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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. Olen Will Chalk ja viimeisenä viimeisenä viimeisenä viimeisenä viimeisenä viimeisenä viimeisenä
And the Pentagon has begun releasing what it says are never before seen files on UFOs. Also in this podcast, Mexico's school children are told they're getting an extra 40 days off this summer as their country hosts the World Cup. But is the president about to shatter that dream? Thank you for your wisdom, your kindness, your dedication and for reminding us always of the wonder of the world we call home.
A royal message for the naturalist David Attenborough on his hundredth birthday. There is, for now, a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. President Donald Trump said he had personally requested the temporary truce. He said it would include what he called a suspension of all kinetic activity and a prisoner exchange.
Olen kysynyt, ja presidentti Putin on sovellut, presidentti Zelenski on sovellut, molemmat on sovellut, ja meillä on vähän aikaa, jolloin he eivät toimi ihmisiä, ja se on erittäin hyvä. Ja he ovat myös sovellut antaa yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta yhdestä puolesta.
But even if President Trump got the deal over the line, the ceasefire to mark the anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany was something both sides had already announced and then accused each other of breaking. Our global affairs reporter Paul Moss told me more.
Joka vuosi Ruotsi järjestää keväällä keväällä vahvistuksen vuoden 2. Se on yleensä iso eventti. Tämä kertoo vanhoista soviikin unionin aikoista, joissa sotilaset käyvät, uusimmat sotilaset näyttävät, he laittavat missaaleja, ICBM-kysymyksiä, joita ympäri maailmaa katsoo.
This year, though, Russia says it's needed to scale back the commemorations because it's scared of them being attacked. Now, Sinek suggested that was just an excuse. In fact, Russia's running rather short of men and arms and needed all of them for the fighting and couldn't spare them for parade. But then Ukraine's president Zelensky did actually seem perhaps to threaten to attack the festivities. He said he didn't recommend any foreign leaders show up for that event.
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Chapter 2: What led to the ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine?
It is their joint victory being celebrated. A reminder that they were once fighting together against a common enemy. So you would think they could get this agreement made. And indeed, as you say, Donald Trump's claiming credit for it. He said he persuaded the two leaders to agree a ceasefire as part of ongoing negotiations to end the conflict and persuaded them to swap a thousand prisoners of war as well. Well, given, as you say, there are vested interests on both sides, do you think then that this truce will actually hold?
That is the big question. Previous truces have not. They've seen the fighting continue with both sides blaming the other for breaking the truce. We'll have to see. But of course the sad truth is that even if this ceasefire does hold through the festivities, it is only temporary. The conflict seems very likely to resume straight afterwards. This is a conflict which has already killed hundreds of thousands of people on both sides and shows every sign of killing many thousands more.
Historic shift, heavy defeat and a bloodbath. Some of the words the newspapers here in the UK are using to describe local election results in England and devolved parliament results in Scotland and Wales. But given these elections don't actually have any bearing on the national parliament and a general election isn't due for three years, is the drama warranted?
Reform UK supporters would say yes. The right-wing populist party, which has only existed in its current form since 2021, has made huge gains. The governing Labour party has seen huge losses, including the end of its 27-year rule in Wales. Reform's education spokesperson, Swella Braverman, says it bodes well for the party's leader, Nigel Farage.
I do think that there is a very high chance of Nigel becoming prime minister. I very much hope that he will become prime minister. I think the next general election will be the most crucial in my lifetime, because the choice will be very, very binary. It will either be a left-wing coalition to take us into deeper poverty, open borders and humiliation on the world stage, or the chance to start the recovery.
So is the current Prime Minister Keir Starmer now finished as Labour leader? I asked our UK political correspondent Rob Watson.
I think the view inside the governing Labour Party is that Keir Starmer has been finished for some time even before these disastrous election results. There's been a view that his position is unrecoverable in the longer term because he's so unpopular within the party but also in the country. So then the question is always, well, if he's not going to lead Labour into the next general election in 2029,
When does he go? So there is a question as to whether these disastrous results will bring that moment forward a bit. And the answer is that it's hard to say. There doesn't seem to be any precipitate move against him right now, although of course there have been calls for his resignation.
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Chapter 3: How is the ceasefire related to World War II commemorations?
but there is a sense that maybe the party will wait, because the problem holding them back from moving against Keir Starmer is, who would you put in his place? I mean, if the Labour Party could unite around a single candidate, I think Keir Starmer would be gone much sooner rather than later.
And it's not too dramatic to say, is it, that these results also have implications for potentially the future of the UK, because great results for pro-independence parties in Wales and Scotland. That is true. I mean, it doesn't necessarily mean that there's going to be demands from another referendum in Scotland or a referendum in Wales, but I think what is...
jota teillä on myös Norjan-Irlannissa. Suurimmat osapuolet ovat osapuolet, joiden unelmat tulevat elämään yli Yhdysvaltojen ulkopuolella, joten se ei ole välttämättömyys, mutta ehkä kysymyksiä devolutiivisesta, lisäämistä, ja jos haluat, keskustelua.
Ja sillä tasolla, kyllä, todennäköisesti valtuutettavuudet Suomen kansalaisen puolustuspartiin ja Plight Cymruun, suomalaisen kansalaisen puolustuspartiin, ovat todennäköisesti yhdistettyjä unionissa. Ja tietenkin, jokaisen paikallisen valtuutettavuuden kanssa, se on aina hieno, koska näkökulma on aina se, mitä tarkoittaa seuraavaa keskustelua valtuutettavuudesta. Joten katsotaan sinun kristallinen puoli, Rob. Mitä tarkoittaa seuraavaa keskustelua valtuutettavuudesta?
So I think you just can't overstate the importance of the results that we've been looking at. I mean, they really do seem to represent a crumbling of the old order. And what I mean by that is the domination by conservatives and Labour of Britain's political system, both at a local level but at a national level for the last hundred years. Now, people might say, well, is that a flash in the pan? Perhaps conservative and Labour will come back and that...
the populists of the green and reform and others will somehow slip back. But I think that may be wishful thinking on behalf of the big parties because the forces that are driving the success of the smaller parties and which are damaging Labour and Conservatives look unlikely
to go away because those forces and you see them in other developed countries voter anger at the system a lack of trust in politicians anger at the stagnation in living standards and the growth forecasts in britain are pretty dismal a sense that nothing works proper anymore what you might call cultural and identity concerns so that's things like immigration and social cohesion and a widespread sense that people just don't have much control over their lives
And that has led to anger against the established parties who've been running this country for the last hundred years, Labour and Conservative, just as you've seen that in other developed countries. And it seems immensely unlikely that those forces, if you like, are going to be addressed in the next three years. So absolutely, we could, at the next general election in 2029, be seeing a fragmentation of British politics, British politics looking more like the politics of other continental European countries with violence,
multi-parteja ja kaikenlaista vahvistelua voimakkaudesta lopulta. Jos olet nyt Labourin puolustajan pääosassa, mitä he voivat tehdä, tai onko jotain, jolla he voivat vähentää sitä ja siirtää sen ympärille?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the recent local election results in the UK?
Now though, Virginia's Supreme Court has overturned that vote, saying the way the motion ended up on the ballot broke the rules, and the old map has now been restored. All this is playing out ahead of crucial midterm elections in November. Our North America correspondent Anthony Zerker has been following this one, and spoke to my colleague Carl Nasman.
He decided this on a procedural issue, essentially, to amend the Virginia state constitution the way they had to in order to allow this change in congressional districts. The legislature had to vote on the measure before last year's election and then after that election, and then it would have to be passed by the voters in Virginia. What the Supreme Court of Virginia said was that that first vote was too close to election day. It happened before.
Ylioppilaisen valinnan jälkeen valinnan jälkeen valinnan jälkeen valinnan jälkeen valinnan jälkeen.
It's going to be a big ruling because it's going to result probably in Democrats holding about four less seats than they were hoping for. The way they redrew these maps, it gave Democrats a majority in 10 of Virginia's 11 congressional districts. Right now they only hold six of the 11 districts. Now they may be able to pick some up later this year because some of those districts are closely contentious. But if it's a close election, if the majority in the House is determined by Democrats,
Two or three seats, then this could be the difference. It is definitely a setback for Democrats who are hoping that this would be a good counter to the redistricting that Republicans have already done in states like Texas and Ohio and North Carolina. What happens next, because there are other Republican states that are looking to fall in line here, follow the example of, like you mentioned, Texas, and redraw their voting maps to give Republicans an advantage heading into those crucial midterm elections?
Just last week Florida redrew their maps, probably going to give Republicans a handful of extra seats there. But there was a Supreme Court decision just last week on the Voting Rights Act that has opened the door for a lot of southern states to redraw their maps. The court said that states do not have to have protected districts for majority black voters that would reflect the populations of those states at large.
Nyt on nähty, että Tennessee alkoi uudistaa heidän lainsääntöjänsä, jotta voidaan saada lisää republikaanista. Voidaan nähdä, että Alabaamassa, Suomessa ja Georgiaan muutamia asioita liittyvät. Noin kaksi viikkoa sitten näyttäisi, että kaikki näyttäisi hyvältä. Kaliforniassa ja Virginiassa yksi puoli ja Texasissa ja vaikka Floridassa ja muutamia republikaanisia valtioita yksi puoli. Toisella puolella se oli valmisteltava. Mutta mitä näemme nyt Suomalaiskäräjien päätöksentekoon ja Virginiaan vahvistamiseen,
is that Republicans are in a position where they could tilt the playing field towards them by maybe even as much as a dozen seats. This still is going to be a tough election for Republicans in November. They're still going against political headwinds, but if this is close, then this is going to really help Republicans maybe eke out another
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Chapter 5: Is Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party under threat?
Small majority in the House, but a small majority is still a majority. And if Democrats were in control of the House, they would be launching investigations of Donald Trump and ramping up oversight and blocking his legislative agenda. So the stakes here are very high.
Anthony Zerka. We are sticking in the US for this next story, because as we speak, a dedicated group of believers will be pouring in great detail over some newly released government files. They're to do with something that has fascinated Americans and people around the world as well for decades. Sightings of unidentified flying objects, more commonly known as UFOs.
They include files from the FBI, the Department of State and the US space agency NASA, with some dating back to the 1940s. President Trump directed the Pentagon to release the documents because of what he called tremendous interest. Valerie Sanderson got more details from our correspondent John Sudworth.
The first thing to say is this makes fascinating reading and viewing for anybody who logs onto this website. It's all been put in the public domain. 162 files in total. Some of them are still images. Many of them taken from US military aircraft where they've seen something that they can't quite explain. Perhaps they're tracking it or whatever and they've taken still images. Some of it is video evidence.
Kiitos kun katsoit videon.
Things very difficult to describe. All of this has been put in the public domain because President Trump said back in February that he wanted to do more. He called for the release of all and any information relating to UFOs, or as the Pentagon calls them nowadays, UAPs, unidentified anomalous phenomena. But it's important to say, of course, the point about all of this is these are all unresolved. There may be other explanations for what we're looking at. It's just that the Pentagon hasn't been able to pin those down.
So John, what stands out to you? Some really intriguing detail in some of this information. For example, being made public for the first time is the debrief of the Apollo 11 astronauts back in 1969, in which they talk very openly.
In this long transcript that's been published about seeing weird objects, Neil Armstrong describes one as being shaped like an open suitcase. You've got Buzz Aldrin on that transcript talking about these tiny bright lights that he says he can see that appear, he says, to kind of penetrate the spacecraft.
Ja mitä on todella mielenkiintoista, on se, että se tapahtuu jonkinlaista keskustelua. Hän puhuu Neil Armstrongille, ja Neil Armstrong sanoo, että ensimmäiset päivät, kun Buzz Aldrin sanoo tämän fenomenon, hän ei saa nähdä sitä. Mutta viimeisenä päivänä Buzz Aldrin on niin ymmärrettävä, että Neil Armstrong sitoo siellä ja katsoo niitä. Ja sitten hän sanoo, että hän myös saa nähdä niitä. Onko enemmän näköjärjestelmiä tällaista tehtävää?
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Chapter 6: How do recent US Supreme Court decisions affect electoral maps?
Tämä on tärkeä, että me voimme liittyä. Meidän on oikeus liittyä. Toisia ihmisiä on helppo liittyä. Meidän on oikeus liittyä. Meillä on oikeus liittyä. Tämä on erittäin erityinen maraton minulle. Minä olen mennyt tässä 13 vuotta aiemmin. Ahmed Tahir on palestiinalaisen rannan ystävä. Ja hänen kanssaan se on iloinen momentti, että hän voi rannata oman rannansa.
Joten tämä on erittäin tärkeä päivä, ei vain minulle, vaan kaikille meiltä. Se on yhdistelmä. Se on meitä esittämällä ja kertomaan maailmallemme tarinamme. Tarinamme oikeuteen liikkeelle. Mennään, mennään!
In any marathon they talk about hitting the wall, getting through the barrier. But in the Palestine marathon it's not just a psychological wall, a psychological barrier. There's a physical wall as well, because the huge concrete Israeli separation barrier is very much part of this course. And here we are at the halfway point, runners coming around this sharp bend, and behind them the huge concrete barrier that separates Palestine and Bethlehem.
It weighs really heavy on all of our hearts. Reem Ali is originally from the Palestinian territories, but she now lives in the US and has come back here especially for this event with her husband. She eventually came second in the women's race. It just means so much to us to be able to do what we love and to move and to show that regardless of what's there, that we can still have fun. We don't have to have barriers to kind of control us in a sense.
Täällä Betlehemin mainitsevassa puolella on kouluja, koska siellä on koulujärjestelmä. Siellä on 10k.
And the key feature of this event is that it coincides with a 5K in Gaza. It's the first time there's been a big social and sporting event there since the start of the devastating war between Hamas and Israel. And of course the Palestinian economy has been hit hard in recent years. And we haven't seen this many visitors here in Bethlehem, a town so dependent on tourism, for a long time.
We're a Davis reporting from Bethlehem. It sounds like a dream for most school children. Not only is your country hosting the Football World Cup, but even better, you get an extra 40 days off school because of it. And that dream looked as if it was becoming a reality in Mexico after an announcement on Thursday from the education secretary.
But now the president has thrown the plan into doubt, saying actually no final decision has been taken. As Will Grant reports from Mexico, from a parent's perspective, it might not have been such a welcome idea anyway. No offence to spending time with one's kids, but this was probably the last decision that any parent in Mexico wanted to hear.
Aiemmin viikon ajan koulutusministeri Mario Delgao antoi, että koulutukset olisivat lähtökohtaisesti lähtökohtaisesti. Yksi kuukausi lähtökohtaisesti. Ei enemmän koulutuksia kuin 5. juni. Hän antoi kaksi syystä päätöksestä. Ensimmäinen on metsän lämpötilanteessa, mutta toinen oli pysäyttää niin monia autoja, jotka kulkevat rannallaan FIFA World Cupin aikana.
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