Chapter 1: What are Trump's intentions regarding Greenland at the World Economic Forum?
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I'm Ankur Desaihan at 16GMT on Wednesday the 21st of January. These are our main stories. Donald Trump has told the World Economic Forum he wants immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland for the United States. But he won't take it by force. People thought I would use force. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force.
Kaikki Yhdysvallat pyytää Greenlandin kautta. Meillä on enemmän Davosista, jossa Yhdysvallan presidentti on puhunut maailmanlehtiä. Myös BBC on nähnyt kuvia, joissa on ollut kymmeniä viktejä Iranin protesteista, jotka olivat näyttäneet vanhemmille yrittäjille, jotka yrittävät tunnistaa sydäntä. Myös tämän podcastin jälkeen. Yhdysvallan presidentti. Kiitos, että katsoitte.
We start in the alpine town of Davos. In normal times, a small and quiet, somewhat picturesque upmarket Swiss ski resort. But these are anything but normal times. It's currently home to the World Economic Forum, a gathering of the global elite, who are waiting today to hear from President Trump. It's fair to say European leaders were braced for impact, waiting to hear what the US president would say about plans to impose tariffs on those countries that support Denmark's sovereignty of Greenland.
But instead, President Trump, in a wide-ranging speech lasting for around an hour and a half, said he wanted immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland for the United States, although he wouldn't take it by force. People thought I would use force. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force.
All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians and others in World War II. We gave it back to them. We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now.
He praised the people and leaders of Denmark, which has sovereignty over the Arctic island, but said only the US could defend it. We need it for strategic national security and international security. This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America, on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere. That's our territory. It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States of America, and in fact...
It's been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere. And we've done it very successfully. We've never been stronger than we are now. Mr. Trump said that U.S. ownership of Greenland was a small ask over a piece of ice. And it would be good for NATO. But then went on to attack fellow NATO members for not pulling their weight. And mocked the French and Canadian leaders directly. Christian Fraser has been speaking to our Europe correspondent Nick Beek.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Iran's violent crackdown on protesters?
I think a lot of people would have seen this as a pretty bitter and angry diatribe. In places it was just historically inaccurate as well as being insulting. The central point for Mr. Trump, he believes that he should be able to get Greenland. In the European point of view, he does not mention, he disregards it, the fact that Europeans say that it's their sovereign territory and that it's simply not for sale.
Mr Trump saying that it will actually strengthen the NATO alliance, not destroy it, if he were to take Greenland, and he repeatedly referred to it as being our territory, part of North America, and said absolutely it was not because of the minerals or because of wealth, it was for American security and global security that he was going to get it. It's the way he speaks to some of his closest allies. It's almost oblivious.
Nick, to the fact that they have voting publics, many of these world leaders at home who are listening to some of this. I mean, he talked about Mark Carney. Canada doesn't survive without the US. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements. Or the comments to Emmanuel Macron. He said...
Täällä hän oli eilen suunnaillaan, kun hän antoi tämän adressan Davosille. Katsoin hänet eilen. Mitä ihanaa tapahtui? Ja on paljon kommentteja maailmassa tänään Suomessa, että Emmanuel Macronin suunnaillaan. Mutta hän tavallaan, en tiedä, hän tavallaan kiinnostaa joitain asioita, jotka poliittisesti ovat todella tärkeitä joidenkin maailmanlehtien kanssa.
Kyllä, ja se on taustalla ja välineellä. Taustalla hän kuitenkin sanoo, että hän tykkää yksilöistä, joko yksilöistä tai kansallisista, joita hän uskoo olevan hienoja ihmisiä. Mutta sitten hän sanoo, että hän tykkää Emmanuel Macronista, jolloin ihmiset voivat ajatella, että se on vaikeaa uskoa. Joten siinä on aina jotain, mitä hän tykkää, ja myös tärkeää. Ja luulen, että Daneilla tietenkin tuntuu, että hän on aika huonosti tästä, koska...
Mr. Trump went back to the Second World War and talked about the role and the influence of the United States in the victory during the Second World War. And then his position was that the Americans made a big mistake by giving it back, talking about Greenland. But of course it wasn't the Americans to give back, it's never been part of America.
Ja myös suomalaisille, joilla oli suuri kontribuutti ja palkki, joita he tekevät Afganistanin kampanjan aikana. Jokaisella ihmisellä he kärsivät todella paljon siitä, kuinka monta henkilöä oli tullut sinne, heidän työntekijöiden ja naisen. Ja menemisessä Kopenhagenin, ihmiset todella tuntevat tämän hyvin vahvasti.
Just before I let you go though, there is a kernel of truth, always a kernel of truth in what Donald Trump says. I mean, with Greenland, there is a security issue which NATO has not looked after. The energy costs in Europe are rising, which is a problem for businesses. Growth is low, it's anemic. He's talked about the mix of energy and how different countries have got it wrong. And of course he's talked about the issue with migration, which is roiling politics all across Europe. So...
European leaders don't like some of the things that Donald Trump says. There will be quite a lot of people out there within the European voting public who will say, well, he does have a point on some of these things.
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Chapter 3: What was the outcome of the Shinzo Abe assassination trial?
To Iran now, where several thousand people are thought to have been killed by the Iranian security forces in recent anti-government protests. Many relatives have found it difficult to identify their loved ones who have died. Photos leaked to BBC Verify show the faces of hundreds of people killed in the violent crackdown. The images were displayed in a South Tehran mortuary and were one of the few ways to identify the dead. I got more from Merlin Thomas.
I was sent a secret folder of hundreds of photos from this mortuary in South Tehran. And these are victims of people who were killed during the Iranian government's crackdown on protesters. Now, we've blurred these images to show viewers and audiences, but they show really close-up bloodied, bruised, swollen faces.
of dead men and women. These are people who were killed in the crackdown. Now these pictures were used as a way for families to try and identify their loved ones. And we were told that families were huddled around a screen in a mortuary.
Essentially watching a slideshow of dead bodies for hours. We've combed through these images and we've identified at least 326 victims, including 18 women. We were told that victims were so disfigured at times that even their loved ones couldn't identify them. We were also told there were victims there as young as 12 or 13. We've separately corroborated that by viewing a different video, which we've also verified, in which we see –
Mikä näyttää olevan lapsen elämä. Tämä kuulostaa erittäin haastavaa ja vaikeaa käsitellä. Ja sinä ja BBC Verify-tyyppi olemme tutkineet antiturvallisuuden protesseja. Miten te teette tätä? Mutta myös se, että internet-kysymys on haastavaa. Se on myös vaikeaa.
Absolutely. The internet blackout has been almost total for nearly two weeks now. And there have been dribs and drabs of information kind of coming out in pockets. And this is one of those pockets of information that have come out. But it shows just how desperate people are to get this sort of information out into the world to show people what is happening to protesters inside Iran, but also what's happening to the families left behind. And they're going to
And what about a response from the Iranian state? Have you heard anything from them?
The Iranian supreme leader has admitted and publicly acknowledged that thousands have been killed, but he blames the US, Israel and what he calls seditionists for this. BBC verifies Merlin Thomas there. Now a heads up from us. For more depth and analysis of one of our big stories of the day, you can go on YouTube, search for BBC News and then click on the logo and then choose podcast and then the Global News podcast. There's a new story available every weekday.
Sanja, you can hear from outside a court in the Japanese city of Nara, where protesters staged a small demonstration in support of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man convicted of the murder of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022. Mr. Abe was shot with a homemade gun in Nara city in western Japan while campaigning for his re-election. Our correspondent Shaima Khalil is in Tokyo and is following the story.
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Chapter 4: How is kite flying regulated in Pakistan and why?
Koulutuksen jälkeen Tetsuya Yamagami puhui hänen motiivistaan, hänen kärsimyksistänsä mentaalisesti ja lapsuudessaan hänen perheensä. Tämä oli siksi, että hänen isänsä oli yksityiskohtainen yhdistyksen järjestäjä. Hän oli tehnyt todella paljon donaatioita, joita hän sanoi, että hänellä oli jätetty.
his family bankrupt and throughout the last few months as he took to the stand and spoke to the judges he spoke about how this affected him mentally how the hardships that he faced growing up there was a standout moment when he was speaking and the judge was asking him how old he was or to confirm that he was 45 years old and he was silent and he said i did not expect to live that long and it just gave you an idea about his mental state at that moment
We also learned that he decided to kill Shinzo Abe because of what he learned about his links to the Unification Church, his close links to the controversial church. And so on the 8th of July in 2022, as Shinzo Abe was giving a political speech in broad daylight in support of a local candidate in Nara district, Yamagami walked up to him and shot him at close range using a homemade gun.
Ja toisaalta se oli melko yllättävää ja se tuntui Japaniin, tietenkin siksi, että Shinzo Abe oli, hän oli aiemmin pääministeri, mutta hän oli edelleen aiemmin toimittava pääministeri, erittäin influenssiväinen henkilö, mutta myös siksi, että rauhallisuus Japanissa on niin rauhallinen. Ja jotenkin yhdistelmä näistä kaksi asiaa, se fakti, että Shinzo Abe oli ottanut syöpäilemään ja sitten kuulunut syöpäilemään myöhemmin, todella tuntui maailmaan, mutta se sitten aloitti tutkimuksen motiivista ja yhdistystyöstä.
Shaima Khalil, reporting from Tokyo. Still to come on this podcast, OpenAI rolls out age prediction on chat GPT for under 18s. But when it comes to guessing your age, will it get it right? If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that draft is flawed?
In 1999, four Russian apartment buildings were bombed. Hundreds killed. But even now, we still don't know for sure who did it. It's a mystery that sparked chilling theories. I'm Helena Merriman, and in a new BBC series, I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story. What did they miss the first time? The History Bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
A new report from the United Nations has declared what it describes as the dawn of an era of global water bankruptcy. The report defines this as a situation when long-term water use and pollution have exceeded renewable inflows of water and key parts of the water system can no longer be brought back to previous supply levels.
The study's lead author is Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health, also known as the UN's think tank on water. He's been speaking to ANSOI.
By looking at the trends of changes in water storage, we've concluded that we are seeing more and more basins around the world that are showing symptoms of significant overconsumption and in many cases also irreversibility of the damages to the ecosystem. So when we say the globe is water bankrupt, the planet is water bankrupt, we don't mean water.
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Chapter 5: What new safety measures has OpenAI implemented for ChatGPT?
We continue to expand. On the other hand, we are facing declining water resources. This has worked in a way that we took more and more water out of the system. We withdrew more water first from our checking account, that surface water, the water that gets renewed through precipitation every year. Then we went to our savings account, our groundwater. We drained that one. Now we have a lot of stakeholders out there.
We took more and more loans from nature. We kind of stole even the share of the environment, the silent stakeholder. And as a result we are now seeing that there are major ecosystem damages. Our wetlands are dry, our reservoirs are declining. Water level is dropping and we see a lot of symptoms. Sinkholes around the world, land subsidence in different parts of the world.
Kaveh Medani puhuu Ansoiista.
Phrases like district-wide crackdown and non-bailable offence aren't usually ones you'd associate with flying a kite. But for nearly 20 years, authorities in parts of India and Pakistan have been putting in tough measures to try and regulate kite flying after a series of deaths. Now, ahead of the Spring Festival Basant in Pakistan, authorities in the city of Lahore have launched a new safety campaign. A Global Affairs correspondent Ambaras Netirajan was an enthusiastic kite flyer as a child. He told me more.
This used to be a very popular sport before the advent of these smartphones, when people really spent time out in the open. People actually had a life, yeah. People had a life, yeah. So people usually fly kites, and they became more advanced with the technology, with a lot of colourful kites, with the big strings and the rolls which carry the strings.
It's very competitive as well. Also very competitive. When we used to do that, we used to try to cut down the neighbor's kites or your friend's kites. That used to be a competition. Now, this has got another dimension to it. To make the strings stronger, then people, especially in Pakistan and in India, they will coat the string with glass-coated strings or metal strings. Sometimes when these cut strings, when they go, fly across the roads,
They will catch the unsuspecting motorcyclists, especially people going on the motorcyclists because they're going at a speed and then the strings come and go around the neck and then cause injury, sometimes even death. And that's why the authorities banned this sport. In fact, one senior Pakistani minister called it as a blood sport. Wow.
Ja sitten, joten he vahvistivat 20 vuotta aiemmin. Ja sitten, vaikka vahvistus, ihmiset olivat tehneet tämän, koska et voi lähettää poliisiin kaikkien nohkan kohdalla, jossa on mahtava maa, kuten Lahore. Ihmiset olivat tehneet vahvistuksen. Joten vahvistus oli vahvistettu viime vuonna. Mutta sitten hallitus myös laittoi paljon turvallisuusmahdollisuuksia.
What are some of these new things? One of them is having a rod, like an arch, from the front of the bike up to the back, so that the strings do not come directly and hit the motorbikers. And also the sellers will have to register themselves. There will be a QR code, so it will link you back to the seller's identity. The selling will be only from the 1st of February for a week, because the festival is from 6th and 7th, 8th of Feb.
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Chapter 6: What challenges does ChatGPT face in ensuring user safety?
Jos ihmiset eivät käyttäisi ChatGPT, niin se voi olla helppo käsitellä näitä tarinoita, mutta appi sanoo, että se on lähestymässä yli miljoonia käyttäjiä, ja jos otetaan vain yksi osa tutkimusta Yhdysvalloissa, niin 86 prosenttia opiskelijoista, joita koulutusohjelma puhui, sanoi, että he käyttävät AI. Tämä on tietenkin se asia, jota erityisesti nuoret ihmiset integroivat yhdessä elämänsä.
As you said, keeping it safe for under 18s hasn't always been easy and perhaps kind of the biggest, most explosive, shocking cases is the lawsuits that ChatGPT are facing, alleging that it encouraged people, including teenagers, to take their own lives. Now OpenAI, ChatGPT's creator, denies this and these cases are still going through the courts as well.
The company has also repeatedly spoken about the lengths it goes to to keep young people safe, and that brings us to today. So OpenAI, ChatGPT's creators, have started rolling out this new age verification tool. So historically and at the moment, users provide their age, you just simply tell it. You tell it how old you are, it believes you, and then you can use it.
Nyt ChatGPT sanoo, että se alkaa huomioida käyttäjiä ja nähdä, voiko se käyttää muista taitoista. Joten joko asia, jonka käyttäjät käyttävät, tai miten käyttäjät käyttävät sen aikaa. Ja jos se uskoo, että olet yli 18-vuotias, se laittaa lisää turvallisuutta. Ja jos olet itse asiassa vanhempi ja olet kertonut, että olet yli 18-vuotias, koska siitä, miten käyttäjät käyttävät, voit sitten käyttää selfieä tai jotain IDä, jotta voittaisit aikaa ja saadat asian takaisin.
Okei, mutta sitten jotain, mitä ajatellaan kuten AI, miten helppoa on sitten ristiriitaa? No tämä on jatkuva ristiriita, jota ChatGPT käsittelee ympäristön ja turvallisuuden välillä. Joten sinä listasit muutaman ennen, mutta asioita, joita ChatGPT sanoo, että se ristiriitaa, jos ajattelee, että olet yli 18-vuotias.
Graphic violence, viral challenges that could encourage risky behavior, sexual, romantic or violent roleplay, depictions of self-harm and content that promotes things like body shaming. Now these are things that some people would say it's not healthy for anyone to be engaging with AI about, but that's maybe slightly short-sighted because people are using AI for nuanced things, to write fiction, you know.
And if you put too many restrictions in, it can start misinterpreting perfectly innocent requests, you know, write a chapter about a fight or something, as you doing violent content and therefore blocking it. So this is the battle chat GPT has to strike, right? On one hand... The newsroom's Will Chalk reporting.
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 episode or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. And you can also find us on X at BBC World Service, and you can use the hashtag globalnewspod. This edition was mixed by Jonathan Greer, and the producer was Charles Sanctuary. The editor is Karen Martin, and I'm Ankur Desai. Until next time, goodbye.
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