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Chapter 1: What recent incident did Iran report involving a US fighter jet?
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Tervetuloa, olen Ankur Desai ja 16GMT. Joulupäivän 3. keväällä nämä ovat meidän mainit tarinoitamme. Iran sanoo, että se on syöttänyt yhdysvaltojen jättä lähellä maan ulkopuolella. Pentagonin pohjalta ei ollut edellistä varoja, mutta unelmallinen yhdysvaltojen jättäjä on kutsuttu sanomaan, että yhdysvaltojen jättäjä on yhdysvaltojen jättäjä.
It comes as Iran has also continued its attacks on its Gulf neighbors, striking critical infrastructure in Kuwait, after President Trump threatened to further escalate the American bombing campaign.
Also coming up in this podcast, Burkina Faso's leader tells people that they can forget about democracy and has rolled back on plans to hold elections. And we also look at South Sudan's rapidly worsening security and humanitarian crisis. Over 540 children have been registered by UNICEF and protection partners as being unaccompanied, so separated from their families. And then we have this issue of abduction, which is terrifying for mothers who lose their children and mothers overall.
We begin the podcast with the latest in the Middle East. Iran says it has shot down a US fighter jet over the west of the country. At the time of recording there's been no official confirmation from the Pentagon, but an unnamed US official is being quoted as saying that a search is underway for the crew. If the incident is confirmed, it would be the first time since the beginning of the war that a US jet has been shot down over Iran. Mikey Kay, host of the Security Brief on BBC News, gave Tim Franks this update.
Tämä aloitti ensimmäisenä erittäin luonnollisia open source intelligence-kanavereita, joissa kuuluu, että Iran laittaa uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan uudestaan
An F-15E basically has two tail fins. And the markings from the livery, which is basically a red strip, through to a badge, which is USAF in Europe badge, that basically aligns that debris, the striking similarity between that debris and an F-15 strike eagle from the 494th Fighter Squadron, which is part of the 48th Fighter Wing, based at RAF Lake and Heath near Cambridge. And how many crew would there be on board typically?
Katsotaanpa, mitä F-15 on. Se on järjestelmä. Se on melko suuri jätki, mutta se on aineen ja aineen-järjestelmän mahdollisuus, mikä tarkoittaa, että se on käytetty ja on ollut käyttöönottoja, jotka ovat nähneet F-15a tekemään drone-kapin, joka on drone combat air patrolin.
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Chapter 2: How has Iran's military activity affected Gulf nations recently?
In another development, officials in Kuwait say an Iranian missile has damaged a power and desalination plant. That comes as Donald Trump is threatening ever greater destruction, including striking power plants and bridges, unless Iran does a deal. The escalation comes, despite international law experts, warning of serious violations by the US, Israel and Iran, as civilian infrastructure is targeted.
First, here's our correspondent Katie Watson in Doha in Qatar on the latest there and across the UAE. Kuwait had a few hits overnight early this morning. The Ministry of Electricity and Water said a power and water desalination plant was attacked. There was material damage to some components.
They also had an attack on a key oil refinery, Mina al-Ahmadi. It's one of the largest in the Middle East. It has a capacity of about 350,000 barrels of oil a day. It's also been targeted before, and that's just Kuwait. There were alarms that went off in the UAE and Bahrain, an attack in the UAE on a gas facility. So clearly what we're seeing and continue to see is this retaliation by Iran, and the Gulf continues to feel those effects.
Yes, the Gulf Nations have warned Iran against targeting water plants, as you mentioned there. Is there a sense of growing anger in the region? Certainly, I mean, I think there's frustration. Nobody, no authorities really speak publicly, but there is a sense of wanting, obviously, this war to be over, but wanting the threat of Iran to be over. I was talking to some Qatari officials earlier this week who made clear that attacks on civilian infrastructure, such as desalination...
This is a huge threat to the region. This is a part of the world that 90% of drinking water roughly comes from desalinated water. So if you don't have access to that, then it makes the region pretty unlivable pretty quickly. And that is a concern here, certainly. And what about the mood where you are, Katie? How much is normal life being affected? Have you been able to gauge a sense of how people are feeling?
It's much quieter than it normally is, that's for sure. It doesn't feel particularly vibrant at the moment. Obviously there were people who decided to leave when the war started. Some of those people might be coming back. Obviously there's a lot of Qataris who are still here. This is their home.
But I think it's difficult because the authorities are trying to make it clear that they're safe, that they're doing their best to defend themselves. Perhaps foreigners might feel a little less certain about that. But overall people are getting on with their lives. It just might be that there are fewer people here right now.
Katie Watson reporting from Doha. On Thursday the US and Israel struck one of Iran's biggest unfinished bridge projects. Iranian authorities say eight people were killed and nearly a hundred injured. What is likely to raise fresh questions about attacks on infrastructure that blurs the line between military and civilian targets. BBC Persian have managed to make contact with some people in Iran on what they think about the destruction of the bridge.
I feel hopeless. Trump posts shamelessly about attacking our bridge. I don't know how much further this is going to go. Why is no one standing up to him? He's really taking us back to the Stone Age.
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Chapter 3: What humanitarian crisis is South Sudan currently facing?
The language is escalating, and in a war where President Trump has again said, his deadlines are always fluid, that there would be another two to three weeks, this targeting on both sides, on all sides, raises questions about what is going to be hit next.
Lise Doucette reporting. The UN says food prices have risen to their highest level in six months and could increase further if the war in the Middle East continues. The Food and Agriculture Organization said high oil prices were mostly to blame. Several countries have mandated working from home and raised petrol prices with restricted passage through the Strait of Hormuz, affecting their ability to import oil and gas.
Pakistan's government has raised fuel prices by a further 43% overnight. Caroline Davies has more from Islamabad.
This is a dramatic increase in the price of fuel here in Pakistan. And the government here is tying it directly to the war in Iran. Now Pakistan is highly dependent on imported oil, a large amount of which comes through the Strait of Hormuz. And in fact this is the second time that Pakistan's government has increased the price of fuel since the conflict began, which means that petrol has now increased 77% since the beginning of this conflict, and diesel by 87%.
Now, Pakistan's government did announce some subsidies for certain groups, including motorcycle users, small farmers, passenger buses amongst them. But the major concern is that this will filter into inflation, and many here in Pakistan will already be making assessments about how often and how far they travel.
Caroline Davies reporting. And we have more on this on our YouTube channel. Just search for BBC News on YouTube and you'll find the Global News podcast in the podcast section. There's a new story available every weekday.
A French court has overturned an attempt by the government there to ban a Muslim event, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of people over the weekend. The annual meeting of French Muslims started as planned this afternoon, despite the police warning of the risk of terrorism. Hugh Schofield reports.
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Chapter 4: What challenges are affecting Easter celebrations in Jerusalem?
Part cultural and religious conference, part trade fair. This event is organized by an association called Muslims of France, which critics say is linked to the International Muslim Brotherhood. The French government is on principle ill disposed to it because it fears the group promotes separatism. But the reason given for trying to enforce a ban was the international context, the war on Iran and an increasingly polarized political atmosphere in France.
The risk of terrorism against Muslims could not be ignored, the government said. Far-right groups might seek to disrupt proceedings and foreign influencers might try to stage a provocation. But the organisers sought an injunction to overturn the ban and just in time they got it. The court ruling that police had failed to substantiate that there was a serious risk to public order. For the organisers, the suspicion is that the government was looking for a reason to have the assembly stopped. Hugh Schofield reporting.
Still to come in this podcast. They don't mate often and octopuses actually don't interact often. They're solitary. When they do interact, they're very aggressive. And so we wanted to observe mating in the lab. The new findings on how octopuses mate.
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Next, Burkina Faso's leader has told the people there they can forget about democracy in an interview on national TV. Captain Ibrahim Traore rolled back on plans to hold elections, despite promising them four years ago when he seized power. His rights record has come under a lot of criticism, most recently by Human Rights Watch. Its new report says the government and allied forces have killed more than twice as many civilians as Islamist militants in the past few years.
Ilaria Alafrozi on tutkijana raportissa ja sanoi, että syrjintä on mahdollista olla paljon suurempi ja että hallitusten vahvoja ovat vahvempia ja vahvoja kuin militantteja. Militaarisuus luo syrjintää, frustraatioita ja syrjintää, erityisesti suurimmilla yhteisöillä, jotka voivat tuottaa syrjintää.
Rekrutment into the ranks of the Islamist armed groups, which are actually surfing and exploiting this kind of military abuse for their propaganda. Global Affairs correspondent Richard Kagoi is in Nairobi and told me more. Ibrahim Toure is, you would say, young. He's in his later 30s, considered to be one of the youngest African leaders, where the average age is about 65 years old.
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Chapter 5: How has the conflict in the Middle East impacted food prices globally?
Hän on rakennettu itsensä ympäristönä Afrikan puolustajana, joka on lähtenyt vahvistamaan Pohjois-Afrikan kaupungin vaikutuksista, joita hän kutsutaan ympäristön imperialismiin ja neokolonialismiin. Hän on tehnyt radikaaleja reformeja ja poliiseja kansainvälisesti kansainvälinen kaupunkisektorin, joka on erittäin rauhassa kulttuurissa.
Ja hän sanoo, että hän haluaa luoda kulttuuritaitoja. Ja tämä on todella hänet vahvistettu, erityisesti nuorille, ei vain Burkina Fasoissa, vaan myös Afrikassa. Monet näkevät hänet revoluutioiden luokkaan, ja se oli Thomas Sankara, joka oli siellä vuoden 1980-luvulla. Hän on voinut rakentaa itsensä henkilökohtaisesti sosiaalisessa mediassa.
He's reflecting what people say is perhaps a political shift that's taking place across the continent. And his appeal also goes even just beyond Africa. He seems to be resonating with African Americans, you know, black Britons. Yeah, so he's been able to do that over a period of time since he seized power in a military coup. So it seems a real sense of cult of personality with him. But is this likely to last? And what sort of reaction has there been to him?
Opinion is divided. Lots of people are really conflicted about him. So he's got this sense of promise in terms of the way that he has approached his governance. That's what a lot of people say. Perhaps breaking with the pastor with how African leaders seem to be done. But a lot of people are saying even with the changes that he's doing in terms of the country's mineral wealth.
It's a sense in terms of consolidating power and wealth for himself and for people around him. As you mentioned, his human rights record has come under scrutiny. He's muzzled critical voices. He's suspended international news outlets and suspended even their journalists. You can see there's been a systematic dismantling of democratic institutions, including the country's electoral commission and political parties as well.
Richard Kagoi, reporting from Nairobi.
South Sudan is facing a rapidly worsening security and humanitarian crisis. Fierce fighting since December 2025 between government forces and opposition fighters has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Ted Chaban is UNICEF's deputy executive director and is visiting South Sudan this week and is among the first senior UN officials to reach some of the remote conflict affected areas. He's been speaking to James Kopno about what he saw there.
I was in the Jonglei area of South Sudan. That's in the northeast where much of the fighting has taken place. There's now over 286,000 in this place. We went to a small village called Shwil in northern Jonglei. The population is normally 6,000.
Viimeisen kuukauden jälkeen tämä on kasvanut 30 000 ihmistä, jotka ovat saapuneet sieltä. Ja rannalla on vielä 25 000 ihmistä lähellä. Ja mitä näimme, oli, että kaupunki oli todella pahassa. Olimme nähneet äidin nimeltä Njawat, ja hän oli syövän vihreästi Se on se, mitä minulla on.
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Chapter 6: What recent political developments are occurring in Burkina Faso?
Hän oli täysin yllättynyt, kun hänen sydäntänsä lopettiin. Sitten menimme uudelleen uudelleen, kuten Wee-Eye. Ja siellä kaikki oli luvattu. Hyvinvointikenttä, järjestelmäkohde oli luvattu. Se on yksi 26 hyvinvointikenttää, joita tiedämme olevan luvattu. Eli se ei ole vain yksilöitä, jotka palkkaavat. Se on yksilöllinen infrastruktuuri, johon he sopivat, joka on myös luvattu.
Onneksi on todella hyviä aktoreita, jotka vastaavat, paikalliset ja maailmanlaajuiset alueet, UN-järjestöjä kuten UNICEF, mutta paljon enemmän on tarvittavaa. Ja erityisesti mielestäni lapsille on tärkeää saada lapset kouluun, mutta on ollut aika vaikeaa historiallisesti saada lapset kouluun Suomessa, ja nyt, kun on niin paljon vaihtoehtoja, mielestäni moni lapsi ei saa kouluun.
Koulut ovat loppuneet. Maailmassa koko ajan, jopa ennen tätä kriisiä, lapsia oli enemmän ulkopuolella kuin kouluissa. Tämä vaikuttaa lisäämään opetuksensa. Kouluissa ei ole mitään lapsia, jotka ovat pysyneet ulkopuolella. Olemme tekemässä joitain alkuperäisiä oppimis- ja sopimuksia, mutta ne eivät ole vaihtoehtoja
Stability, the normalcy of being in school. And I have to say we're also facing a protection crisis. Over 540 children have been registered by UNICEF and protection partners as being unaccompanied, so separated from their families. And then we have this issue of abduction, which is terrifying for mothers who lose their children and mothers overall.
Both the government and the opposition have signed an action plan to desist from recruiting and using children in their forces. We've also called on the parties to de-escalate and return to a political dialogue. There needs to be a political way forward. There needs to be full access for humanitarians on the ground. That's UNICEF's deputy executive director Ted Chaban speaking to James Koppenau.
Holy Week leading up to Easter in Jerusalem has been a subdued affair this year, as the war against Iran continues. It's been the same story for Muslims with Eid and now Israeli Jews with Passover. Pilgrims and tourists have stayed away, while sacred sites with immense significance for billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews around the world have been closed in the old city. But the spirit of Jerusalem has survived, as our correspondent Sebastian Usher has been finding out.
Tervetuloa takaisin. Kiitos. On hyvä olla takaisin.
Mitä tahansa tapahtuu, se on edelleen Jerusalemissa. Voit tunnella, että se on edelleen. Hän on Tom ja Samantha, amerikkalaiset, jotka ovat tulleet tänä viikonloppuna. He eivät ole menossa tänä vuonna. Se on niin vahvaa, että ollaan paikalla, jossa Jeesus kävi. Jossa kaikki Jumalan viikon tapahtumat olivat. Se on niin menevää meille.
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Chapter 7: What new findings have scientists uncovered about octopus mating?
Sebastian Ascher, reporting from Jerusalem.
The octopus is one of the sea's most fascinating creatures. Intelligent, elusive and still not fully understood. One of the questions that has long puzzled scientists is how it reproduces. Now researchers at Harvard say they've uncovered part of that mystery, specifically how the male succeeds in mating. My colleague Tim Frank spoke to Professor Nicholas Bellono, the senior author of the study published in the journal Science. He began by explaining what the process actually looks like.
The male has one specialized arm. It's the third arm from the right. And it uses this arm not only to identify the female, but then it inserts the arm into the female mantle. And then the arm searches around the internal organs and finds the oviduct. And then once it finds the oviduct, both the male and the female freeze.
Ja sitten lapsi käsittelee spermataforin, joka on käsitellyt spermiä, käsittelemään käsittelemään käsittelemään käsittelemään käsittelemään käsittelemään käsittelemään käsittelemään.
Kuinka henki tietää, kun se on saanut oikean osan? Mitä olet ymmärtänyt siitä? Olemme ymmärtäneet tätä tavallaan yllättäen. He eivät soittaa usein, ja ohtalot eivät itse asiassa soittaa usein, he ovat yksilöitä.
When they do interact, they're very aggressive. And so we wanted to observe mating in the lab. And so our idea was to put two octopuses into one tank, but be mindful that they are aggressive together. So we put a barrier between them. And then we put little holes in that barrier so that they could sort of get used to one another and recognize that there is an octopus in the tank. And then our plan was to remove the barrier so they could mate.
Onnistuva suomalainen oltava oli voinut laittaa yksityiskohtaisen suomalaisen suomalaisen suomalaisen suomalaisen suomalaisen. is that the specialized arm for mating is actually a sensor of the female. And that led to the rest of the study, which is to define how it serves as a sensory organ, which was unknown.
Your research, and I'm not in any way downplaying it, but it's essentially all about trying to work out how the male responds to stimuli and is satisfied and decides where he's going to stick his third tentacle. Is there any suggestion or interest in how female octopuses decide that they're going to allow a male to mate with them?
Kyllä, kyllä. Tämä on todella mielenkiintoinen osa järjestelmää. Yksi asia, jonka nainen tekee, on se, että hän sopii. Yksi asia on se, että me katsoimme tämän periaatteen, jossa hän voisi tai ei voida ottaa naisen ja löytää häntä hektokallisessa, jotta hän voisi mennä ulos, jos hän ei tykkää tämän erityisen naisen. Ja toinen asia, joka on minulle todella mielenkiintoinen, on se,
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