sound therapy aim to help tinnitus sufferers?
He's still very much in control of the police, of the army. He lives in the presidential palace. So a lot of Venezuelans felt forgotten and abandoned by the international community. And I think this will give them impetus.
Vanessa Buschluter. And you can hear more on this story on our YouTube channel. Search for BBC News, select podcasts and then the Global News podcast. We update it every weekday. The last outbreak of fighting between Thailand and Cambodia in July was brought to an end with help from Malaysia and the United States.
Back then, Donald Trump was able to use the leverage of trade negotiations to broker a ceasefire. But hostilities between the two Asian neighbours resumed this week, and the US president said on Tuesday night he would have to get involved again.
Cambodia, Thailand, and it started up today. Tomorrow I have to make a phone call. Who else could say I'm going to make a phone call and stop a war of two very powerful countries? Thailand and Cambodia, they're going at it again.
Chapter 6: Why is there a debate over the Calibri typeface in US government communications?
Well, the Malaysian Prime Minister said he had spoken to the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia on Tuesday and both were willing to, quote, continue negotiations to ease tensions. The clashes, which erupted over a long-standing border dispute, have forced half a million people to flee. Our Southeast Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, is in a village on the Thai side of the frontier.
There's been a pretty comprehensive evacuation right along the border now. I've come to within three kilometers of it. This is, I suppose, a pretty risky place to be because yesterday the Cambodians fired thousands of rockets over the border. The house I'm standing in front of was hit by one. You can see where it's detonated and just shredded everything in the front of the house.
Chapter 7: How did the European Sperm Bank respond to the findings of the investigation?
Fortunately, nobody was living here. And that's the case for hundreds of kilometers along this border. These populations have been moved to somewhere they can be safe. That means more than 20 kilometers. That's the range of the rockets that Cambodia has been using. Meanwhile, from where I am, but pretty much anywhere you stop, you can hear the regular boom of outgoing Thai artillery.
And we know the Thai military has announced yet more airstrikes. So the war is continuing very much at the same level that it has for the last three days. And you're not hearing really much in the way of softened language from either side. And the Thai military really is running this show. The government in Bangkok is saying to the military, do what you need to do.
And their view is that they need to hit the Cambodian military very hard to degrade its capabilities. Their argument would be to reduce the threat that populations along this border face.
But I think also the Thai military has in mind some high points along the ridge that divides the countries, which they've been trying to take and were trying to take in July when they were stopped by President Trump's intervention and that ceasefire. Obviously, that ceasefire was always fragile, and we've seen just how fragile it is from what's happened in the last few days.
Yeah, and President Trump has been speaking about it, saying he will have to pick up the phone again. Will he be able to do anything this time? I'm not sure. I mean, there's always a lot of leverage the US can apply, but the mood in Thailand is pretty tough. The prime minister is not giving any sense that he's willing to rein in the fighting right now.
The Thai argument is that Cambodia has not shown sincerity. It's produced compelling evidence that Cambodian soldiers have continued to lay landmines. Seven Thai soldiers have lost limbs to those landmines this year. They say you can't have peace if a country does that. On the Cambodian side, they have 18 of their soldiers still being held here.
They argue should have been released when the ceasefire happened. And they argue that Thailand is essentially a much bigger country and therefore bullying them. It's interesting. Cambodia makes regular appeals to international intervention and sympathy. They're very, very keen on President Trump to get involved again. But at the same time, they've brought these rocket launchers up.
They're willing to risk quite high civilian casualties in their response to the Thai artillery and airstrikes. I don't sense that in terms of actions, either country is really ready to stop this yet. And I'm not sure this time that President Trump will have the same leverage. Remember, in July, both countries were approaching a deadline to get the tariffs that he'd imposed on them down.
It was just a few days before that deadline, and I think that leverage was effective then. I'm not sure now whether he will be as effective, but let's see. Jonathan Haidt on the Thai side of the border with Cambodia. Now, have a listen to this. That is a new sound therapy offering hope to millions of tinnitus sufferers.
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Chapter 8: What impact does the cancer-causing gene have on the children conceived with this sperm?
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 use 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. We live in a world where the news is at our fingertips. But how often do we stop scrolling and just listen? I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take, Al Jazeera's daily news podcast, where we bring you the context and the people behind the global stories that matter.
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The recent American condemnation of Europe's migration policies and praise for nationalism is good news for the national rally in France, which for years has been shunned as far-right extremists. The party is now led by Jordan Bardella, who is currently favourite to win the French presidential election in 2027. He has been talking to Nick Robinson for the BBC's Political Thinking podcast.
Listen, I believe there is a wind of freedom and national pride blowing across all major Western democracies. And it is true that President Trump in the United States was an expression of that current stream of ideas of that great popular movement.
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