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is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service I'm Nigel ad and in the early hours
of Sunday the 11th of February these are our main stories a six-year-old girl who went
missing in Gaza last month has been confirmed dead tensi
on remains high in Pakistan as
the country awaits the delayed results of Thursday's election the two biggest parties
are both claiming Victory two of hungary's leading female politicians including the
president cathaline Novak have resigned over their decision to Pardon a
man jailed for covering up child abuse also in this podcast in the end we have
two Arab teams from this region making it to the final the stadium was full and this is
something which doesn't happen here very often katar h
as retained football's
Asian Cup by beating Jordan on home turf we begin in Gaza and the story of hind
rajab which captured the imagination of many people around the world nearly two weeks ago
the six-year-old Palestinian was in a car with relatives when it came under Fire in Gaza
City she called the Rescue Services saying I'm so scared please come they were some of the last
words heard from her on on Saturday her death was confirmed a short time after this news emerged
our Middle East cor
respondent Lucy Williamson filed this report from Jerusalem there are some
28,000 people who are now thought to have been killed in Gaza and this is the story of just one
little girl but it's really captured attention I think because of those audio recordings that
were made public of her asking for help and also because of this shrinking glimmer of
hope that she might still be alive 12 days after the family car she was traveling in came
face to face with Israeli tanks Israel's Army today pu
lled back from that area of Gaza City
and rescue workers went in Witnesses say that dozens of bodies were recovered from the streets
and buildings there one of them they say was hence a child's voice alone in the midst
of War hiding in her uncle's car among the bodies of her relatives the last hours of
six-year-old hind rajab were dominated by One Plea come and get me recordings of her calls with
Emergency Services sparked a 12-day campaign to find her today as Israeli forces left the area
in Gaza City paramedics went in they found hints body with those of her relatives in the black Kia
car she'd been traveling in its front shattered bullet holes scattered across its side we found
six decomposed buddies including girls women and one man the girl H she was identified among
the decomposed buddies indicating they had been subjected to gunfire and shelling here
are the martyrs now they are all bones the dead badly damaged and decomposed were buried
quickly no funeral just grief
and anger and from Hinn's mother was Sam a demand that someone
be held accountable for every person who heard my voice my daughter's pleading voice yet did
not rescue her I will question them before God on the day of judgment Netanyahu Biden and all
those who collaborated against us against Gaza and its people I pray against them from the
depth of my heart hind is one of thousands of children killed in 18 weeks of war in Gaza what
are you waiting for hind was killed how many more mothers ar
e you waiting for to feel this pain
how many more children do you want to get killed near where hind was found was the ambulance car
that was sent to get her the bodies of its crew memb members YF Al Zeno and Ahmed al- madun
still inside nbal fasak a spokeswoman for the Palestinian red cresant said Yusef and Ahmed had
radioed in as they approached to say they could see hind in the car before the line was cut in a
burst of gunfire they were deliberately targeted Although our ambulance have v
ery clearly the red
crescent emblem on top of our ambulances and we had it clearly also in all sides of the ambulance
nibal fasak told me it had taken several hours to agree coordination with the Israeli Army to
allow the ambulance through we asked Israel's Army about this but received no response the
sounds of hand is still here in my ear and in all of our staff while she was appealing for us
over three hours please come and get me please come and get me we felt helpless at that point
and
we tried our best to coordinate our safe access h at the hospital where she waited
for news of her daughter hint mother with Sam still holds the little pink bag she was keeping
for her inside a notebook where hint had been practicing her handwriting the six-year-old
was killed days ago today it was hope that died Lucy Williamson in Tel Aviv on Saturday
thousands demonstrated against the government's handling of efforts to bring home from Gaza the
Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on October
the 7th it's believed there are around 130 hostages
still being held captive these protesters challenge prime minister netanyahu's argument that
total Victory against toas in Gaza is the best way to bring them home we trust him according to his
own private interest and not for us and this is very sad very sad we believe in the importance
of human life here and we understand that the human life here is important in both sides and
so if the ceasefire is going to bring back home the hostages t
hat's I think what we should do in
my opinion and I think I represent many about the fact that he is not interested in the destiny of
the kidnapped at all all is interested in first place is to stay in power and keep on forever for
the last day upon Earth in a separate development Israel has carried out an air strike almost 40
miles into Lebanon apparently to Target a key Palestinian figure close to Hamas he is said
to have survived although three people were reportedly killed including a f
ighter with the
iranium backed Hezbollah group and there have been almost daily crossborder exchanges of fire
between bah and Israel since November it's thought this attack was Far deeper into the Lebanese
territory than normal the Israeli military has yet to comment on the strike in the past week
the United States has carried out a series of Air Raids that have killed 17 Iranian backed militia
men in Iraq as well as a Precision drone strike in the capital Baghdad that killed a senior Comma
nder
our senior International correspondent Ora gurin is in the Iraqi Capital Baghdad been very tense
week there is a real feeling here of uh concern that one miscalculation could cause a disaster
What's Happening Here is that Iraq is getting caught in the crossfire between US forces and
Iranian backed militia that operate on Iraqi soil now the beginning of the current escalation
was the killing of three US troops in Jordan that was carried out by Iranian backed militia the US
vowed that t
hey would retaliate and we have seen that retaliation playing out in Syria but also
here in Iraq where we had the strikes first wave of strikes that killed uh 17 militia Fighters but
then we had that surgical strike on the streets of Baghdad here which targeted a senior militia
Commander turning his Jeep into a fireball now the government is very concerned and not just the
government I have to say many other people we have spoken to share this concern that the tit fortat
that is taking plac
e here could push Iraq into a conflict now since the killing of the militia
leader the the militia group here there's an umbrella group in calling itself the Islamic
resistance in Iraq and these are pro-iranian militia they have come out and said they are going
to step up their attacks against US forces on the other hand the Americans are saying we will
continue to take necessary steps to protect our own people now a key flash point here is
the presence of US troops they're here at the invi
tation of the government there are about 2,500
they're not in a combat role they are advisors and they've been here since 2014 to help prevent a
Resurgence of the so-called Islamic State but when I sat down with Iraq's foreign minister
fuad Hussein I asked him if the government now wants US troops out no we want to have to start
the negotiation on the basis of the negotiation it will be decided and of course the end of the
negotiation must be clear the majority of Iraqi people they don't wa
nt to have foreign forces on
Iraqi soil but is it Iraqi government policy now that the troop should go and it's just a question
of when the troop one day must leave this country at the end must be free from having foreign bases
some has been invited and that's valid for the American side some has not been invited going back
to the issue of the US strikes that happened the Americans say they were targeting Iraqi militia
that are pro-iranian that are on your soil and from your soil they are c
arrying out attacks on US
forces do you accept that there are militias here that are officially part of your security forces
but in fact are armed and trained by Iran that are carrying out these attacks uh those policias
they themselves they are announcing their attacks and they are also well known that they are uh or
they have good connection with the Iranian side this is well known I cannot deny it that's true
as we sit here now minister is it the case that your government does not have c
ontrol over these
pro-iranian militias that they are doing their own thing and you cannot not stop them I think if
nowadays you will talk with many political leaders they started to talk about this many people they
didn't dare to talk this is also a part of the reality in this country but now we are talking
about it and we are saying to them is stop there people dare to say to those guys is zap I think
all of them they got the message that if they will continue they will in the first place
destroy
the political process in Iraq and they will push this country into a war while it is not our
war and also the Iranian godam how real is that danger that this Tit for Tat between the Iranians
and The Americans on Iraqi soil could push this country into conflict that's the main problem to
be honest uh the tension nowadays between Iran and and United States is very high so I hope both
sides uh will stop their attack on Iraqi soil and they are not going to solve their problem on
Iraqi
soil we paid a a very big uh price Dr fuad Hussein the Iraqi foreign minister speaking to our
senior International correspondent all agarin next to Pakistan there is tension and uncertainty in
the country as they continue to wait for the final results of Thursday's elections on Saturday police
in the city of Talen gang in the Punjab Province used tear gas to push back crowds protesting
against the delay the demonstrators dispersed when they were told results would be finalized
on Sunday the
parties of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his rival Noah Sharif are
both claiming Victory Mr Sharif who is thought to be favored by the powerful military has called
on smaller parties to help him form a Unity government these people in laor urge the parties
to get together to find a way forward we are right now in a very very critical uh situation uh both
economically security wise uh and on many other levels so Pakistan political parties really need
to sit together Pakist
an can't afford any kind of conflict which is why I keep repeating we must
all sit down together settle these issues and bring Pakistan into the 21st century the head of
the army has also urged politicians to negotiate and show what he described as maturity and unity
here's our correspondent in Islam Abad Caroline Davis there's growing unrest in Pakistan where
the full results of the election are yet to be released police in the city of talagang in Punjab
use tear gas to push back crowds pr
otesting against the delay Imran Khan's Independents have
more seats than his rival noad sharif's pmln party but Mr Khan's supporters claim the vote has been
rigged to deprive them of a clear majority that is strongly denied by the authorities at a news
conference Mr Khan's party declared its intention to try to form a national government we are not
fighting with anyone the chairman gohar Ali KH we are not against any institution this is our
country every institution is so de and near to us
we regard and respect every institution We
Trust every institution we are just asking them to respect this Mandate of the public that's all
nothing more nothing but it is not the only party trying to form a government noaz Sharif has
called for other groups in Parliament to form a coalition with his pmln the head of Pakistan's
powerful Army appears to want a coalition saying that the country would be well represented by a
Unified Government of all Democratic forces many thought the militar
y's favored candidate was Mr
Sharif the fact that he has fewer seats than his rival Imran Khan suggests that the Army's backing
was not enough to win Caroline Davies hungary's first female president Cataline Novak has resigned
amid outrage over her decision to Pardon The Man convicted of covering up child sexual abuse
Miss Novak a close Ally of the Nationalist prime minister vikor Orban stepped down on live
television she told viewers she'd made a mistake I apologize to Those whom I may hav
e offended and to
all the victims who might have felt that I didn't stand up for them I have constantly advocated
for the protection of Children and Families today marks my final address to you as president as I
tender my resignation from the post of President of the Republic another leading female politician
from the same party udid varer has also announced she's standing down I heard more from our Central
Europe correspondent Nick Thorp who's in Budapest this was basically a a presidentia
l pardon issued
last year on the occasion of the Pope's visit to Hungary uh president Novak pardoned 25 people
and interestingly their names were only just made public a week or so ago and it turned
out that one of them was a Man convicted as an accomplice for helping cover up a sex abuse
case in her children's home so basically a a pedophilia case this has been such a it would
be a scandal in any case of course but um in this particular case Cataline Novak she's the
former minister in cha
rge of family policy and as president she's made and her government uh the
fuds government have made the traditional family and the protection of children a Cornerstone
of their policy and how serious is this for the government it's very serious really because not
only has Catalin Novak resigned as president but udit Vara another woman in fidz a very high
ranking woman in fides who who's the former Justice Minister she also signed the same amnesty
or clemency decision and she was due to lea
d the fidz the governing parties list in the European
elections this June so fidz have lost its two most prominent female politicians basically you
know in a matter of days over an issue which is deeply embarrassing and and politically harmful
for them clearly this is an attempt at damage limitation by prime minister Victor Orban but
it's nevertheless very embarrassing and a big blow for him and his government and briefly it's
significant that a senior female politician in Hungary has resig
n in this way that's right uh
this is a very malale dominated Society there are only 29 women deputies in Parliament that's
14% against a European Union average so a great shortage of women in politics and for that
reason too a big blow for Hungary as well not just the governing Party Nick Thorp Ukraine says
seven people have died in a Russian drone attack on the northeastern city of harke the victims
include a family of five from keev our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah reinford reports
the
youngest of the children killed in the Russian drone attack was a baby his brothers were seven
and four they all died in their home with their parents after a fire broke out and spread too
quickly for them to escape in another house two pensioners were killed a regional police chief
has talked about a hellish lava of diesel and petrol pouring down the street after what's
described as a large Fuel Depot nearby was hit by the drones as the leak spread it set fire
to homes and cars on se
veral streets dozens of people were evacuated and buildings destroyed at
least 10 drones were launched by Russia over harff in this attack and two made it through Ukraine's
air defense systems the city is so close to the Russian border there's little time to intercept
missiles or drones when they're launched that's why many children now study Underground on the
Metro and HFF is even constructing a purpose-built school beneath a sports field in case this
war goes on even longer Sarah reinfor
d in Ukraine still to come this mysterious vessel
this mysterious ship just hits a big coral reef off the coast of Tobago huge amounts
of oil washing up on on on the beach now hundreds of people are working to
try and save the local environment can you set the stage a little bit so
people understand what happened in 1969 14 black student athletes were kicked off their
University's American football team for planning a show of support Against Racism we were really
protesting at our treatmen
t on the field amazing Sports stories from the BBC World Service tells
their story we became brothers that day when he did that to us we made a change fighting for what
we deserve search for for amazing Sports stories wherever you get your BBC podcasts you [Applause]
[Music] want I'm Katy Adler from the global story podcast and we're talking about the world's
biggest pop star Taylor Swift a musical and economic Powerhouse but could she really swing
the US presidential election it's a matter
of furious debate in Republican circles are they on
to something the Global story brings you fresh takes and smart perspectives from BBC journalists
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back to the global news podcast to Indonesia now where the final rallies have been held ahead of
the presidential elections on Wednesday more than 200 million Indonesians can vote in an election
which will choose a successor to the popular outgoing p
resident woko he's not allowed to serve
more than two terms as Jonathan head reports from Jakarta there are concerns about the outcome of
this election as the favorite to win is a former General who's carried out human rights abuse
and his running mate is the current president's son away from the noise and color
of the political rallies a smaller protest in front of the presidential Palace in Jakarta these are the families of those who died or disappeared in the chaotic last
months of the a
uthoritarian sahata regime they've been coming here every
Thursday for 17 years demanding answers among them is pan father of ok
a student who vanished in May 1998 we come here every week to make sure that
human rights violators are not elected he told me and he showed me the words printed
on the back of his T-shirt bring back the Disappeared don't let him rule the
[Applause] country by him he means this man prooo subbiano is the front runner
in this election his third attempt at the presi
dency to get here he's needed an
extraordinary transformation of his Public Image this was Jakarta in May 1998 I was there an orgy of looting and burning
swept across the city as the 32-year rule of President Zar collapsed blamed
for the violence and for the kidnapping of political activists was pinned
on his son-in-law prepoo then a fast rising star in the military he was
dismissed from the Army and went into Exile now with a slick social media campaign
he's portrayed as a cuddly avuncula
r figure a moderate who will continue the popular
Legacy of President jakoi it's been very successful especially with younger
Indonesians who know little of Pro's past well all the candidates have their sins
Says student leonardis maybe he didn't carry out those kidnappings maybe he was just following
orders but it's president jao's full endorsement of the former military Hardman which has dismayed
so many Indonesians through a controversial Court ruling the president has got his son Gibran
on
the ticket as pra's running mate even though he's below the Constitutional age threshold you know
you cannot allow democracy to be an autopilot it needs to be constantly reinvigorated de Fortuna
anoir has been an advisor to presidents and vice presidents she worries about this nepotistic
step by jakoi a lot of democracy activists say you know well jakoi is not that concerned about
democracy he's a businessman you know so he's still forgiven in a way even though it costs
Indonesia's dem
ocracy but it is a collective mistake for us but by making it personal jakoi has
in fact tarnished his own image his own reputation 25 years after the first post sahu election
Indonesians appear to have lost none of their enthusiasm for their young democracy compared
to many others in the region it is still in rude Health but few would disagree that it's
certainly less free and less accountable than it used to be and that a figure like prooo
subbiano makes a very unlikely [Music] savior Jon
athan head a growing environmental disaster
could be unfolding off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago hundreds of volunteers and emergency
workers are trying to clean up a massive oil spill after a ship overturned a few days ago after
hitting a coral reef the government says at least 15 km of Coastline on the Atlantic coast
have been affected I heard more from our Latin America Regional editor Leonardo Russia well we
happened on Wednesday this uh mysterious vessel this mysterious ship just hi
ts a big coral
reef off the coast of Tobago Southwestern the southwestern side of the island the crew
escaped they are trying to identify who are the the owners of this ship called the Gulf Stream
they already know the name of the ship but what happens then you have huge amounts of oil washing
up on on on the beach and uh and nearby areas so I've seen pictures online you see footage and and
you have the government there saying that 15 kmet of Coastline in the area of Tobago has been have
b
een affected they're trying to do what they can to to contain because with oil spills the the
main thing is to try to contain as as quickly as possible is there any history of oil spills in
this area from what I heard it it's uh I haven't heard about any recent oil spills there but from
what I heard it's a busy area because Trinidad and Tobago has oil now Guyana has oil and if you
look on the map TR of is just next to Venezuela and it's a busy route for for oil tankers so from
the comments
I I read people saying we have to be careful this sort of things can can happen
here all the time it's completely uncontrolled it's an accident that can happen but uh the the
damage for for the island can be can be huge I mean they deployed volunteers they're trying to
establish this perimeter where they put devices to contain it it and basically to clean up the
the the oil but it comes at a very bad time for the island which is just before Carnival and how
significant is the carnival there
well Trinidad Tobago has a famous Carnival is one of the best
carnivals or the most popular in the Caribbean and uh officially the carnival there is on
Monday on Tuesday so the weekend is when you have all the tourists arriving you have Resorts
around the area that where people travel to not only to to for the carnival but because of the
holiday season what the hotel management group there is saying people who represent the hotels
is that they're very concerned and many people might be put
off they had a cruise ship arriving
there and everyone was warned 3,000 chist they were warned to be careful where they went on you
know because there had been an oil spill so it creates a very bad image for the island and more
immediately many people might cancel their their plans to go to the island there was a local
Carnival festiv that was cancelled and people are very concerned because this is a Lifeline
for many people who work on the industry for tourist guides for taxi drivers for
the small
hotels and for the big Resorts Leonardo Rosia now here's an item for those who are fortunate
enough to enjoy Gourmet cooking the best chefs in the world generally consider it an honor for
their restaurants to be listed in the michelan guide this is published by the French Tire Company
michelan and it's updated each year to list what it regards as the finest restaurants the very best
get rated with three stars but just getting one star is seen as a major achievement and a mark
of
global recognition adok bakardi is the first black woman in the UK to be awarded a michelan
star and only the second in the world she's the nigerian-born founder and head chef at chizuru a
restaurant which specializes in West afria African cooking in London arokai gave us her thoughts
on why the restaurant has achieved such [Music] recognition I think people could connect to the
fact that we're sharing our heritage and people could see themselves on the table and it didn't
feel or look like
something that was inaccessible so casing points there is this dish we had on
uh we still have it on but it's in a different form called Sasa and Sasa is very popular around
Northern Nigeria across parts of Northern West Africa I've forgotten what she called she must be
Indian South Indian and she came in and she ate
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