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whether it's politics economics culture or science I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours
of Thursday the 7th of March these are our main stories South Africa has petitioned the internet
naal court of justice to impose new emergency measures on Israel citing what it describe
s as
widespread starvation in Gaza Ukraine's southern city of adessa has been hit by a deadly missile
strike during a visit by President zilinski and the Greek Prime Minister kirakos mitsotakis
a thousand National Guard soldiers and police officers are to be deployed to patrol New
York City's Subway to help tackle violent crime also in this podcast of course there is a certain curiosity as
to what they would have thought of this but they did not participate in this
decision a new book is p
ublished by the sons of a late great Colombian
author against the wishes of their parents South Africa has asked the international
court of justice to order emergency measures against Israel over its war in Gaza warning that
starvation for palestin ions must no longer a threat but a reality this is the second time
Petoria has asked the court to take action in the war in February a call to order Israel to
Halt an offensive against the city of Rafa was denied I got more from our correspondent
in the
ha anah holligan South Africa accuses Israel of repeatedly using humanitarian Aid as a bargaining
chip in negotiations creating hostile inoperable environments for Aid agencies um blocking Aid
deliver iies creating restrictions and denials closed Crossings deliberately targeting and
killing humanitarian workers and destroying Palestinian crops and arable land I'm just
reading through these here forcing Palestinian men women and children to eat animal feed
bird seed and leaves and o
f course Israel has has denied targeting humanitarian workers
I mean South Africa is a real leading voice in this does it have support there is WI spread
support but what we've seen in this case over the last couple of months is how the kind of
global Community is divided and we have seen Israel's allies like the US of course object
to this case initially but now as the situation is changing their positions have become more
Dynamic and that's really putting the pressure on this course actua
lly because more and more
countries are seeing International Justice as a mean to wield real power on the ground and
this is one of the first situations in which they're dealing with an an active conflict this
isn't International Justice in retrospect this is this is in real time and so the pressure is on
the court now and just towards the end of this document South Africa draws parallels with the
situation in Bosnia in the 1990s and points out that Bosnia came to the icj in 199 3 and asked
for a similar ruling to prevent genocide that request was rejected and in 1995 genocide was
committed in cinsa and what South Africa says just at the end of this submission is that the
court must act now to prevent another genocide but what the court has to weigh up now is whether
the the situation has changed enough since their original provision measures were issued to justify
issuing more as South Africa has requested here an A holligan in the hag there's been another
deadly Russian mi
ssile strike in the southern Ukrainian Port City of adessa this time during
a visit by the Greek Prime Minister kirakos mitsotakis captured there the sound of the attack
which happened just a few hundred meters away from where Ukraine's president volodimir zalinski was
showing Mr mitz attakus around the port no one from either delegation was hurt but five people
have died I spoke to Vitali shevchenko a Russia editor at BBC monitoring about what had happened
they were at the Port seeing the
infrastructure when they heard sirens and explosions according
to Mr mitat Takis they didn't really have time to take cover and he described it as a very intense
experience now afterwards uh president zalinski described the attack and he said and a quote that
Russia had either gone crazy or lost control of its Army now we have to remember that adessa has
been under Relentless Russian attack for more than a week now the two leaders visited an apartment
block which was hit by a Russian drone
in the early hours of Saturday and 12 people died five
of them children so what happens is yet another attack on this really important Ukrainian City
given that why do you think that the two leaders were there it's a dangerous place to be it was
an act of Bravery that's true and president zalinski has been on numerous visits to really
dangerous places and of course no place within Ukraine is completely safe but he's made a point
of visiting Frontline towns and Villages just uh a few hundred
s of meters away from Russian forces
and of course Russia has attacked places where they know foreign dignities are it has in April
2022 Kev was bombed when the un Secretary General Antonio gutes was there and the UN delegation
said they were shocked by this act and it would appear that this can be part of Russia's strategy
undeterred Unapologetic and relentlessly targeting Ukrainian cities regardless of who's there
foreign digies or civilians or children and of course the the Russian defen
se defense Ministry
said it was targeting a maritime drone facility is that plausible it is plausible but it may or
may not be true because a Russia doesn't really have a track record of being completely truthful
when it when it comes to these attacks it's denied targeting civilian infrastructure consistently
and B Ukraine doesn't reveal what's being targeted in fact it's an offense to disclose immediately
after these attacks that such and such military facility or civilian facility has bee
n targeted
so there's a shroud of secrecy surrounding these attacks which is only to be expected at a time of
War Vali shevchenko When Alan Scott went to work as a conductor on New York City's Subway Network
last week he hadn't expected it to be different from the past 24 years in the job but that day
his neck was slashed in a violent attack and he vowed he would never go on the Underground again
it's one of many altercations and killings on the transport service recently so the authorities
have announced a new measure they'll be sending a thousand National Guard soldiers and state police
officers on patrol there the task force will check platforms and passengers bags for weapons Governor
Kathy hok gave details at a news conference we're focusing on repeat offenders to uring crime and
protecting the people in our Subways because no one heading to their job or to visit family
or to go to a doctor appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a
deadly
weapon they shouldn't worry about whether someone's going to brandish a knife or gun that's
what we're going to do at these checkpoints these Subway users gave their thoughts I think it would
kind of deter some things that have been happening I've certainly noticed a difference in crime
in subways that even and have me as an NYPD employee fearful of my safety I think it's a not
a wonderful use of our resources to be putting National Guard into our Subways we should be
providing those resou
rces to supporting folks who are homeless to our new immigrant families
who are coming into the city I think it's worse than ever it's been getting worse for the last
couple of years and since the ridership seems to still be down from Co you feel a little alone
down there Subway users in New York City on new measures to tackle violent crime it was described
by one politician as an alleged Act of vigilantism that instilled Terror into young children now
police in Western Australia have calle
d for calm after a video circulating on social media showed
a six-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy with their hands tied crying and cowering in Terror
in the driveway as a large man stands nearby the children are from the Aboriginal Community the
man is white he's now been charged with aggravated assault the premier of Western Australia Roger
cook echoed the police call anyone that saw that video uh found would have found it confronting I
would have found it disturbing and I understan
d that it raises very strong emotions in everyone in
the community but I urge everyone let the police get on and do their job let the Justice process
take place our correspondent in Sydney Phil merer spoke to janat Jalil about the incident well the
police say that um this happened in the seaside town of broom which is about 2,000 kilomet to
the north of Perth in Western Australia they received one telephone call from a neighbor
saying that there were children in a pool in a vacant property
they then received another call
about 10 minutes later from a 45-year-old man who who said that he had restrained three children
for allegedly causing damage now when the police officers reached the property they found allegedly
two Aboriginal children tied up with cable ties in the driveway of a house at Cable Beach which is a
very popular place for tourists in broom and the officers believe that a third Aboriginal child was
also restrained but managed to escape the children have been chec
ked over by paramedics and reunited
with their families and what's been the reaction in Australia to this well senior State officials
in Western Australia say that they are appalled by some of the footage that has been shared on
social media politicians say that the video was disturbing and confronting so this will once again
highlight the treatment of Aboriginal children in Australia when it comes to the criminal justice
system First Nations Australians aged between 10 and 17 are 29 times
29 times more likely to be in
detention than their non-indigenous counterparts and of course this alleged Act of vigilantism
doesn't concern the criminal justice system in terms of those children but once again this
alleged incident does shine a light on the way that Aboriginal children are sometimes treated by
the broader Community fil merer in Australia we thought we'd close the Final Chapter on the work
of Nobel prizewinning author Gabrielle Garcia Marquez when he died 10 years ago but a
new book
until August was released on Wednesday the Lost novel is being published by his sons Gonzalo and
Rodrigo Garcia barer despite his request for it to be destroyed our culture reporter Yasmin Ruf has
the story would you go against the last wishes of your parents directly do something that they
asked you not to do well that's what Gonzalo and Rodrigo have done they have published a novel
he wrote over a decade ago while struggling with dementia Gonzalo told the BBC he wasn't sure
wha
t to do with the novel at first but destroying it was not an option of course we didn't destroy
it we weren't sure what we were going to do with it but definitely destroying it was not in our
plans about a couple of years ago 2022 we came back to the book and we didn't find it as as
disastrous as Goble had judged it the book is also unique in that it's the first of Garcia's
novels to Center on a female protagonist until August tells the story of a middle-aged woman who
travels alone to an i
sland every summer to visit her mother's grave and during each trip takes
a new lover despite being happily married we decided that maybe gabble wasn't in a position
to to judge his work you know he he could only see the flaws the story which is very different
to some of his most beloved novels such as 100 Years of Solitude has received mixed reviews from
critics with one concluding that his family and Publishers should have respected his wishes as
he was right to have never wanted this boo
k to see the light of day Garcia marquez's book is not
the first novel to be published postumus against the author's the likes of France Kafka Vladimir
Nabokov and Virgil have all had Works published after their death despite asking friends and
family to burn their stories Gonzalo told a press conference in Madrid that of course he wonders
what his late father would have made of his decision of course there is a certain curiosity
as to what they would have thought of this of what we put tog
ether now but they did not
participate in this decision however he says that him and his brother are certain that they
have made the right choice in publishing this novel we decided that you know we'd give
it a shot at giving our version of what gab's work would look like this is really
gab's last work there's nothing else in the drawer there you know this is the last thing
that he was working on that report by Yasmin rufo still to come on this podcast he was typical
ordinary man not a you
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the Spanish authorities have investigated several top footballers on tax fraud accusations with some
cases resulting in millions of dollars in fines now prosecutors are seeking a jail sentence of
nearly 5 years for the Real Madrid manager Carlo ancelotti over alleged Undeclared earnings of more
than a million dollars the newsroom's Nigel Adie
has more about the allegations they relate to his
first fell in charge of the club in 2014 and 2015 and the Madrid Community prosecutor's office have
accused him of creating a confusing and complex system of shell companies to extra earnings
now ancelotti was paying tax on the wages he was getting from Real Madrid his football club
but he was also earning money for the club as well for image rights which are often negotiated
separately to the core contract and they relate to the image bein
g used of the of the person
in merchandise and promotion and that sort of thing and the allegation is that this money
was hidden away in these shell companies and tax wasn't paid on it now there's been no comment
from ancelotti's legal team or the club so far but the prosecutors in Spain believe they have
a solid case so how extensive is the Spanish tax Authority's pursuit of of footballers and
top earners in sport well they've been going after celebrities as well as sports stars in
Spain
now over many years because I think they became frustrated that a number of uh top sports
stars and also in entertainment and other walks of life were being paid huge sums of money but on
large portions of that were not paying tax because it was being squirreled away into offshore tax
companies and we've seen two of the most famous footballers in the world also be prosecuted
by the Spanish tax authorities in 2017 Leonel Messi was given a 21-month jail sentence that
was reduced to a fine he
was found guilty of defrauding Spain of nearly $5 million during
his time at Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo also accepted a fine of over $20 million for tax
evasion while he was playing at Real Madrid and he was also given a 23mon jail sentence but in
Spain convictions like that usually don't result in prison time because a firsttime offender who
gets less than two years tend to spend time on probation or pay a fine so effectively Ronaldo's
prison sentence was suspended a number of sports
stars have often blamed advisors previously and
said that these companies were set up without really their knowledge and and although they were
being paid the money they weren't absolutely sure of where all the money was going and how much tax
was being paid but clearly this doesn't wash with the authorities in Spain and now they're cracking
down hard once again the news rooms Nigel Adie in a few days time the Holocaust era drama the zone
of Interest could make history by becoming the first
British film ever to win the Oscar for
best International feature the film which has f nominations has become one of the most talked
about of this award season the authorities at outfits where the film is set recently held a
special screening at the former concentration camp to Mark the official polish premere our
reporter Tom Brooke was in the audience for the screening of a 24's film directed by Jonathan
Glazer it has the feel of experimental Cinema an anthropological study of a man resp
onsible for
Mass extermination Rudolph Hurst the commandant of the aitz Concentration Camp it observes
him his family and their domestic routines good evening everybody thank you the film's
director Jonathan Glazer welcomed the audience to a special screening of the zone of interest
in the cinema Hall at the former concentration camp it's Jonathan Glazer's first film in
almost 10 years a labor of love he wanted authenticity he wanted to shoot it at alitz I
felt that the film had to be abou
t this place and the importance of this place but what
really sets the director's film apart from standard Holocaust movies is its point of view the
focus is not on those who suffered at aitz but on the perpetrators chief among them Rudolph Hurst
the Nazi commandant of the camp who lived with his family a seemingly Blissful life in a house
adjacent to the Concentration Camp the audience at the special asit screening were impressed by the
film's unusual perspective and how it normalized the
horrific you can see Ordinary People like
commant of aitz he was typical ordinary man not a you know flying dragon breathing fire he
had family his own life and he was able to run the biggest death camp in [Music] Europe one
of the things that's incredibly powerful is how he uses sound to convey the horror of the
Concentration Camp you hear the noises of H's children playing joyfully in the garden combined
with the suffering coming out of these buildings people in pain gunfire the judge pos
ition of
these sounds is truly horrifying and very powerful Cinema director Jonathan Glazer to try and
show these people as people not as monsters was a very important thing to do because human
beings did this to other human beings and it's very convenient for us to try and distance
ourselves from them because we think we could never behave this way but I think we should
be less certain in that that report by Tom Brooke a teacher in Bangladesh has now been
formally suspended after shooting
a student in the leg during an altercation at school and
faces lifetime imprisonment if convicted the incident caused outrage at the medical school in
the city of shiraj gong the teacher in question was already under review for erratic Behavior
our Bangladesh correspondent Akbar Hussein has spoken to the school and told Stephanie Prentice
about what they'd said they told me that there was exam going on in a classroom and the student
he was asked a question and when he failed to answer that
the teacher he became very Furious
and at some point he just took his rivver from his bag and shot him in his leg and he received
a very bad injury and immediately he was taken to to the hospital and other students they became
very scared and they called the emergency hel line triple9 to the police then police came
into the scene and they arrested the teacher and uh we know this teacher had previous he had
history of bringing weapons into the classroom why wasn't it addressed before what h
ave the
schools said basically you know in Bangladesh you know teachers are very powerful so they
can exercise their powers over students the other students they told me that arms are like
a pet to him because he used to keep you know arms in his bag you know that that was kind of
his hobby but they never filed any complaint so that's why Medical College authorities that
told me that they didn't know anything about it but the behavior of the teacher that was not
up to the mark because that
was not student friendly that's why he was cautioned several
times and last month he was given the final warning that the way way he was behaving with
the students because he became Furious and he is not attending his classes properly and he is
very rude to the students that's why he was given the final warning and the police are looking
into whether this gun was being held legally because Firearms are prohibited there yeah it is
absolutely prohibited I mean if you want to have or keep any
firearms in your position you have to
have the permission from the police because you have to show the reason that your life is at risk
your life is under threat so two cases have been filed the one is keeping illegal firearms in his
position and other is attempt to murder so if the they are proven before the court he might be given
lifetime imprisonment Akbar Hussein speaking to Stephanie Prentice a statuette of the Virgin Mary
in central Italy Can Cry tears of blood so said a self-procla
imed visionary who drew large crowds
to a small town north of Rome now that has been dismissed as fake by the Catholic church after it
launched an investigation into the phenomena last year as Alice ad reports after an investigation
involving theologians members of the clergy and followers of the cult which sprang up around the
statue the dasis of chiita Castellano near Rome has ruled there's nothing Supernatural about it
since 2016 gizela cardi had claimed it cried tears of blood and deliv
ered a message to her direct
from the Virgin Mary every third day she'd been holding large prayer meetings in front of a shrine
she'd created in the town of trevano Romana much to the annoyance of locals Alice adly and finally
K-pop Star Karina has issued an apology to angry fans who accused her of betrayal because she has
a boyfriend the fans reportedly drove a truck to the singer's agency after finding out she was
dating actor leej o on the truck was an electronic billboard which said Is
the Love given to you by
your fans Not Enough correspondent Laura Crest spoke to Luke Jones Karina she say she's the lead
singer from this K-pop band esper she gave this apology on her Instagram Tuesday night and that
was a week after the news broke of this new love life she started very solemnly she said I'm sorry
to have startled you she went on saying I'm fully aware of how my M or or My that's the name of the
girl groups fan club who have supported me would have been disappointed in me
to think of all the
stories that we share together she then says I'd like to make amends for the hurt I've caused
saying she wants to heal the wounds and she wants to work harder to not let the fans down
but I think it's safe to say even this apology hasn't really calm them down and is this whole
issue at all surprising in the world of K-pop it isn't it's not really really surprising in the
world of Pop I'd argue either but this is quite an extreme example even in pop and specifically
in K
-pop don't forget it did used to be common practice for K-pop agencies to actually ban new
stars from dating even having a personal mobile phone and so now these admissions of romantic
relationships often quite scandalous even now to hear and is there any support for her from
her fans it's in the minority I have to say looking through social media reaction to this a
lot of people angry actually that she gave this apology on Instagram rather than something called
Bubble which is the uh priva
te messaging service for fans and they pay a monthly subscription
fee for that but I did find one message they said you don't need to apologize for feeling
I'll always root for your happiness Laura Crest and that's all from us for now but
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