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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Parkki huolesi kaikki heitä. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Chris Barrow, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 25th of June, these are our main stories. A state of emergency has been declared in Venezuela after two major earthquakes struck seconds apart, causing fatalities and extensive damage.
Celebrations have officially begun in Washington to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. And a major drugs trial to help fight the latest Ebola outbreak is about to get underway. Also in this podcast... It kind of looks like somebody's just thrown glitter across the cosmos. This thing is teeming with stars.
Astronomers have taken the most detailed picture yet of the centre of the Milky Way. A state of emergency has been declared in Venezuela after two major earthquakes struck Venezuela seconds apart. The epicentre was close to the capital, Caracas. It's understood there have been fatalities and extensive damage. This resident said her home had been left in ruins.
All the walls were cracked.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the twin earthquakes in Venezuela?
And it seems like the celebration's gone for weeks. Yeah, 16 days altogether in what, well, one person from the stage described would be the most epic party in all American history. What does it mean? Well, it means lots of stalls on the mall between the monument and... and Capitol Hill, and then events like this, where people come out and cheer, hear some singing, and get all patriotic together.
If you want to spend $20 on a roast turkey or maybe some pretzels, then there's lots of food from around America on offer as well. So as I said, it's drawing on that sort of sense of nostalgia and patriotism, but there are political overtones and a military overtone as well.
In fact, we just had a B-2 bomber fly overhead at the end of one song and the words military might come up on the screen showing American military dominance and sending that message that America sees itself as the most powerful country in the world still. You mentioned some of the music acts that dropped out in the run-up to this event.
Just tell us a little bit about some of the replacements and some of the people who are still in the event, because not everybody dropped out. No, not everyone. We've just been hearing from New York tenor Christopher Macchio. He was performing Hallelujah as that bomber flew overhead. We've also got some country singers.
Another singer who will be here to celebrate the 90s later in the week will be Vanilla Ice. But as I said, it's got far more of a sort of political sense and a patriotic sense than a music festival here. It's talking about America today.
from a certain position from the right, really, seeing it as the land of the brave and a country of military might, rather than maybe more nuanced in a celebration of American diversity. Obviously, people who have turned up will probably be supportive of the event. But what does the country think of this overall? I guess perhaps there's a bit of a mixed bag there.
Yeah, as you say, anyone who's come here to be part of it is probably going to be hugely supportive of that message and of President Trump. As I look out, we're definitely seeing thousands here. So they have managed to fill the allocation and bring people to D.C., bumped into some people who are visiting from out of state.
And while they weren't sure exactly who was on the bill, they knew that President Trump was going to be here. So they are definitely drawing in a crowd, but not everyone. And this is not a moment of great unity within America. We know that approval ratings are low. And the support for the war in Iran is low as well.
We've seen that play out within Congress today with some Republican senators questioning the president on the ongoing action and the situation in Iran. So it's not a moment of national unity, although that's the message that is being given from the stage. Hal Griffith in Washington, DC.
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Chapter 3: What are the immediate impacts of the earthquakes in Caracas?
Now, there have been mixed emotions for two of the teams at the Men's Football World Cup. It was a disaster for Scotland. They were beaten 3-0 by Brazil in Miami, whereas co-hosts Canada were beaten 2-1 by Switzerland, but they still go through to the knockout round for the first time ever as runners-up in Group B. And Canadian fans were relatively pleased with the result.
Canada won their first ever game in the last game. Amazing. Put up a really good performance there. We lost, but I feel like we won. We've never been to the knockouts. It was a great performance, especially in the second half. I wish we did not lose this game.
We would have loved to win, but they did play great and it was fun to watch.
I'm sad they didn't tie.
Our correspondent Isaac Fanon was at the Canada match.
people were obviously disappointed to see their team lose and obviously lose the opportunity to stay in Canada but I think there was a pride at the way in which they had put on such a good fight Canada have never gotten this far at a World Cup they'd never won a match before their game against Qatar so I think after the match there was definitely a sense of yeah we may have lost but listen this is the best Canadian men's football has ever been and it can only get better
They're now in the knockout phase. They're going to be waiting to find out who they'll play. It's a shame that they're not going to be staying in Vancouver. They'll play their knockout round of 32 match in Los Angeles. But I think there is definitely a sense of, do you know what? We are just so happy to see our team competitive on the world stage.
My esteemed colleague Wendy Urquhart was supporting Scotland in the Scotland-Brazil match and for some reason her telly was 20 seconds ahead of mine, so I knew what was happening in advance and it didn't sound like it was going well all the time. 3-0 down to Brazil. Brazil are a good side though, so was everybody just a bit too hopeful about that result?
Well, it was just one of those as football, you know, you never know when it might surprise you. And I think Scotland, with the vibe of the team and the fans who have taken America by storm, first in Boston and then exactly going in Miami, I think they've become the darlings of everyone who has watched them. And I think there was a hope that they could go into...
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Chapter 4: How is the US celebrating its 250th anniversary?
But gravity is pulling them together, heating them up. And in the future, new stars will be forming there as well. What's really special about Euclid is it has this really wide view.
So this patch of sky that we're looking at here, I want you to imagine you're holding your arm outstretched and you've got your two fingers pointed up. So this patch of sky is about the size of your two fingernails and a bit of the top of your finger. You might think that's a small patch of sky, but in astronomy terms, that's a big patch of sky. Now, Euclid managed to do that in a day.
It would have taken 270 times longer to do that with the Hubble Space Telescope. And that's just because Euclid's got this really wide view of the universe. And because it's up above the Earth's atmosphere, which makes everything blurred out when we look with our telescopes from the ground, we can resolve all of the details of the stars in this dense region of our own Milky Way galaxy.
Professor Catherine Haymans there. And that's all from us for now. If you'd like to get in touch, though, do email us. It's globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service and use the hashtag Global News Pod. Also, don't forget our sister podcast, The Global Story. That goes in-depth and beyond the headlines on one big story.
This edition of The Global News Podcast was mixed by Chris Ablakwa. The producers were Helena Burke and Paul Day. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Chris Barrow, and until next time, goodbye. Esa sent a message asking where they would park their car at the end of the week when they come to us. Do you remember anything here in the central area?
She said she would buy a parking spot in Finpark for the visit.
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