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Global News Podcast

US offers Cuba a new relationship

20 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 29.242 Unknown

This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Ekstra rauhallisessa rentoutuessaan Lassi totesi, että hänen tarjousvainonsa oli pettämätön. Tartu sinäkin junan tuomiin etuihin ja korota kesän junalippusi ekstraluokkiin nyt tarjoushintaan. Kampanja on voimassa 24. toukokuuta asti. VR. Yhteisellä matkalla. Näitkö mitä just tapahtui? En. Olin selkä suhun päin.

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29.36 - 47.585 Tobert Naiswa

Sovin asuntoesittelyn huomiseksi. Oho, oho. Sujuu kuin sato. Vuokraa elämäsi koti. Sato.fi.

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49.981 - 74.467 Charlotte Gallagher

I'm Charlotte Gallagher and on the afternoon of the 20th of May, these are our main stories. The US Secretary of State has offered Cuba a new relationship with America in comments ahead of expected US charges against the veteran communist leader Raul Castro. The World Health Organization says a vaccine may be ready in nine months to help counter the current Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.

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Chapter 2: What new relationship is the US offering to Cuba?

76.947 - 100.994 Charlotte Gallagher

Also in this podcast, the latest on the rescue mission in the Maldives after a scuba diving accident. The remaining two bodies have been recovered and brought back to the surface. So that completes the diving mission. So the search and recovery mission is now complete. And a team from North Korea traveled to South Korea for a football match. We'll hear from our reporter who was there.

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105.331 - 127.707 Charlotte Gallagher

America's top diplomat Marco Rubio has offered a new relationship with the Cuban people in his first direct address to the island's population as Secretary of State. Speaking in Spanish on the anniversary of Cuba's independence, Mr Rubio blamed the island's unimaginable hardships on its communist leadership and not the US fuel blockade.

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127.707 - 150.86 Charlotte Gallagher

The reason you are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity is not due to an oil blockade by the US. As you know better than anyone, you have been suffering from blackouts for years. The real reason you don't have electricity, fuel or food is because those who control your country have plundered billions of dollars, but nothing has been used to help the people.

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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the charges against Raul Castro?

151.957 - 173.32 Charlotte Gallagher

US media are reporting the Justice Department will shortly unveil charges against Cuba's veteran leader Raul Castro in the latest move to pressure the communist authorities. The indictment relates to the downing of humanitarian planes 30 years ago. Sarah Montagu got more on the significance of the speech from our correspondent in Havana, Will Grant.

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173.523 - 200.607 Charlotte Gallagher

Well, it comes on a day when we are expecting, there is a lot of speculation, that the United States may well bring an indictment against Raúl Castro. He is no longer the president of Cuba, as you know, nor the head of the Cuban Communist Party, but he is the co-founder of the Cuban revolution, along with his brother Fidel Castro. It would be a hugely symbolic step if that goes ahead. But in terms of Marco Rubio's message, it was fascinating. First, of course, it is fascinating.

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200.607 - 226.662 Charlotte Gallagher

He himself is a Cuban American who was a Florida senator for many, many years, who basically built his political platform in opposition to the Castro government. He said specifically that President Trump was offering a new path to Cuba. Now, you'll remember that in 2014 President Obama opened a new path to Cuba, but we can safely say this will be a very, very different one. Whereas that was opening, rapprochement, this has been about pressure.

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226.662 - 271.313 Charlotte Gallagher

Kuinka se on mahdollista mennä alkaen Kuubaan? Aika huonosti. Esimerkiksi se, että Rauhastroon saadaan edistys. Se on mahdollista, että se on mahdollista, että se on mahdollista, että se on mahdollista.

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271.313 - 292.762 Charlotte Gallagher

Yhdysvaltaiset kuubalaiset olivat takaisin ilmaisuuteen, jotta he voivat vahvistaa Vohensio Batista 1959. Hän on kuubalaisen revoluuttin toisella puolella. Hän on luonut sen. Hän oli yksi sen luotajista. Tämä vaatii heidän positiivistaan se idea, että 94-vuotias ihminen on käytännössä välttämättömän kriiminen lakia Yhdysvaltaisissa.

Chapter 4: How is the World Health Organization responding to the Ebola outbreak?

292.762 - 319.441 Charlotte Gallagher

Something that took place in the 1990s. But I think among ordinary people there will be a lot in which Marco Rubio says that rings true to them. The idea that their island is failing, that that is a result of mismanagement by the government, that they aren't able to run profitable businesses and being able to breathe economically in ways they'd like. There's lots in there that Marco Rubio said that will chime with many ordinary Cubans.

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319.441 - 346.964 Charlotte Gallagher

And what do we know now about the situation in Cuba, given the oil blockade? It's utterly dire. It is utterly dire. I see it every single time I come here, and I come very, very often. I've been here, I think this is the fourth time this year, and each time I stay for sort of ten days or so. Each time I come in from the airport, it's harder and harder and harder. You can see that among ordinary people who are having to walk or cycle –

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346.964 - 394.602 Charlotte Gallagher

suurin piirtein kylmällä. Ruotsissa on ruokaa, koska siellä ei ole tarvittavaa. Ruotsissa ei ole tarvittavaa. Ruotsissa ei ole tarvittavaa. Ruotsissa ei ole tarvittavaa. Ruotsissa ei ole tarvittavaa. Ruotsissa ei ole tarvittavaa. Ruotsissa ei ole tarvittavaa. Ruotsissa ei ole tarvittavaa. Ruotsissa ei ole tarvittavaa. Se oli Will Grant raportoinnista Havanaista.

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394.737 - 422.108 Charlotte Gallagher

The Ebola outbreak has continued to grow and a climate of fear is descending on Central Africa with the World Health Organization warning infections could reach a thousand in the coming days in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The latest figures announced on Tuesday suggest 136 people have died in this latest outbreak. Dr. O'Reilly Bagamba is a lecturer at a local teacher's college.

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422.446 - 435.895 Dr. O'Reilly Bagamba

We hear the cases of death and the burial all around us, but everyone is now trying to protect themselves. But all we know, there is a fear and anxiety among the population.

Chapter 5: What happened during the recent football match between North and South Korea?

436.351 - 466.169 Charlotte Gallagher

The World Health Organization says it's exploring treatment options and the outbreak is of significant regional but not global concern. There is currently no approved vaccine for this strain of the virus. However, doses for trials may be ready in three months with a possible vaccine in nine. Liberia's former assistant health minister Tobert Naiswa played a key role in stopping a previous outbreak and he spoke to us on his way to the epicenter of the new outbreak.

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466.321 - 496.308 Unknown

I'm flying to Obonia, the epicenters of the outbreak, to understand the perception of what is going on on the ground, because there is community transmission going on right now. We are very, very late. The disease is ahead of us, because it was in the community in the month of April. So we are really behind time, and cases are spiraling out of control.

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496.477 - 500.273 Charlotte Gallagher

I got the latest from our correspondent in the region, Thomas Makwana.

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500.645 - 529.889 Tobert Naiswa

Well, the gentleman who's just spoken has put it very clearly that everyone's scared about the potential devastating effect of this virus because it was detected late. It was detected five days ago. Not really detected, but announced and declared an international concern around three days ago and first declared an outbreak five days ago by the Africa CDC. And the problem is the first case that is suspected to have happened in the epicenter of Bunia

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529.889 - 556.906 Tobert Naiswa

is the case of a nurse who passed on. And when he was buried, no one knew about the virus. And you can imagine the African rituals for burial. At funerals is where most of the cases of transmission are suspected to happen. And so as it stands right now, around 543 cases, about 30 more cases overnight announced by the health minister of the DRC, and around 136 people dead.

557.345 - 579.974 Tobert Naiswa

One of the virologists that are leading WHO's charge in DRC right now, they're saying that the test kits are needed and needed urgently because at the moment one test kit can only do six patient tests an hour. And in a country that has almost 543 people suspected to have the virus and this number steadily climbing,

580.328 - 607.919 Charlotte Gallagher

It's a crisis and it's good that humanitarian organizations like WHO, the Doctors Without Borders and more are going into the province of Vitoria to try and respond to this. Lots of people listening to this will remember the absolutely horrendous outbreak of Ebola between 2018 and 2020. And I imagine this outbreak has brought a lot of fear in the region. And is there a sense that the authorities, have they learned lessons from the outbreak in the way that they're dealing with this one?

Chapter 6: Why are English wines gaining recognition in global competitions?

608.324 - 637.383 Tobert Naiswa

If you speak to experts, experts tell you that the good thing about what's happening right now, the brighter side of things, is that the DRC government, although detected late, are responding to this virus in the way they're supposed to. But the problem is that you can enhance screening in places, you can speak to the residents and try to educate them on the effects of this, but when the virus was announced as an outbreak five days ago, the minister said on television that

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637.383 - 664.231 Tobert Naiswa

Instead of people running to hospitals after being infected, they run to the church because there's superstition and myths about the disease of Ebola being a case of witchcraft and that it's false. And this is part of the problem, that you have to deal with this information breakdown over time to try and deal with this virus right now. But people are, it depends where you're speaking from. If you speak in Kinshasa to people, they'll tell you that it's false.

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664.231 - 688.295 Charlotte Gallagher

It's not a big problem yet, but if you speak to people in Bunia, they'll tell you that it's a huge problem. Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gavir has released a video in which he taunts detained activists from a Gaza aid flotilla who are being held in the Israeli port of Ashdod. It shows them kneeling with their hands tied and foreheads on the ground.

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688.295 - 703.786 Charlotte Gallagher

It's angered many in Israel, including the foreign minister, Gideon Saar, who called it a disgraceful display, and the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who said it was not in line with Israel's values and norms. From Jerusalem, here's our Middle East correspondent, Yolan Nell.

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703.786 - 724.407 Yolan Nell

Video näyttää monia maailmanlaajuisia aktiivisia, jotka pysyvät paikallaan, ja heidän käsiänsä ylöspäin. Itamar Ben-Gavir kertoo heiltä israelilaisen israelilaisen israelilaisen israelilaisen.

724.407 - 746.142 Yolan Nell

The Italian prime minister called the video unacceptable and said demonstrators, including many Italian citizens, were being treated in a way that violates human dignity. And in an unusual step, the Israeli foreign minister joined condemnation of his cabinet colleague. Addressing him on X, Gideon Saar wrote, No, you are not the face of Israel.

Chapter 7: What scientific explanations exist for the T-Rex's small arms?

746.142 - 771.86 Charlotte Gallagher

As investigations into how a group of experienced divers died in the Maldives are ongoing. Officials say all five bodies have now been retrieved. In a race against time to bring the bodies out of the deep cave, known locally as Shark Cave, a team of specialist divers from Finland were flown in after a rescue diver from the Maldives died. Our global affairs reporter Ann Barasan Etarajan told me the latest.

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Nyt Maldivian edustajat sanovat, että kaksi jälkeenpäin jälkeenpäin jälkeenpäin jälkeenpäin jälkeenpäin jälkeenpäin

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796.345 - 824.054 Muhammed Ozeen Sharif

Ja aiemmin puhuin Maldivian hallituksen puheenjohtajana, Muhammed Ozeen Sharif, ja tämä on se, mitä hän oli saanut sanoa. Päästöjä on puhdistettu ja tuotettu taustalle, ja ne on nyt puhdistettu Maldivian kaupungille, moottoriin. Joten se käsittelee pyörimisen. Joten se käsittelee pyörimisen ja puhdistuksen käsitteleminen on nyt täyttynyt. Ja Embarison, olemmeko meistä enemmän lähellä, mitä tapahtui näihin ihmisiin? Koska nämä olivat yksittäiset pyörimäärät, jotka syöttivät.

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824.611 - 846.194 Unknown

One of them was a marine biology professor from the University of Genoa in Italy. So according to her husband, she had done more than 5,000 dives over the years. And she had also taken her daughter. So probably they had taken all the precautions, but we are not very clear what really happened. So that's why the Maldivian government has started this investigation.

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846.194 - 869.347 Unknown

Nyt, mitä hallitukset sanovat, on se, että kaikki nämä ihmiset ovat otaneet GoPro-kameroita ja kaikki nämä katsojat miettivät, millaista he käyvät. Ja mitä todella tapahtuu, taas analysoivalla kaikkiin asioihin, heidän pitäisi olla vahvistettavissa, mutta erilaiset mahdollisuudet ovat keskittyneet erilaisiin eksperteihin. Yksi niistä, viimeisimmäinen, on water current.

869.347 - 891.841 Unknown

At that depth, the water current could have carried them deep inside the cave, and they were not able to come out because of the current. And there are also theories regarding what was the mixture of the gas, the cylinders they had carried. Because under high pressure, the inhaling oxygen, the composition could be different because it is...

891.841 - 914.858 Unknown

Ambarasan Etirajan. Still to come in this podcast. So everybody's been fascinated by why

915.23 - 924.663 Charlotte Gallagher

Suurimmat ruokalaiset ruokalaiset ruokalaiset ruokalaiset ruokalaiset ruokalaiset ruokalaiset

931.328 - 957.417 Unknown

Ekstra rauhallisessa rentoutuessaan Lassi totesi, että hänen tarjousvainunsa oli pettämätön. Tartu sinäkin junan tuomiin etuihin ja korota kesän junalippusi ekstraluokkiin nyt tarjoushintaan. Kampanja on voimassa 24. toukokuuta asti. VR. Yhteisellä matkalla.

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