Guinea rubbish landfill collapse kills 30

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I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Monday the 24th of August, these are our main stories. A landslide caused by a mountain of rubbish collapsing at a waste site in Guinea kills at least 30 people. In Ukraine, the Sacked Defence Minister tells the BBC he stands by his call for elections despite the war. 90,000 people are ordered to flee their homes in the US state of Nevada due to a fast-moving wildfire. Also in this podcast, it really was the day that Maradona stopped being considered an ordinary mortal by Argentine society and started to be considered a God. The football Maradona punched into the net with the hand of God has sold for millions of dollars. At least 30 people have been killed and six injured in the West African state of Guinea after a large pile of rubbish collapsed at one of the biggest landfill sites in the capital, Konakri. The authorities said it happened early on Sunday morning, following heavy rain days after officials were planning to close the site because of the danger. These two men were among the survivors. At around two or three in the morning, we heard something sliding, a scream outside. Everyone was shouting. I then called to my wife. We can't stay in the house. People are screaming outside. Let's go. By the time we got outside, not even two or three minutes in part. I was sleeping with my little brother, my two brothers. I was sleeping. There were strange noises behind me. Then I saw it collapse. So there were two of us, my little brother. The other one died in it and we got the other one out. I went to call people to come and help me and get my mother out. Oliver Conway heard more about the accident from the BBC's Makawachi Okafo, who's in the region. Authorities in Guinea have said following some heavy rainfalls, because currently now is rainy season in the country, a huge part of a landfill in Daisalam area collapsed into people's homes. And our six people were injured. Also about 15 over 15 more people sustained minor injuries. Several homes around that area got destroyed. Such a rescue operations are still going on because they suspect some bodies are perhaps trapped on the rubble of what has happened. So that sort of means that this death toll of 30, they're saying that there's potential that it might rise. Now, a bit of background, Guinea has had huge waste management problems for the longest time. In the past, there's been incidents similar to this in 2019 and 2017. Still around the same area where this was reported and the country has been making efforts to manage waste a lot better. In fact, they tried to close this particular dump site that has collapsed and, you know, explore new places, but that seems not to have just walked out. Unfortunately, and now there's been tested deaths. And do we know what was being dumped in this landfill site? Was it household waste or something from industry? It's more of household waste, plastics, clothes, you know, regular dump sites, not like on an industrial level. And that sort of also now become quite a huge issue because people leave around here. I mean, the country's population is growing, urbanization is happening. People don't have so much space in the newer urban areas. And these are low-income families kind of forced to leave close to this dump site. They have this sort of rubbish from homes, you know, food decaying food materials, clothes and plastic and all that. And that's sort of what just collapsed. And, you know, into some people's homes, following the rains and let this unfortunate tragic incident. And what can be done to prevent this kind of thing happening again? I mean, those parities said they've been first sending one in science to people living there open like as way back a six-month ago that have been raising awareness. But people seem not to have heated to that. Maybe stronger enforcement perhaps would have helped in getting people out of there early enough, strong, early warning signs. And also even considering recycling because there has also been one of the ideas the country have been looking at exploring recycling waste. But that seemed not just to have happened as smoothly as they have planned through the years. And, you know, it has now led to this. Now they're closing the site where this happened. So this potential, the new sites could be opened and better ways of managing the waste could be explored. Makuotchi Okafore. Ukraine's former Defence Minister Mikhail Ofeirov has told the BBC that he stands by his call for nationwide elections even though the country is at war. But he stopped short of saying that he would stand as a candidate. Mr. Fedorov, who was a sack last month, is the first high profile politician to call for elections which have been delayed for two years. Valerie Sanderson heard more from our Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson in Keith. Well, he has called for widespread political reform. He highlighted corruption and inefficiency and a number of issues throughout the way that government is run here in a video statement that he posted saying the country was going through a crisis of governance and that that's why he felt it was right to confront the question of Ukraine's elections. He told me he wasn't necessarily insisting on that right now, but that he thought it was his moral right to at least start the conversation about the practicalities of holding an election. He said it was inevitable that an election would have to come sooner or later. But he's called largely felt flat. There was very little support for it because most Ukrainians see the difficulty, the risk of Russian interference in that election, the complication of how to actually involve and engage people in a free and fair vote at a time of war when there were so many people displaced and fighting, people who are living under occupation. So with all these considerations, I asked if he regretted the call that he made, he's been accused of destabilizing the country and opening up splits in Ukrainian society. I put to him that some Ukrainians think he has by doing this given a gift to the Kremlin and to Vladimir Putin. A huge number of people started talking and supporting the idea of coming back to the democratic cycle and I believe that neither Putin nor the president of any other country can speak about our own democracy. We are the only ones who will decide what we do going forward. That's what democracy is all about. If I cannot share my ideas and be open about them, then what are we fighting for? It's definitely in my best interest because I want this war to be over and Ukraine to become a successful country. So yeah, this isn't my interest for sure. But of course, it's also in the interest of all Ukrainians. But if you're asking whether it will be useful for my political future, if I were thinking about this, I would not have made this statement. So Dan, what about President Zelensky's response to all this? Because some, you know, he'd accused Mr Fedorov of accused that of being corruption hadn't he within President Zelensky's government. Yes, he raised the question of corruption. On elections, we have a fresh response from President Zelensky saying, I believe that if we want to destroy the country, then during a war like this, we can move towards elections. He said he believed that during a war elections involved enormous risks and that right now an election would be a tsunami for the state that would divide Ukraine. So he's holding firm on that. On corruption, I asked Mikhailov Fedorov whether he thought President Zelensky should have been aware of the allegations that have now come closer and closer to his inner circle. A deputy head of the presidential office was sacked amidst new allegations of money laundering. Mikhailov Fedorov said he thought the president should answer questions about his awareness and what he knew. There's been an angry response from the president's office to that saying that Mikhailov Fedorov was part of that government for the last seven years and they never heard him raising concerns about corruption then. And all this is happening, isn't it? As an investigation is underway into suspected criminal negligence into the managers of a shopping center where 16 people died in a Russian attack on Friday. What can you tell us about that? Yes, this was a shopping mall in Krivyri closer to the eastern front lines, a double Russian drone attack, a double tap half an hour apart. So one drone hit the shopping center and exploded and then as emergency responders were dealing with the casualties there, a second drone hit. It emerged that although air raid sirens had sounded across that region warning of incoming attack, the shopping center had not been evacuated and many people were not in the bombshell to hence why there were so many deaths and injuries there. There is now an investigation into why people were not told to take shelter or why they ignored those warnings. It is an issue right across Ukraine, four and a half years into this war, the sirens are so regular, so frequent that not everybody does react seriously as perhaps they should. This is a difficult issue of everyday life for Ukrainians about what level of disruption they put up with and react to, what level of risk they are willing personally to take. Damn Johnson. Firefighters in the US state of Nevada are battling fast moving wildfires. They've reached the outskirts of the city of Reno where tens of thousands of people have been told to leave their homes. Shane Ackerson is a local commander leading fire and rescue operations. Fire is currently sitting at approximately 13,000 acres we have 800 personnel working on the incident and we're working and engaged 24 hours a day with both ground and aviation resources. Currently we have 42,000 individuals who are displaced and on an active evacuation with approximately 45,000 individuals that are in the set status to be prepared to evacuate. I got this update from an North America correspondent David Willis who's in Los Angeles. Well what surprised firefighters with this particular blaze in mind Alex is the speed at which the flames have started to spread Saturday night. There was I think very little to suggest that this would move at quite this speed but there is dry brush and very high winds and that of course is a potent cocktail. It's now covered this it's called the Hawke Fire 13,000 acres of land that's more than 50 square kilometers and officials have urged a total of more than 90,000 people to evacuate from their homes and they include some residents near the state borders with Oregon and California and several homes in the north of Nevada, north west of Reno that's a gambling town are thought to have been destroyed and at least six people officials say have been injured. Nevada's governor Joe Lombardo has declared a state of emergency and he's bringing in the National Guard to support aerial firefighting efforts to also safeguard evacuated neighborhoods but Reno is a gambling town and casinos there are even offering discounts on hotel rooms to those who've been forced to flee those flames and indeed more than 400 people spent the night at the Reno Convention Centre which has been turned into a shelter for evacuees. David do we know the cause of the fire? Well officials haven't pinpointed a precise cause Alex but they say perhaps cryptically that human activity in the area is thought to be to blame for the fire now that of course could include a number of different things and we'll wait for more details perhaps before speculating on that but it's a major concern because the University of Nevada's Reno campus where many of the 20,000 undergraduates have arrived in the last few days in order to begin their new terms they are just outside the evacuation zone very close to it and University officials have said they're monitoring the fire's progress and that an evacuation plan has been prepared in case it becomes necessary. What are the chances of bringing this under control quickly and with minimal disruption and death? Well bringing it under control they will the speed at which they do that I think very much depends as ever on the elements they are the firefighters trying to battle this one as I mentioned from the air using helicopters and that's more or less the most effective and only hope that they can have getting a march on these sort of blazes we've seen it ourselves here in California and those helicopters have often been used very effectively in these sort of instances but it's very unpredictable this blaze Alex and it could who knows take days maybe even weeks to put it out completely David Willis in Los Angeles. The football that Diego Maradona punched into the net for his infamous hand of God goal has sold for $3.3 million at auction in the US. The ball was used during the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal between England and Argentina. Maradona scored two goals to give Argentina a controversial two-one victory just four years after the war in the Forkland Islands. Self-governing British overseas territory in the South Atlantic which Argentina claims as its own and invaded in 1982. Britain sent a naval task force and defeated the Argentinians who call the islands the Malvinus. The South American football journalist Tim Vickery told us more about the sale of the football. Well there was an expectation I hope that the price would be far far higher maybe even 10 million. Maradona shirts that he wore in that game sold in England for 9.3 million some four years ago so there was hope and expectation that there will be more money but the money isn't in Argentina is it and it's Argentines who would be most disposed to own these artifacts because these are such important artifacts in Argentine society. The day that Diego Maradona scored those two goals against England the nature of the two goals that he scored and the opponent against whom he scored them. It really was the day that Maradona stopped being considered an ordinary mortal by Argentine society and started to be considered a God with disastrous consequences for the rest of his life. So Diego Maradona I remember that marvellous radio commentary about the wonderful second goal that he scored there on the BBC radio it was Brian Butler Maradona stocky little man wriggling like a little eel and even beyond the grave Diego Maradona continues to wriggle like a little eel. Tim Vickery still to come in this podcast season starts now so it's time to get a fresh start and everything I'm a bit nervous I want bus cuts like I've been in military. The most famous golden locks in football and no more. Support comes from wise the smart way to manage the currencies you need around the world. Your life is global your money should be two. 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The United States sustained bombing campaign has failed to defeat Iran militarily. Now President Trump is planning further financial pressure against Iran. The U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is going to outline a new series of economic penalties. Under the measures, to be announced on Monday, it's expected that the U.S. could threaten secondary sanctions on any entity doing even limited business with Iran. Iran has dismissed the new sanctions as doomed to fail, but Iran's economy is really struggling. Inflation has rocketed, and its currency has hit a record low against the U.S. dollar. Paul Henley spoke to Professor Dejavid Salehi Isfahani, an Iranian economist at Virginia Tech University in the U.S. and began by asking how every day lives are being affected by the war and sanctions. Prices are rising very fast, and maybe the larger problem is that the rate at which prices increase is changing. So people who last month knew how to spend money the first week of the month, so they would have enough for food for the last week of the month. They're not sure if the same applies to this month. So inflation rates can change from one month to another, and that uncertainty is more than anything is putting pressure on low income families. What are the sanctions at the moment, and how much worse can they get the then vice president Biden said in 2012 that U.S. sanctions on Iran were the most crippling ones in the history of sanctions period? Yes, that's the trouble with those announcements. They don't leave much room for later increasing or making people think that they're ratcheting up the sanctions. I don't really know what they're talking about in terms of the D-Day finishing off their regime. Iran has borders at least six countries that can supply food to it, and if you just focus on that, Iran is mostly self-sufficient for its food. They were planning to import about a billion dollars worth of wheat, which can probably come easily from the northern borders. And I don't see a food shortage or hunger becoming an issue, but industrial inputs, yes. A lot of those come through the Persian Gulf, through the sea. And I think the blockade is causing a lot of damage that sanctions never did. What are Iranians? What are Iranian citizens saying about the situation at the moment? Can you give us a feeling of sample? Well, it depends who you talk to. The interesting conversation I had was with people who were previously anti-regime a year ago, they might have been complaining a lot and saying they're corrupt, they're mismanaging the economy. This time, they were talking with some pride and surprise that they didn't think that the revolution guards would be able to hold the line and prevent US and Israel from actually entering the country to land and then control the government. They were very proud that what happened in Venezuela is not happening to Iran. I think there is that on one side and then there is these pressures of daily life, the economic misery that you were talking about earlier. And these two are kind of two very different emotions that Iranians are dealing with every day. The desire to defend this long, several millennia old civilization against these forces that don't seem to really appreciate the country and they just wanted to surrender. And also, they find their government, sort of, sections of the government is playing very hard line and maybe is not allowing some decent, respectable peace from prevailing. Professor Dijavid Salehi Isfahani. The streets of Washington, D.C. were turned into a racetrack on Sunday for an Indykar Grand Prix to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence. Drivers sped past famous landmarks including the National Mall and the Capital Building at more than 300 kilometers an hour. President Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump were watching on as was our correspondent Helena Humphrey. A city used to race for power but none quite like this. Trump waved the green flag and then they were off. 25 drivers roaring through the capital's streets. Before the race gone underway, I strapped in for a taste of the track. And tight turns on a circuit never raced before. This track a new thrill even for the drivers. Super unique. You might never see this again, so I think certainly as an American driver it's very special celebrating the 250th anniversary of the country to race in our nation's capital. It's such a beautiful city, it's very surreal to get to drive an Indykar around this place. With tens of thousands of spectators lining the circuit, President Trump took a victory lap in the beast before the race had even begun. His new air force won completing a fly over above. His close association with the event led some to question whether it was truly a bipartisan celebration. For those attending though, a party atmosphere largely drowned out any political noise. I love open wheel racing and you know, we've been doing every America 250 event we could all year. So this our last one for the year, we're excited about it. I've never been to one of these races before, so this is the first time event for me. I've never seen a car go over 200 miles an hour, so I just want to see how that looks and just the sheer power of these engines and stuff. To 147 laps or 250 miles, Kyle Kirkwood took the checkered flag, an American victory for America's 250th birthday. Helena Humphrey in Washington. As the English Premier League kicked off this weekend, there was one story away from the football on the pitch that grabbed plenty of the headlines. The Norwegian star Erling Harland is beginning the season with a new look. The Manchester City player was one of the standout strikers at the recent World Cup where he scored seven goals, but he became almost as well known for his long blonde hair tied up at the back in a bun. Now Harland is revealed on social media, a crew cut with the caption "new season, new trim". Pete Ross told me more about Harland and other headers. Football has not lacked for standout hairstyles over the years. Instead of the original Ronaldo, the Brazilian striker who sported his iconic hair cut in the 2002 World Cup was all shaved off, a triangular toft at the front. It grabbed lots of headlines. He said years later that it was to distract the media from his ongoing injury troubles and to take some of the pressure off his Brazil side. There's also one of Italy's most famous players, Roberto Baggio, El Divino, the divine ponytail. So well known was he for his preferred due, which he sported out throughout his long and illustrious career. And that's before we even start considering England's David Beckham, who at the height of his career seemed to change his hairdo almost every week from corn rows to the shaggy mohock. But amongst all the hairstyles, perhaps the man bun, as you described long hair, pulled up onto the top of the head and onto a bun, has been adopted by some of the Graham's greatest and most famous players, Gareth Bail, Zlatin Ibrahimovic, David Beckham again. But perhaps one man has become more synonymous than any other in the last few years with that haircut. And it is the aforementioned Erling Halland, who became almost as you say, is well known for a striking look at the recent World Cup than the number of goals he scored and he scores an awful lot of goals. So when he announced on social media, he was having it all cut off. It caused a bit of a stir and here's the man himself explaining why he was cutting off his long logs. "This beautiful blend here, time to let it go. I was thinking about doing a straight after the World Cup, but we were so busy, so I didn't do it. Season starts now, so it's time to get a fresh start and everything. The only thing is, Zlatin told me, never cut your hair because your strength is in your hair. I'm a bit nervous. I want bus cuts, like I've been in military." Yeah, so, biblical references. What's the reaction bit? Well, on the video, which has already racked up a couple of million views in just a few hours on his YouTube channel. He looked pretty nervous before it all got cut off and then he decided to phone up some of his famous pals and show off his new look. Yet his teammate, Jack Galis, he said he looked about 10 years old. And here's the reaction of his old boss, former Manchester City boss, Pekwara D'Aula. "You're lucky you have her. I would love to have you." So you like it? Yeah, it's okay, listen, listen, listen, you're lucky you grew up so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. But back to Zlatin, maybe he was right because he should offer his haircut, but Man City, although they won the game, Hall and Field, to score. Hey, today gone tomorrow. Pete Ross. And that's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Let's use the #globalnewspod and don't forget our sister podcast, The Global Story, which goes in-depth and beyond the headlines on one big story. This edition of The Global News Podcast was mixed by Chris Lovelock, the editor, is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson, until next time, goodbye. Your life is global, your money should be too. Some providers promise no fees on overseas transfers, don't be fooled, extra costs often hide in bloated exchange rates, choose wise, you can send, spend and receive money in over 40 currencies, count on the exchange rate that you'd usually see on Google. That's how millions, save billions on hidden fees. 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