Global News Podcast
US-Venezuela: Trump's largest warship arrives in Latin America region
12 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Olen Anka Desai ja 6 Hours GMT. Joulukuussa 12. novembraa. Nämä ovat meidän mainit tarinoitamme. Donald Trump lähettää suurin piirtein aerojen käsittelyä Suomen-Amerikan alueelle. Kaliforniaan puheenjohtaja Gavin Newsom kertoo COP30, että presidentti Trump on vähentänyt Yhdysvallojen klimaattisen poliisin. Ja Istanbulin puheenjohtaja käsittelee 2000 vuotta prisoon. Hänen puheenjohtajansa sanotaan, että vaatimukset ovat poliittisesti motivoituneita.
Also in this podcast China wants young people to spend more money. Some of my friends are unemployed, still living at home and looking for a job. The economy is a bit off right now. I hope it gets better so we can all have a better life. And we look at the Israeli bill that would impose the death penalty for terrorism.
Chapter 2: Why is the US increasing its naval presence near Venezuela?
For months Donald Trump has been massing US Navy ships in the Latin America region near Venezuela, ordering strikes on boats that he says are running drugs to the US. Now one of his most advanced warships has arrived in the region, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.
At least 76 people have been killed by the US operations, described by some human rights observers as extrajudicial killings. On Tuesday, Colombian president Gustavo Petro said he was suspending intelligence sharing with the US until the attack stopped, adding that the fight against drugs must be subordinate to the human rights of the Caribbean people. Our South America correspondent Ioni Wells has been telling me why the arrival of this latest US ship is so significant.
It's the world's largest warship and the world's largest aircraft carrier. It is the newest, most advanced aircraft carrier that the US Navy has. It is essentially kind of like a floating airport. It's a ship which fighter jets can land on and take off from.
Ja luulen, että aloittamansa alueella on tietenkin uudestaan näkyvää sääntöä Yhdysvalloissa, kun puhutaan sääntöä Karabiinassa, jota moni katsoja uskoo olevan ei vain tarkoittamassa aiemmin tullut rauhaa, vaan myös vaikuttamalla sääntöä Nicolas Madurolle, Venäjällä presidenttiin. Sanoin, että Donald Trumpin yrittäminen Madurolle vahvistaa sääntöä. Miten nämä kaksi presidenttiä osallistuivat tähän asiaan?
There has been a lot of international condemnation of Nicolás Maduro over the last couple of years, not just because of the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela that has triggered large amounts of migration to the United States, millions of Venezuelans who have fled Venezuela in recent years, but also because of the fact that the last election in Venezuela last year was widely recognized internationally as neither free nor fair, and that has led to the U.S.
For example, not recognizing Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela. Now another factor that has played into this is that the US has for some time accused Nicolás Maduro of being the head of a drug trafficking ring in Venezuela. Maduro has repeatedly denied these allegations and for his part he has always accused the US of imperialism, terrorism,
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Chapter 3: What human rights concerns arise from US military operations in the Caribbean?
and of worsening the country's economic crisis through imposing sanctions on Venezuela. So there has been this long-standing tension between the two nations. Now why many people think that this isn't just about drugs, but also about trying to put military pressure on Nicolás Maduro, is that Venezuela itself doesn't produce drugs.
Suomessa on paljon kokainia, kuten Kolumbia, Peru, Bolivia. Kokainia on Venäjällä, mutta se ei ole erittäin suurin syrjintäryhmä. Siksi moni uskoo, että kun Yhdysvallat suosittelee Nicolás Maduroa syrjintäryhmänä, se voisi olla yleinen suunnitelma, jossa voidaan laittaa sääntöä hänelle ja hänen ympäristöönsä.
Ione Wells reporting. Venezuela's southern neighbor Brazil is hosting the COP30 climate talks this week. And the US, one of the world's largest producers of carbon emissions, has not sent a delegation. The White House said in a statement that President Trump would not jeopardize US economic and national security goals to pursue what it called vague climate goals that are killing other countries.
But dozens of state and local officials from across the US have traveled to the meetings in Belém to present their own message on climate, including California Governor Gavin Newsom. He's a leading figure in the Democrat Party and a possible presidential candidate for 2028. Our environment correspondent Mac McGrath is there.
To warm applause in a hot and humid pavilion, California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom came to the COP to reassure participants that the U.S. was still committed on climate at state level. However, it didn't take him long to renew his war of words with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has described climate change as a con. Governor Newsom told supporters at the COP that Mr. Trump was a bully and an invasive species.
who would reduce the US to what he termed a footnote on climate change policy. And reacting to newspaper reports that said the president was going to allow drilling for oil in the waters of California, Mr. Newsom said it was never going to happen. As it relates to offshore oil drilling, it's overwhelmingly opposed by members of all political parties in the state of California. It's dead on arrival.
I also think it remarkable that he didn't promote it in his backyard in Mar-a-Lago. He didn't promote it off the coast of Florida. That says everything. Governor Newsom wasn't alone. Around 100 state and city officials from different parts of the United States came to show their commitment to tackling rising temperatures. Among them was the governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham.
We're doing the work. We're making a difference. We're going to stay focused. We're going to do more. We're going to work to add states. And oh by golly, looks like we might add Virginia. And we'll stay the course with New Jersey. So that's our commitment. We're here.
While the American politicians were welcomed, some delegates were a little bit wary, having seen the United States enter and leave various climate agreements over the past two decades. Longtime climate talks participant Mohamed Adau from Kenya said that while he understood that many people in the U.S. were still committed on climate, the rest of the world wasn't going to sit around and wait for them to come back. The rest of us are not going to wait for the U.S.,
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Chapter 4: How does California's Governor Newsom address climate policy at COP30?
Prosecutors in Turkey have announced 140 new charges against the opposition mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who is the main rival to the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mr. Imamoglu, who strongly denies allegations of corruption, has been in jail since March, when his arrest sparked the largest protests in Turkey in over a decade. His party says the fraud charges are politically motivated. From Istanbul, our senior international correspondent Ola Geren reports.
Istanbul's jailed mayor now faces yet another legal case, and this one is on an epic scale. The indictment runs to 4,000 pages and names 400 suspects. It alleges that Ekrem Imamoglu is the boss of a crime group involved in embezzlement, extortion and money laundering.
Prosecutors have demanded a sentence of more than 2,000 years if the mayor is convicted. They have also asked the courts to close his Republican People's Party, which is Turkey's main political opposition.
Mr. Imamolu has already been accused of everything from espionage to forging his university degree. His party says his only crime is running for the presidency of the country. As the cases against him multiply, it seems safe to assume he will remain behind bars, unable to stand in the next election, due by 2028.
The authorities here insist the courts are independent. Human rights groups say they have been weaponized. Ola Guerin reporting. China's once surging economy is struggling with exports falling, ongoing trade tensions with the US and record high youth unemployment. The government is under growing pressure to turn things around. One idea is to encourage younger consumers to increase their spending in order to give the economy a shot in the arm.
But as China correspondent Stephen McDonnell reports from Beijing, rather than buying more, many young people seem to be embracing frugality with great enthusiasm. It's lunchtime in Beijing and workers at this shopping and office district just east of the foreign ministry have poured into the street and are in search of some food along Chawai Nanjin. It's an area with lots of small service sector businesses as well as retail,
julkaisuja ja isoja koneita. Minä olen täällä, jotta pystyn miettimään nuoria ihmisiä, kun se tuntuu heidän ostamiseksiin 2025-vuotiaan. Kysyn yhden nuoren, onko se tärkeämpää, että hän saa tai laittaa rahaa nyt. Nyt tekeminen rahaa on minulle tärkeämpää. Minun täytyy laittaa rahaa ja laittaa kosteukseni.
She works in insurance and says she's now earning less than she used to. I changed jobs and it doesn't pay well. Also, I don't know for how long this new job can sustain me in the future. A bad economic environment like this makes people feel down because we are not earning very much.
Tämä naisen kommentti käsittelee kolme isoa syystä, miksi suomalainen hallitus tunnistaa, että on vaikeaa saada nuorempia ihmisiä kasvamaan enemmän. Heidän on huolta työtä turvallisuudesta, heidän työtä on pysähtynyt tai menettävä, he eivät tunne hyvää tulevaisuudesta. Joukko, joka työskentelee ruokalaisen ja ruokalaisen yrityksen kanssa, sanoo, että on vahvaa työtä, mutta että on vaikeaa löytää hyvää työtä tehtävänsä eri aloilla.
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Chapter 5: What charges is Istanbul's mayor facing and what are the implications?
Nostalgia. That sentimental feeling of the past. Think back to your first phone, your first best friend, your first kiss. But it turns out you can also feel nostalgic for things you weren't around for. I'm Hannah Gelbart. I'm the host of What in the World, a daily podcast from the BBC World Service. And we've done a special episode for the documentary, bringing you two stories about the past, including a very personal memory of my first kiss. Listen wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Aloita aktiivinen arki nyt. Kaiken treenivaatteista terveellisiin välipaloihin saat Prismasta ja prisma.fi-verkkokaupasta.
President Trump has reiterated his intention to sue the BBC over a documentary about the events leading up to the storming of the Capitol building in Washington DC in 2021, saying he had an obligation to do so. At the weekend, the BBC's director general and head of news resigned after it was revealed that a BBC documentary had edited two parts of a speech by the US president.
making it appear that he had explicitly encouraged the January 6th riots. The BBC chairman Sameh Shah has also apologised. But Mr Trump's lawyers are threatening to launch a $1 billion lawsuit against the corporation unless it makes a full and fair retraction of the documentary by this Friday and appropriately compensates him for the harm caused. In an interview with Fox News, Mr Trump was asked if he planned to carry out that threat, and this was his reply.
I guess I have to, you know, why not? Because they defrauded the public, and they've admitted it, and their top echelon... Director general and the CEO both resigned. This is within one of our great allies, you know, this is our supposedly great ally, BBC. The government has a chunk of that one, I guess, but that's a pretty sad event. They actually changed my January 6th speech, which was a beautiful speech, which was a very calming speech, and they made it sound radical.
I asked our North America correspondent David Willis what he made of the president's latest interview.
Well, I think it suggests that he believes he has to sue Anker in order to protect his reputation, and that he is determined to treat the BBC no differently than the American media, despite the fact that it is a foreign broadcaster. He says he believes that he has an obligation, in his words, to sue, because the Panorama program had butchered, I use his words again there, his speech, leaving the BBC alone.
Ja hän oli, mielestäni, onnistunut. Ja heidän kirjassaan BBCin jälkeen, Mr. Trumpin järjestö kertoi, että Panorama-programmi on saanut presidentin yllättävän finanssaalisen ja reputatiivisen haasteen.
and asserted that his client's intention to sue the corporation for no less than a billion dollars was real if he didn't receive a retraction, an apology and compensation by this Friday. Now the BBC has said that it will reply to this in due course, but this interview is a further reminder of the fact that the clock is ticking in that regard. So how possible is it for him to launch a lawsuit against the BBC from the United States?
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Chapter 6: What economic challenges are young people facing in China?
Dr. Amir Fuchs is a lawyer and senior researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, a Jerusalem think tank. He told my colleague James Kumarasami about the bill. It's very vague, but at least on the surface this is a discriminatory bill that's supposed to catch non-Jews, terrorists who attack Jews with terrorist intentions. And what is the intention behind the bill, do you think?
Tarkoituksena on aloittaa esiintyminen Israelissa, jota emme ole tehneet enemmän kuin 60 vuotta. Yksi asia, johon kriminaalinen järjestelmä lähetti kaikkia israelilaisia, oli Adolf Eichmann 1962. Israelillä ei ole perinteisiä esiintyminen teröristien kanssa, vaikka meillä oli monia teröristisiä historiassa. Ideana on aloittaa esiintyminen, ja ihmiset suosittelevat sen. He tietävät, että suurin osa ihmisistä tuottaa esiintyminen.
Joten se on myös populistinen suunnitelma. Jussi Latvala-akseli Jussi Latvala-akseli Jussi Latvala-akseli Jussi Latvala-akseli Jussi Latvala-akseli
Joku, joka on tehty teröristisen haasteen, on ottanut niin ison mahdollisuuden elämänsä kuitenkin. Joten mahdollisuudet, että kapitaalinen palkkaaminen on jotain, mikä hänet käsittelee, ovat erittäin, erittäin laajat. Ja myös se, että hallitusjohtajien positiivinen, hallitusjohtajien hallitusjohtajien, on ollut Israelissa vuosina, oli se, että se ei käsittele, ja vaikka se olisi todennäköisempi käsittelemään terörismiä.
It's still got a couple more parliamentary votes before it becomes law. What is your sense of whether it will eventually find its way on the statute books?
On iso mahdollisuus, että se voidaan ratifioida, koska sillä on iso julkinen tuotanto. Ensimmäisen kerran näimme, että suurin osa opetusta ei halunnut mennä ja valita, ja joitakin valitsivat. Joten on iso mahdollisuus. Silloin on valitettavuudet, ja legaali-officerit yrittävät heidät tarkastella, että tämä on ei-konstituutista.
Dr. Amir Fuchs, senior researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute.
You might remember the story of two NASA astronauts who became stranded on the International Space Station after the capsule that was supposed to take them back to Earth experienced a series of technical problems. They came home in March after nine months on the ISS. Now three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their craft was hit by debris.
They had been due to return to Earth last week after a six-month mission on the Tiangong space station. The space journalist Leo Enright told us more about this delay.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the Israeli bill imposing the death penalty for terrorism?
Ja nyt meillä on linjoilla Veera Espoosta. Sinä onnistuit naarmuttamaan äitisi autoa. Siis mä huomasin, että mun punainen kynsilakka on just sama sävyä kuin Mutsin auto. Mikä tšäkää? Aika hyvä tšäkää. Päivän auttaa vähän, hetken tarjoaa IF, joka auttaa paljon.