Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 1st of January, these are our main stories. Donald Trump will pull National Guard troops out of three US cities after a Supreme Court ruling. And in a New Year's address, President Zelensky says Ukraine will not sign a weak peace agreement with Russia.
Chapter 2: What prompted Trump to withdraw the National Guard from US cities?
Also in this podcast, if every Syrian people will not take this risk, who will build our country? We speak to a Syrian refugee who's ready to move home.
In the final hours of 2025, Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing federal troops from three US cities, Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland. Over the course of the year, the president has deployed the National Guard to several Democrat-run cities. He claimed they were needed to crack down on rampant crime and help with immigration enforcement. I saw today on one of your networks, not a friendly network,
He interviewed about 12 people. Most of them were African American. They were black. And they were saying, please, please, please let the president send it. These were people from Chicago. Please, we need help. We need help. We can't walk outside. We're petrified. But Democrats criticized the move as an unnecessary and unconstitutional abuse of power. And several legal challenges were filed to block the deployments.
Chapter 3: How has the Supreme Court impacted the deployment of National Guard troops?
Last week the US Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to send troops to Chicago, citing a long-standing law against using the military as a domestic police force. And now President Trump has announced they'll be withdrawing, claiming that crime rates in the three cities have been reduced. But he said federal authorities could return if crime rose again. Our correspondent in Washington, Sean Dilley, told us more.
Some courts have given the federal government temporary permission to carry on with their deployments in some areas, but he's been facing an awful lot of legal challenges, and there are now several judges who have said that it's a federal overreach to use these powers to deploy the National Guard in various places across the United States, and there is not evidence that it's necessary to send troops in to protect property, and in particular to protect federal property, because while the National Guard obviously would normally be aligned to a state, they can deploy
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Is there any evidence that the security situation has changed at all in any of these cities as a result of the National Guard presence?
It's almost a little bit early to say because those annual crime statistics would not be in the same way. Certainly President Trump claims that crime levels have come down in those areas. But no, I mean, there's no magic bullet there that says, right, okay, crime was at this level. The National Guard came in on this date and he's been deploying them since June in various places across the United States. Nowhere can we say, well, hang on a minute, that's definitively reduced crime.
And what's the situation like in the other cities where Trump has deployed the national card?
There are still National Guards deployed here in Washington, D.C. There are National Guards deployed in Memphis and in New Orleans. An awful lot of people protesting about that, an awful lot of people very unhappy about it. Legal challenges do continue. And likewise, what's happened is in these areas where there have been protests not just about the National Guard, but based upon the policies of the federal government on immigration and other such matters, the deployments remain incredibly complex.
Sean Dilley, Washington.
While staying in the US, the Trump administration has also announced a freeze on funding for children's daycare in the Democrat-led state of Minnesota. This comes after a conservative YouTuber claimed in a video that centers run by Somali immigrants were taking public money without providing care. From Washington, here's Tom Bateman.
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Chapter 4: What is Ukraine's stance on a peace agreement with Russia?
It has roots, exactly. There is people, they have like a fire inside them, because some of their family, they killed them.
Just a final thought. What is it like cooking in Syria? Is it different to cooking in Germany?
In Syria it's easier for sure. When I'm cooking there, I feel I come back to my home. Even if my grandmother, she's passed away, but I feel all the old women that are around me, they are like my grandmother. And also the ingredients, it's the taste of this ingredient, it's like the childhood taste for me. It's like peace. Syrian chef Malakay Jazmati.
Kun Keir Starmer tuli Yhdysvaltain puolustusministeriön vuonna 2024, hän antoi tehdä poliitikkoa vähemmän tulevaisuudessa Britsin elämässä. Toisin sanoen, hän antoi tehdä poliitikkoa vähemmän tulevaisuudessa. In normal times all this would benefit the main conservative opposition party, but as our political correspondent Rob Watson now reports, these are anything but normal times.
A few days ago I was listening to a phone-in on one of the World Service's sister channels in Britain. Inevitably, of course, the callers ended up talking about politics. I was struck by one in particular who said she was totally disillusioned with politics and that Britain's politicians had failed the British people. I was struck because she sounded so reasonable, so calm and ordinary, by which I mean normal and typical, and yet so totally fed up.
It reminded me of the many conversations I'd had with voters at the time of the local elections earlier this year. What I'd heard then was also a mix of disillusion and anger from perfectly reasonable sounding people directed at the politicians over such issues as the cost of living, immigration and a general sense that nothing in Britain works properly.
Of course, voter anger is nothing new. I remember the same thing at the time of the 2010 general election, when voters were furious in the wake of the scandal over MPs expenses and the financial crash two years earlier. But this time it seems even more serious.
For a start, current polling suggests the country's mood has never been so sour, with over 70% of voters saying they expect life in Britain to get worse. Truly staggering, 70%. But secondly, this feeling of pessimism and anger is threatening to translate into a serious reshaping of British politics.
To some extent, it's already happening. Let me explain. In the past, when one of the two main parties was as unpopular as the current Labour government is now, the other party, in this case the Conservatives, would benefit. But that is not what's happening. Some context. In the 20 elections between 1945 and 2019, the combined vote share of the two main parties averaged a whopping 80.5%.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do Syrian refugees face when returning home?
When you go to a public toilet in any place, right, if it's in the theater, if it's in a shopping center, wherever, you will find that there are women queuing for that toilet and the men are sauntering in and out of theirs. It's especially frustrating when you realize that the reason for it is not what we normally think, which is women are faffing about in there, spending too long doing their makeup. Generally, when public toilets are being designed, the way that planners will allocate space
toilettua, että he tekevät samanlainen loppupuoli, mikä näyttää tärkeältä. Ongelma on se, että voidaan soittaa enemmän urinalia erityisellä paikalla, kuin voidaan soittaa kubikkoilla. Nuorten ei voida usein soittaa urinalia, joten kun on yleinen toiletta paikalla, joka on soittanut urinalia ja kubikkoja, ja joku, joka vain soittaa kubikkoja, niin nopeasti on paljon enemmän tarjousta. Voidaan saada paljon enemmän ihmisiä menemään sisään kuin se, joka on urinalissa. Joten nopeasti miehet ovat enemmän tarjousta.
But women need more provision because there's much more demand on the female toilet. And that is because women are more likely to be taking in other people. For example, small children that they're taking care of, older people that they're taking care of. Also women for various reasons might need to use the toilet more often because they're pregnant. And also just biomechanically, right? It just takes a little bit longer.
For men, you go up to your urinal, you unzip, off you go. For women, you've got to find the cubicle, open the door, shut the door, take your trousers down, probably clean the toilet seat, sit down and then reverse the procedure. It's small, but it adds up. So essentially, that is why you find women curing. That is admirably clear. What is unclear to me is why this problem persists.
Suurin piirtein ihmiset eivät todellakaan ymmärrä sitä. He ajattelevat ainoastaan ainoastaan ainoasta ajatuksesta, jossa on kuitenkin samaa mieltä, että se kuulostaa oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaan oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oikeastaa oike
There's a thing called the urinary leash, which is about, well, it's kind of what it sounds like. How far can you go being tethered to the fact that you're going to need to go at some point and there might not be anywhere. Caroline Criado-Perez speaking to Sean Lay.
And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod.
This edition was produced by Stephen Jensen and Peter Goffin. It was mixed by Holly Smith. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Rachel Wright. Until next time, goodbye.
We got a call from the bank and said, are you aware that there's no funds in this account? A string of victims across the US, stretching from coast to coast. The amount of victims in such a short time was unbelievable. Real people losing real money, but the criminals are ghosts. The anger, the frustration, the fear.
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