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 Alex Ritson, and at 16 hours GMT on Wednesday 17th December, these are our main stories. Australian police have charged the surviving suspect in the Bondi Beach mass shooting with murder and terrorism offences. More than 70 health workers are detained in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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Climate change makes commercial olive growing possible thousands of kilometres from its traditional Mediterranean home. Funerals have been held for two of the 15 victims of Sunday's mass shootings at a Jewish festival on Sydney's famous Bondi Beach in Australia. Both of them were rabbis.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the Bondi Beach mass shooting?
They're overcrowded. There's a lack of medicines, a lack of medical care, that there's a disease outbreak. There's not enough food, not enough safe drinking water and poor sanitation. And they say that there's also an outbreak of cholera, which has caused deaths within these prisons. And the World Health Organization, I think that's why they've stepped in.
They say that they are trying to verify that information about the detentions and about the conditions, but they have described this as deeply concerning, that there are doctors and civilians that are being held.
And briefly, no sign that the conflict is coming to an end despite various peace initiatives.
Absolutely not. And I think that's why there's such concern. This has been described as the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. The Sudan Force Army and the RSF have been fighting for close to three years now, and tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions of people displaced.
Shingai Nyoka. Aid workers say heavy rain has created widespread hardship in Gaza, washing away thousands of tents and further damaging buildings already affected by Israel's two-year offensive. They say Palestinians who've been displaced by the conflict have been living in a continual state of emergency, battling against the elements to stay warm and dry.
Jonathan Crix is the head of communications for UNICEF Palestine.
Last night was really horrendous for the families. I mean, the heavy rains were so intense that we could see 10, 15 centimetres of water and the winds were so strong. And when I drove this morning, I could see many, many people were trying with buckets to remove some of the water. Most of the people who are living in tents in Gaza, they have been displaced multiple times.
And when you're displaced during those two years of war, you're just moving with what you have on your back. You don't have the time to pack a lot of clothes. So most of the children that I'm seeing, you know, they don't have change of clothes or very little change of clothes. When I was seeing them this morning, their clothes were damped.
I could see parents trying to dry some of the blankets they had. But, you know, it's been raining almost all the time in the past four or five days. So it's extremely difficult to keep the children dry. And with temperature about seven degrees, eight degrees Celsius at night, we are extremely concerned about children getting sick or even worse, dying from hypothermia.
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Chapter 3: Who is Naveed Akram and what charges is he facing?
I mean, the website says that Galefu will be an oasis of mindfulness and prosperity, offering the world a different path of development. combining traditional Bhutanese values of spirituality with economic vibrancy. Now, the thing is, economic vibrancy is needed in Bhutan. I mean, it may give an image of happy peasants tending their flocks.
In fact, Bhutan famously decided to measure its gross national happiness as well as GDP. In fact, there's very serious unemployment problems in Bhutan. Lots of the population have to go abroad for work. It does have some sources of money. It sells hydroelectric power to neighbouring India and also has tourism, but that's very limited. So the idea is to create this new tech city.
One interesting thing, the billion dollars you mentioned that's going to be invested, it currently holds that money in cryptocurrency. Bhutan started buying cryptocurrency in 2019, may have made some money out of that. but the amount it's made is actually a state secret. Sounds interesting, but is it going to work? I don't know.
I mean, it's very hard to work out what this new spiritual city is going to actually do. It seems that financial services will be at the centre of the plans. It does have a very educated workforce, but it's a very small workforce, so I don't think any major banks are going to open themselves there, nor can it be a major high-tech manufacturing hub.
However, Bhutan sits at a very strategically interesting spot between India and China. India is very keen to keep up its own influence there and to keep China out. So I do think there's a chance that you'll see India prepared to invest a lot of money in Galefu, but that would be for reasons less to do with karma and mindfulness, be more about hard-nosed geopolitics. Paul Moss.
Wildlife photographers play an invaluable role in capturing the astonishing diversity of the natural world. But sometimes it seems in their search for the perfect shot, these photographers may also be hastening the demise of the very creatures they're trying to preserve on film. Take the tiny galaxy frog native to the rainforest of Kerala in southern India.
They get their name because their black spotted skin with flashes of orange looks like the night sky. even rarer, after a researcher from the Zoological Society of London found that one group had disappeared after photographers found them and moved them to get a better shot. Stefano Untertiner is an award-winning wildlife photographer and zoologist.
James Menendez asked him for his reaction to this event. I'm not so surprised, unfortunately, because I heard some bad story about nature photography around the world. Of course, it's kind of shocking because it's involved in a dangerous species. So it's kind of a surprise, but not too much because more and more story about, you know, photographers don't...
Ethically, work in the field is becoming increasingly happening, unfortunately. Why is that, do you think? I mean, why are people's standards slipping? There are several aspects to consider. First, probably, you know, the kind of pressure we have from social media and the fact that we want to shine with our picture and
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