BBC-podcast on suurin jälkeen. Oli joita ilmainen kokeilu, Shopify piste komsi vustolla. Olen Shannon Maldonado, käsintehtiä artessaanituotteita myyvän jaui- ja kauppan perustaja. Valit sinu Shopify, koska alustoja testa testani totesin sen ehdottomasti yhdeksi helpokäyttöisimmistä alustoista. Minulla oli tärkeää pohtia kehittymistämme tulevaisuudessa. Kaikki myyntiin tarvittavat työkalut, kuten varaston suunnittelu ovat kätävästi dashboardissä. Aloita ilmainen kokeilu, Shopify piste komsi vustolla. Pistää on monimus, että on tärkeää kokeilu, ja minkä olen järjestelmässä. Mä olen järjestelmässä, että eri eri eri kokeilu, jotenkin kokeilu, jotenkin järjestelmässä. Olen järjestelmässä. Tämä on toki, että se on tärkeää, että se on tärkeää kokeilu, jotenkin järjestelmässä. Tämä on kokeilu, jotenkin järjestelmässä. Tämä on järjestelmässä. Tämä on tärkeää kokeilu, jotenkin järjestelmässä. Vaisal-Islam-Speaking to Jack Clark. Tädros Athanomka Priasis as visited the center of the latest outbreak of the disease in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. In an interview with the BBC, he said countries that were planning to spend more on weapons should also consider allocating more money to disease prevention. The WHO chief said that the Ebola outbreak in Africa was unlikely to spread worldwide, but he said it was a major regional problem. I was actually hopeful about the future, but at the same time, I had serious concerns. There is a lot of misinformation, as you rightly said. There is even fear in the community, but this is because of misinformation. And that if they could be equipped with the right information, if they could be trained, that they could talk to the community, have engagements with the community, and reverse that. So that's one of the things that gave me hope. Because when community leaders are involved, I think they can change the tide. But at the same time, there was a real concern. I was worried about many of the things I observed on the ground. There was active conflict. Even the governor didn't want me to stay overnight there. And not only that, there is displacement. It's very difficult to do contact tracing ja hän on itse asiassa.
who have some risks or contacts. And then, of course, there is a chronic humanitarian problem because of the conflict. And many people are dependent on food aid. You mentioned humanitarian aid that have been cuts, of course, to the aid budgets, both the United States and the United Kingdom and other countries as well. Is that having an impact? In other words, can you say with any degree of certainty that the cuts in aid have made this outbreak worse? The first thing I would like to say is, United States and the United Kingdom are helping. The funding cuts in 2025 was a challenge. At the Munich Security Conference, I saw, I witnessed that many countries from high-income countries, it's not about just the US and UK, but many high-income countries have been announcing at the Munich Security Conference their increase in defense expenditure, from 1% to 3%, from 3% to 5%, and I was so worried, then I told them, "Please, please don't forget about the invisible enemy." And they said, "What do you mean by that?" And I said, "The invisible enemy like COVID, a virus that could wreak havoc." You know it killed approximately an hour, around 20 million people, the COVID pandemic. So while investing only of defense, this is actually to kill humans. Please, don't forget the common enemy that we have. A virus that doesn't care about our borders, our politics. So while preparing for what you think is your threat, you have to also be prepared for a threat which is common to humanity. Imagine, have you ever seen a war in recent memory that killed 20 million people? Redross, atonomic, uppery, asus of the World Health Organization, speaking to Justin Webb. To Russia now, President Vladimir Putin has addressed the country's flagship economic forum in St. Petersburg. The meeting comes against the backdrop of a struggling economy, but the president defended the economic performance of Russia and countries that are aligned with it. If you look at the global GDP dynamics of the last five years, you will see that almost half of Ed's annual growth 49 percent is accounted for by BRICS countries, whereas the contribution of the sale-court group of seven is estimated at 18 percent. A few days before the forum, Kiev launched a major drone attack that hit the outskirts of St. Petersburg, which also happens to be President Putin's place of birth. It was also a stark reminder that the war with Ukraine still continues. Russia, editor Steve Rosenberg, spoke to Mr. Putin's special envoy, Kyril Dmitryev, and started by asking him about the current state of diplomacy to end the conflict and whether meetings with the American envoy's Steve Whitkov and Jared Kushner were on the back burner. That's a false narrative, because we just heard the discussion with Steve and Jared yesterday, actually, and a couple of discussions this week. Mr. Ushakov is actively engaged with them as well, of course, and our Minister Lavrov has good discussions with Secretary Rubio. So, US-Russia dialogue is ongoing, is going very well, and frankly, we see the European countries and maybe even UK who try to interject themselves into that dialogue because they believe the dialogue is going too well. And we see there are many forces in Europe and UK who don't want peace, who don't want the end of the conflict, and they have big efforts to try to create the false narratives that Russia, US dialogue is not going well. It is going very well. Are we likely to see a new meeting soon between US and Russia and Ukraine? Well, I think bilateral meeting is likely to happen in the near future. I don't want to put a timeline on it, and that would pave way to other discussions as well, but we also have very significant bilateral track. And you do want Russia and the US as to largest nuclear nations to have gut relations and have geopolitical stability in their relations really determine security for the world. In recent days, we've seen signs of escalation, though. We've seen the big Russian attacks, missile and drone attacks on Ukraine. We've seen the Ukrainian drone attack on the St. Petersburg area this week. How dangerous is the situation now? Is there a danger of even more escalation? I think escalation is possible, but we have to remember something that's never mentioned in UK or European media. And I'm sure this part, I'll say, will not be mentioned. But it all started a recent escalation with the attacks, where 21 children were killed by Ukrainians in Starabelsk city, and basically then Russian army started responding. So I think once we understand what causes some of the escalation factors and open transparent about it, then we can really find the path to escalation. The final question, and first to point out that it was Russia that launched an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But coming to the economy here, this economic forum, what do you think of the state of the Russian economy right now? Well, first of all, Russia believes that Russia didn't start the invasion because it started with Ukrainian forces attacking Russian-speaking people in Donbass, whose history is much more complicated. I think the state of economy is not as much gross as last year, but it's not as bad as UK and European media says. It's definitely better than European economy, better than UK economy. Why? Because Russia has diversified quite a bit, but also benefits from high prices on oil. Yes, interest rates are a bit too high. We believe they should be lower for more investments, but Russia economy has proven resilience. So Russian economy's resilience is doing well. It's Europe who needs Russia to provide gas. It's Europe who needs Russia to survive. Carol Demetriov, special envoy to President Putin speaking to our Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg. Still to come in this podcast. Employees in the electronic factory were at one point, said that they saw it turn on the tap so that it could have a drink of water. And in the same fact today, further evaded capture by apparently unlatching and opening a locked window and escaping through that. We will have more on the search for an extremely intelligent, quotes, "Beer in Japan". This is the Global News Podcast. For the last three years, tens of thousands of suspected gang leaders have been detained in El Salvador as the authorities try to tackle the criminal organizations in the country. Now prosecutors say leaders of the infamous MS-13 gang currently on trial will be sentenced to thousands of years in prison. Since first coming to power, President Naib Bukheli has declared several states of emergency under which military forces patrol streets and jails. I heard more about the gang from our Global Affairs reporter Paul Moss. Well they date back to the 1980s when many El Salvadorians arrived in the United States, particularly Los Angeles, fleeing the country's horrific civil war. An MS-13 said itself up originally to protect those El Salvadorian immigrants against the homegrown American gangs, but as sometimes happens, the gang mutated until it itself was involved in drug trafficking, extortion and became notorious for a particularly horrific violence. Then the El Salvadorian civil war ended. Many of these gang members went back to El Salvador and to this day it's been operating essentially as a transnational gang working in the United States and El Salvador. Why are there so many of them on trial at once? Well El Salvador's current president, Naib Bukheli, came to power on a promise to launch what he called a "war on gangs". These methods have not been exactly subtle. They've essentially gone through a sweep arresting nearly 100,000 people. Now there's no doubt it had an effect. The crime rate in El Salvador plummeted the murder rate particularly, which made President Bukheli incredibly popular. And I should say not just in El Salvador, in fact in other Latin American countries affected by crime and particularly gang violence, they look up to him. Now critics say that a lot of these people were arrested with no evidence whatsoever, just having a tattoo for instance could get you locked up or if a neighbor felt like it, they could denounce you to the police and that would be it. There also claims that the rate at which crime is dropping has stalled. However, he does remain very popular. Yeah, something like 2% of the population almost in jail. Why though a prosecutor is now talking about these incredible sentences? Yeah, I mean it doesn't really make much sense, does it? I mean a lot of these people are already facing several life sentences. So they're now going to be in prison for 1000 years as opposed to 200 years. I mean I think essentially the prosecutor's office wants to grab attention with this claim. I mean they sort of said not some of these people will never leave the prison system. I guess they want to emphasize that this is a very robust campaign they're leading against the gangs. An approach which as I said has made Nibbukheli literally one of the most popular leaders in Latin America. Indeed, he has popularity ratings that I think a lot of leaders around the world would
wants to emulate, so by his standards, this crackdown, this war and gangs has been a great success. The BBC's poor Moss. For years, the West African nation of Marley has been struggling to contain insurgencies by Islamist militants with recent attacks by a group linked to Al Qaeda, as well as twireg separatists. Now, the military government has banned the use of motorcycles outside the major cities because they can be used to launch attacks. This report from Richard Hamilton. Motorbikes are widely used in rural areas across Africa to move people and their goods. But they've also been used by armed groups across the Sahel. As the middle band dividing the north of the continent from Sub-Saharan Africa. And with bikes, the militants can carry out hit and run attacks across rough terrain, evade security forces, and make quick getaways. So in response, the military junter in Marley has banned large motorbikes with engine capacities bigger than 125ccs. This also suspended the important sale of motorcycles and spare parts for one year. Traders have been given just three months to declare their existing stock and officials have warned people that under clared bikes will be seized. The measures come after attacks in April that were claimed by the Al Qaeda-linked JNIM, as well as the twireg as a word liberation front. Armed groups seized the northern city of Qidal and attacked a military base outside the capital, where the defence minister was killed. Since then, fighting has continued, with militants imposing a blockade on routes into Bamako. Similar clampdowns on bikes have been made in the past by the authorities in Niger and Nigeria, where the long-running fight against Boko Haram continues. But it's not clear how much success these have had. In recent years, Marley's military regime has enlisted the support of Russian mercenaries, but during that time, the number of attacks have actually increased. Richard Hamilton. We're going to turn to Albania now, and the country's Mediterranean coast because plans for a huge new development of luxury properties and a holiday resort there have sparked nightly protests against the government. One of the principal investors is a firm belonging to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, and campaigners say the project is being pushed through without enough scrutiny. Johnny Vorpsi is from PPNEA Bird Life Albania, the country's oldest environmental group. This project is incompatible with the criteria of a protected area. So we are talking for a project that will be built inside one of the most important coastal wetlands, and it's part of the protected area. And the size of it is the size of a new city. So from what has been stated, it's a 10,000-room project in what used to be the core, the more strict area of the protected landscape. So that's the reason why we oppose it. You said to protect an area, but the government says it's private land, and it has been sold accordingly and can be developed accordingly. There these half-truths are misleading the whole case because there might be private land for sure. And there are private lands inside the protected areas in Albania, but just imagine if everyone would develop as they wanted the private land in the protected area, then we wouldn't have protected areas. We would have cities. Another one could do a nuclear power plant. I don't know. If anyone does what they want to do in a protected area, if that's part of their private property, then the protected area doesn't make sense at all. Doesn't Albania need to develop its tourist industry? I mean, it'll create a lot of jobs this project won't it? Yes. I mean, there should be place for such developments, of course. And Albania has 80% of its territory open to this development because only 20% of the territory of Albania is protected area. I mean, while there is, it's not a protected area. So it's just in the wrong place, you think? Definitely. Like we are not talking about not having such investment. Even of course, every investment should go along the procedures. But in this case, inside the most intact data in the Mediterranean, the most amazing wetland in Albania and in the Mediterranean to transform it from a very unique site to a special place, then it would be very like an inferior decision from the Albanian authorities to give up on that amazing nature there for an ordinary city that could be built elsewhere in Albania. Do you think there is a direct attempt by the government to try to get in with the Trump administration by pushing this project through, given that one of the big investors is Jarra Kushner? There could be the case, but I think there is mostly the pure business in there. Environmentalist Johnny Vopsi speaking to James Menandes. To Japan, where authorities say they're still searching for what they've described as an extremely intelligent bear that's repeatedly evaded capture after attacking a number of people in Fukushima province. I spoke to the BBC's Pete Ross, who began by explaining how the bear had managed to evade capture for so long. The bear first became known to authorities on Tuesday when it entered a steel factory in the city of Fukushima, that's in the northeast of Japan, attacking at least one person there before evading capture for the first time by moving on to a nearby electronics factory. Authorities had hoped to catch it there by laying a series of traps and looting it in, but the bear didn't take the bait. What happened next was explained by authorities that an emergency press conference held yesterday, where the city's mayor, Yuki Baba, said authorities attempted to take the bear down using a tranquilizer dart, but despite managing to strike the bear with the dart, it had no effect. On Wednesday, the bear was filmed on CCTV. You can see video online of the bear, which is about a meter in length, chasing a man seemingly in circles who looks like he's a security guard, before catching up with him, tackling into the ground and then quickly releasing him and taking off. The guard gets up, I have to say, seemingly unharmed, sort of dusts himself down, checking for injuries. At this point, the bear is then chased off again by a quick-thinking passerby who drove their car at the animal. The bear is once again, makes an escape into nearby building, before then taking flight again. I love this description by the authorities of the bear as being extremely intelligent. What led them to say that? I guess perhaps to justify why it's still managed to evade them for a few days could be one theory, but also employees in the electronic factory were at one point, said that they saw it turn on the tap so that it could have a drink of water. And it's well and truly still on the run? It absolutely is still on the run, despite an expanded search being launched involving local government officers, police hunters and drones. They say that the bear is still very much on the loose. It has to be said, Japan has been battling with an increase of bear attacks in the last year or so, a record number of attacks and 13 fatalities as well. You know how fast they can run? I'm afraid I've never had a bear chase me on. 64 kilometers an hour. Don't try that run. Just hide. That's the advice. Sage advice from me. Peterot. And that's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at
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