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 Ankur Desai, and in the early hours of Saturday, December the 13th, these are our main stories. US Democrats released photos from the estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, featuring rich and powerful people, including President Trump.
Thailand has carried out further attacks on Cambodia, the day after President Trump said the two countries' leaders had agreed to a new ceasefire. And European Union member states decide to freeze Russian assets worth more than $200 billion for an indefinite period. Also in this podcast, the security forces in Iran have arrested the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, Nargis Mohammadi.
And King Charles says his cancer treatment will be reduced in the new year.
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Chapter 2: Why did Democrats release photos of Trump from Epstein's estate?
And the Cambodian side have been eager for a ceasefire and for US intervention for several days now. But Thailand is not ready, and they've made it clear. Interestingly, President Trump does not appear to have used any kind of threats or leverage, as he did back in July, when he threatened to stop tariff talks. And that did force both countries to stop fighting very quickly.
That does not appear to have happened this time.
OK, so, Jonathan, is there an outcome that could satisfy both sides? And what do we make of the piece that he so-called brokered, Mr. Trump, that peace accord, which was signed back in October?
He didn't broker a peace. What he did, although he called it a peace, he gave some very big claims. What he did was have a ceremony to formally mark the ceasefire that he proclaimed. did very effectively broker back in July. But it was an uneasy ceasefire. The Thai military at the time felt it was gaining momentum.
The Thais have claimed right throughout the ceasefire, they say that Cambodia has continued to violate it. They're particularly aggrieved by landmines, which they've provided pretty compelling evidence of that they've been laid. They've had seven soldiers lose limbs.
But there's an element of pretext on the Thai side as well, because the fighting this week, over the past week, broke out on Monday with very heavy Thai bombing and airstrikes after what most people would consider a relatively minor incident. Two Thai soldiers receiving non-life-threatening injuries on Sunday in a skirmish. Those kinds of skirmishes have gone on all year.
So I think this time round, as opposed to July, it looks like the Thai military was ready for this fight and is certainly not ready to stop it. There isn't an outcome that will satisfy them because trust has collapsed on both sides, but also because in Thailand you've got a government that's just called an election and the government was weak to start with.
The current prime minister gave full authority to the military. to prosecute the conflict any way it liked. And in Cambodia, we have a secretive authoritarian system. It's almost impossible to divine what its motives are. So in the end, the ingredients, sensible, cool leadership on both sides, are just not there for any kind of meaningful long-term peace to be achieved at this stage.
Jonathan Head reporting. The security forces in Iran have arrested the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, Nargis Mohammadi. Mohammadi, who spent more than 10 years in detention for her activism, had been granted temporary leave from prison and was in poor health. Her brother, who lives in exile in Norway, said she'd been beaten, held by her hair and dragged to the floor during her rearrest.
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Chapter 3: What accusations are Republicans making regarding the photo release?
Now, officials say that he died of a heart attack, but activists say it might be something much more suspicious than that. I don't want to fool investigation. This was a lawyer who had acted for people like those who were at this event who have stood out against the Iranian regime. regime, no one more so than Nagez Mohammadi herself, of course. I mean, she was three on medical grounds.
She'd had some serious medical issues. There was a concern that she might have cancer in her leg. That, I think, has been resolved. It was only meant to be three weeks at a time, but it's been pretty much a whole year since then. But always, people around her were saying there's a good chance that she could be re-arrested. I mostly in Avin prison, the notorious prison where activists are held.
One of the things she did during this time that she's been out was actually to attend a protest outside that prison. She's met activists. She has gone on broadcasts. She can't leave the country herself. Sebastian Asher.
King Charles says his cancer treatment will be reduced in the new year thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to doctor's orders. He was speaking in a recorded message and said this milestone is both a personal blessing and a testimony to the remarkable advances that have been made in cancer care.
The news that he's responding well to treatment is the biggest update on the King's health since he revealed his diagnosis back in February of last year. Here's our senior royal correspondent, Daniela Ralph.
The King was last on public duty on Wednesday, an Advent service at Westminster Abbey. Royal engagements have been combined with weekly cancer treatment for close to two years. We have a very special broadcast tonight from His Majesty King Charles. But in a personal message delivered as part of Channel 4's Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser, the King revealed his treatment was being scaled back.
Today I am able to share with you the good news that thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to doctor's orders... My own schedule of cancer treatment can be reduced in the new year. This milestone is both a personal blessing and a testimony to the remarkable advances that have been made in cancer care in recent years.
Testimony that I hope may give encouragement to the 50% of us who will be diagnosed with the illness at some point in our lives. After being diagnosed with cancer in February 2024, the King withdrew from public duties for several weeks. His first engagement back was with cancer patients at a London hospital. But Buckingham Palace did not want his diagnosis to dominate his work.
Cancer-related visits came occasionally with a focus on patients. But do they allow you a tiny dram of whisky occasionally? Here? Yes. No. No, you see.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the ongoing conflict between Thailand and Cambodia?
For sure. You know, it's a bit of dark comedy, I guess, I think. And it's like a level of sarcasm that a lot of me and my friends have. And it's very conversational and relatable and kind of how we get through life and joke about it.
Will Chalk reporting. For more on one of today's big stories, you can also go on YouTube and search for BBC News. Click on the logo, then choose podcast and global news podcast. There's a new story available every weekday. And that's all from us for now. But there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
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